Mac geek Andy Ihnatko calls the Apple iPad ‘pure innovation, one of best computers ever’. Read his review at Chicago Sun-Times.
Oh boy!
Stephen Fry’s eloquent, gushy iPad/Steve Jobs piece in TIME is good too, and I had the same thing occur to me as his last line:
One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker’s Guide that humankind has yet devised.
Yes, Adams was a ‘famous’ machead when I got up-close-and-personal with my first Mac (dual floppy SE30) in the late 80’s and thought, ‘Ha! this is so much better!‘
Nice summary of the first ‘real hands-on’ reviews here from Jason Kottke.
Neat bit of thinking and writing from John Gruber on how today’s ‘closed’ computer systems (e.g. iPhone, iPad) are actually more open than we might at first think…and the App Store ecosystem provides a distribution channel and platform for today’s younger generation of ‘puter geeks and nerds (I use those terms with affection) …
http://daringfireball.net/2010/04/kids_are_all_right