A Bet on the Future

Steven Frank has written the best piece about the iPad. I was planning to write something like this but I don’t need to bother now. I agree with him whole-heartedly.

Although the iPad as a device leaves much to be desired, the computing model originally introduced by iPhone and recently blown up in size by iPad, is potentially the computing model of the future. Just as we shifted our paradigms several times in the last five decades, from punch card machines to command line prompts and from there to mouse and desktop computing, eventually the desktop paradigm will have to make place for something better.

Apple is betting with iPhone and iPad on ease of use and simplicity instead of flexibility and raw power. It is not yet certain if that bet is going to pay off but the next five to ten years are definitely going to be very exciting.