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I dont like the 499 price tag for the 16gb wireless one, but I like the idea.

 

If it was 300-350, I would purchase one now.

 

This would be perfect to have on the coffee table, check your email when your watching tv, or surf a few sites. Being able to turn instantly on and be in safari would be nice. The standby battery life of 1 month is impressive, prolly with limited use you would only have to charge it once every week or two.

 

To compete with the netbooks, it needs to be 350 I think. I think Apple will drop the price come x-mas time though. They wanna get those early adopters and go from there.

 

Seeing where the hacking community and Apple will go with the development will also determine how successful it will be.

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It's a supersized ipod. Take whatever capabilities you can do with that that you can't on an ipod touch, and just add those functions to the ipod touch. There's no real need for this in my eyes. I can check email and surf the web on my couch and then still put it in my pocket and walk away. Chance of me ever wanting or getting this is between 1-8%.

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There was a meta-message in today’s Apple event, not about the iPad in particular, but rather about Apple as a whole. Jobs’s brief preamble included a bit of extra emphasis on the fact that the Apple now generates over $50 billion per year in revenue. (Apple also emphasized this $50 billion revenue thing in their PR two days ago announcing their Q1 2010 financial results.) He also said that when you consider MacBooks as “mobile” devices, Apple generates more revenue from mobile hardware than any other company in the world; the three competitors he singled out were Sony, Samsung, and Nokia. The adjective he used was “bigger”.

 

Lastly, there’s the fact that the iPad is using a new CPU designed and made by Apple itself: the Apple A4. This is a huge deal. I got about 20 blessed minutes of time using the iPad demo units Apple had at the event today, and if I had to sum up the device with one word, that word would be “fast”.

 

It is fast, fast, fast. The hardware really does feel like a big iPhone — and a big original iPhone at that, with the aluminum back. (I have never liked the plastic 3G/S iPhones as much as the original in terms of how it feels in my hand.) I expected the screen size to be the biggest differentiating factor in how the iPad feels compared to an iPhone, but I think the speed difference is just as big a factor. Web pages render so fast it was hard to believe. After using the iPhone so much for two and a half years, I’ve become accustomed to web pages rendering (relative to the Mac) slowly. On the iPad, they seem to render nearly instantly. (802.11n Wi-Fi helps too.)

 

The Maps app is crazy fast. Apps launch fast. Scrolling is fast. The Photos app is fast.

 

The iPad hardware is exactly what you think. It looks great, it feels great. It’s very nice to hold. (People are complaining about the wide bezel around the display, but without that, where would your thumbs go? You don’t want your thumb that’s holding the device to cover on-screen content or register as a touch. Trust me, it’s just right.) Just like with the iPhone, it’s all in the software. And the software is obviously marvelous in many ways. It is clearly the result of deep thought and hard work.

 

But: everyone I spoke to in the press room was raving first and foremost about the speed. None of us could shut up about it. It feels impossibly fast. (And our next thought: What happens if Apple has figured out a way to make a CPU like A4 that fits in an iPhone? If they pull that off for this year’s new iPhone, look out.)

 

Apple doesn’t talk much about the technical details of the iPhone. They never talk about CPU speed or the name of the chip being used. They don’t tell you how much RAM is in there. Part of their vision for moving computers from technical culture to popular culture is about getting away from defining these things by their technical specs. So the prominent talk about A4 is telling. This is something they want us to notice.

 

I mentioned this year-ago quote from Apple COO Tim Cook the other day, but it’s apt here, too. Cook told BusinessWeek, “We believe in the simple, not the complex. We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.”

 

Apple now owns and controls their own mobile CPUs. There aren’t many companies in the world that can say that. And from what I saw today, Apple doesn’t just own and control a mobile CPU, they own and control the hands-down best mobile CPU in the world. Software aside (which is a huge thing to put aside), it may well be that no other company could make a device today matching the price, size, and performance of the iPad. They’re not getting into the CPU business for kicks, they’re getting into it to kick donkey.

 

They’re Microsoft and Intel rolled into one when it comes to mobile computing. In the pre-taped video Apple showed, Bob Mansfield said of the iPad, “No one else could do it.” Only Apple.

 

And so my takeaway from this — with the bragging about making their own CPUs and their annual revenue and their size compared to companies like Sony, Samsung, and Nokia — is that this is Apple’s way of asserting that they’re taking over the penthouse suite as the strongest and best company in the whole ones-and-zeroes racket.

 

http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/ipad_big_picture

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So I hear it still doesn't support flash, so you lose that part of the internets.

 

We were talking about this in B school yesterday in my Marketing Strategy class a bit. The only reason I would buy one, and in fact the reason that would make me buy one right away, would be if you could get school books on it. If I could have 1 device instead of the massive text books that I have I would get one. Also, this would make reading for class on the EL actually feasable.

The only caveat being they (the books) would have to be more reasonably priced then the hard copy editions. Or transferable to other people's devices after you are done with them to enable a resale market. I know the publishers would hate it, but it makes those $200+ books more palatable...

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make reading for class on the EL actually feasable.
ok, so is it "the l" or "the el?" i was going with el when i moved here, but apparently there's some sort of racial inference that's not cool. i don't get it.

 

on a related note, is gambling and soliciting ever allowed on the (e)l, or do they just like to tease us with that?

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it's an iPod touch with a giant screen and slightly faster processor...it's bloody lame. For the same price, you can get a netbook or a different tablet with actual computing power...I was hoping for a lot more...

two things:

1. are you bloody british?

2. did you read the hands on review where it was AMAZINGLY MOAR FASTER?

make it 3 things.

3. if this were a big zune, you'd have to go change your drawers.

 

just calling it like i see it. :D

 

with love,

sj

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After seeing this thing insight verbal riots across the interwebs, I'm hesitant to jump in here...

 

But feck it.

 

I'm totally mixed on this device. I go back and forth.

 

FOR ME AND ME ALONE: I actually would like a device like this for casual browsing while out and about. My iPhone is to small for everyday web browsing. It's fine for looking up info on the fly, but not for sustained browsing/reading. I also like the idea of my print media needs being localized into one device (news,textbooks, magazines,novels, and hopefully in the future comics). I can also see the value of one of these on the coffee table, as someone above pointed out.

 

Having said that, I won't be buying one soon. Basically cost. Not that it is per se overpriced. Just that I can't currently justify 3 devices (iPhone for everyday walking around, iPad for casual media consumption when stationary, and notebook for real workies) at ANY cost.

 

I am curious, on the other hand, to see how this matures. If we get to a point where for $250 (somewhat randomly chosen dollar amount) you can get this device, maybe with a few extra features in 2nd/3rd gen (camera, etc.), then I'm VEEEEERY interested. Then sleepy.

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I agree with you Shrop, I would probably use it but no way I'm paying $500+ for it (CAD), especially considering I'm certain this is just a bridge technology. Eventually, and sooner rather than later, we're going to have wireless touchpads that piggyback our desktop into our laps. The iPad is just a placeholder until such technology exists.

 

Also, so glad we didn't make this an iPoll...so glad...

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it's an iPod touch with a giant screen and slightly faster processor...it's bloody lame. For the same price, you can get a netbook or a different tablet with actual computing power...I was hoping for a lot more...

two things:

1. are you bloody british?

2. did you read the hands on review where it was AMAZINGLY MOAR FASTER?

make it 3 things.

3. if this were a big zune, you'd have to go change your drawers.

 

just calling it like i see it. :D

 

with love,

sj

 

 

I don't know why I use "bloody" all the time...

 

In any case, yeah, it's faster...big deal. The tablet that HP is coming out with that docks to a keyboard to get a Core 2 Duo processor is much faster.

 

Is it kinda nifty? Yup. Is it revolutionary and amazing? Nope. I was more impressed with the iPhone when it came out than I am with this thing.

 

You can ALREADY buy a text book that will read in Windows (and Leapord for that matter), and you can buy a nice 10-inch wide 1.5 inch thin netbook that can do more than this and has more power. That's all I'm saying.

 

I was just hoping for more, that's all. It's basically a giant iPod with a focus on E-Reading capabilities (which I hate anyway). I'll buy an E-reader when E-books are as cheap as they should be. They cost more than paperbacks, which is dumb as they cost a LOT less to produce. :shrug03:

 

FYI, I'd be just as dissapointed if MS launched a giant Zone that had similar capabilities as its smaller counter-part. It's a tad easier to carry around an iPod touch than the iMaxi--we'll talk when it gets its own exclusive apps. If they're impressive enough, maybe this thing will be worth it. As of now, it's definitely not. :)

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tIme tO sTop tHe uSe oF tHe lOwercase lEtter "I" wIth IMproper cApItalIzatIon. aPple hAs oFfIcIally tAken tHIs tOo fAr. I-nuff aLready.

LOL

 

 

Maverick agrees with this statement, granting it the Maverick seal of approval. :freak:

 

PS: This actually does look pretty cool here: http://www.destructoid.com/here-s-what-nova-shift-play-like-on-the-ipad-161953.phtml#ext

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