"On What Makes the iPad So Human"

Matt Gemmell, "Lifting the Mouse" blog post (bold emphasis added):

Tear it all down. Throw away the rule book, and come at the whole thing from the other end. iPad software, to me, looks like software for people who are so tired of software’s crap. So fed up with design-by-geek, and function keys, and installers, and anti-virus, and… I don’t know; printer drivers? Are they still a thing? Probably.

I think that what really gets me about the iPad, besides the damned physical humanity of it, is that it legitimises the eminently sane position that computers have long since become punitive, entrapping garbage. Yes, even my cute MacBook. They’re a world of pain. And as it turns out, a lot of it is completely unnecessary.