Hello iPad, Goodbye PC
Filed Under (Industry Biz News) by Admin on 27-01-2010
The New Republic has published my commentary on Apple’s iPad announcement. I reprint it here: The PC era ended this morning at ten oclock Pacific time, when Steve Jobs mounted a San Francisco stage to unveil the iPad, Apples 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. Theyve been…

