So, I did a blog for a client today about the iPad. Honestly, the first time I saw the commercial, my insides did a few little loop-de-loops. Now, this was something I could get interested in!
Yeah, the iPhone was cool. I had a bunch of friends, including my brother-in-law, that went bananas over it, but frankly, I just don’t need or want a bunch of bells and whistles on my phone. I’m just happy to make the calls I need from nearly wherever I am, text when necessary - and the alarm and timer are handy.
Outside of that, it just all seemed a bit too, well, ridiculous. But, the iPad? Yes. I am excited. I mean, really, how Star Trek can you get? (And yes, I used that reference in my article even though it won’t be my name on the byline, if there is a byline - that’s the anonymity of corporate writing. It pays the bills.)
So, having done a bunch of research, which I was planning to do anyway, there’s a whole lot of happy new iPad people out there. And a few not so happy people. And it makes me wonder. What do people really expect with new technology?
No, the iPad isn’t like a super miracle breakthrough, like discovering the theory of relativity or anything. It has a ton of stuff that’s based on the iPhone, Kindle-type stuff, among others. But, the potential of the thing is pretty amazing. And it’s just a baby. It has to grow and technology has to grow with it.
So many people seem to expect it to be this all-encompassing, super-amazing, flawless product right off the starting blocks. If it doesn’t fulfill that role immediately, then by god, smack it down. I don’t understand these people.
Fortunately, well over 90 percent of the users are just lovin’ it. And the apps will catch up to people’s expectations and requirements. And like I said, the potential of it makes my skin all tingly. And I do not get all tingly about technology. My first reaction is resistance, ambivelence, and lots of exaggerated eye-rolling.
And so I’m writing about the iPad. Yes, I’ll be among the one in five that will getting one. Maybe not in the next year, but I want one. I’m going to let them work out some of the bugs, get their content writing programs to be super useful to writers like me, and let the apps catch up to it before I drop hundreds of dollars, but yep - this one gave me goosebumps.
Tags: iPad, new technology
