Here’s a video look at iOS 5’s incredible new PC-free setup. We posted some pictures yesterday, but seeing it in fluid motion… it’s just so graceful. This is the way it’s supposed to be.
When Steve Jobs said yesterday that they were demoting the Mac to just another device, my heart seized up a bit in a bit of premonitory fear of the future. But Steve’s right, as he so often is. The iPhones in our pockets aren’t second class citizens to the desktop. They aren’t miniature, undeveloped computers birthed from the PC and connected by a umbilical cord to iTunes. They’re the most important computer most of us own, and they deserve autonomy and respect.
John Brownlee is a writer for Fast Company, and a contributing writer here at CoM. He has also written for Wired, Playboy, Boing Boing, Popular Mechanics, VentureBeat, and Gizmodo. He lives in Boston with his wife and two parakeets. You can follow him here on Twitter.
