An iPad Is Not a Laptop

Cafe Grumpy‘s one of the best coffeebars in NY . It ’s known for two things : One of the few home that to getClover - made coffeein NY , andit shun laptops . I was there last Sunday ; it ’s unbelievable . People were talk .

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That is , instead of gaze silently , glass - eyed and slack - jawed , look aglow with the soft igniter of a laptop computer , occasionally slurping coffee , rows and rows of slump - over humankind . The plaza was pack . Bustling . Alive . I could n’t find a place to sit .

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It ’s a vibe I have n’t watch in a coffeebar in a long clip , specially not in New York . ( The closet - sizedabracoexcepted , where everybody always seems escstatic about being there , and perhaps not coincidently , can not model . ) People used to go to chocolate shop to lecture . Read . Or hell , enjoy coffee . Now they ’re merely the other place to habituate a laptop computer : not home , not piece of work . People sit affixed and unsounded . For hours . I ’ve done it . But there ’s no dubiousness : laptop smother the atmosphere . So it ’s surprisingly brisk to feel something different , hoi polloi connect to the great unwashed , instead of gadgets .

Which convey us to the iPad . It ’s suppose to be this third affair . Bigger than a earpiece , smaller than a laptop computer . It surf ; it ’s contract books ; it dally video . Can it mayhap have a position in a laptop - free Sion ? I ask Caroline Bell , who own Cafe Grumpy , if she ’s going to drop the banhammer on the iPad when they come out . Her reply surprised me :

I think iPads would make for some interesting conversations these days because you do n’t see too many around yet … plus , they do n’t take up much tabular array space nor do they create a physical barrier between you the rest of the human beings when you put them down in front of you . So , I guess I wo n’t be tot up no iPads to the signaling just yet !

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