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Re: Cory Doctorow on iPad, Apple ][+
DaveSchmenk wrote:
I have to confess that I just picked up a 32GB iPad as well. It is
quite a bit more than an uber-iTouch, but much less than a laptop. The
form factor sold me. Very intimate and easy to use for the few things
it does. VNC is the killer app for me, along with mail and browser. I
like to check on email and do a little browsing in bed before dozing -
my iPhone is just a little too small and a laptop is just a little too
big (even my 12" PowerBook).
So the iPad will be the enabler of the "data furnace"--the vision of
the server in a basement closet that hosts all our personal storage
and applications, but is never seen by polite company. ;-)
Or maybe the "personal server" will be a strongly-encrypted, cloud-
hosted capability with capabilities equal only to our credit card
limits. ;-)
Typing on it feels much like the old Tandy Model 100. If it only had
AppleSoft.
Wow! What would a half-generation of journalists have done without
the Tandy 100?!
That will come, I'm sure. ;-)
-michael
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