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Come on. The iPad is a TV for your hands and everyone knows it. For every person using it to create content there will be 10,000 just reading email and browsing

by ryandvm 17y ago

Come on. The iPad is a TV for your hands and everyone knows it. For every person using it to create content there will be 10,000 just reading email and browsing Facebook. That may be what most people do with their computers anyway, but with computers, a small fraction end up tiptoeing into deeper water and really harnessing the capabilities there for creative expression. The iPad makes that next step impossible. Nobody is going to be banging out a novel on it or learning how to program. Time will tell, but I'm pretty sure Apple is just fine with the idea of people using the iPad to purchase music, movies, TV, and games...

swannodette 17y ago
Few people take using a pen/pencil beyond basic writing skills. Those that do with perseverance make art. The iPad isn't going to change that truth about tools. Not it and nor whatever competes with it. In anycase, you need to broaden your definition of creative - learning how to program is really only one field of creativity (one I love and enjoy) among many.
swernli 17y ago
I'd say the iPad makes the next step harder, not impossible. Just because you wouldn't want to program on it doesn't mean someone else wouldn't. And if someone wanted to write a novel, nothing is stopping them from starting to write it on an iPad, one day realizing they want an external keyboard, then making the jump to a netbook or maybe even writing on the desktop that they can (and maybe already do) sync the iPad with. Personally, I'd be more concerned that this new generation of texters, tweeters, and Facebook wall-posters doesn't have the attention span and grammatical capability to write a novel, regardless of what physical tools are available to do so. I was surprised at how many of my classmates freshman year of college were found lacking in the area of writing skills, and I don't imagine the pervasiveness of terse, abbrievieted, and often shallow communication is improving that.

by ryandvm 17y ago

swannodette 17y ago

Few people take using a pen/pencil beyond basic writing skills. Those that do with perseverance make art. The iPad isn't going to change that truth about tools. Not it and nor whatever competes with it. In anycase, you need to broaden your definition of creative - learning how to program is really only one field of creativity (one I love and enjoy) among many.

swernli 17y ago

I'd say the iPad makes the next step harder, not impossible. Just because you wouldn't want to program on it doesn't mean someone else wouldn't. And if someone wanted to write a novel, nothing is stopping them from starting to write it on an iPad, one day realizing they want an external keyboard, then making the jump to a netbook or maybe even writing on the desktop that they can (and maybe already do) sync the iPad with. Personally, I'd be more concerned that this new generation of texters, tweeters, and Facebook wall-posters doesn't have the attention span and grammatical capability to write a novel, regardless of what physical tools are available to do so. I was surprised at how many of my classmates freshman year of college were found lacking in the area of writing skills, and I don't imagine the pervasiveness of terse, abbrievieted, and often shallow communication is improving that.