Apple is a famous company. But this doesn't mean that they deserve credit for all of this awesome stuff. They're building on the shoulders of giants and to deny that is a pretty bold thing.
1) Should is a very subjective term. What if I track my taxes in my Word Processor?
2) Doesn't Dropbox do this? And isn't this what git/hg do for developers?
3) The Internet is a much bigger and better app store.
4) So if I made a computer with built-in GPS, accelerometer, 3G Internet, AND a CD drive, would that be "revolutionary" too? I think not. Adding more a more features that already exist make not an idea revolutionary.
5) Since when did Orwellian DRMs become revolutionary?
6) Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Because the iPad most definitely has a filesystem.
Just listing the ways in which iPad is significantly different from everything else out there. Whether the differences turn out to be a big deal remains to be seen.
1) That's nitpicking. A video game shouldn't have access to your important files, and that's something Mac and PC get "wrong", and iPad gets "right".
2) Nope. If your computer breaks you have to reinstall it, and then reinstall Dropbox and then you get only files back from a single directory. We developers have solutions for every problem, but that's irrelevant for the public at large.
3) For some value of "better". Either way, it's still a big change from the status quo, hence revolutionary.
4) Fair enough.
5) If it's not revolutionary, what would you call it? If because of the iPad the future of personal computing is DRM-ed then I'd say that's a major, major revolution.
6) From a consumer perspective that's exactly what it means. If you can't see it, it ain't there.
So if I made a computer with built-in GPS, accelerometer, 3G Internet, AND a CD drive, would that be "revolutionary" too?
Actually, yes, possibly. But that doesn't necessarily mean it would be commercially successful.
The Internet is a much bigger and better app store.
Define "better." I feel a lot safer on the App Store. But I note I can do a heck of a lot more with my jailbroken iPhone thanks to a few select apps not available there.
The valuable realization here is that one should be able to have the cake and eat it too.
1) Should is a very subjective term. What if I track my taxes in my Word Processor?
2) Doesn't Dropbox do this? And isn't this what git/hg do for developers?
3) The Internet is a much bigger and better app store.
4) So if I made a computer with built-in GPS, accelerometer, 3G Internet, AND a CD drive, would that be "revolutionary" too? I think not. Adding more a more features that already exist make not an idea revolutionary.
5) Since when did Orwellian DRMs become revolutionary?
6) Just because you can't see it doesn't mean it doesn't exist. Because the iPad most definitely has a filesystem.