Adam Engst on the iPad as a Blank Slate

Adam Engst nails it:

The hardware is so understated — it’s just a screen, really — and because you manipulate objects and interface elements so smoothly and directly on the screen, the fact that you’re using an iPad falls away. You’re using the app, whatever it may be, and while you’re doing so, the iPad is that app. Switch to another app and the iPad becomes that app. If that’s not magic, I don’t know what is.

That’s the best description of the iPad experience I’ve seen yet.

★ Tuesday, 6 April 2010