iPad Review from an iPhone Developer- it's a legal pad for computing.

Clearly there’s been a lot of talk about the iPad, with such talk largely revolving around flipping a coin, selecting either the word “magical” or “evil”, and then writing six more paragraphs.

Here’s my take- it’s a revolutionary device in how mundane its uses are. I’m writing this on my balcony, comfortably, with the onscreen keyboard.

I wrote a bunch of emails in the cafe on the corner of my apartment here in Buenos Aires. I played flight control and died after 55 landings. I then caught up on my Twitter stream and checked our app rankings via applyzer.com.

Pretty normal. Pretty mundane. But doing these things on my couch and on the balcony, its more fluid. I pick up the iPad and carry it all over; I put it down when I take a call. Working on a laptop or desktop is a state of being. It’s something you actively do, often for a few hours, or an entire workday.

Using the iPad is like jotting down some notes on a legal pad- it’s a tool. It’s not something you sit down in front of. The iPad is the legal pad of computing. It’s boring in its elegance. It’s a tool, something you use while doing other things. Is that interesting to you? Get one! Do you want to do Photoshop work? Keep your laptop, but get one of these suckers too.

The iPad is the legal pad of computing- the device that lets you carry the Internet around with you throughout your day. Nothing more, nothing less.

Sent from my iPad