Why iPad is for dinosaurs

Obsolescence of the present

Small, light, portable, incredibly thin, enormously powerful. Astonishing design and outstanding performance. It’s my iPhone. No matter where I go it’s there with me, always. Not only is it a phone, it’s a camera too. Not only is it a device to listen to the music, it’s great to surf the internet too. Not only is it a device where I can store more data than in my mac only a few years ago, it’s the fastest and easy way to stay connected nearly anywhere in the world. It’s not just a phone, it’s a remarkable computing device in its own right. That’s why the last time I’ve used an iPad was quite a long time ago. That’s why despite the new, amazing retina and air versions I don’t need it anymore. That’s why my desktop is completely useless, and my laptop turned now into a desktop. I don’t carry my laptop when I travel abroad, not any longer. My iPhone is my unique companion.

Nevertheless, I see all around me aged people, or young people born old, telling me how beautiful reading their favorite daily on an iPad is. Perhaps they need to reproduce the same experience they had for ages. They need to replicate the reality they’re used to because their minds are too full of skeuomorphism and not flat?
I read every morning news on my iPhone and I do not need a bigger screen to feel comfortable. I hold it in one hand while I sip my cappuccino, while I’m in the bathroom or walk to my office.
And at the same time I see a lot of aged people carrying their iPads or lousy tablets and shooting pics around the world in such an unnatural, and clumsy way. How can you reasonably think that it’s cool?

As a journalist myself, I meet a lot of seasoned journalists, or young colleagues born old, with their iPads, feeling themselves up to date and trendy while attending a press conference holding their iPad. The last time I’ve used it was as a typewriter, end of 2009! But I have to say that recently I thought it was an extraordinary and extremely useful new and old technology. I used it few months ago when an airline, an old airline of the old world, asked for a piece of paper with my signature, handwritten! Can you believe it? In 2013? That was a moment of great inspiration, when I realized that using my finger I could write more or less in a regular sheet of high-tech paper my letter and my handwritten signature! Sounds like something from an old past!

In that very moment I thanked Steve Jobs and thought that the iPhone is shaping the future, changing the present deeply, while getting rid of all the other devices that are already dead.