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"Yes, but the Courier was leagues beyond anything you can do with an iPad" With all due respect, the courier was not a shipping product, the video mockups were
by Hari_Seldon 15y ago
"Yes, but the Courier was leagues beyond anything you can do with an iPad"
With all due respect, the courier was not a shipping product, the video mockups were cool, but to compare a successful shipping product with a vapourware concept video - and to conclude that the non-existing one is better, is not particularly useful.
- colin_jack 15y agoI agree with you to some extent but you missed out the last bit of his sentence "in terms of content creation". I do think the original iPad was poor for content creation, thats fine as it was a brilliant device but I do think there was a chance the Courier could have been better in that regard.
- saturdaysaint 15y ago"Creation vs consumption" is a completely false dichotomy. By far the biggest constraint on "creation" is the person operating the device. We have no shortage of guitars, computers with attached keyboards, and cameras, yet there's not a notable surplus of great music, writing and movies. For an actually creative person, the surplus of accessible content is inspiration to create, not some sort of impediment. Actually creative people also see limitless creative potential in these "consumption devices".
- contextfree 15y agoCreation = me writing this comment on Hacker News (for which I'd like to have a keyboard) or writing a letter to my mom (for which I might even like to write in my own handwriting, perhaps on a pen-based tablet). It's not only about creating works of genius.