Mark Pinsent has started contributing to Wired’s Geek Dad column. In a post last week he describes his children’s love of the Apple iPad and the iPhone.

“My kids, and the kids of anyone else I know who owns one, absolutely love the iPhone. Not only for the games and apps, but also just to hold and use. The bright and attractive touchscreen interface seems entirely intuitive to a child and so, in creating a “bigger iPhone”, has Apple not designed the perfect computing device for children?”

There is no doubt that the iPad is a gorgeous device that is entirely natural to use and doesn’t require you to adapt your behaviour. It’s no surprise then that children love it.

But it crosses generations. Try it out with your parents; older people love-it as well.

Apple has beaten Nintendo at its own game by designing a computing-device that appeals across the generations. We’ve been talking about pervasive computing for 10, maybe 20 years.

Could it finally have arrived?