One Year Later, the iPad Is Still My Favorite Computer | Techland | TIME.com: “Back when I started, the notion that an iPad could largely replace a conventional computer was, um, a tad unusual. Some of the people who read my story, in fact, seemed to maintain that it was impossible, or at least that I was a moron for doing so. As one commenter put it: ‘This article is irresponsible. The iPad 2 is still an accessory to your REAL computer. To say that an iPad can replace your primary computing device is misleading and false.’”
(Via. Harry McCracken, TIME)
A few years from now, stories like this will seem silly. You mean, there were actually people who thought you couldn’t do most of your computing with a tablet? People actually thought laptops would be around forever?
I don’t know why people refuse to learn from the past, but they never seem to. I remember when I first switched to a laptop as my primary computer in the ’90s. People still thought of laptops as casual, travel machines that you used in a pinch back then. No serious computer user would try to get by day to day with just a laptop. They simply weren’t powerful enough to outclass a desktop tower.
Harry McCracken is simply an early adopter of what will very quickly become the normal use case for most of the computer-using world.
Remember: the iPhone is currently Apple’s cash cow, but the iPad is outpacing the iPhone’s growth and will eventually become the primary money maker for Apple long-term. And offices everywhere will be issuing tablet devices to their employees, instead of clunky PCs soon enough.
