Consumption vs Creation Devices

For a while now I have felt that the biggest limiting factor about all tablets from the iPad to Amazon Kindle is that they have poor input devices, dwarfing content creation, thus making it hard to be a content creator.

Fundamentally these are consumption devices and not creation devices. This applies to more and more people; from my 2 year old cousin who is playing games on his iPad to friends and colleagues who are using it to look at pictures, check their Facebook and write short emails.

These and many other new devices are creating a generation of consumers, not creators. While this is inherently not a positive turn of events, it provides an increasingly large opportunity as fewer people create and invest in meaningful content and ideas: be a creator of something new and better.

Those who create content on creation devices and explore new ideas have a distinct advantage over passive content consumers.