I’ve been thinking about the iPad lot lately. I’m not the on verge of buying one – I’m doing my best to wait for other tablets that are more like the iPad should be (less lock-in, innate OCR in the OS, etc.), but watching the system has made me consider an idea I’d like to tentatively call Distributed Device Interface (DDI for you acronym types).
The thing about the iPad, as it stands, is that it’s a media consumption device, not an input device. However, with a Bluetooth keyboard, it can …

I don’t know why I’m writing about the iPad. I really don’t. I don’t really wanna write or think about the iPad anymore after all the coverage in the last few days, but this post just sort of started itself, and now I’m writing it, and so here it is.
So, this Apple iPad thing was announced and demonstrated, right? Man, how exciting. How wonderful and interesting and everything. It’s like, man, you know? Or something.
And the thing is, we all wanted to be excited about this, Apple. We wanted to …