But as usual this is not a one and done product, none ever are especially for Apple. There will be software updates/upgrades and in a year an iPad 2. With those we will see more features and likely ones some think it needs now, like iLife, video camera, etc.
Yeah - they always release half-done products, eh?
Keep in mind that price is a big factor in all of this. I'm sure Apple could have imbued this device with some very revolutionary technology but then the price would have gone north of $1,000 and absolutely no one would buy the thing. What would be the point?
Yeah - Apple typically makes stripped-down devices built to meet a price point. That's their style, eh?
All good points. I think so many people were expecting a $999 device laden with all conceivable bells and whistles that they overlook the basic fact that Apple might have hit a sweet spot for price and functionality.
Yes. Apple typically sells stripped-down devices in order to hit a price point. Right?
C'mon. They failed to make it great, and had to cut the price.
Well, its normal for alot of people to trash on a device (like right here) without actually seeing how it runs.
Yeah, multi-tasking is a bit of a bumber.
But MAYBE, it will come in iPhone/iPad OS 4.0.
Typical internet hype. Went WAY overboard and people expected too much. Whats new?
Exactly! People developed preconceived notions of what they wanted the device to be. If the device didn't exactly conform to their preconceptions they were disappointed, even angry. Apple never said a damned thing about what the iPad would be. It was all invented in the minds of people who know little or nothing about what is possible to manufacture or market. They invented, out of thin air, a be-all, do-all replacement for a laptop. And now they're carping about an imaginary device they conjured up in their dreams. Simply irrational, even delusional.
The iPad, when you consider what it is (and not what you thought it would be), looks like it will be a game changer. I, for one, plan to buy one and I have neither an iPhone nor an iPod Touch. It will be great for use around the house, at the coffee shop, in the car. I don't need or even want a laptop replacement. The dock and keyboard will fit nicely on my desk.
Yes - try reading an LCD screen in direct sunlight vs e-ink.
Actually the iPad should be great for viewing outdoors.
Unlike OLEDs which are impossible to view in direct sunlight, the iPad has an LED-backlit display like the Macbooks glossy display units
Most notably, LED-backlit displays are being used commercially in outdoor display and digital signage units. Images on traditional, matte or worse OLED displays tend to be washed out under sunlight and ambient light conditions. The brighter the display, the better contrast the screen will have under those conditions.
For the most part the reaction to this new device is disappointment with a few bits of glass half full. However there are very few hit the ball out of the park comments. Somewhere between dumb blonde and fat bezel with a great personality.
The iPad thing seems great for people that use Kindles and netbooks but I dont really have any use for it. Does anyone know if apple announced any Mac software updates? A new version of iLife or iWork would be cool and Aperture is getting very stale.
Don't say "good that there is no flash" as if it's a good thing that any device isn't more robust. If it's not capable of doing flash because of hardware limitations, fine, but why would anyone WANT a gadget to lack features?
New here? Think Bizarro World from Superman. Some folks here are happy as pigs in muck that, for example, the iPhone will not multitask.
That doesn't stop me from seeing that this is really nothing new technology wise, and is primarily a device for passive consumption of media, rather than a mobile computer that one can use to produce media.
It is a worthy netbook replacement only in the sense that most people don't use a netbook for anything but passive activities like browsing the web or watching movies.
It is not a worthy netbook replacement if you consider a netbook something you actually do work on.
Hear, hear. There are Apple fanboys here who laughed their heads off because I wrote that I preferred my MSI Wind running Snow Leopard. And yet today I was able to simultaneously run Safari, Firefox and Chrome (a total of about 20 tabs) along with Safari Adblocker for the most egregiously ad-overrun sites, plus edit a document in Pages and update a website using Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS4 before uploading it using Transmit. Not bad for a "joke/junk" computer. Oh, and the webcam even works, if I decide to videoconference in Skype. I'm also not limited to videos encoded in AVC Main Profile. I can play back MPEG2 videos as well as AVC High Profile, which I prefer to encode in.
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But as usual this is not a one and done product, none ever are especially for Apple. There will be software updates/upgrades and in a year an iPad 2. With those we will see more features and likely ones some think it needs now, like iLife, video camera, etc.
Yeah - they always release half-done products, eh?
Keep in mind that price is a big factor in all of this. I'm sure Apple could have imbued this device with some very revolutionary technology but then the price would have gone north of $1,000 and absolutely no one would buy the thing. What would be the point?
Yeah - Apple typically makes stripped-down devices built to meet a price point. That's their style, eh?
All good points. I think so many people were expecting a $999 device laden with all conceivable bells and whistles that they overlook the basic fact that Apple might have hit a sweet spot for price and functionality.
Yes. Apple typically sells stripped-down devices in order to hit a price point. Right?
C'mon. They failed to make it great, and had to cut the price.
Um .... they come "jailbroken".
Wow! So I won't need uncle iSteve's permission to load the cool new software?
Guess again. This is a razor and blades sales strategy.
Well, its normal for alot of people to trash on a device (like right here) without actually seeing how it runs.
Yeah, multi-tasking is a bit of a bumber.
But MAYBE, it will come in iPhone/iPad OS 4.0.
Typical internet hype. Went WAY overboard and people expected too much. Whats new?
Exactly! People developed preconceived notions of what they wanted the device to be. If the device didn't exactly conform to their preconceptions they were disappointed, even angry. Apple never said a damned thing about what the iPad would be. It was all invented in the minds of people who know little or nothing about what is possible to manufacture or market. They invented, out of thin air, a be-all, do-all replacement for a laptop. And now they're carping about an imaginary device they conjured up in their dreams. Simply irrational, even delusional.
The iPad, when you consider what it is (and not what you thought it would be), looks like it will be a game changer. I, for one, plan to buy one and I have neither an iPhone nor an iPod Touch. It will be great for use around the house, at the coffee shop, in the car. I don't need or even want a laptop replacement. The dock and keyboard will fit nicely on my desk.
Yes - try reading an LCD screen in direct sunlight vs e-ink.
Actually the iPad should be great for viewing outdoors.
Unlike OLEDs which are impossible to view in direct sunlight, the iPad has an LED-backlit display like the Macbooks glossy display units
Most notably, LED-backlit displays are being used commercially in outdoor display and digital signage units. Images on traditional, matte or worse OLED displays tend to be washed out under sunlight and ambient light conditions. The brighter the display, the better contrast the screen will have under those conditions.
My guess is NO.
My thoughts:
Why would anyone with an iPhone want this?
This is basically another extension of the iTunes store and we know how that worked for the AppleTV.
No flash- the dealbreaker. A compromised internet experience? No thank you.
We waited 3 years for this - when was the first netbook introduced? This is APple's answer after all this hype?
Well at least my prediction for the name came through.
This is a luxury item only- not a necessity.
Finally- who really reads magazines anyway?
Jobs said it was the most important thing he had done.
But he's generally full of shit, isn't he? He seems often to overstate the obvious, using superlatives as crutches.
that I decide not to print out before hand, this would do the trick nicely... and actually better than lugging the MBP (17").
Ummmm....is there any indication at all that this thing can print? If not, all that iWork stuff seems even less useful.
As I was saying to someone earlier - the revolution here is not in what this thing does, but how it does it.
There is nothing groundbreaking in this product. The innovation is minimal. It "does it" the same way the iTouch does it. Just bigger.
But he's generally full of shit, isn't he? He seems often to overstate the obvious, using superlatives as crutches.
He's not called the PT Barnum of Sylicon Valley for nothing.
It's an iPhone that doesn't fit in your pocket. I love the iPhone/iPod touch, but I'm not sure I would want one that did not fit in my pocket.
I'm really going to have to think about this.
You seem to relish the mediocrity of the device. To see it as a feature, even.
Don't say "good that there is no flash" as if it's a good thing that any device isn't more robust. If it's not capable of doing flash because of hardware limitations, fine, but why would anyone WANT a gadget to lack features?
New here? Think Bizarro World from Superman. Some folks here are happy as pigs in muck that, for example, the iPhone will not multitask.
Can the 'Pad do that? That seems like a huge stretch for iOS.
You can't kill what's already dead.
I'd buy this any day before I would lug around that 7 lb. medicine box sold by Dell.
[CENTER]You obviously have no idea about netbooks or their capabilities, especially the newest dual core models.
Note: There has never been a 7lb netbook - Sold by Dell or anyone else - Ever![/CENTER]
That doesn't stop me from seeing that this is really nothing new technology wise, and is primarily a device for passive consumption of media, rather than a mobile computer that one can use to produce media.
It is a worthy netbook replacement only in the sense that most people don't use a netbook for anything but passive activities like browsing the web or watching movies.
It is not a worthy netbook replacement if you consider a netbook something you actually do work on.
Hear, hear. There are Apple fanboys here who laughed their heads off because I wrote that I preferred my MSI Wind running Snow Leopard. And yet today I was able to simultaneously run Safari, Firefox and Chrome (a total of about 20 tabs) along with Safari Adblocker for the most egregiously ad-overrun sites, plus edit a document in Pages and update a website using Fireworks and Dreamweaver CS4 before uploading it using Transmit. Not bad for a "joke/junk" computer. Oh, and the webcam even works, if I decide to videoconference in Skype. I'm also not limited to videos encoded in AVC Main Profile. I can play back MPEG2 videos as well as AVC High Profile, which I prefer to encode in.