My wife is a technologist and designer, and uses her iPad for work, as do a lot her colleagues. I think techies to enjoy it for the tactile computing experience it affords them. We've installed a couple of music apps (virtual synths and samplers) for me to play with. It's much more pleasant running them on a touch screen platform, then controlling them using a computer keyboard, or a MIDI keyboard. I've always hated MIDI, so its offers me a way out.
Best, Joel
On Aug 22, 2011, at 3:57 PM, Wojtek S wrote:
> Ravi: "These schmucks don’t know how to compete with Apple. "
>
> [WS:] Maybe they are still thinking of making a useful product
> instead of creating a "consumer experience" - which seems to be the
> main business in which Apple is in.
>
> In any case, I really do not understand what is in the ipad / tablet
> products other than marketing hype. AFAIK, they are technologically
> inferior to a Windows or a Mac pc - they cannot run any serious
> business application or even demanding games, and their main
> attraction is sleek design, "cool" image, and the ability
> razzle-dazzle unsophisticated audiences (mostly adolescents) in the
> times that they are bored (e.g. while siting in a classroom) or have
> nothing else to do (e.g. while sitting in a Starbuck or on a bus.)
> They are an ultimate example of capitalist commodity fetishism.
>
> Wojtek
>
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