iPad Dismissal

Fraser Speirs nails it yet again with a blog post titled iPad Fallacy #1: “It’s not for con­tent cre­ation”. In the post he poses the question:

I keep hear­ing this thing on the web that the iPad is “a con­sump­tion device, not a cre­ation device”. I don’t know why peo­ple keep say­ing that. It’s fast enough, it has enough stor­age and it has some seri­ously pow­er­ful appli­ca­tions. If that’s your opin­ion, please enlighten me in the comments.

described beforenerd myopia.

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Consume!

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iPad, Letters.app and Nerd Myopia

Fraser Speirs

However, I main­tain that a read of the archiveslargest con­sumer /producer of email in an orga­ni­za­tion, and have the most need for power features.

Assuredly, the iPad will be a good fit for those users. I con­tend it will also be a good fit for cor­po­rate users who already have a pri­mary desk­top sys­tem and need a basic com­mu­ni­ca­tion and con­tent cre­ation tool for lim­ited travel. I con­tend that, with the proper third party appli­ca­tions, the iPad will be a good tool for many artists who work in the field. My Angry Mac Bastards