“Buying into a philosophy isn’t something unique to the iPad, it’s fundamental in how we pick our software platforms across the board.”

“It’s tempting to dwell on the Jobs point — I really do think the iPad is the product that misses him the most — but the truth is that the long-term sustainable source of innovation on the iPad should have come from 3rd-party developers.”

“Not forgo computers, but to decide you want to use a computer only when you need to. In other words, people find it quite easy to kill an entire day on a Mac without knowing how, and more difficult to do the same on an iPad. And that’s a plus for the iPad.”

“…Jony Ive had moved beyond designing computers. And let’s be clear: the entire point of Apple has always been and should always remain designing computers. Everything they make is a computer. Their genius in recent years has been making things that don’t seem like computers but really are computers…”

“By some chance of early web — which felt impossibly small and connected — my blog became a pretty chill little community and a gateway to the WWW for a bunch of nice folks who showed up to see what I’d found out in the wastelands everyday.”