Cute

I kind of agree.

Hayao Miyazaki is considered to be one of the greatest in his industry. This famed manga artist, film director, and animator has numerous classics under his belt, a list that includes Lupin III, Princess Mononoke, and the 1988 masterpiece, My Neighbor Totoro. If any of those things are a sign of his credibility, then you might want to listen to him when he says the iPad is "disgusting."



"For me, there is no feeling of admiration or no excitement whatsoever," Miyazaki said in an interview with Neppuu, a Studio Ghibli-published pamphlet. "It's disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying."



He compares this trend to how people had portable cassette players back in the day. He notes he got "fed up" when people in trains started reading manga, and later when they started using cellphones. He believes that the majority of these people use these products only as consumers, not as creators.



Miyazaki has revealed that he doesn't have his own computer, DVD player, and rarely watches any TV. He doesn't email enybody, he sends them letters the old-fashioned way. It's safe to say we can add the iPad to the list of things we'll never find in his house.



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