By Nicholas Carr, Blogger, Rough Type
The PC era ended this morning at ten o’clock Pacific time, when Steve Jobs mounted a San Francisco stage to unveil the iPad, Apple’s (AAPL) version of a tablet computer. What made the moment epochal was not so much the gadget itself – an oversized iPod Touch tricked out with an e-reader application and a few other new features – but the clouds of hype that attended its arrival.
Tablet computers have been kicking around for a decade, but consumers have always shunned them.
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