Mark Hurst, the user experience expert, has weighed in on the iPad, and included a funny video.
Separately, a friend said that he wouldn’t buy an iPad because it didn’t have a camera. He wanted to be able to use it for Skype-style video chat.
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Surely, an iPad with a camera, built-in USB port, augmented reality interface, and complete sentience is sitting in an interior room at 1 Infinite Loop.
Suddenly, your unvisited links are nearly impossible to see. Could you make them a more distinctive color, or underline them?
Ryan: One of the joys of this server for me is that I don’t do any design or sysadmin. I leave everything to the bright young minds at Harvard’s Berkman Center.
http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/02/the_failure_of_empathy.php
If you like a camera to make closeups of your nostrils and third chin, yeah, then a camera is useful. Or do you prefer to hold a book sized object at arms length at shoulder height?
A camera is probably the most useless item an the iPad wish list.
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Andreas
Andreas: unless you put it in the (keyboard) dock on you desk!
If they teach it to multitask in iPhone OS 4 so you can surf and chat to your friends at the same time, the iPad could be a compelling offering for many.
I’m getting one as soon as they are available – so other people can pay me to write software for it for them.