This blog post tells how the iPad will rule them all ---> What iPads Did To My Family

[onehandle]

Snipping bits do not do the article justice. Go read it.
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As I think about it now, we've got a fleet of 6 PC desktops of various vintages and three Windows laptops -- two of them that actually work well. On the Apple side, we've got an iMac and two MacBook Airs of different vintages. We just updated the family NAS server to the most recent Iomega device.

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And then I brought home the iPad.

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My wife and kids summed it up in 30 seconds. "Oh no, Dad bought another toy". "Why do we need something else with a CPU in it?". "What does it replace?". And so on.

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All the PCs and laptops are basically not being used. All the Macs are not being used. All have been powered off. Everyone in the family is waiting for their turn at the iPad.

http://chucksblog.emc.com/chucks_blog/2010/05/what-ipads-did-to-my-family.html

[alfredo]

1. OSX did the same thing to me as it relates to Linux. The fun

stuff I could do on the command line in Linux I could do in OSX, and the apps I liked the most in Linux, I could run on OSX.

Let's face it, for what most people do on computers, a desktop or Laptop is more machine that they need. The iPad is focused on those popular tasks: surfing, e-mail, media consumption and games. Any computer company can make a device that can do those tasks. Apple did those basic things, but where they have gone beyond others is interaction. Apple has always tried to remove distance between the person and machine. It's like they want the computer to disappear. That's the striving for an intuitive tool.

I figured out how to use the iPad within seconds. Nothing really symbolic, like a keyboard, between you and the experience. You touch and it responds.

[alfredo]

2. From WaPo

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/opinions/outlook/spring-cleaning/computer-keyboards.html

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. Well as long as I cannot type an acaemic paper

no, it does not do ... footnotes or endnotes.

Now back to the Macbook, or rather the IPOD where I am actually in the middle of readying a hell of an article that will have to find a way to send by email. LARGE document after all.