By: wysiwyg

wysiwyg — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 15:24:08 +0000

I completely agreed with you. I wonder why so many people make joke about this new device. It is not the brand Apple that matters. It is about the concept of using a tool doing what we want to do best without the need to know how it works. To many people, they do not care how the computer works but just want to do their own things like communicating with others, getting information, paying bills, doing personal financial matters, entertaining themselves or others, writing, organising or planning activities, etc using a too called computer. Without computer we all have those activities in the old days. Computer should just helps doing these activities much easier or more efficient. We do not have to know how a car functions in details to drive it on the road. We just need to know how to use it and not the technical stuff about the car. It is about designing a computer that we can do all our own activities without realising we have a “middle-man” there. The concept of iPad will revolutionise the computing experience. The concept and not the iPad will replace the laptop and desktop today. Why it happens in 2010? It is because the technology is not maturing to make a device like iPad viable if we see it as a tablet which development has been a failure for the last decade. It is the technology advancement that will change how people use information for their daily life. If human do not resist change (most will resist), the era of computer without physical keyboard and mouse but using only voice, fingers signal or handwriting, and virtual keyboard will come sooner than later. All current form of desktop and laptop will become history. The new “laptop” (or mobile computer) will become lighter, more powerful and more user-friendly. There will be merging of “desktop” and “laptop”. How about the virtual keyboard? If anyone has experience in Universal Studio’s “Back into the future” would know the vehicle we sit on has not really move much but we can experience it moving by what we hear and see on a giant screen. The virtual keyboard could have typing sound to trick our sense and after few trial we will get used to it. While you may not accept iPad as your ideal product, we must accept the concept and vision it will bring to change our computing experience or rather the way we do things in an information age. Do you still drive a manual car or use a computer that runs on legacy operating system today if there are better choice to do your activities (not computing)?

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By: wysiwyg