Niche Views
As my dad continued to insist that he wanted a keyboard for the iPad, I cringed. Nobody types much on an iPad, I said. The iPad is for surfing, viewing mails, watching videos and checking Facebook, I explained (which, by the way, is exactly how my mom uses it). It is not for doing work, I pleaded. All to no avail. Steve Jobs must be turning in his grave, I thought. My dad argued that while he may be in the minority on how he wants to use the iPad, surely it can’t be a microscopic minority. Why else were there so many iPad compatible keyboards out there, he asked? Why else does Google throw up so many keyboard options? Good questions. Ironically, the answer to both questions lies in the existence of the Internet. The surfing of which was the “intended use” of the iPad! In the pre-Internet era, people with non-mainstream tastes in anything (music, movies, topics, and, as it turns out, uses of iPad): 1) Could not find each other easily; 2) ...