The Apple iPad Is For Old PeopleS  The guys at Ultimi Barbarorum
came up with an idea—an idea we were tossing around after the
event yesterday, and even talked about a little last night—and
put it into words. The iPad is for old people.  Those that are
dubious of the iPad's impending success (and I suspect that you
are one of them, Baruch) are of course in danger or repeating
history (qv iPod, iPhone). I have no intention of replicating
all the arguments pro- and con the iPad, so I will limit myself
to just one wholly original observation as to why I think the
doubters once again are not getting it:  1. The iPhone was a
success from the start, but it really became a ubiquitous device
when it proved competent at a whole range of tasks beyond
Apple's original marketing copy. (It was just "a revolutionary
mobile phone, a widescreen iPod with touch controls, and a
breakthrough Internet communications device," remember?) Now
games rule on the iPhone, and as many parents will attest, the
iPhone's one true calling i