Hence my statement that the iPad is what the iTouch SHOULD have been from the beginning. But remember back then, it wasn't at all certain if people would adopt a touch only interface en masse.
Bob On Jan 29, 2010, at 2:07 AM, René Micout wrote: > I thought, this morning in my bed, at all I had read about the iPad on > various forums French and foreign. It appears as a kind of unease, > frustration. « Ah! Is that all? », « This already exists », « This is a big > iPod Touch », etc. Yet, while basically in agreement with these thoughts, I > can not bring myself reduce the subject to an assemblage of technologies > already known and some already mastered. In this « thing » I sense something > new, I do not know what, I wonder as Gilles Deleuze : « Where is the newness? > ». What makes the bicycle a new objet (tool?)? The wheel? No, that existed > for a very long time. The saddle? Legacy of the cavalry. The handlebars? The > pedals? There is 2 French words for this object: « bicyclette » and « vélo ». > The first one addresses the object of a technical (technological?) point of > view : is a two-wheeler. The second « vélo » (from « vélocipède ») : go fast > with his feet. The « bicyclette » is a technological breakthrough, the result > of assembling of technical elements already existing anf already proven as > the wheel and the saddle. The « vélo » is a machine (yet the same) that > alters our relationship to the territory, which allows us to increase our > power (puissance : Nietzschean sense). When the « bicyclette » is an « > invention » of more aver the history of mankind, the « vélo » os one of the > most amazing inventions of mankind. > In the computer world, Apple did not invent the computer, not even the > micro-computer while the company was a pioneer in the field. Apple did not > invent the technology icons/mouse, nor does the multitouch, but Apple has > revolutionized the computer (and not only the micro-computer), inventing some > technology but above all by creating new uses in assembling new technologies > and linking closely to each other. Macintosh was not the first microcomputer > « graphics/mouse », iPod was not the first digital Walkman, iPhone was not > the first mobile phone. But, all these devices have radically changed the use > to which it had previously. By changing scale, from the iPod Touch to iPad, > Apple does, apparently, not a new machine (the same but greater), but create > a new use. By removing certain elements : the mouse, the cursor, the distance > between the hand and the brain is shortened ; increasing the size of a small > fun object (a Walkman after all) our power is increased. The alliance between > the hand and the brain is enhanced. The alliance between the hand and the > brain is not what characterizes human in the animal > kingdom?_______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > use-revolution@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list use-revolution@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
