Steve Jobs making your netbook look as fresh as Betamax:
The iPad is perhaps the smallest, sleekest thing we’ve seen since the last time Steve Jobs dropped science in his turtleneck with the iPhone. Maybe we’re overexaggerating that the netbook is on its way out, but it certainly points towards some exciting new trends in personal computing, including constant wireless and home media access as top priorities. It’s interesting to see the consistency in values between the iPad’s selling points and those of the Betmax — hands-on control and a move towards prioritizing homemade media with commercial programming. The emphasis on the “magical” in both products is interesting, and somewhat telling of tech marketing’s desire to present the “revolutionary” over and over again.
Unrelated to the Betamax joke, how creepy is this commercial? The final shot of “Grandma” looking into the camera is just long enough to give us the willies, and something about the child voiceover is a little too “Shining” for our taste.
