The General-Purpose iPad

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By Federico ViticciJan 27, 2014, 1:26 pm311 pts
Ben Thompson has a good post about the differences between “computing” tasks on the Mac and the general-purpose nature of the iPad. I agree with his conclusion: Ultimately, it is the iPad that is in fact general purpose. It does lots of things in an approachable way, albeit not as well as something that is…

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