{"id":447735,"date":"2010-03-19T14:00:33","date_gmt":"2010-03-19T18:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gigaom.com\/?p=105990"},"modified":"2010-03-19T14:00:33","modified_gmt":"2010-03-19T18:00:33","slug":"the-ipad-may-change-computing-just-not-your-life","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/447735","title":{"rendered":"The iPad May Change Computing, Just Not Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The first time you walk into an Apple Store and pick up an iPad, you\u2019ll understand the hype: Apple has managed to create a beautiful, thoughtfully designed, compelling product in a space where mediocrity was, until now, status quo. But odds are you probably won\u2019t buy one \u2014 at least not yet. And that’s OK.<\/p>\n

For despite the high level of anticipation for<\/a> and proclamations<\/a> associated with the launch<\/a> of the Apple device, the fact remains that outside of a few select vertical uses (like medicine), tablets are constrained by their own form factor, stuck in the nether realm between productivity and portability. Standing onstage during the device\u2019s unveiling, Steve Jobs himself posed a question that acutely underscores the tablet dilemma: Is there room for a third category of product that sits between your two most essential devices, the laptop and phone<\/a>? As much as I’m looking forward to the iPad, I’m still not sure there is.<\/p>\n

To date, no one\u2019s been able to scale tablets as a core personal computing product, though it\u2019s certainly not for lack of effort. Just about every player in the electronics world has given tablets a go, from Nokia with its Maemo-based N-series Internet communicators to Dell with its Android-based mini-slates to all manner of Windows-based convertible and slate tablet PCs. But the problem with all of them \u2014 and the iPad may also be included \u2014 isn\u2019t that they\u2019ve been unable to offer fundamentally differentiated experiences from the devices we already own and carry.<\/p>\n

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