One month with iPad 2
It’s been a while since I blogged, and I can’t really explain why. Maybe the muse is gone, maybe Facebook and Twitter combined took away the need to blog, or simply I have nothing to say. Nah, not that, I have a lot to say, I just can’t put them down in word anymore. Something’s changed, and I don’t know what. It doesn’t matter cos this post is about something else, and I should start talking about that!
It’s been about a month since I have the iPad 2 and it still amazes me. I didn’t have the original iPad so this is all new to me. What I noticed is that I read a lot more. Not ebooks (I will get to that later), not magazines, but just online contents. The iPad changed my way to consume the Internet! The iPad makes us realized that the computer, no matter if it’s a desktop or a laptop, is not really the optimized way to read the Internet! I guess I am a semi-power user for the internet, I subscribes to a ton of feeds in my Google Reader. My Facebook and Twitter accounts are overloaded with contents from friends and people that I followed. I am, essentially, having an information overload for quite sometime now. The effect of that is information tune-out. The feed counts on Google Reader go up to thousands, most tweets and stream on Facebook weren’t really read.
The iPad, by giving a new way to present information, changed that trend. The app Reeder on the iPhone helped me to keep up with the feeds on Google Reader but it doesn’t really help me to consume the content any faster. The iPad version of Reeder changed that. By having a larger real estate, a side bar view, a pin and zoom into a “stack” of feeds, it helped me really go through the feeds instead of ignoring them. Flipboard do a similar job to the contents on Facebook and Twitter for me. By having a very different presentation, I somehow pay more attention to the information. Taptu, Hitpad helped me to explore even more contents that I normally probably wouldn’t get to read. Even video contents, showyou and YouTube app help me to explore way more than the web.
And that’s just the ready available online contents, I haven’t got to ebooks, magazines, comic and everything else…
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