Even though I can't quite get over the sanitary-sounding name (there's even a MaxiPad; does it have a dry-weave surface?) and am concerned that after creating a bigger iPhone Apple is now moving backwards in time and that next year Steve Jobs will lug a giant fax machine on to the stage, I am still willing to believe Stephen Fry when he says don't believe the lack of hype:
Like the first iPhone, iPad 1.0 is a John the Baptist preparing the way of what is to come, but also like iPhone 1.0 (and Jokanaan himself too come to that) iPad 1.0 is still fantastic enough in its own right to be classed as a stunningly exciting object, one that you will want NOW and one that will not be matched this year by any company. In the future, when it has two cameras for fully featured video conferencing, GPS and who knows what else built in (1080 HD TV reception and recording and nano projection, for example) and when the iBook store has recorded its 100 millionth download and the thousands of accessories and peripherals that have invented uses for iPad that we simply can’t now imagine – when that has happened it will all have seemed so natural and inevitable that today’s nay-sayers and sceptics will have forgotten that they ever doubted its potential.
Comments