NP: Charlie Brooker on the iPad

[Joe Allonby]

As the world's worst photographer (really) I'm not disappointed that
electronic devices don't have cameras. In fact, I specifically ask for
one's that don't. If I can manage an out of focus quadruple exposure
with a $2000 digital camera even though it's theoretically impossible,
just imagine how badly I can fuck up with a cellphone camera.

My important question is always: "But will it make coffee too?"


On Mon, Feb 15, 2010 at 9:45 AM, Robin Landseadel
<robinlandseadel at comcast.net> wrote:
> Why? Because the man has a satiric voice, that's why:
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>        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. . .
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>        . . .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.
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> "the rest . . . "
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> http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/feb/01/ipad-therefore-iwant-why-idunno
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