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Steve Jobs Inspired by 9-Year-Old's iPad Story

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What a ridiculously over-exaggerated title. An iPad helps a girl with albanism to read and Steve responds with a charactaristically short email saying thanks and can I share this with leaders at Apple. There is nothing wrong with his response or desire to share this with others who are likely directly involved with the design and production of iPads, iOS, etc., but it is a far cry from showing any inspiration.

Good thing the parents of this vision-impaired 9-year-old did not buy her a Chromebook because (uniquely among browsers of my experience) when you make the type big, Chrome does not "reflow" the text to fit in the window, but rather makes you scroll horizontally back and forth for every line of text.

Odd. I just tested on Chrome/OSX (with ⌘+ and ⌘-) and the text seems to reflow fine here. Is that a ChromeOS-specific bug?

And actually, reflow is nonexistent on Safari/iOS, which is one of my biggest gripes with it.

My testing was done on OS X too.

Display resolution: 1024 x 768 -- still the most common resolution according to some browser-string stats discussed here a couple of months ago and the resolution of the iPad, the device being discussed in the OP.

Web page: http://lesswrong.com/lw/6dm/

Since Chrome might have remembered a text-size preference from a previous visit to the site, execute ⌘0 ("Reset"). Execute ⌘+ twice. Notice that the text runs past the right end of the window.

(Sorry to hear that Safari on iOS also does not reflow text. Safari 5 on OS X does.)

I'm hoping that in the near future, all textbooks can be replaced with these tablets so that kids won't have to break their backs carrying around 5+ textbooks in their backpacks from class to class

There's a company currently in beta called Kno (website: http://www.kno.com/) that is working on a textbook app!

Nice, but to get a bit more "meta", this also confirms the "Top 100 leaders" group within Apple, presumably this is "Apple University".

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