I know a lot of people are going to be underwhelmed, but this really is a cumulation of a lot of the stuff Apple has been doing for the past 10 years.
Maybe no one thing just jumps out at you as being game changing awesome, but the way all of it works together (including the ecosystem) plus the aggressive pricing could make this thing huge.
I know a lot of people are going to be underwhelmed, but this really is a cumulation of a lot of the stuff Apple has been doing for the past 10 years.
Maybe no one thing just jumps out at you as being game changing awesome, but the way all of it works together (including the ecosystem) plus the aggressive pricing could make this thing huge.
I'm pretty happy with it and will likely get the Wifi model, probably the basic 16GB or 32GB. Have enough internet with my Phone anyways and the low cost is killer (have to wait and see prices in Japan).
iWork looks awesome, and the new version of Brushes looks really nice. More apps will be upgraded for the iPad, and it will be an awesome platform.
Love it or loathe it, initial sales figures will pretty much pass judgement on the iPad. I suspect this won't create many new Apple consumers, certainly not in the same way the iPhone and iPod did, nowhere near.
Love it or loathe it, initial sales figures will pretty much pass judgement on the iPad. I suspect this won't create many new Apple consumers, certainly not in the same way the iPhone and iPod did, nowhere near.
I don't know about that.
I know devout PC users who have fallen in love with the iPod Touch. And this is just a really big iPod Touch.
And, like the iPhone, it will rise or fall on word of mouth.
You could take the negative commentary from the introduction of the iPhone and copy and paste most of it into the current iPad thread and you wouldn't know the difference. People were quick to judge based on what they imagined it was missing, or specs, or both.
What those people didn't count on was the experience of using the thing, and how that won people over. Lots of people.
My suspicion is that a lot of people are going to walk into an Apple store just to check it out, try one, and end up buying. My further suspicion is that a lot of those people are going to realize that a $500 device pretty much covers everything they've been using a laptop or netbook for, but with a lot more panache. Or, dare I say it, fun.
Tech weenies think fun is a stupid reason to buy things for, normal people do not.
And, like the iPhone, it will rise or fall on word of mouth.
You could take the negative commentary from the introduction of the iPhone and copy and paste most of it into the current iPad thread and you wouldn't know the difference. People were quick to judge based on what they imagined it was missing, or specs, or both.
What those people didn't count on was the experience of using the thing, and how that won people over. Lots of people.
My suspicion is that a lot of people are going to walk into an Apple store just to check it out, try one, and end up buying. My further suspicion is that a lot of those people are going to realize that a $500 device pretty much covers everything they've been using a laptop or netbook for, but with a lot more panache. Or, dare I say it, fun.
Tech weenies think fun is a stupid reason to buy things for, normal people do not.
The iPhone is a phone, it's small, you carry it around everywhere and pretty much everyone needs a phone. Phones are status symbols too, the iPhone is cool and lovely to use. It's convenient and practical and the iPhone 'culture' that's developed since its creation has served Apple well. Similar scenario with the iPod, which is also cheap enough to buy on impulse.
The iPhone is a phone, it's small, you carry it around everywhere and pretty much everyone needs a phone. Phones are status symbols too, the iPhone is cool and lovely to use. It's convenient and practical and the iPhone 'culture' that's developed since its creation has served Apple well. Similar scenario with the iPod, which is also cheap enough to buy on impulse.
The iPad is neither of the above.
The iPad is cool. If you whip it out at a meeting with your presentation on it, heads will turn. If you sit in a coffee shop drawing on it, heads will turn. Kindle users will turn their heads when they see color and graphics they haven't got.
This baby is going to sell.
And so will iWork. Keynote on the iPad will blow Powerpoint (on any machine) out of the water, for ten bucks.
The iPhone is a phone, it's small, you carry it around everywhere and pretty much everyone needs a phone. Phones are status symbols too, the iPhone is cool and lovely to use. It's convenient and practical and the iPhone 'culture' that's developed since its creation has served Apple well. Similar scenario with the iPod, which is also cheap enough to buy on impulse.
The iPad is neither of the above.
No, the iPad is something different. If it does well, it will be because it creates its own market, just like the iPhone did.
It's easy, in hindsight, to make claims of the failure proof aspects of the iPhone, but the fact is that at its release there was no such thing as a mass market smart phone that made accessing the web and actually using apps commonplace for the average user.
I work at a school, I can see us buying dozens of these things. For the kind of stuff we use laptops for-- calendering, presentations, email, web, light word processing, asset scheduling-- these things would be perfect. Cheap, small, super easy to use. For my area, theater arts, having a little tablet to run sound cues and Keynote slides is a godsend. To the extent that the exact app I might need isn't available, I can have a fair amount of faith that apps will get written, thanks to the financial lure of the App Store.
We don't really know, yet, what kind of uses developers and users will find for this form factor, coupled with Apple's ease of use and excellent productivity apps. Just declaring what it isn't, and concluding that it therefore isn't anything, much, is pretty short sighted, IMO.
Guys and Gals(if any), I apologize for my absence the past 24 hours. Rest assured I am well and gradually digesting the RDF like that pit monster thingy in Return of The Jedi.
I'm pretty happy with it and will likely get the Wifi model, probably the basic 16GB or 32GB. Have enough internet with my Phone anyways and the low cost is killer (have to wait and see prices in Japan).
iWork looks awesome, and the new version of Brushes looks really nice. More apps will be upgraded for the iPad, and it will be an awesome platform.
I'm thinking the WiFi model, 32GB because 16GB sounds small and may be harder to resell. I would love to have a capacitative pen, I wonder if that will become a common accessory. I sometimes just like pen on paper, and simulating that with some apps and so on with the iPad will be nice.
The iPad is cool. If you whip it out at a meeting with your presentation on it, heads will turn. If you sit in a coffee shop drawing on it, heads will turn. Kindle users will turn their heads when they see color and graphics they haven't got.
This baby is going to sell.
And so will iWork. Keynote on the iPad will blow Powerpoint (on any machine) out of the water, for ten bucks.
Even if the iPad is rather "useless", the market won't figure it out until the end of the year and 10 million units later...
Too bad, but Kindle and other e-Book/Nooky users will feel like poor sods.
I'm thinking the WiFi model, 32GB because 16GB sounds small and may be harder to resell. I would love to have a capacitative pen, I wonder if that will become a common accessory. I sometimes just like pen on paper, and simulating that with some apps and so on with the iPad will be nice.
What do you mean you wonder? It already exists : Google: "iPhone Stylus"
One of a thousand accessories for this thing. Cameras will come, connect by bluetooth or 30 pin. And on and on and on.
Some of you really hurt my head with your lack of any knowledge or imagination.
Love it or loathe it, initial sales figures will pretty much pass judgement on the iPad. I suspect this won't create many new Apple consumers, certainly not in the same way the iPhone and iPod did, nowhere near.
Nowhere near, but 10 million units in 2010 is good enough, I'm sure. This may not be bigger than the iPod or iPhone, but it is an important product.
Ok, initially I just wasn't convinced. But 24 hours later I find I've softened to the idea of owning an iPad!
In fact I've even changed my fantasy mac line-up; I've deleted the stationary power mac and replaced it with a 17" (maybe 19"!) macbook pro with 1080p screen, bluray player and new faster cpu, an iphone 3G 4.0 with oled screen (etc) and...ahem...a 64gb 3G iPad.
That combination may just work really well with me and fit my lifestyle perfectly.
Damn you Jobs...looks like you got me in the end.
I think clever third party accessories and iPad specific apps have the power to make this a true success.
The RDF is strong but different this time. It's not a BOOM! but a slowly creeping sensation that there has been a disturbance in the industry... 24 hours later I too am slowly getting an itch... I feel the need... the need... for something I might not need. Initially I was flabbergasted by the thickness of the bezel, but now I realise it might help gripping it. The thinness and the feel, I think, once you hold it, boy... Electronics are not supposed to stimulate such... um... "desires"...
I swear Apple will be the first to invent My_iRobot* -- your truly human-like, multi-touch-sensitive personal robot friend. That and My_iPony for girls.
*Yes, it can be your sexbot but you have to jailbreak it first.
The iPad is cool. If you whip it out at a meeting with your presentation on it, heads will turn. If you sit in a coffee shop drawing on it, heads will turn. Kindle users will turn their heads when they see color and graphics they haven't got.
This baby is going to sell.
And so will iWork. Keynote on the iPad will blow Powerpoint (on any machine) out of the water, for ten bucks.
Heads will turn? The thing looks like a friggin JOO JOO! It looks like a cheap asian pc based tablet from a couple of years ago!
This thing was designed by the great Jonny Ive?
They should make the bezel bigger because I can almost make out a screen!
And the GUI.....for the love of god it's no different than a freakin iphone! They didn't do ANYTHING new for the gui as it pertains to the specifics of a tablet form factor.
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Chat client?
Camera?
iMovie?
What up with the "A4" chip? Customized Arm from their acquisition guys?
Maybe no one thing just jumps out at you as being game changing awesome, but the way all of it works together (including the ecosystem) plus the aggressive pricing could make this thing huge.
I know a lot of people are going to be underwhelmed, but this really is a cumulation of a lot of the stuff Apple has been doing for the past 10 years.
Maybe no one thing just jumps out at you as being game changing awesome, but the way all of it works together (including the ecosystem) plus the aggressive pricing could make this thing huge.
I'm pretty happy with it and will likely get the Wifi model, probably the basic 16GB or 32GB. Have enough internet with my Phone anyways and the low cost is killer (have to wait and see prices in Japan).
iWork looks awesome, and the new version of Brushes looks really nice. More apps will be upgraded for the iPad, and it will be an awesome platform.
Love it or loathe it, initial sales figures will pretty much pass judgement on the iPad. I suspect this won't create many new Apple consumers, certainly not in the same way the iPhone and iPod did, nowhere near.
I don't know about that.
I know devout PC users who have fallen in love with the iPod Touch. And this is just a really big iPod Touch.
You could take the negative commentary from the introduction of the iPhone and copy and paste most of it into the current iPad thread and you wouldn't know the difference. People were quick to judge based on what they imagined it was missing, or specs, or both.
What those people didn't count on was the experience of using the thing, and how that won people over. Lots of people.
My suspicion is that a lot of people are going to walk into an Apple store just to check it out, try one, and end up buying. My further suspicion is that a lot of those people are going to realize that a $500 device pretty much covers everything they've been using a laptop or netbook for, but with a lot more panache. Or, dare I say it, fun.
Tech weenies think fun is a stupid reason to buy things for, normal people do not.
And, like the iPhone, it will rise or fall on word of mouth.
You could take the negative commentary from the introduction of the iPhone and copy and paste most of it into the current iPad thread and you wouldn't know the difference. People were quick to judge based on what they imagined it was missing, or specs, or both.
What those people didn't count on was the experience of using the thing, and how that won people over. Lots of people.
My suspicion is that a lot of people are going to walk into an Apple store just to check it out, try one, and end up buying. My further suspicion is that a lot of those people are going to realize that a $500 device pretty much covers everything they've been using a laptop or netbook for, but with a lot more panache. Or, dare I say it, fun.
Tech weenies think fun is a stupid reason to buy things for, normal people do not.
The iPhone is a phone, it's small, you carry it around everywhere and pretty much everyone needs a phone. Phones are status symbols too, the iPhone is cool and lovely to use. It's convenient and practical and the iPhone 'culture' that's developed since its creation has served Apple well. Similar scenario with the iPod, which is also cheap enough to buy on impulse.
The iPad is neither of the above.
The iPhone is a phone, it's small, you carry it around everywhere and pretty much everyone needs a phone. Phones are status symbols too, the iPhone is cool and lovely to use. It's convenient and practical and the iPhone 'culture' that's developed since its creation has served Apple well. Similar scenario with the iPod, which is also cheap enough to buy on impulse.
The iPad is neither of the above.
The iPad is cool. If you whip it out at a meeting with your presentation on it, heads will turn. If you sit in a coffee shop drawing on it, heads will turn. Kindle users will turn their heads when they see color and graphics they haven't got.
This baby is going to sell.
And so will iWork. Keynote on the iPad will blow Powerpoint (on any machine) out of the water, for ten bucks.
The iPhone is a phone, it's small, you carry it around everywhere and pretty much everyone needs a phone. Phones are status symbols too, the iPhone is cool and lovely to use. It's convenient and practical and the iPhone 'culture' that's developed since its creation has served Apple well. Similar scenario with the iPod, which is also cheap enough to buy on impulse.
The iPad is neither of the above.
No, the iPad is something different. If it does well, it will be because it creates its own market, just like the iPhone did.
It's easy, in hindsight, to make claims of the failure proof aspects of the iPhone, but the fact is that at its release there was no such thing as a mass market smart phone that made accessing the web and actually using apps commonplace for the average user.
I work at a school, I can see us buying dozens of these things. For the kind of stuff we use laptops for-- calendering, presentations, email, web, light word processing, asset scheduling-- these things would be perfect. Cheap, small, super easy to use. For my area, theater arts, having a little tablet to run sound cues and Keynote slides is a godsend. To the extent that the exact app I might need isn't available, I can have a fair amount of faith that apps will get written, thanks to the financial lure of the App Store.
We don't really know, yet, what kind of uses developers and users will find for this form factor, coupled with Apple's ease of use and excellent productivity apps. Just declaring what it isn't, and concluding that it therefore isn't anything, much, is pretty short sighted, IMO.
I'm pretty happy with it and will likely get the Wifi model, probably the basic 16GB or 32GB. Have enough internet with my Phone anyways and the low cost is killer (have to wait and see prices in Japan).
iWork looks awesome, and the new version of Brushes looks really nice. More apps will be upgraded for the iPad, and it will be an awesome platform.
I'm thinking the WiFi model, 32GB because 16GB sounds small and may be harder to resell. I would love to have a capacitative pen, I wonder if that will become a common accessory. I sometimes just like pen on paper, and simulating that with some apps and so on with the iPad will be nice.
The iPad is cool. If you whip it out at a meeting with your presentation on it, heads will turn. If you sit in a coffee shop drawing on it, heads will turn. Kindle users will turn their heads when they see color and graphics they haven't got.
This baby is going to sell.
And so will iWork. Keynote on the iPad will blow Powerpoint (on any machine) out of the water, for ten bucks.
Even if the iPad is rather "useless", the market won't figure it out until the end of the year and 10 million units later...
Too bad, but Kindle and other e-Book/Nooky users will feel like poor sods.
I'm thinking the WiFi model, 32GB because 16GB sounds small and may be harder to resell. I would love to have a capacitative pen, I wonder if that will become a common accessory. I sometimes just like pen on paper, and simulating that with some apps and so on with the iPad will be nice.
What do you mean you wonder? It already exists : Google: "iPhone Stylus"
One of a thousand accessories for this thing. Cameras will come, connect by bluetooth or 30 pin. And on and on and on.
Some of you really hurt my head with your lack of any knowledge or imagination.
Love it or loathe it, initial sales figures will pretty much pass judgement on the iPad. I suspect this won't create many new Apple consumers, certainly not in the same way the iPhone and iPod did, nowhere near.
Nowhere near, but 10 million units in 2010 is good enough, I'm sure. This may not be bigger than the iPod or iPhone, but it is an important product.
In fact I've even changed my fantasy mac line-up; I've deleted the stationary power mac and replaced it with a 17" (maybe 19"!) macbook pro with 1080p screen, bluray player and new faster cpu, an iphone 3G 4.0 with oled screen (etc) and...ahem...a 64gb 3G iPad.
That combination may just work really well with me and fit my lifestyle perfectly.
Damn you Jobs...looks like you got me in the end.
I think clever third party accessories and iPad specific apps have the power to make this a true success.
I swear Apple will be the first to invent My_iRobot* -- your truly human-like, multi-touch-sensitive personal robot friend. That and My_iPony for girls.
*Yes, it can be your sexbot but you have to jailbreak it first.
http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/
The iPad is cool. If you whip it out at a meeting with your presentation on it, heads will turn. If you sit in a coffee shop drawing on it, heads will turn. Kindle users will turn their heads when they see color and graphics they haven't got.
This baby is going to sell.
And so will iWork. Keynote on the iPad will blow Powerpoint (on any machine) out of the water, for ten bucks.
Heads will turn? The thing looks like a friggin JOO JOO! It looks like a cheap asian pc based tablet from a couple of years ago!
This thing was designed by the great Jonny Ive?
They should make the bezel bigger because I can almost make out a screen!
And the GUI.....for the love of god it's no different than a freakin iphone! They didn't do ANYTHING new for the gui as it pertains to the specifics of a tablet form factor.
What the living hell????????????
As said in another thread, Stephen Fry pretty much sums it up...
http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/
No, no he doesn't.
There were no "meh"s or "big deals" exclaimed by people with the original iphone.
For the most part people were going "HOLY TOLEDO I'VE GOT TO HAVE ONE"!