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Early iPad Reviews Appear

Baig's comment defines the whole iPad concept: "Most will use the iPad for consuming content rather than creating it"

No matter how hard Jobs tries to sell the idea of working with "his" tablet because you can't work with it.
It is designed to function as an store at home for music, video and applications...

iPad might have an affordable price according to Jobs (I don't think so... I think it's very expensive for what you pay), but the truth is that iPad is just like nowadays' printers... the manufacturer gets money from the ink refills...
Just translate the word printer with iPad and ink with itunes/app-store :) and you have the business model from Apple (no USB/Flash aren't there because they are things of the past, they aren't there because they are an uncontrolled source of content which Apple might not get a profit from...).
I don't think that many people who already paid for an iPad or are willing to do so, realize that iPad is nothing without putting more extra money into Jobs' pocket...

I wonder if Apple will convert its computing line to a subsidized one, like the iPod/iPad/iPhone... in a few years :)
 
queshy said:
These reviews are useless and pretty much add nothing that we didn't already know.
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You aren't the target audience for these reviewers. They write for the mass market, not some Apple rumor site.

These reviews are quite useful for people who don't follow every scrap of hearsay, speculation, etc. about Apple. Regular people, the kind that generate most of Apple's revenue, the ones who don't worry about how many megahertz the CPU is or why the screen isn't OLED.
 
Chupa Chupa said:
Except that they are writing for non-techies that haven't been gnashing their teeth over the deets for the past two months and also they don't have unlimited space to print their review like say Arstechnica.com
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I agree with you, however I would have liked to see more clarification. It's one thing to say the on-screen keyboard is horrible. It's another to speak to your experiences about why you feel this way - something that was not done during these reviews. Techie or general population would both get something out of this.
 
I like Walt Mossbery's review. Can't wait to get my hands on the iPad... whenever I get my hands on it. I plan on doing a lot of lite content creation with iWork and other productivity apps and, of course, media consuming.
 
doug in albq said:
David Pogue:

"The Apple iPad is basically a gigantic iPod Touch."
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Ooh, how dishonest to quote only that and not quote the rest of his review where he shows the irony of using that sentence to help people understand the concept.

Here, let me show you what Andy Inhatko said:

"If you’ve been honking on and on since January about how the iPad is “just a big iPhone,” you’ll want to lie low for a few more weeks before appearing in public with your new toy. It takes a big man to admit that he’s wrong"
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And in another article he said:

"It might occur to you that we’ve seen tablets before and that we’ll see many more of them in 2010. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, we discovered a buzzing hive filled with Tegra-based tablets running the Android OS. Any day now, some little kid will whack it with a stick and they’ll be all over the place.

Well, I’m here to tell you that in fact, we haven’t seen tablets before. And maybe the iPad is the only true tablet we’ll get in 2010. The hardware we’ve seen in years past, (and what we’re likely to see in these Android devices) are laptop computers with the keyboard section broken off. They’re not fundamentally touch-based computers, they’re the products of old thinking. "
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So go ahead, keep trotting out the sorry "it's only a big iPhone" line. That line won't work much longer, but keep trying for a few more days until people realize how wrong that is.
 
cvaldes said:
You aren't the target audience for these reviewers. They write for the mass market, not some Apple rumor site.

These reviews are quite useful for people who don't follow every scrap of hearsay, speculation, etc. about Apple. Regular people, the kind that generate most of Apple's revenue, the ones who don't worry about how many megahertz the CPU is or why the screen isn't OLED.
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Perhaps. But it seems like the public could be better educated by just going to Apple.com. These reviews are just ads for the product. But you're right, totally uninteresting from the apple fanboy's POV.
 
billystlyes said:
These aren't reviews. They are paid advertisements by a bunch of shills.
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And how would you have any idea whether you agree or disagree with their reviews for a product you haven't even touched?:rolleyes: The preconceived righteousness and blind certainty that this is an awful thing is so tiresome and already sounds as hollow and short-sighted as all the early criticism of the iPhone.

queshy said:
These reviews are just ads for the product. But you're right, totally uninteresting from the apple fanboy's POV.
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Thank God for that. The smartest thing Steve Jobs has ever done is re-orient Apple away from a tech company to a consumer products company. Apple fanboys would kill Apple with all their "love."
 
queshy said:
Perhaps. But it seems like the public could be better educated by just going to Apple.com. These reviews are just ads for the product. But you're right, totally uninteresting from the apple fanboy's POV.
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These reviews aren't quite ads in that all of the reviewers mention some cons, things that Apple won't point out (like lack of multi-tasking) on their website.

If you want to question their integrity, that's fine. People have been assuming that critics are getting "paid off" ever since the first critic uttered his first word.

There's no such thing as an unbiased review. You are free to ignore their reviews, just the same as anyone else who reads them.

You are free to acquire your own unit and provide the rest of the world your own review.
 
I think it would be so cool if they had an accessory for 'HDMI out' option, instead of just Composite or Component AV cables. That will do for now, I guess. :)
 
I was reading Walt's review on another site before this was posted here. I was amazes that the majority of very negative comments to his report. All of you that doubt this thing, check back in in a year from now. This thing will only get better from here. It will eventually have multitasking, camera, etc. This thing will be awesome, mostly because of the App store, and the doors that will be opened through the many apps that will be created for this thing. It just blows my mind that someone would be SO negative about this thing.

And so, what does everyone think about Job's battery life statement now???
 
diabolic said:
I think all the possible competitors are now scrambling to figure out how to improve their battery life.
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Because I don't know, how does this stand against netbook battery power, other slates, laptops, etc. Anyone know if you can walk around unplugged to power and watch 4+ movies on their device. WOW
 
bludodge said:
I was reading Walt's review on another site before this was posted here. I was amazes that the majority of very negative comments to his report... It just blows my mind that someone would be SO negative about this thing.
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You are new to this site. It is very popular with complainers and people who think Apple can suspend the laws of physics or the economics of consumer electronics manufacturing.

Many of these people continuously whine about almost everything Apple does and even more about things Apple doesn't do. My guess is that many of them have deep-seated issues in self-confidence and their own personal worth. Perhaps it's a not-so-muted plea for attention

And I think a few of them are simply bitter that they didn't buy AAPL in early 2005 when it was $44/share.

:p
 
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