- I hate my iPad: Can my tablet-loving Slate colleagues convince me I didn't just waste $600?
February 18, 2011 – The headline has crystalized for me why I read less of the tech press than I used to: you would never see such a headline on a gadget blog unless conventional wisdom had already determined that a piece of technology was a failure in the marketplace. The tech press assume that technology is something to be loved. It is impossible to imagine an existential dislike of a gadget or its impact on one’s life finding its way into tech-centric publications.
