Form Factors

Last week on vacation we walked past an Apple store, so I popped in to look at a real live iPad, and even play with it for a minute.

It is smaller than I had thought. Seeing and holding it you realize that it is really not a mini laptop, as I had mentally pictured, but a true hold-in-your-hands device.

And I found myself pondering a whole different set of questions – not about operating systems, or closed gardens versus the open Internet, but about carrying it around and how to keep fingerprint smudges off the screen.

The iPod is not the future of personal computers, or the end of personal computers. It, and its prospective competitors, are a way to hold the Internet in your hand that is less fumble-fingered and squint-making than a smartphone screen. Nothing more, nothing less.

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