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Unfortunately, I have the same problem. I have two PCs that I am always sitting at when I am home. I rarely use my couch. And the PCs are just a little bit easi

Unfortunately, I have the same problem. I have two PCs that I am always sitting at when I am home. I rarely use my couch. And the PCs are just a little bit easier to use and faster to use than the iPad, so I can hardly use it for that. The one thing I used to use the iPad regularly for is as a todo list with "Things", but this has a minor problem that is very annoying to me - when I lay the iPad under my head, I can see the reflection of my face. This makes me feel self-consious, so I don't like using it. I would not get rid of the iPad, I like having it around (and it was absolutely brilliant for travelling), but I hardly use it when I am around my PCs, which is most of the time.

mechanical_fish 16y ago
I have two PCs that I am always sitting at when I am home. One reason I bought the iPad was to very deliberately force myself to stop sitting in my computer chair all the time. I can use it in bed, I can use it on the couch, I can carry it from room to room, I can prop it on random objects. But maybe that's not for you. Everyone's life is different. At last we begin to glimpse the future of computing, the one we have been waiting for: Where recommending a computing device to someone is going to be like recommending a brand of underwear. There are going to be special-purpose computers for everything. Already we have special computers just for music (the iPod Shuffle), special computers just for reading (the Kindle), special computing hardware just for making you exercise (the Wii Fit)... if anything, the iPad may be more of a general-purpose computer than one can expect to see in the future. It's like a device for prototyping the single-purpose computers -- which will, of course, no longer be called computers -- that our grandchildren will use.
- Sukotto 16y ago
  How many of us geek-types buy a cheap crap IKEA couch, and an Aeron chair? I bet most of us have a more ergonomic office chair than couch.
  - jteo 16y ago
    For those of us that are married, that may not be true. Once you have a family, you tend to spend more time away from your main computer(s). The iPad is designed for that use case of bite-sized consumption. And remember folks: this is iPad version 1.0. What happens when there is enough computing power in it to replace an entry level laptop?
    - ZeroGravitas 16y ago
      > What happens when there is enough computing power in it to replace an entry level laptop? They release a new one with half the CPU power that's slightly thinner and lighter and has room for more battery?
  - jimfl 16y ago
    I would love to see an ergonomic couch! Edit: (Sent from my Aeron)

mechanical_fish 16y ago

I have two PCs that I am always sitting at when I am home. One reason I bought the iPad was to very deliberately force myself to stop sitting in my computer chair all the time. I can use it in bed, I can use it on the couch, I can carry it from room to room, I can prop it on random objects. But maybe that's not for you. Everyone's life is different. At last we begin to glimpse the future of computing, the one we have been waiting for: Where recommending a computing device to someone is going to be like recommending a brand of underwear. There are going to be special-purpose computers for everything. Already we have special computers just for music (the iPod Shuffle), special computers just for reading (the Kindle), special computing hardware just for making you exercise (the Wii Fit)... if anything, the iPad may be more of a general-purpose computer than one can expect to see in the future. It's like a device for prototyping the single-purpose computers -- which will, of course, no longer be called computers -- that our grandchildren will use.

Sukotto 16y ago
How many of us geek-types buy a cheap crap IKEA couch, and an Aeron chair? I bet most of us have a more ergonomic office chair than couch.
- jteo 16y ago
  For those of us that are married, that may not be true. Once you have a family, you tend to spend more time away from your main computer(s). The iPad is designed for that use case of bite-sized consumption. And remember folks: this is iPad version 1.0. What happens when there is enough computing power in it to replace an entry level laptop?
  - ZeroGravitas 16y ago
    > What happens when there is enough computing power in it to replace an entry level laptop? They release a new one with half the CPU power that's slightly thinner and lighter and has room for more battery?
- jimfl 16y ago
  I would love to see an ergonomic couch! Edit: (Sent from my Aeron)