Why iPad naysayers are dead wrong:

When the original desktop GUI was invented at Xerox Parc, computers were used for creating content. Now they are more frequently used for consuming content for which windows don’t work so well. We’ll see more single function or fewer function devices.
— Cordell Ratzlaff, nine-year Apple veteran
(former head of Apple’s human interface group during the time Apple acquired NeXT and began developing Mac OS X)

From 2006 SXSW Interactive Panel “Behind the Scenes: Developing OS X and Longhorn”:

http://www.lukew.com/ff/entry.asp?306 http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/03/15.9.shtml