I Don’t Want a Freaking Computer
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I Don’t Want a Freaking Computer
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#2Even my girlfriend (iPhone 3G and 3GS user of over a year) is jealous of my Nexus One.
But he's right, in a different way. When I use a computer, I make it do things. I give it commands, and it executes them, faster than before. I can write a script to transcode ripped DVDs overnight, according to my specifications, and automatically calculating crop values, pixel aspect ratios, etc. to produce the appropriate output for putting movies on my handheld devices. I can write programs that manipulate masses of data in heterogeneous formats and emit summaries, graphs, animations, visualizations of my design, not limited to the preconceptions of some third party software designer thousands of miles away.
I use my computer as a computational device. To compute things. iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch, these aren't computational devices. They are a different kind of thing; but my need and desire for ad-hoc computation are not limited to my current location or equipment, so I want my phone to be similarly flexible. But the things an iPhone etc. can do, I can also do.
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#3 > I even tell my dealer to change my tires twice a year
> I even drilled a hole my wall, and bought a 60 feet cable, at the cost of $300
> Yep, I am one of the drooling mac fanatics.
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#4I don't want a freaking iPhone that won't fit in my pocket.
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#5I don't want a freaking computer either. But I do want something that will let me listen to a streaming music app while writing emails.
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What experience does an iPad deliver that I can't get from an iPhone, a netbook or a laptop?
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#8I would like to see him write that post on an iPad. On second thought, I have better things to do with six hours.
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#9I do. I like programming and playing around with stuff and have since I put my hands on a Commodore PET. Granted, I like to do what I want to do, rather than fixing broken stuff, but there's so much interesting stuff out there, that having source for it just makes your life that much more pleasant.
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#10I would like to see him write that post on an iPad. On second thought, I have better things to do with six hours.
I'd enjoy that joke while it lasts. It probably won't seem as funny once the iPad actually comes out, because the thing supports keyboards, even wireless ones. People who want to write long-form essays will sit a keyboard down in front of their iPads and type.
This won't be a common use case, of course. Because writing anything longer than a sentence or two is not a common use case. Unless you're me.