In 2010, when the original iPad was launched, I told anyone who would listen that this was the future of computing. Yes, it looked like an oversized iPod Touch, but this diminutive computer had the potential to forever change the way that people interacted with technology. My over-arching hypothesis about the iPad is this: With sufficient software, the iPad will displace traditional desk- and lap-based computing. Furthermore, it hasn’t happened yet.

I like baseball. I don’t have cable TV. And Major League Baseball doesn’t want to let me watch my beloved Toronto Blue Jays. This post will explain how I’m doing it anyway. I’m using MLB’s brilliant MLB.tv service: for $125 for the season, you can stream, in high definition, any live baseball game. It’s a fantastic service; it does exactly what it says on the tin. But it comes with a giant asterisk: owing to the existing agreements that MLB has with local cable operators, your local team – most certainly your team – will be under blackout.

The technology industry has an amazing ability to change; it’s perhaps this property more than any other that keeps us all hanging on, waiting to see what’s next. The hardware changes the fastest: quicker processors, better displays, greater storage. More slow to change are the affiliations: you’re an IBM person, an Apple person, a Microsoft person. With the benefit of twenty years of observation of the technology industry, I can see how these swings occur.

In the fall of 2010, I began working “full time” for ContactMonkey, a Toronto-based startup focusing on making it easy to give people your contact details. At the same time, I’ve continued to run Innoveghtive, my own web development shop. I don’t do a ton of client work these days, farming it out to one or more trusted hombres. This is a rather odd position for me to be in. On the one hand, I have my natural experience as a development agency, serving at the whim of clients who pay for my effort.

The Mac is the computer that doesn’t get in my way. I have shit to do, and the Mac lets me do it. It gets bonus points for letting me do it in style. I’ve been a Mac user for more than 20 years, and despite the headline of this column, that’s very unlikely to change. But since I’ve upgraded to Lion, I’ve heard mutterings out there. A couple weeks ago I was listening to Build and Analyze, wherein Marco discussed his frustrations with Lion.