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iPad: the discovery of a new category

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P eople tend to think that technology should be about necessity... As if to survive or live fully and happily you absolutely needed a phone or you needed a computer, or you needed Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. The reality of necessity versus luxury is a quite complex socio-economic debate that I don't wish to touch upon, but this debate is vital to the reality in which we now live in. First came the desktop computer (from the Macintosh to the iMac), then the portable computer or laptop (from the PowerBook to the iBook), then the iPod (from the 1st gen all the way to the iPod nano). Finally came in the biggie: iPhone (from the first gen all the way to the 4th gen) plus some sort of light version of the Apple TV (1st to 3rd gen); and by this moment we get to the end of 2010 by when we live in a technologically evolving life. Computer at home, at work, in your pocket and music everywhere in between. And yet one year later in Steve Jobs' last year (2011) there wa

Here we go again... Drums roll

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So, I know i have been out for a while, but rather than excuse myself for the time out, it's time to make up for time. Tomorrow is a day in which the world stays silent and the internet roars around the globe to noise out the truth about millions of rumors and speculations about the biggest technology-meister that Apple is. The Apple Watch has become a central part of my life, my most important notifications are always at hand, and even when some WhatsApp groups bombard my wrist, it does not happen often so i can just force-touch them out of the way. My iPhone is becoming the center of my technological day to day, as the computer is my back up and office, my iPad is my library and portable mini-laptop for leaving the house and not wanting my MacBook with me (especially now that i am running iOS9 beta) and BELIEVE ME when i tell you i cannot begin to fathom running without my AppleWatch. BUT let's step back about 2 and a half years: i went into an Apple Store here in Cost