2010 is the new 1984

“So, in the end, what it comes down to is that iPad offers new meta­phors that will let users engage with their com­puters with dra­mat­ic­ally less fric­tion. That gives me, as a developer, a sense of power and potency and cre­ativ­ity like no other. It makes the soft­ware mar­ket feel wide open again, like no one’s hege­mony is safe. How any­one can feel under­whelmed by that is bey­ond me.” — Joe Hewitt