Very good point - especially for the first one. They won't need someone's help. Mainly, our help.
One could say Steve Jobs has "taken" the market from us, now controlling even the developers. Yet I believe, as the post pointed out, that theres an escape hatch through using the internet as a delivery mechanism. HTML5 and responsive web apps are truly the future there. Learn UNIX programming if you haven't.
This moves the developers, from say, GeekSquad and "Best Buy Optimization" rip-off services to productive application development. One could argue that this will make the smart smarter (as the barrier to entry is higher) and the "dumb" (less experieced a better word?) interested in something else.
I think the iPad is "meh" because to some degree we haven't seen what it will do to the landscape yet. We've been focusing on the technical aspects of the device - and putting up against a rubric we've built over the last 30 years. I believe Jobs aims to change that rubric.
Other people have said it - computers are complicated for laymen users and they want it to act like an appliance. Hes giving it to them.
One could say Steve Jobs has "taken" the market from us, now controlling even the developers. Yet I believe, as the post pointed out, that theres an escape hatch through using the internet as a delivery mechanism. HTML5 and responsive web apps are truly the future there. Learn UNIX programming if you haven't.
This moves the developers, from say, GeekSquad and "Best Buy Optimization" rip-off services to productive application development. One could argue that this will make the smart smarter (as the barrier to entry is higher) and the "dumb" (less experieced a better word?) interested in something else.
I think the iPad is "meh" because to some degree we haven't seen what it will do to the landscape yet. We've been focusing on the technical aspects of the device - and putting up against a rubric we've built over the last 30 years. I believe Jobs aims to change that rubric.
Other people have said it - computers are complicated for laymen users and they want it to act like an appliance. Hes giving it to them.