Reason no. 372 the iPad isn’t “magical”
As this report so eloquently states, media is still best consumed with a mouse and keyboard, passive video, or with opposing hands leafing through pages of information. “Interactive media” as seen on the iPad is as useful as “multimedia CD-ROM dictionaries” from the 1990s, m’kay?
Now if you’re talking about entertainment, I’m all for gesture based interaction. But for straight consumption of information, give me visual ads, easy flowing editorial, and search.
May 28th, 2010 at 11:20 am
The USA Today app isn’t too bad. Feels like an “enhanced” newspaper. Then again, paper doesn’t occasionally crash.
May 28th, 2010 at 12:49 pm
So long as people keep returning to desktops, TV and print products, as they continue to do to consume media, the iPad is not the computing savior it was sold as. Long live laptops and and desktops until something better comes along!
May 29th, 2010 at 6:42 am
Of note: you can’t buy an iPad, take it out of the box, and use it. First requirement is to connect it to a computer that is already running iTunes.
But let this be known: it’s awesome when work buys one for you.