Stephen Fry Profiles iPad, Steve Jobs for Time

Stephen Fry has profiled Apple CEO Steve Jobs and the iPad for the cover story of the upcoming issue of Time Magazine.

Fry details his visit to Apple headquarters to experience the iPad and talk with Steve Jobs. In the article he expresses the excitement and nervousness that many of us would feel if given the same opportunity.

I have met five British Prime Ministers, two American Presidents, Nelson Mandela, Michael Jackson and the Queen. My hour with Steve Jobs certainly made me more nervous than any of those encounters. I know what you are thinking, but it's the truth. I do believe Jobs to be a truly great figure, one of the small group of innovators who have changed the world. He exists somewhere between showman, perfectionist overseer, visionary, enthusiast and opportunist, and his insistence upon design, detail, finish, quality, ease of use and reliability are a huge part of Apple's success.


The article is very well written and deserving of a read; even if its only to get a glimpse of what it might be like to experience Apple headquarters.

His concluding thoughts on the iPad,

It is possible that the public will not fall on the iPad, as I did, like lions on an antelope. Perhaps they will find the apps and the iBooks too expensive. Maybe they will wait for more fully featured later models. But for me, my iPad is like a gun lobbyist's rifle: the only way you will take it from me is to prise it from my cold, dead hands. One melancholy thought occurs as my fingers glide and flow over the surface of this astonishing object: Douglas Adams is not alive to see the closest thing to his Hitchhiker's Guide that humankind has yet devised.

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