It looks like a great machine to travel from the living room to the kitchen to the kids room to the bedroom. We'll search the web on it, read the news on it, the kids will do email on it, play Brushes and Bejeweled on it, and it'll be the perfect complement to the Sunday afternoon TV football ritual. We'll use it to control the music in the house, and do some quick bet-settling during dinner. I'm sure we'll eventually enjoy some multiplayer "board" games on it, or read a book on it, or watch a TV show on it. And the kids will argue with each other over who gets it next. (Dad will.)With all the initial negative press and poo-pooing of the iPad, this is probably the most positive (and most useful) assessment I've seen so far. I'm seeing a lot of parallels to specific events like board game nights or bedtime reading, or as Sippey describes, to general family activities that are woven together throughout the course of the day.
Phones are too personal (and small) to play this role, and a desktop and laptops are too centralized in a home (i.e., lack versatility) to involve everyone. Perhaps iPad's greatest influence will not be derived from what it does as a personal device but rather how it is used as a personnel device.
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