Daniel Tenner:

She doesn’t really need a computer in the same sense that I do, though. As a programmer, I need a machine that is powerful, that I can mess with under the hood, that I can do everything with. My mom needs a reasonably priced machine that Simply Works and does all those simple things that she wants to do when she’s at home.

There have been lots of words written about the iPad since its introduction, and if I were to write my own far reaching thoughts on the iPad, it would probably look something like this.