Stephen Fry has posted a lovely reminiscence on the TIME website, which looks back on his early days playing with a Mac computer back in 1984. Fry and author Douglas Adams were the first two people to own Macintosh computers in England, and they would regularly meet up to exchange floppy discs and rearrange their desktop icons. The article discusses how those early dalliances with the Mac brand were the first time that computing had been a fun experience for both Fry and Adams—-something Steve Jobs and his team would ultimately build on as they produced the iPod and the iPhone. But expectations for the iPad, released this past weekend, inhabit some strange middle ground in the suite of Mac products, with a certain industry banking on it to blow some much needed air into the lungs of its failing business model. Read full article here.
