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Originally Posted by ezkcdude
Why did I say the iPad is not a computer? I'm simply taking cues from Apple. AFAICT, they do not refer to it *ever* as a computer. And that's not by accident. It is a device. When Paul said "people don't get it", I think what they don't get right now is precisely this. If you see the iPad as a "computer", you don't get it.
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I think it's a computer. It computes, ergo, computer. Seriously, how is it not a computer? It hits all the computery notes. It does most people's computery things. It's just not a "traditional" computer, as we know them today.
I've been saying this for years. Future generations will see how we all called one big box "the computer" and they'll think that's hopelessly quaint, like "Radio Shack" and "electric snaps." In the future, everything will want to compute, just like everything wants to connect to the Internet. The Internet is this century's electric grid -- why wouldn't everything want to plug into it?
It's a computer. It's just not a "PC." It's post-PC.
EDIT: I sure hope the iPad browser lets you scroll through text fields easier.
