As the iPad emerges, blinking, into the sunshine after its months of sequestration at 1 Infinite Loop, so the media machine grinds into action. We’ve seen dozens of iPad reviews published over the last 24 hours; now Time scoops them all with Stephen Fry interviewing Steve Jobs.
For those who don’t know, Stephen Fry is well qualified to do this. He’s been using Macs since the early days, and he’s a genuine geek. He just loves gadgets.
And of course, being a world-famous actor and writer, he’s pretty well connected. His people, it seems, know Jobs’ people, and arranged for the two to meet.
Fry doesn’t reveal much from his meeting with Jobs (everything from that encounter is on the final page of the four-page article).
He does have the nerve to ask Jobs if this is “the curtain dropping on your third act”, to which Jobs replies:
“I don’t think of my life as a career. I do stuff. I respond to stuff. That’s not a career — it’s a life!”
Something we should all consider before we think about making any more unboxing videos…
