Last night I was using an app on my iPhone called Star Walk that deploys ‘augmented reality‘ to display the night sky directly in front of wherever you’re pointing the handset. It enables you to easily identify stars, galaxies, planets and constellations. I then started browsing for information on a particularly bright star I’ve been strangely interested in for ages. Vindemiatrix is the name of this giant yellow star, I quickly discovered, or Epsilon Virgo. I’m not an astronomer or an astrologer although I’m interested in both subjects to some degree.

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The iPad was perhaps compromised in its development by the too costly pricing right now of one major component that would have made a big difference in how it was presented to us, and so we didn’t get an OLED screen that would have provided for less eye-strain when reading e-books. It was also compromised by the fact that Steve Jobs caved in to relentless pressure going back at least two years to produce a tablet computer, when his every instinct and conviction told him ‘not yet’. He should have listened to his own self.

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