The Truth Behind Apple's iPad

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I think this device is the perfect "platform" idea for the next generation of applications. To me they are releasing a piece of hardware and saying to the developers "we gave you a bigger canvas, paint us a masterpiece".

Good enough to use right out of the box, but also something for people to build much greater apps than they can on the iPhone/Touch because of the small screen and big fingers. Like the Zii developer platform only out of the development phase and in the hands of users.
 
[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]I give it 4 weeks and someone will crack this mutha open like an egg and have Linux running on it...Start your watches... NOW!!![/citation]

Touch screen driver is not avaiable for Linux yet. Windows 7 may works but I would wait for the dual screen window 7 tablet. :) Sorry I do multi-task..

 
very true, I would buy one of these in a heart beat if it wasn't so locked up like the itouch and iphone. the same thing that put me off getting one of them.

I agree with it having THE SPECS of an itouch, that makes sense, your not really going to be doing anything intensive on a tablet, and it keeps costs down and battery life up! but I WILL NOT buy something this locked up, if it had the free form nature of a normal laptop, then perhapse it could compete against them, but as it is, people are still gonna need a laptop, still gonna need a pocket device, so where the hell does this fit?? as an ereader?? I'll just buy an ereader, they are cheaper! I mean it's not even cheaper than a netbook... who is going to buy it??
 
I don't agree with it being a failure. As a matter of fact i think they got it mostly right. I would maybe have left off the iWork stuff, but overall it is very close to the perfect gift for my wife. I've been saying for the last year on various tech sites that she wants something that was a good lounge on the couch and surf the web/check email device. She absolutely does not want work applications on it. SHe has a desktop she hates with a passion now. No intrest in office suits or DVD/BR drives or anything else that a desktop or laptop has over this.

This is not supposed to replace a computer either laptop or desktop. They said that right from the start. It is a Touch for people like my wife who love the touch but can't stand the small screen. It is not to replace their phone, it not to replace their computer. It's the Touch XL with more performance and higher resolution.

Laptops are not casual friendly, lounging around devices. If you think they are then you and most people have a different idea of what lounging is.
 
[citation][nom]back_by_demand[/nom]I give it 4 weeks and someone will crack this mutha open like an egg and have Linux running on it...Start your watches... NOW!!![/citation]
I would be surprised if our friends in the Linux community took even that long. :)
 
Meh I guess I'm the only clown who liked this thing. I personally like the iPod Touch as an internet-in-my-pocket device. I like the way the OS works (even though multi-tasking is needed). I like playing games on it, watching movies and TV shows. So the idea of a larger iPod Touch just seems cool. With that said, I could view my favorite content and apps on the iPad when at home, and then take them on the go with the iPod Touch.
 
One market nobody's mentioned for this: musicians. Can you say, "virtual control surface", kids? If any of the major audio HW companies made this, they'd be charging $3k+ and still selling like crazy. I figure there's probably a dozen app developers out there *right now* working on a Mackie HUI emulator, which would enable the iPad to control practically any modern DAW. Not to mention whatever Apple dreams up with MainStage integration.
 
Yep that's how I see it. I'm a big Microsoft guru and kind of figured Apples "Tablet" would suck but I couldn't imagine it would suck this bad. I mean what brain dead apple engineer thought it was a great idea to put a completely limiting OS on it, provide no USB ports, and completely make it a closed (read useless) system.

I laughed so hard when I heard the name. Ipad ... sounds like a maxipad or tampon.

It's not even a tablet it's not. By definition of a tablet this is not a tablet. It's a huge mp3 player (ie iTouch).
 
iBoring. I love how Jobs states this thing is "..magical and revolutionary.. way better than a laptop.."

There is no new technology here. Just a bigger iPhone without the phone. Or a Kindle with an "i".

Oh, and "way better than a laptop?"... A little netbook is far more powerful and useful than the iPad.

Almost forgot - 3G network - OUCH.



 
But there are netbooks you can buy that have sim slots. Ya netbooks already have 3g. You can do a 1000 times more on a windows 7 netbook tablet that's 500 bucks than on this useless peice of iCrap i(maxi)Pad.

go ahead look up Asus Eee T91.

[citation][nom]fundamentaltheorem[/nom]iBoring. I love how Jobs states this thing is "..magical and revolutionary.. way better than a laptop.." There is no new technology here. Just a bigger iPhone without the phone. Or a Kindle with an "i". Oh, and "way better than a laptop?"... A little netbook is far more powerful and useful than the iPad. Almost forgot - 3G network - OUCH.[/citation]
 
I'm fine with the current size of iPod Touch. Making it bigger just to watch movies and do the same thing the handheld iTouch can do, I don't think so. Maybe you should check the living room for the item called TV. That;s right, it can play movies bigger and better than this.
 
deadlockedworld you are wrong, the apps store and itunes make apple a fortune. yes hardware makes them alot too, but tuan is right, they design these things as a closed system because the real money is in software. they could move much more hardware with an open os, but they are more interested in selling apps.

and monopoly of what?
tablets? mp3 players? cell phones? computers?
apple hold a monopoly in none of those things.
 
But fanboys will never outright say that any Apple product was totally off the mark like this one was. And tech news outlets (Wired, ComputerWorld, etc) are all trying to keep their rumor-spreading-hyped dignity by trying to throw a positive light on this giant flop. Its like the Air all over again.
 
I'll wait for it to get hacked to pass a final judgment. In its current state it is only slightly better than a PSP, which makes for a sad panda.
 
i get it, casual surfing from the couch, maybe watching a youtube vid here or there, do a bit of facebooking (not a real word, please for all thats good dont start adopting this as a verb), it's probably a perfect form factor for this kind of activity but for that kind of stuff, i do not expect to pay more then $300, an iphone might be smaller but you get to at least make phone calls on it (as long as you can get a signal... att ;p )

.... one day samsung will embed web browsers into their tv's and use natal to control the stuff, then your ipad will be obsolete
 
ipad is just a bridge thats brings almost everything 90% people use, web, mail, media & entertainment.

Its just that.

Its clear that multitask won´t be implemented because nearly 90% of their potential users don´t even know what it is. On the other side, hardware needs to be optimized to bring acceptable perfomance when more than one application is open.

By creating large devices with iPhone OS´s intuitive UI, apple is very close to create, in the near future a "Desktop Iphone". A desktop computer that runs an OS that´s so easy to drive that anyone could use it.

Power users stick with linux and some android stuff...however, apple could build an "ipad pro" that uses osx
 
You getting an iPad to go along with your MacPadd Tuan? 😉

The funny thing was the "tech guru" on one of those morning talk shows I saw this morning was raving on about how revolutionary this thing is.
 
This was a huge letdown. But we should partially blame ourselves because of the monstrous anticipation we had for the iPad, and them because, to be honest, it's really just a huge iPod Touch. But, someone will hack it to run OSX
 
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