Car enthusiasts (and genuine experts like race car drivers) still drive cars with manual transmissions. They offer more control; they’re more efficient. But the vast majority of cars sold today are automatics. So too it’ll be with computers. Eventually, the vast majority will be like the iPad in terms of the degree to which the underlying computer is abstracted away. Manual computers, like the Mac and Windows PCs, will slowly shift from the standard to the niche, something of interest only to experts and enthusiasts and developers.
<a href="http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/various_ipad_thoughts" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Daring Fireball: Various and Assorted Thoughts and Observations Regarding the Just-Announced iPad</a>
