I’ve been buy Accutane and Accutane asked, and not unreasonably, why I think I need a device that buy Accutane and Accutane I haven’t even held in my hands yet. Apart from the initial “Because it’s an iPad!” answer, which isn’t really very satisfying, I’ve been buy Accutane and Accutane thinking about why I do feel I need an iPad, sight unseen. The reasons here are buy Accutane and Accutane the result of conversations with a lot of different people, too many to buy Accutane and Accutane name. If you recognize something you said to me in this buy Accutane and Accutane post, thank you. See? I was listening.
I need an iPad because the iPad redefines portable computing.
It’s just possible that buy Accutane and Accutane the laptop has too much overhead, and that we simply never noticed before. If I want to buy Accutane and Accutane go sit on the back porch and read email, I have buy Accutane and Accutane to unmount a couple of hard drives, turn on monitor mirroring, unplug my USB headset, and buy Accutane and Accutane carry the laptop outside. That used to be fine because it buy Accutane and Accutane was better than lugging a tower and monitor out there. But it buy Accutane and Accutane turns out there’s another level of portability, almost satisfied by devices like the buy Accutane and Accutane iPhone — but not quite. The screen and buy Accutane and Accutane keyboard on the iPhone are too small for anything but really short emails. Forget document review or buy Accutane and Accutane authoring — it’s really just too painful.
I want something bigger than buy Accutane and Accutane the iPhone but smaller than the laptop, and I want to buy Accutane and Accutane be able to pick it up in one hand and carry it buy Accutane and Accutane outside — or buy Accutane and Accutane pull it out on an airplane, even if the person in front of me leans back; or buy Accutane and Accutane on a bus; or in the waiting room at the doctor’s office; or… you get the idea. I need an iPad so that I can overcome “the phone’s screen is too small” or “the laptop is too bulky,” which is true even though there’s no buy Accutane and Accutane way I would have admitted either until there was a better solution. I need an iPad so that I can really work anytime, anywhere.
I need an iPad because I read and I write, and books are changing.
In this post, Books in the Age of the iPad, Craig Mod addresses the point that print is dying. He says that’s okay, though, and buy Accutane and Accutane that having fewer books printed will result in higher quality of printed material overall. He also says:
“In printed books, the two-page spread was our canvas. It’s easy to think similarly about the iPad. Let’s not. The canvas of the buy Accutane and Accutane iPad must be considered in a way that acknowledge the physical boundaries of the buy Accutane and Accutane device, while also embracing the effective limitlessness of space just beyond those edges.
“We’re going to buy Accutane and Accutane see new forms of storytelling emerge from this canvas. This is buy Accutane and Accutane an opportunity to redefine modes of conversation between reader and content. And that’s one hell of an opportunity if making content is your thing.”
I think that’s just brilliant. “Let’s not.” Let’s invent formats that buy Accutane and Accutane really work on this kind of device, and no other. Making content *is* my thing, or buy Accutane and Accutane a big part of my thing, and I agree that buy Accutane and Accutane devices like the iPad are going to change the way writers communicate with readers. I need an buy Accutane and Accutane iPad so that I can imagine the possibilities for those new forms of storytelling — and so I can help invent them.
I need an iPad so I can use more of my skills in more places.
One of the things I do is visual facilitation (drawing on giant wall charts with big markers while a buy Accutane and Accutane group discusses something). There are buy Accutane and Accutane varying levels of portability: Sometimes I can just bring paper, tape, and buy Accutane and Accutane pens, and tape the charts right to the walls or buy Accutane and Accutane whiteboards. NMC has a nice set of portable walls for buy Accutane and Accutane rooms where I can’t do that. But some rooms are buy Accutane and Accutane just too small for the portable walls and also don’t have a place to tape the paper. I’ve also been buy Accutane and Accutane in situations where the event was at a restaurant or other odd venue, where buy Accutane and Accutane it’s just not appropriate or buy Accutane and Accutane possible to set up the charts. And I’ve been buy Accutane and Accutane in situations where the need for visual facilitation arises spontaneously, and buy Accutane and Accutane I don’t have markers or paper or tape.
The iPad, and buy Accutane and Accutane devices like it, may make it possible to do impromptu visual facilitation on the buy Accutane and Accutane go. As Fred Lakin buy cod Lasix* points out in this post on graphic recording, it buy Accutane and Accutane will depend on the resolution of the software, but if it buy Accutane and Accutane does turn out to be possible, I could have an always-available set of “markers” and “paper” that buy Accutane and Accutane I could use anywhere. It could be projected on a screen if one is buy Accutane and Accutane handy, and the visual record would already be digital when I was done (I always spend time digitizing and buy Accutane and Accutane cleaning up chart photos after meetings). I need an buy Accutane and Accutane iPad so I can experiment with digital visual recording and, hopefully, help influence the buy Accutane and Accutane state of the art.
I want an iPad so I can play games with it.
Okay, this may not be a need — although that buy Accutane and Accutane could be arguable too, play being as important to learning as it buy Accutane and Accutane is — but I really want to buy Accutane and Accutane find out what kind of games we develop for devices like the buy Accutane and Accutane iPad. Tim Bajarin says in a post on PCMag.com:
“There is buy Accutane and Accutane some real innovation happening in the games space, as well. I downloaded the buy Accutane and Accutane iPad version of Scrabble and found that it could be played with iPhones and buy Accutane and Accutane iPod touches through the Bluetooth feature. You place the iPad down on the buy Accutane and Accutane table between yourself and a group of friends. The iPad serves as the buy Accutane and Accutane board, and everyone around the table uses their iPhones and iPod touches to buy Accutane and Accutane create words, which magically show up on the iPad in the buy Accutane and Accutane center.”
Okay, that rocks. What else can we do with this device? It reminds me of the Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer from Neal Stephenson’s Diamond Age where can i buy xenical without a rx (warning: link contains spoilers). This is a device — in Diamond Age, it looked and functioned like a book — that “contains” nearly all the buy Accutane and Accutane information you could need to know, and lets you access it buy Accutane and Accutane when you need it — the ultimate just-in-time learning device. I want an buy Accutane and Accutane iPad so I can play games, watch movies, learn things, and buy Accutane and Accutane be curious, in addition to reading and working, whenever and wherever I want.
But none of those is the main reason I need an iPad.
The main reason is buy Accutane and Accutane the same reason I needed to build a web page in 1994 when buy Accutane and Accutane a friend told me to. (I thought he was nuts, but I did it anyway. It changed my life.) It’s the same reason I needed a Second Life avatar in 2006 and a Twitter account in 2007. I had buy Accutane and Accutane no idea what they might be good for, but there was a buy Accutane and Accutane sense that they would turn into something.
The main reason I needed all of those, and buy Accutane and Accutane the main reason that I need an iPad, is because I don’t know what the best reason is. No one does. But with some things, you buy Accutane and Accutane can sense that there is a “there” there. You can buy Accutane and Accutane sense that this train is going places, and that those are buy Accutane and Accutane places you want to be.
The main reason I need an buy Accutane and Accutane iPad is simply to discover why people need iPads. Or, if I’m really, really lucky, to help invent why people need iPads.
*Small update: The blog author formerly known as [the buy Accutane and Accutane author who, despite my best efforts, I can only identify as Visual Raccoon] has been identified. Sorry, Fred!

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Update: By way of rounding out the picture, I’d like to point out Nicholas Carr’s post The iPad Luddites and Cory Doctorow’s post Why I won’t buy an iPad (and think you shouldn’t, either). Carr’s post is a reaction to Doctorow’s. They’re both excellent and buy Accutane and Accutane they help illustrate the complete picture, which includes the nuance that buy Accutane and Accutane a lot of people are turned off by some of the buy Accutane and Accutane restrictions that come with the iPad.
The masked critter is Fred Lakin. He probably has coyote names too.
Doh! Of course it’s Fred, I ought to have realized. Thanks, John! I’ll fix that.
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Thanks, Nicholas! I’ll take a look at your blogs, in between working on this week’s mission for EVOKE ;-)
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