Back to the Mac —>
Let me try to express something closer to the truth. For what I need to do, the iPad is completely adequate, and is a delightful, hopeful thing. For what I want to do, though, (and I acknowledge that the mismatch is of my own making), the iPad has ultimately out-frictioned me, at least for the time being. It has tried so very hard to be something that it really isn’t, in the service of people like myself who must necessarily conceptualise their computing needs using that ubiquitous human cognitive bias of preference for the familiar.
This blog post by Matt is not only fantastic in that it is written so well (something that isn’t surprising due to Matt being a published novelist)and very thorough. But it also is exactly what I would hope others writing about tech would learn from.
The move back to the Mac isn’t because one is a winner (Matt’s words) and one is a loser but because of preference and Matt explains this eloquently through the post.
His move to the Mac makes sense, and his frustrations with the iPad seem legitimate.