I find myself generally bored with the iPad as a gadget, no desire to fondle it's sexy screen or any other kind of desire in general.
Is it because the device is boring or is it more as Shirky says that for a technology to become widely adopted it needs to become ubiquitous.
I'm not meant to find it completely desirable because it's not an 'early adopter' or gadget queen gadget, it's meant to be used...
Content is boring - right?
In my field of online content publication, the potential for innovative publishing models becomes exciting...
We're so used to the idea that innovative online content needs to be rich in multimedia supplied by the the author/publisher... Does the iPad whisk us away from this model offering instead a true read/write environment.
Content as stimulant?
A place where content is a starting point - a stimulant... where richness is added and extended and grown by the user through a rich assortment of plug-ins, apps, extensions and multimedia.
Where something can start as one thing and end up as another. Where evolution of content is in control of not just one user, but many. A content model which truly resembles the richness of search?
It's easy to be cynical, but I think the true excitement of the iPad is in it's "boringness". It's a model I'm looking forward to playing with.
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