<story><title>Jobs has lighted our way</title><url>http://gerger.co/yalimslodge/2011/08/25/jobs-has-lighted-our-way/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>Exactly.  The iPad is optimized for &lt;i&gt;consumption&lt;/i&gt;.  For production, however, the iPad is worth next to naught.&lt;p&gt;I guess it fits well with the rest of our society.  Sigh.</text></item><item><author>arethuza</author><text>As far as I am concerned the iPad is the ultimate general purpose media consumption device: web browsing, video, Kindle ebooks, games etc.</text></item><item><author>WA</author><text>So what do you do on your iPad then except for surfing the web? I&apos;m really curious as I don&apos;t see the point of an iPad right now.</text></item><item><author>jinushaun</author><text>I too was skeptical, having seen Microsoft fail at selling a tablet so many times, but bought one anyway so that I could use it as a &quot;development device&quot;. I was shocked to find that only weeks later I preferred using the iPad over my computers most of the time. If it wasn&apos;t for coding, Office or Photoshop--aka making things--I would be iPad full time.&lt;p&gt;Jobs really did what Gates couldn&apos;t with a tablet. Microsoft has been trying to sell tablets since Windows XP with absolutely no success. Jobs rightly showed that you can&apos;t cram a desktop OS into a tablet and call it a proper tablet. Their tablets never felt right because you always wished you had a mouse, keyboard and right click available to get anything done. With MS tablets, users felt like something was taken away. With the iPad, users felt like they had something added.</text></item><item><author>technoslut</author><text>It&apos;s amazing how many times I hear this same story about the iPad. When Jobs first introduced it I was skeptical. After seeing how adults and children alike have taken to this device, it yet again proves that Jobs can see what others do not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>gnaffle</author><text>GarageBand: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/garageband.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.apple.com/ipad/from-the-app-store/garageband.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;IMS-20: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJSyPW4BFgo&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJSyPW4BFgo&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;nLog: &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjiSIPF-Ho&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkjiSIPF-Ho&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;Not to mention iWork and a host of other apps.&lt;p&gt;Yes, the iPad is really good for consumption, but it&apos;s quite good at production as well. And it will get better with time.</text></comment>
<story><title>Jobs has lighted our way</title><url>http://gerger.co/yalimslodge/2011/08/25/jobs-has-lighted-our-way/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>loup-vaillant</author><text>Exactly.  The iPad is optimized for &lt;i&gt;consumption&lt;/i&gt;.  For production, however, the iPad is worth next to naught.&lt;p&gt;I guess it fits well with the rest of our society.  Sigh.</text></item><item><author>arethuza</author><text>As far as I am concerned the iPad is the ultimate general purpose media consumption device: web browsing, video, Kindle ebooks, games etc.</text></item><item><author>WA</author><text>So what do you do on your iPad then except for surfing the web? I&apos;m really curious as I don&apos;t see the point of an iPad right now.</text></item><item><author>jinushaun</author><text>I too was skeptical, having seen Microsoft fail at selling a tablet so many times, but bought one anyway so that I could use it as a &quot;development device&quot;. I was shocked to find that only weeks later I preferred using the iPad over my computers most of the time. If it wasn&apos;t for coding, Office or Photoshop--aka making things--I would be iPad full time.&lt;p&gt;Jobs really did what Gates couldn&apos;t with a tablet. Microsoft has been trying to sell tablets since Windows XP with absolutely no success. Jobs rightly showed that you can&apos;t cram a desktop OS into a tablet and call it a proper tablet. Their tablets never felt right because you always wished you had a mouse, keyboard and right click available to get anything done. With MS tablets, users felt like something was taken away. With the iPad, users felt like they had something added.</text></item><item><author>technoslut</author><text>It&apos;s amazing how many times I hear this same story about the iPad. When Jobs first introduced it I was skeptical. After seeing how adults and children alike have taken to this device, it yet again proves that Jobs can see what others do not.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>arethuza</author><text>That&apos;s what &lt;i&gt;I&lt;/i&gt; use it for - other people can be very creative with them, notable the artist David Hockney:&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11666162&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11666162&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>