Comments on: The iPad, and the Staggering Work of Obviousness

By: Quora

Quora — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 03:34:37 +0000

What do previous owners think of the Apple Newton?...

A look back at the Newton from the iPad age, which gives a flavour of what owning a Newton was like. http://cheerfulsw.com/2010/ipad-a-staggering-work-of-obvious/...

By: Dylan

Dylan — Sun, 18 Sep 2011 13:05:05 +0000

Greetings friend I am so glad I found your site The iPad, and the Staggering Work of Obviousness : Cheerful, I really found you by error, while I was searching on Digg for something else, Nonetheless I am here now and would just like to say kudos for a marvelous post and a all round enjoyable blog (I also love the theme/design), I don\'t have time to look over it all at the moment but I have saved it and also included your RSS feeds, so when I have time I will be back to read a lot more, Please do keep up the excellent work.

By: The Problem with the Startup Craze… by Steve Jobs « Unicornfree

The Problem with the Startup Craze… by Steve Jobs « Unicornfree — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 15:58:52 +0000

[...] You might also enjoy this essay I wrote in April, 2010: The iPad, and the Staggering Work of Obviousness. [...]

By: Elvis

Elvis — Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:16:51 +0000

Very Creative article on iphone i love it thanks

By: cheap iphone 4 cases

cheap iphone 4 cases — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 02:32:06 +0000

Twitter has a pretty good system of checks and balances. If I talk shit about an iPhone someone jumps me for it but I can always block them

By: Barbara

Barbara — Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:53:12 +0000

Hello,

I actually have a private music class and so now creating a website to aid our children here http://readmusic.org

Will you mind if in case My partner and I quote a number of of your blogposts as long as My partner and I provide recognition coupled with sources back to your web-site? My websites is in the specific same area of interest as yours and our users would be likely to truly benefits by a lot of the information you provide here. Please let me know if this ok with you.

Thx!

By: Paul

Paul — Wed, 25 May 2011 21:38:58 +0000

As Mr Jobs puts it; we now live in a post PC age.

Every piece of computer hardware I've owned has failed to live up to expectations; with the exception of my iMac (27in 3ghz dual core), my iPhone and my new iPad 2.

Perhaps I simply expected too much from the PC's I laboured over, too soon. (I wonder whether Android tablet users are feeling this way?).

From my first experiences with the BBC micro running Grannies Garden, through the Archimedies running Zarch and the monochrome Mac Classic running Quark.

I feel I'm experiencing a constant circlular evolution of technology, function and expectation.

More often than not we just don't get it until it's put in front if us. I know the iPhone wasn't a big deal for me until someone pinched a web page in front of me. At the time, a staggering thing to happen in the palm of a hand.

But remarkably the late, great Douglas Adams got it. His handheld electronic 'book' is only just becoming reality. The concept he merely dreamt of will now surely shape a future that alas he will never see.

I know Douglas would have got it! He would have had several.

Soon so will many others.

We already live in the future!

Now all we need to so is imagine what to do with it.

By: hanabi

hanabi — Tue, 05 Apr 2011 17:22:47 +0000

I love Ipad :X In my opinion Ipad is best choice in order to make your work become simple I'll buy it ^^

thank for sharing ^^

Regard

By: John Aislabie

John Aislabie — Sat, 29 Jan 2011 17:25:26 +0000

I don’t know whether Steve hated the Newton, I rather think he admired much of what it was trying to do (and had a long think over the eMate). But what he recognised as clear as day was that for Apple in its dire 1997 state they could not spend a single dollar more on a product that was draining scarce resources from the MacOS, Filemaker, Quicktime and so on. And on a product that, good or bad, could not possibly replace the revenue of these other items in the short time available. He made a tough close down decision, which was self evident to three previous CEOs, but which they did not have the courage to make. The resources saved were – just – enough to allow Apple to pull out of a screaming power dive, bring out the first iMac, and the rest is history

By: Quora

Quora — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 13:39:42 +0000

How involved should consumers be in product development decision-making?...

I think there's a big difference in asking them what they want, versus showing them something and asking for feedback which makes the product more useful. Apple does it openly by stealth by iterating experimental changes in the UX design with successi...