[NTLK] ipad

[David Neale]

Yes, a glorified iPod Touch and then some! The iWork package looks  
impressive; the photo display looks impressive; the keyboard is  
impressive; the screen is utterly impressive; the price is  
impressive(ly low)…

This is the first Mac/Apple product I absolutely MUST have since the  
half-sphere iMac (and the MessagePad and the Macintosh Plus…).

I don't want an iPhone (or any other GSM -- I hate phones in general),  
but I enjoy the iPod and the iPad will make the perfect travelling  
companion (and sofa companion). Love the eBook incorporation and the  
way Apple just shows how eBooking should be done: elegantly. And iBook  
will be massive, I'm sure.

Much more than I had expected, for much less.

David


On 27 Jan 2010, at 23:01, Eric Jones wrote:

>
> This thing looks like a glorified iPod Touch to me. My first thought  
> is "that's it?" However, it is bigger, which means it's quite likely  
> that it won't have huge adoption. That was my initial assessment,  
> anyway.
> However, I suspect Apple's aiming at the emerging "ebook reader"  
> market, here. They see that the Kindle is starting to become  
> popular, a bit, that M$ and other companies are starting to release  
> their own tablet/ebook devices, and so they decided to release an  
> iPod Touch/iPhone ebook reader, to take the market by storm as it  
> develops and blow the competition away early. They may well succeed  
> in this, with the many features this offers, and the attractive  
> pricing. (And people expect Apple products to be a little more  
> expensive, too.) The bluetooth/wireless keyboard compatibility and  
> the promised availability of the iWork suite make this particularly  
> appealing. This could really take off and become something of an all- 
> in-one device, replacing the MP3 player, the PDA, the eBook reader,  
> the ultralight notebook computer, *and* perhaps the cellphone, in  
> one fell swoop. And I think it'll do a credible job with all of  
> them, except perhaps the cellphone, due to the form factor. Time  
> will tell.
> I shan't be buying one, but if I hadn't bought a new iPod Touch a  
> few months ago, I would be sorely tempted.