I feel like the "iPAD IS ONLY A MEDIA CONSUMPTION DEVICE FOR THE SOULLESS MASSES" starts as a decent critique, until you consider all the cool stuff people have been making on/with iPhones. Several New Yorker covers, for example, were made using the Brushes app. You can do sound editing, movie editing, so on. Half the announcement was spent discussing an Office style suite, for dang sake! No, you're not going to be making CGI masterpieces on it, but this is like complaining you can't make a novel on Twitter.
And besides, where were all these people being spontaneously creative before? Largely fucking around on Facebook like the vast majority of the internet population.
People who want to be creative with it can and do have the tools to do so. People who don't, won't. Any old damn computer is the same way. Should also be pointed out that using this thing is a heck of a lot more creative than watching a flat screen TV, or reading Infinite Jest.
On Internet Now Mostly Composed of Fanboy Frothing for the Post-Literate iPad
I feel like the "iPAD IS ONLY A MEDIA CONSUMPTION DEVICE FOR THE SOULLESS MASSES" starts as a decent critique, until you consider all the cool stuff people have been making on/with iPhones. Several New Yorker covers, for example, were made using the Brushes app. You can do sound editing, movie editing, so on. Half the announcement was spent discussing an Office style suite, for dang sake! No, you're not going to be making CGI masterpieces on it, but this is like complaining you can't make a novel on Twitter.
And besides, where were all these people being spontaneously creative before? Largely fucking around on Facebook like the vast majority of the internet population.
People who want to be creative with it can and do have the tools to do so. People who don't, won't. Any old damn computer is the same way. Should also be pointed out that using this thing is a heck of a lot more creative than watching a flat screen TV, or reading Infinite Jest.