I’m not normally what you’d call a Daring Fireball junky, but he does definitely bring an interesting perspective to certain Apple events and products. Wednesday he penned a pretty interesting and insightful overview of the iPad experience and what it means for Apple and for all of us. Aside from his description of the iPad’s app performance and responsiveness (“It is fast, fast, fast.”), he correctly notes the huge implications of Apple using its own A4 chip, both in terms of what it could mean for iPhone and for mobile computing in general.
I will go a step further and say that with the economics of social networking pretty much an uncontrolled wild-fire right now (it’s the reason why this 30-something re-built his blog and joined Twitter for the first time this year), Apple could truly become the driving force behind all or most of the computing hardware we use in the years ahead. Funny to think about that, after 20 years of listening to people say “Apple is dead.” Well, maybe 15 years… no one has said that in at least five years as far as I can remember!
