iPad is here, and while I'm underwhelmed at the specs, I stand by all my comments about Apple's iPad revolutionising print media. Like tv, it's very nice at what it does, but not enough of what you want, so you buy the next model up. If it had a 16:9 screen, a Skype camera and a file system, there might have been a chance. The current screen gets you Star Trek in a window just 3" high. That's a lot of wasted space. Print this actual size PDF if you want to get the feel of it.
Pundits would have that there's not much difference between the Windows 7 user experience and the Mac OS X user experience. They would also have you believe modern computer OSes have nowhere to go in terms of dramatic improvement. They would not be paying attention. iPhone OS changed the world, just watch a proper Touch OS creep up through the Apple line, changing the computer user experience -forever-.
You've heard the rumours of the 15.4" real Mac OS X Mac Pad and also the 22" Touch iMac (from the only source to correctly predict iPad's 9.7" screen). I'm hoping for a REALLY busy year for Apple and some seriously sexy Touch enhancements to the Mac OS that will wipe the floor with Windoze and Microsoft. Having failed for a decade at a tablet OS, Microsoft would never recover. It would sink, never to be seen again!
Everyone, even Mac lovers enjoyed the MS Surface interface, but what are the odds of Microsoft, busy with the enterprise/Office/the cloud, implementing a touch OS for Windows? Less than zero?
And Apple looks on target to totally revolutionise the desktop and "notebook" user interface before year's end.
This could get interesting.
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