There is an odd comment going around since the iPad demo happened. I’m not sure where it started, but it goes something like this:
If I want a piece of toast, I shouldn’t have to know how to build a toaster.
This is a load of crap, as a computing analogy. If you want to write an email, no one expects you to build a computer, or write an email client. They expect you to be able to figure out your email client. A simple computer, while good, is not going to be some panacea for the computing illiterate. I’ve met plenty of people who still can’t set up their email account in the iPhone, never mind it usually requires filling out all of three fields.
Sorry. Consider that a filtered version of my irritation with iPad articles in recent history. Moving on now.
