Dedicated digital entertainment devices
Just returned from a week in Morocco with the family. And I learned something about digital content which is probably interesting to share. I wrote the main points of this post in a draft 5 days ago on the pool side using the Tumblr iPhone app. So this was before the launch of the iPad last Wednesday. I just finished the remainder of this post on my phone.
This was our iPhone entertainment week. The little boys were having fun with some recorded TV shows on EyeTV that I prepared for the iPhone which was great to watch. Little hands holding the phone and using the touch screen. It was dead easy for them.
And I call it my Instapaper vacation. No email, no Twitter, just reading a few months of collected, favorite ‘read later’ articles using the Instapaper pro app on my phone. What a brilliant app. Elegant and simple. The pro app stores 200 articles locally in a text only version which makes it possible to read them without an Internet connection. And it remembers where you left of in an article upon exiting. I read more on my phone than in the book I brought.
I was skeptical before our holiday, but our experience makes me bullish on dedicated devices for consuming digital entertainment such as photos, movies and reading. If it’s that entertaining on an iPhone, an Apple tablet with a screen 3 times as big should be even better.
