[vingt-2]

Did your dying friend really had to see an iPad? I mean, in her last moments, who cares about a bigger iPhone? I'm not trolling, I'm myself a tech enthusiast, and I'm not quite sure I'd expect from a friend to come tell me goodbye and show me his "latest toy he's been working on lately".

[inopinatus]

I resent that my time as a functioning nexus of memory and intellect is limited by biology. It is the future I miss the most. The things I will never live to see.

I would be so pleased if, in my last moments, a friend gives me a glimpse of what's next. Even better if I am lucid enough to appreciate it. Cherry on top that a friend of MINE is involved in it and proud of it.

This is a great story.

[fusiongyro]

Actually, this is exactly trolling, and depressingly presumptuous and untrusting of you. She wasn't your friend, she was his friend. Quit optimizing stranger's lives.

[josephagoss]

Sounds like they knew each other from working at Adobe and perhaps they were really interested in this type of advancement. She may have been really interested in where computing for the consumer was heading and the iPad was more than a toy to him, he was probably working on it non-stop for a year or two.

Just think, instead of being your average tech consumer they are the type of people that built these devices and thus he felt she may have been glad to have a look at where things were before she left.

Its a nice gesture, "Look at this thing that no one even knows about yet".I thought it was a bit sweet.

[m_eiman]

What he wrote in the email wasn't that he wanted to show the iPad, he wanted to show her photos on the iPad.

[vingt-2]

Yeah I guess you're all kinda right. I was just thinking about the situation, not judging anyone.