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Most important, Apple's engineers know something those other companies don't: form has trumped function. You can load up a tablet with horsepower and extra features till it can do your taxes and lick the stamp, but if it's not instantly obvious how to use those features without...
Apple already took this hill with the iPhone. The App Store alone has piled up 150,000 offerings in the space of not quite two years, turning the iPhone into a mature mobile-gaming platform to rival Nintendo's DS. The iPad will hold that hill and erect cruelly unassailable...
Then there's games. Many will see the iPad chiefly as a gaming platform. Michel Guillemot - founder of Gameloft, one of the most successful developers for the iPhone - is even more passionate about the iPad than Makinson and Futhey are. "I see this as the fourth step of the games...
But not so fast; hold your horses: one of the most extraordinary pages in America's corporate history was about to be written. Apple's "mercurial" co-founder Steve Jobs (people like Jobs always find themselves tagged with words like that) was fired from his own company just a year...
I put to designer Ive the matter of all the features that are missing from the iPad. "In many ways, it's the things that are not there that we are most proud of," he tells me. "For us, it is all about refining and refining until it seems like...