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One has to hand it to Apple, the world’s greatest marketing company. What Steve Jobs and company have done since the beginning of the world of personal computing is to provide the world with some of it s most innovative technologies. They seem to have this incredible knack for providing us with something we know we want but don’t know we do. When they came out with the MacIntosh computer in 1984, they realized that people wanted to use computers but for most people, it wasn’t about being computer scientists. So they came up with simple things that had already been invented  and repackaged it for public consumption. They made computing fun and useful.

What does the iPad bring to the public today? Some say its a tablet computer. Well, tablets have been around for a long time. This device enabled folks to work directly on the screen. You had a stylus that enabled you to write on the screen and that could be saved. Using your stylus, you could do all the things you would with a mouse. Unfortunately, tablets didn’t sell well. Most of the folks that use them are field service engineers, technicians, nurses, doctors, pharmacy sales people (They’re always interrupting my visits to my doctor armed with these things) people who need to work with a screen instead of a keyboard. Most of us who use computers do so sitting down with a screen and a keyboard so we opted to buy desktops or laptops. We didn’t need tablets. Read the full story