Apple founder Steve Wozniak says tablets are PCs for 'normal people', Steve Job's goal from day one

"The tablet is not necessarily for the people in this room," Wozniak told the audience of enterprise storage engineers. "It's for the normal people in the world," Wozniak said.

"I think Steve Jobs had that intention from the day we started Apple, but it was just hard to get there, because we had to go through a lot of steps where you connected to things, and (eventually) computers grew up to where they could do ... normal consumer appliance things," Wozniak said.

A "personal computer" can take a lot of forms — the term need not be stuck referencing the Wintel duopoly beige box days. The iPad is arguably the most personal of PCs yet.

Usability week ending March 13th

Saturday, 12th March, 5:14 PM
The exceptional home page is not a bulletin board, it's a demo-showroom: http://j.mp/gNwUj9 #ia

Saturday, 12th March, 12:02 PM
A well-designed #UX is consistent, forgiving, rewarding; #Nokia's user experience was inconsistent, unforgiving, hostile: http://j.mp/fZCygF

Thursday, 10th March, 9:17 PM
@kiwi_app Can I set my own j.mp key yet in a Kiwi app I pay for?

Thursday, 10th March, 9:16 PM
@sugarsock Haven't tried Sword and Soldiers. Liked Fieldrunners, also Spirits, Trainyard, and World of Goo. Angry Birds felt tedious!

Thursday, 10th March, 10:39 AM
Why hover menus are a #usability disaster -- and not just because users can't hover on an iPad: http://j.mp/eWA40n #ux #ui

Thursday, 10th March, 8:59 AM
Reserve your connect.me username: http://cxt.me/am5w3A #connectme

Wednesday, 9th March, 1:46 PM
World's shortest guide to #SEO: http://j.mp/h5JMBj

Wednesday, 9th March, 8:19 AM
FTC puts patent trolls -- sorry, patent assertion entities -- on notice: http://j.mp/f4vUry #patent #patents

Tuesday, 8th March, 3:55 PM
Why is Angry Birds' interface so engaging that users cannot stop interacting with it? A cognitive teardown of #UX: http://j.mp/f68z1Q

Tuesday, 8th March, 10:35 AM
Five key principles to fostering better conversations in your site's #comments section: http://j.mp/fUsBKr #ia #ux

Monday, 7th March, 4:16 PM
Deciding on a tablet by comparing specs? You've missed the point: http://j.mp/dJB8Tf #ipad #xoom #ux #ipad2

Monday, 7th March, 1:34 PM
The first step towards real “unbundling” is to put the viewer at the center of audience building: http://j.mp/eXD4w0 #vod #ux

Monday, 7th March, 1:32 PM
Where are the app experiences befitting the iPad and its hardware capabilities?: http://j.mp/eSC4Dv #ux

via twitter.com/terretta