Comments on: The iPad isn’t a PC — but it’s trying hard to behave like one

By: tguer1

tguer1 — Sat, 31 Mar 2012 22:09:57 +0000

I just got an iPad 2 and love it. I bought a refurbished unit from Apple for $350. I was going to buy the new one but for what I need it for a 2 is just fine and besides I put a 2 and a new one nest to each other and didn’t really see a big difference. I recently bought an iPhone 4. I didn’t need a 4s, I really don’t need another female talking to me. I once said I would never buy anything Apple but now I love them. in fact I’m looking to replace my pc laptop with a Mac and then replace my desk top also with Apple.

By: Ian Sterne

Ian Sterne — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 16:07:20 +0000

I’m with my fellow Canadian Marshall McLuhan “The medium is the message”. The iPad is not a PC and it is not a smartphone its an iPad. It will change how people interact with their world and how they perceive it.

By: aepxc

aepxc — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 13:03:51 +0000

I think the terminology needs to be changed a little bit with the ‘PC’ term retired. Smartphones and tablets are certainly computers (and personal), the same way motorbikes and cars are motor vehicles. To extend the analogy, desktops would be trucks, notebooks – pickups, and ultrabooks – SUVs. This picks up on an important dynamic – motorbikes are not simply subsets of trucks – they do some things better and some things worse, while still being able to serve as a personal transport from point A to point B. It’s the same with different types of computers – desktops, tablets, and whatever else. And Windows 8 aside, I do not think that any of them is “trying hard” to be like any other – there is just natural limited overlap.

By: scottph

scottph — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 11:25:10 +0000

I disagree. iPad is most definately a PC for the 99%.
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By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 10:21:57 +0000

In order to leap forward in using an iPad for business purposes they really need to include track changes in iWork programs. It’s a simple thing but is putting off a lot of people in the industry I work in and most other office based industries.

By: DotsOfColor

DotsOfColor — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 03:24:20 +0000

Reblogged this on Dots Of Color.

By: John Molloy

John Molloy — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:39:08 +0000

“It does’t have to be to be cool and useful.”

It only has to be useful.

By: Erica Ogg

Erica Ogg — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:30:42 +0000

I try never to be sneery! :) And that was not how it was intended at all. I’m not ant-iPad, it’s just not a PC — and that’s totally OK. It does’t have to be to be cool and useful.

By: John Molloy

John Molloy — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:19:27 +0000

Indeed, Erica, it’s just that the feeling I got from the post was that you were being a tad sneery about it. I don’t know if that was what you were aiming for, just how it came across.

I think that the fact it does what it does for people who don’t actually need to compute is the bit that is missing from the equation and why geeks have a hard time seeing what it does.

This is why when the original was launched all the tech people slagged it off but when real people got their hands on one they sold like hotcakes.

By: Erica Ogg

Erica Ogg — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 00:58:25 +0000

Hi John,

I didn’t say you can’t do computing things on an iPad. Obviously you can, the range of what you can do is just different on an iPad versus a PC.