Touching my way to freedom

Funny that I waited so long to get an iPad. I’m not sure why I did. I think it had something to do with its rather nebulous category in which it resides. It’s not a laptop replacement and its not a phone, still I’m finding that there is some usefulness to it.

It’s not so much the actual functions rather its the utopian technocrat future its represents. I’m sure this device is what Philip K Dick had in mind when writing Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep…it’s an all in one portal into a sexy on the go dimension.t

Hate that I cant save documents from my Mail though. I’m sure theres an app for that…

(typed somewhat quickly in landscape mode)

50% off of 10%

I find this to be the most telling portrait of what consumers are doing with their smart phones. While Apple hovers around a 10% market share of smart phones in use, they dominate mobile web traffic at nearly 50%! Does this mean surfing the web on a Blackberry or Windows Mobile device sucks? yes. But that also means that’s not why people buy a Blackberry. With such a huge numerical disparity I would go on to say that the iPhone isn’t even a smart phone – a new “mobile computer” category should be created.

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