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Apple Tablet Media Event Today: 'Come See Our Latest Creation'

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MattSepeta said:
Lets compare products:

Macbook-$999
-os x, with a desktop and everything.
-wifi
-250GB storage, MINIMUM
-Real keyboard
-real mouse
-cover INCLUDED.
-7 hour battery
-2 usbs, mini display port
-camera
-ability to run non-gimmick appLICATIONS

iPAD-$700
-wifi
-64 GB MAX HD
-fake keyboard
-no mouse input
-cover costs extra
-no usb, no display out
-10 hour battery
-fun new way to try to hold something while touching it as little as possible!


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People use to make similar comparisons between the iPod and the original nano. Similar devices, different uses. It's like comparing a $25K Chevy with a $30K Harley.

I tell you what really excites me is is the first tablet able to present a newspaper like a newspaper and magazines like magazines. Add in being able to watch movies and web scan on a decent sized screen, all in a 1lb package. Deal. I can't wait until they start pre-ordering.
 
time to buy an iPhone or Nokia N900 for me.

Do you think if people who have already iPhone and Apple laptops buy iPad?

I like the device. In my opinion it is cool. If Preview exists ( sorry i didnt check the presentation in detail ) and if we can annotate on iPad and sync it back to Mac. That will be very cool.

But I don't understand where iPad fits if I already have a smart phone and laptop.

Can it be used mainly for ebook purpose ? I believe its price is reasonable if we consider Kindle's and Sony Ereaders price ( sony is 299 ) It offers less battery time but lots of extra benefits. So people who would like to buy an Ebook reader might go for Apple . ( if the screen functions like Kindle or Sony ereader )
 
LagunaSol said:
Anyone who thinks an iPhone/iPod touch owner has no possible desire for the iPad (holy cow I hate that name) obviously grapples with the concept of scale:

http://www.blogcdn.com/www.engadget.com/media/2010/01/ipad-vs-iphone-2.jpg
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The scale is the problem. This is a new market segment. SJ didn't have to sell the public on how great smartphones are, nor does he need to explain why we need laptops. This device is another story.

Will it replace the iPhone? No.

Will it replace your laptop or netbook? No.

Myself, and most of my friends, are into simplifying. The days of buying toys and gadgets for the sake of having them are, for a lot of people, over. Personally I move around too much and am way too mobile to even consider adding another device to my lineup. It would have to replace the functionality of something I already have to be compelling. For example, if I could ditch the heavy, expensive laptop, and buy this and a 21" iMac for the same price, that would be sweet. But, the iPad would have to offer a lot more functionality than it actually does. 16GB? No multitasking? Meh.

In it's current iteration, it just comes across as a dumbed-down media consumption device, and not really able to replace the functionality of anything I already own.
 
WLS said:
I did read and better than you. GPS is not built in but rather is Assisted GPS which means it uses the cell towers to get location. That means you have to have a contract to use their service.
If you get the WIFI only version you will not have GPS.
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WRONG

Go look up what AGPS is again.
 
You are not the target audience

This is neither a phone/videoconferencing tool, nor a computer. And that's its strength. Think a moment about any usecase you may come up with, where you wouldn't want to use an iphone or a macbook.

I would have bought one instead of an iMac for my wife. She wants to email, surf the web, watch movies and photos, listen to music. Exactly right for that.

I don't see this so much as a mobile platform in terms of traveling, it will be useful for that as well (though a ipod touch or iphone may suffice). This is much more the kind of thing you have at home to let the kids paint and play on, read the newspaper in the morning, watch a movie and surf the web, show photos to your aunt and grandma.
 
Where they went wrong

It needed to have full on laptop functionality to be viable. I think our smartphones or tablet type devices will be the laptops of the future, but this thing needed to be that the day it was released, not just a big ipod touch.
 
Not too bad, not too good. Like the IPhone, this would be worth waiting a couple generations until they update it to the point where it's chock full of all the items and features that would make this a killer piece of hardware.

A couple things that bothered me was no discussion of the price point for books (and whether screen glare will be an issue) and for the 3G model, no disussions of being able to possibly teather with your IPhone. So I'll have to pay $30/month for unlimited data on my IPhone and another $30 for the IPad? That seems unreasonable because odds are, you aren't using both at the same time.

Other than these issues it was event that made me see the potential in the product, but at this point I wouldn't purchase one.
 
kernel-klink said:
Wow. And to think 187 Apple employees lost their jobs leaking info about this POS. It's bad enough they got fired (in today's job market), but today they had to take the call from a "friend" with the news that the whole thing was a flop
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Have a source/link to this? If true this sickens me
 
Coruscanti said:
Good post. With the photo-upload adapters, this is the only computer most people need. They don't need a full-fledged operating system because they don't understand it, and they end up damaging their computers. This is intuitive, portable, and has many qualities (like an IPS display) that so many screamers seem to overlook.
I would have done some things slightly differently (like being able to run 3-4 1:1 iPhone apps side-by-side, or the lock screen), but this is isn't an oversized iPod Touch. It's much more, and if you fail to see it... look at iWork again, at least.
This is the ultimate Information Appliance... with that much screen estate, developers can do amazing things... like the Brushes app. Exemplary.
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yes but its defective by design, its completely locked by DRM... its a step backwards
 
AnthonyCM said:
PRO
Pricing not bad at all
No data plans/contracts needed!!!

MAJOR CON (for me)
No flash/Hulu watching in bed
No multi-tasking
No downloading of full papers

*All the cons are based on what I've seen.

As for full newspaper downloading, here's the issue: I live in NYC and I want to carry this on the subway to read the paper. The Kindle delivers the whole paper to your device. The iPad seems to be web based. No wifi in subway = no reading the paper on the train.
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I don't think this true one of the ibook store photos had newspapers listed?
 
markgodley said:
Am i the only one getting P!$$ed off with people saying giant iphone/ipod.. why cant people see beyond that...
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I'm glad someone else sees that too. This device is a ebook reader killer.

A Kindle DX is $500 (for now) this does 100x more. You have to have a bigger screen to enjoy books honestly.

It might not be a netbook KILLER, but its competes with it...and in MOST situations if you're buying a netbook its not for REAL work. I dont think iPad is meant to be for that either.

Lastly, I know this isnt a big thing, but it is a 9.7" GORGEOUS digital picture frame. A good one these days goes for a couple hundred bucks....

So to combine all that and price at at $499/629 starting i think is great.
 
Bevz said:
Quote:
Originally Posted by salesguy
You remember that feeling the first time you were with a girl and she took her bra off and you didn't know it was a wonderbra?

That pretty much sums it up.

So when is the 4.0 announcement coming?
LOL!!! You've pretty much nailed the feeling there....LOL!!! You've pretty much nailed the feeling there....
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They didn't have girls in Cupertino. Besides, if any Apple kids were caught with a V1.0 Girl, they were fired
 
Thingybobby said:
So the iPad has got 3G and it can run Apps from the existing App Store...

Just wondering... if AT&T allows voice over IP (eventually), is there any reason, in theory, that one can install Apps such as Skype on the iPad and use it as a phone??

Yes I know there won't be camera, it's kinda big and it will reply heavily on the 3G/Wifi network, but in theory that should be possible right?:confused:
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Umm...you would need a microphone first. I didn't see one on the spec list.


=|
 
bigdaddymac said:
I'm sitting at my desk now, trying to imagine typing on the iPad w/o the external keyboard. You place it face down and type, but can you imagine doing that for long?
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Go get a pen/pencil and some paper. Write down a 600 word essay about how debilitating and crippling it would be to look anywhere but perfectly straight forward for any amount of time. Better still if you have a friend with a camera. Have you friend snap a few shots of you as you write the essay.
 
rtabdo said:
I'm glad someone else sees that too. This device is a ebook reader killer.

A Kindle DX is $500 (for now) this does 100x more. You have to have a bigger screen to enjoy books honestly.

It might not be a netbook KILLER, but its competes with it...and in MOST situations if you're buying a netbook its not for REAL work. I dont think iPad is meant to be for that either.

Lastly, I know this isnt a big thing, but it is a 9.7" GORGEOUS digital picture frame. A good one these days goes for a couple hundred bucks....

So to combine all that and price at at $499/629 starting i think is great.
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and how many people even have a kindle? lol
 
kernkraft said:
You can try to persuade yourself that you might save money by buying an iPad, but you forget that you can resell a book. How can you sell an electronic book? On a used iPad? With other e-books? By sharing your iTunes account?
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And how willing would you be to borrow your new ipad to a friend to let them read that book?
 
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