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[f4f3]

Most interesting comment I've heard about the iPad (might as well bite the bullet and start using that horrible name) is that it's another step towards making us consumers, rather than originators, of content. I've certainly noticed that I'm posting less since getting an iPhone, and, as noted everywhere, LJ seems to be pretty quiet. I still check in as often, or more, to read my flist, but on the notebook I'll add my own entry, but on the iphone I won't...

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[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

I think the iPad is better considered an entertainment device than a productivity device. It's communications features are suited to interactivity but not high-level communciations. I don't complain about the inability to reorder the sequence of channels on my TV set, and most people I've heard who are really jazzed about the iPad are not especially techy. They want somehting that they can leave on the coffee table without worrying whether their kids will wipe out that critical spreadsheet for work.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

I'm off to post about this in a minute, but I think we're agreeing here - it's a device for consuming, not creating content.

[helianthas.livejournal.com]

i still blame facebook.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

Always a good move. But do you blame it for giving us bite-sized morsels of posting?
(I just tried photographing myself in a mirror, btw, and looked in no way as good as your user-pic)

[kapusta-volante.livejournal.com]

My thoughts on the ipad, whatever it is, can be summed up by this: http://gizmodo.com/5460010/careful-old-people-in-japan-may-pee-on-your-ipad

but then, this http://i.gizmodo.com/5458497/lets-get-the-ipad-jokes-out-of-our-systems-cause-steve-doesnt-care is amusing, too. you know, for me as a staunch pc person who upgrades her computer to a new second hand one every 4 years.

[f4f3.livejournal.com]

:)
Ok, you're not getting your hands (or anything else) on my macbook next week...

[kapusta-volante.livejournal.com]

No need to worry-I am strictly a PC person [albeit, only in the sense of computer alliance, certainly not in terms of social acceptability]