Apple took the best parts of the iPhone and the iPod, and made an ultra-slick little device that’s a mere 8mm thin. I couldn’t be more excited about it, not just because of the killer features and gorgeous interface, but for the true mobile web.
I’ve never owned a portable device that was capable of browsing the web, and I think Apple’s implementation is just spot-on.
I have said repeatedly that speech will be the Great Leveller as far as interfaces go, recalling that typing is an artificial method of communication, unnatural and slow. But I plainly didn’t learn much from having kids of my own: touch and gesture are the first methods of communication we use to interact with the world. We learn how to grab and hold things, what things are safe (blocks) and unsafe (the cat’s tail) to grab, and how to point and wave, long before we can communicate with speech (grunts, wails, laughter notwithstanding).
More evidence why Steve Jobs is phenomenally rich and satisfied and I’m, well, not so much.