"Whenever possible, add a realistic, physical dimension to your application. The more true to life your application looks and behaves, the easier it is for people to understand how it works and the more they enjoy using it."

Would anyone like to buy a lightly-used Apple iPad (64GB, WiFi-only) in about 60 days?

How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love The OS

I don’t even want multi-tasking on my iPhone anymore, really.

I’ll go even further. I couldn’t be convinced that Steve Jobs wants multi-tasking either.

The iPhone OS allows you to focus on the task ahead of you. Sure, short inline replies to SMS, maybe one or two other Apple apps that run in the background, would be helpful. But I doubt we’ll get multi-tasking any time soon. Multi-tasking is for geeks, and everybody knows it doesn’t work any way. You know how many other things I’m doing while I’m writing this post? None.

The iPad will be a device you use to entertain yourself while you’re at-rest. Sit back and browse the web, read some Instapaper. I’m actually looking forward to a device that allows me to focus on the text in front of me. I can miss the multi-stuff.

Where will iPad go in Apple.com navigation???

Why I couldn’t sleep last night.

How revolutionary does Apple see the iPad?

Very.

The iPad and this idea of a next generation operating system has been on Steve Jobs’ mind since he returned to Apple. Here’s Jobs talking to Fortune magazine in 1996:

“If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it’s worth — and get busy on the next great thing. The PC wars are over. Done. Microsoft won a long time ago.”

Steve Jobs in an interview at the AllThingsD Conference in May of 2007, about one month prior to the iPhone going on sale:

“But I think the question is a very simple one, which is how much of the really revolutionary things people are going to do in the next five years are done on the PCs or how much of it is really focused on the post-PC devices. And there’s a real temptation to focus it on the post-PC devices because it’s a clean slate and because they’re more focused devices and because, you know, they don’t have the legacy of these zillions of apps that have to run in zillions of markets.”

"For every Apple iPad Dock sold, three third party ‘landscape’ docks will be sold."

Say it out loud: iPad

Adam Lisagor:

I’ve spent 14 hours with it floating around in my head now, this revolutionary new thing with an unfamiliar official new name where before there existed a perfectly respectable hypothetical one. And I’ve made up my mind: Apple should be as embarrassed with their decision as I am for them.