During its latest event, Apple made a boast about the iPad Air. How much hot air was in it? I asked Apple.
„Goodness,“ I said to myself. „That’s so impressive.“ Well, I was sitting on my own watching Apple’s latest event, so who else was I going to talk to? And I’m always easily impressed. In this case, Angela Kyazike, Apple’s iPad engineering program manager, showed off the latest and clearly most wonderful iPad Air. She sold it with a script that contained all the aplomb of the small print you always click „agree“ under. She said the new Air is „up to two times faster than the best selling Windows laptop in its price range.“ As often happens, my initial excitement — hey, it was Tuesday morning — was followed by a more rational „wait a minute there.“ Here’s a tablet that purports to be not so expensive being compared to a relatively cheap Windows laptop. We’ve been here so many times before. Apple has often claimed the iPad is a laptop, then changed its mind and seemed to contort itself into several more twists before concluding that, well, it’s not really a laptop, but maybe it is.
