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"The gadget disappears pretty quickly. You're looking into pure software."
In a segment that aired Thursday night, the Charlie Rose Show invited three A-list tech commentators — the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, the New York Times' David Carr and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington — to gush about (and find a few faults with) Apple's (AAPL) iPad.
Mossberg was the most viewer-friendly, taking time to define Flash and HTML5 and to explain to the PBS audience how the iPod touch is different from the iPhone.
Arrington was uncharacteristically gracious, complimenting the device — and saying that he couldn't wait to get one — without mentioning his own failed effort to build a competing tablet computer.
But Carr got the best lines:
On the iPad: "One thing you have to understand about this gadget is that the gadget disappears pretty quickly. You're looking into pure software."
On the Amazon Kindle: "It looked like something the Mennonites made 150 years ago."
On the nitpickers: "I'm sure there are a few fanboys out there who aren't totally waving the pom-poms about everything about this device."
On Steve Jobs and Apple: "He may have been thin. He obviously is vigorously engaged in building out his version of the future with this company. There's been no loss of momentum, no loss of ambition, no loss of scale. Whatever he went through in terms of medical issues or illness issues — which was a significant source of concern to shareholders — seems to have had zero impact on their product release schedule, on their reach into the culture, and their ability to preoccupy conversation."
Gruber's take on the show:
‘The Gadget Disappears’
Love this line from the New York Times’s Paul David Carr on the Charlie Rose show, regarding the iPad:
One thing you have to understand about this gadget is that the gadget disappears pretty quickly. You’re looking into pure software.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Carr is a business reporter, not a tech reporter. He sees the forest, not the trees. But this is really astute. I’ve been using a Nexus One Android phone for the last few weeks, and Carr’s quote summarizes the fundamental difference between Android and iPhone OS. On the iPhone, once you’re in an app, everything happens on-screen, with touch. Everything. You go outside the screen to the home button to leave the app or the sleep button to turn off the device. On Android, many things happens on screen with touch, but many other things don’t, and you’re often leaving the screen for the hardware Back, Menu, and Home buttons, and text selection and editing requires the use of the fiddly trackball. An Android gadget never disappears.
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Daring Fireball 10-02-08 12:14 PM John Gruber http://daringfireball.net/
"The gadget disappears pretty quickly. You're looking into pure software."
In a segment that aired Thursday night, the Charlie Rose Show invited three A-list tech commentators — the Wall Street Journal's Walt Mossberg, the New York Times' David Carr and TechCrunch's Michael Arrington — to gush about (and find a few faults with) Apple's (AAPL) iPad.
Mossberg was the most viewer-friendly, taking time to define Flash and HTML5 and to explain to the PBS audience how the iPod touch is different from the iPhone.
Arrington was uncharacteristically gracious, complimenting the device — and saying that he couldn't wait to get one — without mentioning his own failed effort to build a competing tablet computer.
But Carr got the best lines:
On the iPad: "One thing you have to understand about this gadget is that the gadget disappears pretty quickly. You're looking into pure software."
On the Amazon Kindle: "It looked like something the Mennonites made 150 years ago."
On the nitpickers: "I'm sure there are a few fanboys out there who aren't totally waving the pom-poms about everything about this device."
On Steve Jobs and Apple: "He may have been thin. He obviously is vigorously engaged in building out his version of the future with this company. There's been no loss of momentum, no loss of ambition, no loss of scale. Whatever he went through in terms of medical issues or illness issues — which was a significant source of concern to shareholders — seems to have had zero impact on their product release schedule, on their reach into the culture, and their ability to preoccupy conversation."
Gruber's take on the show:
‘The Gadget Disappears’
Love this line from the New York Times’s Paul David Carr on the Charlie Rose show, regarding the iPad:
One thing you have to understand about this gadget is that the gadget disappears pretty quickly. You’re looking into pure software.
I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Carr is a business reporter, not a tech reporter. He sees the forest, not the trees. But this is really astute. I’ve been using a Nexus One Android phone for the last few weeks, and Carr’s quote summarizes the fundamental difference between Android and iPhone OS. On the iPhone, once you’re in an app, everything happens on-screen, with touch. Everything. You go outside the screen to the home button to leave the app or the sleep button to turn off the device. On Android, many things happens on screen with touch, but many other things don’t, and you’re often leaving the screen for the hardware Back, Menu, and Home buttons, and text selection and editing requires the use of the fiddly trackball. An Android gadget never disappears.
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Daring Fireball 10-02-08 12:14 PM John Gruber http://daringfireball.net/
