Steve Jobs Unveils Apple's New "Ipad" Device - Video 1/27/10

Freedom's Lighthouse ^ | January 27, 2010 | Brian

[C19fan]

Is a iPhone on ‘roids worth $1,000? (Rumor of the price point)

[PugetSoundSoldier]

So... It’s a big iTouch?

[IYAS9YAS]

Oh. That kind of pad...

[ChiefKujo]

I thought it was an iPod for the Boston crowd.

[sbMKE]

$699 for the i-pad, the “more intimate” device from Apple. Jobs description, not mine.

Dumb. 64 gb of memory on a Kindle for much more money and no content distribution set up.

[Leo Farnsworth]

I gotta have one! I gotta have one! I gotta have one!I gotta have one! I gotta have one! I gotta have one! I gotta have one! I gotta have one! I gotta have one! I gotta have one! I gotta have one! MicroSoft sucks!

[Leo Farnsworth]

Didn’t take my phony HTML Tags:

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

*Yawn*

[cizinec]

Wow! What a fantastic new idea!

Oh wait. The Asus EEE T91 has been out since June of last year.

He craps on netbooks and then introduces an apple netbook . . . for $100 more and a year behind! Wow! I want that!

[TypeZoNegative]

I have an Ipaq that does the same thing and it’s been out for nearly 8 years.

[newfreep]

Sounds like an overpriced netbook with a slower processor.

[Haiku Guy]

Too useless...
Too expensive...
Too big...
To fragile...

Excuse me. I gotta go get in line at the Apple Store...

[Texan Tory]

“Jobs noted that the hardware is a dream to type on,’”

Really. I don’t know the exact dimensions, but it looked like it was about 5” x 8”. Definitely easier to type on than an iPhone, but I don’t see how it can be nearly as good as typing on a standard-sized keyboard.

[mgstarr]

I remember when Apple stock was $15 and they had just announced the iPod - the brilliant analysts I spoke to didn’t get it and tried to dissuade me from buying shares. The Walkman had been out for years - nothing new here.

[Poser]

He is right about at least one thing. In order for this to catch on, it has to be better than the laptops we already have.

Let me add, it needs to be much more portable than my laptop.

So far, it doesn’t look to be much better and is possibly less portable because it absolutely requires a case the size of a laptop to protect the screen.

I’ll wait to see if the better part is true.

[Poser]

I hate to reply to myself butt...

One more thing! I’m not going to carry a man purse. Not happening.

[refermech]

Me too, I bought at 25.00 and it languished for the longest time. I sold just as it started to go up of course.... I could a been rich!!

[John Valentine]

Go for it! There is always room for late adopters.

[Mr. Blonde]

No content distribution? I guess you aren’t familiar with the iTunes store?