Rethinking Apple’s iPad

By Michael Fraase

Sunday, 31 January 2010 06:09PM CST

Section: Technology

Steve JobsEither Steve Jobs has so finely tuned his infamous reality distortion field (RDF) that it’s now capable of delayed affect or one of the most important pieces of Apple’s iPad introduction completely evaded me. Either way, I’ve come to partially rethink my position on the iPad.

Late yesterday I learned that Seattle-based Omni Group—the company that makes three pieces of software I live in every day: OmniGraffle, OmniOutliner, and OmniPlan—has intentions to make iPad versions of its software. Most importantly, company chief executive Ken Case wrote that Omni has already started work on an iPad adaptation of OmniGraffle and is putting its work on OmniGraffle 6 for the Mac on hold. I’m not real happy about the Mac version being put on hold, but I learned a long time ago to try to ride the horse in the direction it’s going.

The importance that the bulk of Omni’s team came out of the University of Washington—an institution with one of the historically best human interface labs on the planet—can’t be understated.

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