NP: Charlie Brooker on the iPad

[Robin Landseadel]

Why? Because the man has a satiric voice, that's why:

	A star appears over San Francisco and a new gizmo is born.
	The iPad! At first glance it resembles an iPhone in unhandy,
	non-pocket-sized form. But look a little longer, and . . Nope. You
	 were right first time. . .

	. . .I just hope buying a MacBook won't turn me into an iPrick. I
	want a machine that essentially makes itself invisible, not a
	rectangular bragging stone. If, 10 minutes after buying it, I start
	burbling on about how it's left me more fulfilled as a human
	being, or find myself perched at a tiny Starbucks table stroking
	its glowing Apple with one hand while demonstratively tapping
	away with the other in the hope that passersby will assume I'm
	working on a screenplay, it's going straight in the bin.
	The iBin. Complete with built-in camera. $599.99.

"the rest . . . "

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/ipad-therefore-iwant-why-idunno