The iPad paradox: Less is the new more!

March 14, 2010 · Print This Article

I've noticed a trend online recently of new services whose main feature is that they hardly do anything. Twitter was the first major site in that new trend, which boldly asserted its limitations as features. "You can't send more than 140 characters!" "No pictures!" "No formatting!" "It does hardly anything!" Welcome to the future. The less-is-more world is here.

Get used to it. And whether you're going to argue with an iPad fan about why netbooks are better, don't bother with listing what the iPad cannot do. Limitations are what humans want now. (Read)

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