Casual Access
“You wouldn’t just pick up someone’s telephone and start fiddling with it—just as you wouldn’t pick up a wallet or handbag and start rifling through the compartments or click around somebody’s desktop without their permission. Presumably the same technology etiquette applies to the iPad, creating another layer of difference between the device and the media it is starting to supplant. However, you would feel pretty confident about picking up somebody’s copy of Wired and casually flick through the pages, probably without even asking for permission, as the very act of picking up a magazine, be it in a shop or from someone else’s coffee table, is not an infringement of privacy. Will this make electronic books and magazines more personal and intimate?”
My answer, in short:
Wired magazine (newsstand): $5
iPad 16G: $499
Survey says: Not yet, unfortunately. But let’s keep working on it.
+ Casual Access [Things Magazine]
+ Things Magazine [on Tumblr! Swoon]
