It’s the iPlatform, not the iPad

Steve’s just announced the iPad (not the best name selec­tion in the world, but it’ll do), and after watch­ing the announce­ment event being repor­ted by vari­ous online media, includ­ing our own Future Shop Techb­log­gers, I’m struck by the impres­sion that the hard­ware is cool, inter­est­ing and looks great, but the iPad hard­ware is not the story here with the implic­a­tions. …more

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This post is an excerpt from one of my weekly posts on the Future Shop Techb­log. Check out the full post here.

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