Many people have expressed dis-interest in the iPad as we’ve all had such grand hopes and dreams of the miracles this device could afford us to perform. But, let’s get our heads out of the clouds for a second and think about this rationally…. For a device that starts at $500, what minimal additions are musts before you’d consider purchasing said device? For me, there are 2 things lacking that need to be rectified before I’d purchase.
1) Flash support
2) Multitasking
I think a lot of people would agree with me on this one. Yes? I guess an alternative would be to just open up the platform and let developers go wild… but, again; heads out of the clouds people!
Anyone else remember the cassette tape? I sure do. I was rockin them up until like 97 or 98. Don’t get it twisted, i wasn’t technologically deficient, i had me a cd player. But still, this was back in the day, pre CDRs and MP3 players. The only way to amass all your favorite tunes (up to 90 minutes) as a collection was in the form of a mixtape. Mixtapes were great and ‘authentic’ because we’d take great effort in putting them together, first borrowing friend’s CDs to record individual tracks OR record tracks straight from the radio; in real-time no less. I personally took extra care to arrange the track order to provide for maximum dopeness. Remember there weren’t any ’shuffle’ or ’skip track’ features y’all, we talking straight linear baby. Creating a good mixtape was an art! You know how sometimes when your listening to a song and as it nears completion your anticipating the next track from the album? Well when I hear some classic tracks from the 90’s I anticipate the next track from my mixtape. Yeah! you could say I made a few good mixtapes.
