{"id":11091,"date":"2012-01-29T10:55:55","date_gmt":"2012-01-29T17:55:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=11091"},"modified":"2012-02-05T11:12:20","modified_gmt":"2012-02-05T18:12:20","slug":"ipad-observation-2-find-a-bigger-dead-pool-the-ipad-eats-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/11091\/ipad-observation-2-find-a-bigger-dead-pool-the-ipad-eats-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad observation #2: Find a bigger dead-pool: The iPad eats everything."},"content":{"rendered":"

Kicking this back to the top. This is me, writing just after the introduction of the iPad — two very short years ago. At the time I wrote these essays, every so-called “expert” on the nets was insisting that the iPad was an unforced error. I was right, they were wrong. But I’ve been right about a lot more than I’ve seen in the marketplace so far. Note this, for example: “I hate the remote controls for electronic devices, and one thing we should insist on, going forward, is that every wired device in our lives should be IP-addressable and fully-controllable by internet connection.” It’s interesting to revisit these ideas now, to see where we’ve gotten — and to see how far we still have to come. –GSS<\/em><\/p>\n

 
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Real life at my house: We actually like to watch television, if watching TV means watching DVDs (lately almost entirely Netflix DVDs) or watching selected cable shows. This usually happens very late in the evening, usually when we’re pretty much exhausted.<\/p>\n

But: TV at home used to be TV with laptops. Now it’s TV with iPhone. In six months, it will be TV with iPads — or just iPads on the sofa.<\/p>\n

Take careful note:<\/p>\n

Broadcast television is dead, as is broadcast radio. Let’s free up the bandwidth now. The iPad is the ultimate perfect television. On-demand. Stop and start at will. Goes with you when mom says you have to go to soccer practice. The iPad is the perfect entertainment-consumption device: Personal, portable, programmable — and infinitely extensible.<\/p>\n

As was inferable from my first observation in this series of posts<\/a>, the annual Christmastime frenzy of cheap-shit electronic children’s “educational” toys is dead. Anything that anyone in your home does while laying stomach-down on the carpet will be done on the iPad.<\/p>\n

As I pointed out the other day<\/a>, Microsoft, Amazon and many, many other hi-tech vendors are dead. (I have a quality\/integrity argument to make about this, as well, but I haven’t gotten to it yet.)<\/p>\n

Despite the iBook store, books are dead. I love literature and I love the drama, but you don’t have to spend seventy-five bucks Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Kicking this back to the top. This is me, writing just after the introduction of the iPad — two very short years ago. At the time I wrote these essays, every so-called “expert” on the nets was insisting that the iPad was an unforced error. I was right, they were wrong. 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