Re:The Pleasure of the Text
by maxawaytoolong on Tuesday October 19, 2010 @02:25PM
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I don't own an iPad, but even thinking about the angle, that I'd have to look at it from while it rests on my lap, hurts my neck.
The iPad's form factor is exactly the same as reading a book or writing on a tablet of paper, two activities that have been going on for centuries. Not that reading and writing are the most ergonomically correct activities, either... but the notion that the iPad is contributing to a new form of neck pain is a bit ridiculous.
You can write on a tablet with one hand. You need two hands to type on the iPad, unless you're reclined in the "Steve Jobs-on-a-couch position" or hunched over a table.
And then there is that black thing that puts it at an angle...
"I don't own an iPad" — but you know better than those who have used it for hours and hours (http://twitter.com/#!/iA/favorites)...
I don't own an iPad, but even thinking about the angle, that I'd have to look at it from while it rests on my lap, hurts my neck.