Nothing’s Ever Black & White
Immediately understandable, fast, stable, and laser-focused on the 80% of the famous 80/20 rule.
Is the New World better than the Old World? Nothing’s ever simply black or white.
Steven Frank
The iPad’s impact to computing will be huge, and Steven Frank nails why we’re so uncomfortable with that fact. We computer nerds—we who love to tinker, we who have invested decades in our Photoshop expertise and touch-typing, we who compile our own software and know what command line interfaces are—we’re not important anymore.
Apple’s lesson over the last ten years has been that computer nerds care about a lot of stupid shit that mere mortals don’t, and nerds are outnumbered a million to one. To Apple, when it comes to defining the modern computing experience, we’re the group to ignore.
The iPad is gorgeous, and is enough of a computer to satisfy the 80% (dare I say 95%) of computing experiences that count. Email, Facebook, web browsing, chat, word processing, and a few games. I know that for me, today it’ll only be a casual-use device because I have “real work to do” but for many of my friends and parents and friends’ parents and parents’ friends? It’s all the computer they’ve ever needed.