Stephen Fry Profiles the iPad and Steve Jobs for Time Magazine

[jav6454]

It seems only half the Xbox 360s worked, so apparently your point extends to the Entertainment division as well.

Like I said, to a point they are the only working unit... notice to a point


Also, if no one caught it... the apple symbol is substituted with a Windows logo.... ....

 

[SeanMcg]

"One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker's Guide that humankind has yet devised."

loved that part

Sometimes I like to think of Stephen Fry as Douglas Adams representative on Earth. It's not difficult to imagine DA writing this article.

Is there a mod for the iPad home button to make it red and read "Don't Panic?"


As much as I like Douglas Adams, I see more Star Trek than Hitchhiker as inspiration, although I realize that wasn't the point.

So, Steve pushed Time into getting on the HTML5 bandwagon so you could read all about him and the iPad when the iPad launched?

 

[epo]

You do know Oscar Wilde use to molest children right?

Well he was certainly a homosexual and employed the services of rent boys but he has never actually been accused of paedophilia and there is no suggestion that he used to "molest children", perhaps you are confusing him with a priest?

 

[kernkraft]

Inside Steve's Pad

You don't want Fry there. In fact, I don't want him anywhere; but especially today, I just cannot escape this pretentious snob. It's not a joke anymore, get him away from Apple, he's making the whole affair much worse!

All that aside, there are only 4 paragraphs about Steve jobs, nothing which is really interesting or haven't heard before. The front cover and the online article just have images of Steve. I kind of expected more about him.

I expected nothing more from Fry.

I fixed your sentence structure there.



You do know that Oscar Wilde used to molest children, right?

We are not here to correct others' grammar. Wilde's convictions were about his homosexuality and not about the age of his partners/prostitutes. I read nothing about them as being so young that would have been below the relevant age of consent then.

 

[*LTD*]

I gotta say, I'm not digging Bizarro World April Fools' *LTD*.

Microsoft's achievements leave me no choice.

Where would we be without MSN Windows Messenger Live Wave Mesh?

Or without Microsoft Windows Mobile Live Phone 7 series Wave?

 

[pubwvj]

"Fry closes his profile with an interesting observation that it is a shame that his good friend Douglas Adams is no longer alive to see what is the closest device yet created to his famed Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy."

Wait a minute... Adams wrote the guide on an iPad.

(Don't be confused by causality.)

 

[mousemd]

really?

Ironically, vast majority of people is not using Apple products. Failed execution of the vision?

I thought a good deal of people use an ipod/or wish they had an ipod. All I see walking the streets in NY are the white ear buds as well as in the gym (ipods everywhere). Sure, many folks don't own apple computers/iphones, but sure does seem like everyone uses the ipod.

 

[LagunaSol]

Or without Microsoft Windows Mobile Live Phone 7 series Wave?

Don't you mean:

Microsof.... *remaining text trails off the screen in a hipster doofus attempt at cool*

 

[liamhemsworth]

THIS is probably the most ironic iPad app EVER.

But this is noooo joke.

Steve must be proud.

 

[kernkraft]

Absolutely true, but when you start with a Windows core, you've already gone wrong. But I'll bet a lot of money Microsoft won't get multitouch right all the way through the system. It will be a surface thing, but when you dig down it'll be same old Windows as before. It's not enough to bolt on a touch front-end and hope for the best.

I think it's rather nice to have multitouch technology that works on the 'surface'. It's kind of how you touch things.

Beside, Windows 7 has multitouch support, while OS X hasn't.

Fry is a second rate Oscar Wilde wannabe, with neither Wilde's rapacious wit nor his breath of creativity. The painting by the BBC of Fry and Laurie's more parochial half as the foremost thinking man's entertainer reflects the paucity of talent on the once public service channel. At least Jobs displays no false modesty, but the two figures share the ability to blow their own images out of all proportion matched only by their own inflated senses of self-worth.

It is no coincidence that two bright, Ozymandian figures should complement each other, though I preferred the Fry who spoke for the FSF - even if it was with only passing sincerity.

I wish I could put it like that. I swear, I tried.

 

[Friscohoya]

Jobs really needs to award 5 golden tickets to view the secret labs of apple. He could bury them inside ipad packages.

 

[Jas0nSawyer]

Everyone is really celebrating the Ipad. Hopefully it meets everyones expectations..

 

[Lord Blackadder]

I love Apple, I think Stephen Fry is great, but I can't help feeling a little ill at the iPad hype machine. Just get on with selling the damned thing already.

....Or maybe I'm just bitter because I'm waiting, cash in hand, for the chance to buy an updated MacBook Pro. Whenever His Steveness can tear himself away from the iPad and get around to releasing them.

At least I don't sound as bitter about it as Paul Thurrot.

 

[liamhemsworth]

Don't you mean:

Microsof.... *remaining text trails off the screen in a hipster doofus attempt at cool*

Wow, are you quite done trolling. *rhetorical question*

 

[NebulaClash]

I think it's rather nice to have multitouch technology that works on the 'surface'. It's kind of how you touch things.

Beside, Windows 7 has multitouch support, while OS X hasn't.

Who was talking about OS X?

If you only have it on the surface of the software (not the surface of the device), you disappoint people who come to expect that if you pinch or swipe a thing on the screen, it will always follow the same behavior. With an iPad, you can be sure it will be consistent through and through. With Win 7, I can be sure it will be a disappointment in that regard.

 

[NebulaClash]

I love Apple, I think Stephen Fry is great, but I can't help feeling a little ill at the iPad hype machine. Just get on with selling the damned thing already.

....Or maybe I'm just bitter because I'm waiting, cash in hand, for the chance to buy an updated MacBook Pro. Whenever His Steveness can tear himself away from the iPad and get around to releasing them.

I'm in the same boat (cash in hand, waiting for next gen of MacBook Pros to replace my four-year-old machine.

But the hype machine is largely an industry thing. Apple hardly has to say anything other than putting up web pages with videos and text and do a few interviews. Meanwhile the Web goes nuts hyping the iPad beyond reason. That's not Apple doing it, it's everyone else doing it for them.

 

[liamhemsworth]

Oh good grief, are we going to start this juvenile nonsense again? I feel sorry for those of you who see the very common word pad and can think only of tampons.

I'm no fan of the iPad name, but not because it implies female menstruation.

Like you or L*T*D wouldn't be trumpeting this little tidbit at every turn if it had been Microsoft or Google.

 

[NebulaClash]

Oh good grief, are we going to start this juvenile nonsense again? I feel sorry for those of you who see the very common word pad and can think only of tampons.

I'm with you on the rolling eyes thing, but mostly I'm feeling sorry for the trolls today. The reviews are in and the iPad is going to be a hit despite all their efforts. If all they are reduced to is impotently raging about Flash and making junior high school jokes, they really have nothing left.

 

[koach]

I'm not planning on buying an iPad because I can't really see how I would use it. However, if someone makes a PADD UI App for it I will be at the Apple store within moments.

Someone already did make a PADD app: http://gizmodo.com/5505809/someone-had-to-do-it-the-star-trek-ipadd

 

[aristotle]

Fry is a second rate Oscar Wilde wannabe, with neither Wilde's rapacious wit nor his breath of creativity. The painting by the BBC of Fry and Laurie's more parochial half as the foremost thinking man's entertainer reflects the paucity of talent on the once public service channel. At least Jobs displays no false modesty, but the two figures share the ability to blow their own images out of all proportion matched only by their own inflated senses of self-worth.

It is no coincidence that two bright, Ozymandian figures should complement each other, though I preferred the Fry who spoke for the FSF - even if it was with only passing sincerity.

If you want to publish your off topic and irrelevant diatribe, I'd suggest posting it on your blog or facebook page.

 

[babble]

As much as I like Douglas Adams, I see more Star Trek than Hitchhiker as inspiration...

Same here. I've been watching ST DS9 all week with my girlfriend and we're screaming iPad each time we see one...

About every 60 secondes!

 

[kernkraft]

If you want to publish your off topic and irrelevant diatribe, I'd suggest posting it on your blog or facebook page.

I suppose, an article about another article, written by Fry is essentially about Fry too.

So he's not making any off-topic remarks. But thanks for quoting them, it's nice to see these brilliant lines about that self-appointed tech-writer egomaniac.

He is comical to be an actor and acting too much to be funny.

 

[CrackedButter]

Well he was certainly a homosexual and employed the services of rent boys but he has never actually been accused of paedophilia and there is no suggestion that he used to "molest children", perhaps you are confusing him with a priest?

Well this was back in the 19th century, such incidents of child molestation would go largely unaccounted for so we'll never know, it is heresy otherwise isn't it?

 

[ValSalva]

I love Apple, I think Stephen Fry is great, but I can't help feeling a little ill at the iPad hype machine. Just get on with selling the damned thing already.

....Or maybe I'm just bitter because I'm waiting, cash in hand, for the chance to buy an updated MacBook Pro. Whenever His Steveness can tear himself away from the iPad and get around to releasing them.

At least I don't sound as bitter about it as Paul Thurrot.

Funny, I thought some of these so called 'FOA' reviews (except for Mossberg of course) were pretty balanced.

I think the biggest problem with the iPad is it will be too heavy for long hand held use. We'll see.

I too am bitter about waiting for new Mac hardware. I fear that iPad will supplant the Mac and that Mac lovers will be left behind for an inferior device. I hope that's not true and that Apple will continue to place a priority on Mac development and release better hardware for the money. The Core 2 Duo MBPs are greatly overpriced at this point. They are good machines but to pay the same prices for these units 10 months later just isn't right.

 

[LagunaSol]

I'm with you on the rolling eyes thing, but mostly I'm feeling sorry for the trolls today. The reviews are in and the iPad is going to be a hit despite all their efforts. If all they are reduced to is impotently raging about Flash and making junior high school jokes, they really have nothing left.

The trolls still rage about the iPhone 2 1/2 years later, despite it being a smashing success.

Though their stunned silence at Microsoft's "no copy/paste, no multitasking, single Microsoft-controlled app store in WinPho7Series" announcement was delicious.