Sorry, what is your point there exactly?
That a national treasure doesn't accept payment to play on a lame racial stereotype to hawk a second rate
tablet PCtea from a firm with questionable ethical practices. By definition, a "national treasure" belongs to the people, and when used figuratively to describe a person, it describes someone who works for the good of the nation.
His point was that actually using one will be what convinces people who so far haven't.
Then this is typical Fry: while
he knows just how great Apple are, other people's preconceptions will be wrong, and he's there to predict how you will think and to correct you in advance. This might work on the scripted
QI with its team of researchers, but in real life he needs to try harder to impress those who go beyond accepting argument by authority. I've gone through various generations of Apple products and it's been a decade since I've been pleasantly surprised.
Maybe he's incapable of understanding technical specifications and inferring from product demonstrations of a familiar system on a larger screen, but I'm fairly sure most people with more than a passing interest in computing have little trouble with it. On these things alone, I've discounted the iPad as useful for me, though of course I need it in my hands to identify what personal niggles or godsends I'll find - another thing no reasonable human needs to be told.
"You need to use it to form an opinion, but, oh, by the way, Jobs > Mandela and the iPad is brilliant!" April 1st, where it belongs.
