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I remember when the first cars came out. If you couldn't strip and repair an internal combustion engine — or if you were a woman — you weren't considered fit to own a car. Then along came Henry Ford. Wish I'd bought a Model T.
Then there was Leo Fender's strat, which early detractors derided as a flagrant appeal to meaningless aesthetics. Wish I'd bought one of those, too.
Twenty years ago most of us computer users (we were all techies then) lampooned the Macintosh OS as a "dumbing down" fit only for imbeciles. A flagrant descent into populism. "What was wrong with punch cards?" I said. But eventually Microsoft decided to develop Windows 3 anyway. Stupid copycats.
Remember the iMac. Girlie colours, for crying out loud. Sheesh!
Wish I'd bought shares then.
And then lots of those Palm and Blackberry people I know criticized the iPhone when it first came out. Eventually they gave in and bought one anyway, or stubbornly refused to switch while everyone cursed them for fools.
It'll be the same with the iPad. Until the next big innovation, that is. Which again, everyone will criticize.
Dumb as I ever was, dumb as I ever was...
Methuselah.
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