Why The iPad Matters

How Important Is The iPad?

Tim Bajarin writes about four key reasons why he thinks Steve Jobs considers the iPad to be his most important achievement. All of the reasons point to possible changes to the definition of personal computing. The first two, that the iPad makes computing transparent to users and that the iPad will usher in the era of touch computing, I agree with. Both of these points regard simplifying personal computing, which many people consider to be too complex.

The third reason that Bajarin proposes is that the iPad targets what most users do on their computers, which is consume information.