When reviewing devices, there is a temptation to barrage the reader with facts, statistics and various performance indicators, as if this were the sum of a device. But really, as we all know, and as Apple especially has understood, that is not what matters – what matters is the ease of use, the effortlessness and joy of a technology, over and above the quibbles about memory or functionality. This is what makes or breaks a device.
Very true, especially about Apple. That said, he also has a point when later in the article he refers to the ‘malevolent temptation’ of all the things the iPad offers beyond your reading.
