One month with the Apple iPad
"What's your experience been like with the iPad so far"? People ask me...
Some of my answers:
I feel like I'm in a sci-fi movie every time I use it.
I feel like I'm using technology that is five or ten years away, and shouldn't be available yet I get the same feeling when using the iPad, that I got when I used a mouse on a computer for the first time.
Revolutionary or evolutionary? both. This is the next thing in the computing space. We've been using computers, with keyboards, mice, etc, for ages now. This is the big ticket. Multi-touch, portable, fast, aesthetic, smart, convenient. My main computer is a Macbook Pro laptop. In the last month I reckon I've used the laptop a handful of times.
The iPad caters for 80-90% of my computing now. Most of the things I do are in a web browser, email client, calendar. The only thing the iPad cannot do is edit HD video, which I still do on the laptop, and develop web pages/site
Don't hate it until you try it. I've been carrying it everywhere, on the bus, on the train, at work, in meetings, on the couch, in bed, it's just so convenient and makes anything 'internet'y' so accessible. Truly a "magical device".
