Why The iPad Is Crap Futurism
29th January 2010
Apple is marketing the iPad as a computer, when really it’s nothing more than a media-consumption device – a convergence television, if you will. Think of it this way: One of the fundamental attributes of computers is that they are interactive and reconfigurable. You can change the way a computer behaves at a very deep level. Interactivity on the iPad consists of touching icons on the screen to change which application you’re using. Hardly more interactive than changing channels on a TV. Sure, you can compose a short email or text message; you can use the Brushes app to draw a sketch. But those activities are not the same thing as programming the device to do something new. Unlike a computer, the iPad is simply not reconfigurable.
The iPad has all the problems of television, with none of the benefits of computers.