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iPad Hyperventilation

From the TidBITS iPad review:

In contrast, the iPad becomes the app you’re using. That’s part of the magic. The hardware is so understated – it’s just a screen, really – and because you manipulate objects and interface elements so smoothly and directly on the screen, the fact that you’re using an iPad falls away. You’re using the app, whatever it may be, and while you’re doing so, the iPad is that app. Switch to another app and the iPad becomes that app. If that’s not magic, I don’t know what is.

First: Gag.

Second: if the iPad were able to, say, transform itself into a live ostrich that does your taxes for you, then I’d be prepared to call it magical. But what we’re talking about here is a beautifully-engineered, impeccably-designed tablet computer that only knows how to do one thing at a time. This is decidedly non-magical, and everybody really just needs to calm down.

Ramsey -

Congrats on your growing number of publications! I haven’t visited the Glass Maze in awhile & am pleased your talent is seeing light…or dark as the case may be.

I don’t know much about steam punk but H.G. Wells strikes me as the original….Cathy B.

Thanks Cathy!