Comments on: iPad: What Is It and How Would I Use It? Anyone?

By: Xavier Tartaglia

Xavier Tartaglia — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 22:55:18 +0000

I think iPad is a big stupidity from apple. OMG, you can browse the internet, so what? Ipod touch does it! IPad can do all the things an Ipod touch does; it’s just bigger! (P.S: I’ve been to the Apple Store today, tried the notes application and had a lot of writing with it, even if it was easy for me to write with an ipod touch. I’ll just buy the ipod touch 4th gen when it’ll come out and iPad sucks

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Tue, 23 Mar 2010 08:14:19 +0000

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By: Joseph H. Boussidan

Joseph H. Boussidan — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:21:44 +0000

Hillel,

You will find the following blog post interesting, and addressing most of your pressing questions:
http://www.digitaltonto.com/2010/5-reasons-why-apple-will-win-again-with-the-ipad/

Joseph

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:46:20 +0000

re: lack of camera, it is very difficult to properly control (i.e. not shake) a camera mounted on such a large device. Maybe not such a bad decision. Also, someone can come out with a bluetooth external, smaller camera for it?

But the lack of background apps is unacceptable. Everyone was expecting OS 4 to solve that, yet no OS 4 was forthcoming. Maybe we will see it in the next 60-90 days. Let’s hope.

By: Skaag Argonius

Skaag Argonius — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 13:56:40 +0000

Not only do you not need multitasking, you don’t want it. It eats battery life. Apple have a great technology to circumvent this, with their messaging cloud. Basically your application registers for notifications, and it behaves as if it’s still running. When something interesting happens on the server side, your application gets notified and springs back to life. This makes much more sense from an energy saving point of view.

I think you need to simply try it out, instead of writing 5000 word articles. You will know within 10 minutes whether or not it’s worth buying.

I do agree with you on the lack of cameras. At the very least it should have had a front camera like the MacBooks have, for video conferencing (very natural for such a device, if you ask me!).

About holding it – just hold it like a book

I just hope they don’t make the mistake they made with the iPhone. When I read in bed and I wanna lie on the side, the page flips and it makes it impossible for me to read in that orientation. There should be a button to lock the accelerometer in applications…

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Fri, 29 Jan 2010 08:28:50 +0000

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By: hilzfuld

hilzfuld — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 05:09:31 +0000

Interesting mix of opinions here, thanks for the feedback.

By: ysri

ysri — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:30:14 +0000

If iPhone was not released by Apple, then this iPAD would have been a instant flop and would have been declared not as invention, but an act of stupidity by Apple. Media gave unnecessary coverage. This also shows that Steve Jobs can be cheated by his subordinates. Well he deserves it. He stole the credit of his hard working employees for iPhone. So they tricked hiim to present this stupid product, iPAD, so that Steve Jobs looks an idiot. Yes, Steve Jobs is now officially an idiot.

By: Rani

Rani — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:19:25 +0000

People just don’t get it. The iPad is the next iPod, it’s truly revolutionary – so it is not meant to be a bigger iPod or a smaller laptop.

It will allow mobile access to internet content. With TV moving to the internet, it will be THE NEXT GEN TV, and with books moving to the internet, it will be THE NEXT GEN BOOK reader.

Most people would find the iPad more then enough for reading books. Add animations and advertising, allowing for content or person specific advertising in book and you’ve just created a whole new ad market.

Furthermore, there is no really good way to watch video ‘on the move’. iPad would do to video content what iPod did for music. It will allow kids to watch TV in their bedrooms, and allow adults to watch TV (or video content) on the way to work (those using public transport, of course).

It didn’t come to life to become a better laptop or a better iPod. As Steve Jobs put it – it is a whole new industry – and he wasn’t thinking tablet – he was thinking internet video, and more interactive books, not to mention a great web browsing experience.

iPod was never targeted at business and neither is the iPhone. However, they’ve both made what Apple is today.

Apple is a mobile company. They do mobile music, mobile e-mail, mobile voice, mobile laptops, and now they’ll do mobile video and mobile books.

It’s all about the content baby!