But we can thank the iPad for clever accessories like this:
Great article on the iPad.
But we can thank the iPad for clever accessories like this:
I’m not a huge Apple fan, but I have to say I could see the potential of the iPad from the get-go. After all, anyone who has every watched “Star Trek” knew what the “communicator” should be like - it’s the flip phone. And thus fans of “The Next Generation” already knew what an iPad should be like.
I suspect the strongest challenger will be a very similar device with the Android OS and will appeal to those who do not prefer the Apple “user experience”. But the iPad will be king of the category it created for a long time and will encourage Apple to further innovation.
Ain’t America great?
You need to read some real reviews not this tripe from CNN
iPads have no business applications and serious deficiencies of use in a business context. If you are talking about a consumer market with little if any need for this then they provide an alternative but I could link many studies that show it is more sizzle than steak.
Also, Jobs has moved from Mr. Anti-big brother to a controlling megalomaniac obsessed with himself and Apple vis a vis Larry Ellison at Oracle.
A place for everything and everything in it’s place, this will fade over time and reach equilibrium and they will move to the next toy
As a tech guy for a large business, to me it is just a toy. The broadband feature cannot be used on an att business account therefore I cannot provide it to my users. It’s way to fragile to give to the average user and in the end it’s just a toy.
Sorry Apple.
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I have heard of the Ipad and have seen it in Walmart, question is, what is it?
Sounds like a techno fad. Here today, gone tomorrow.
10 years ago I took a JAVA course at a community college. The professor, an Indian from Indonesia (I think, where they don’t treat Indians kindly), double engineering Ph.D., talked about a device like the very iPad. To me, he was the first to think of it. Last time I checked, he’s still teaching classes.
I remember the genius Microsoft fan-boys predicting a total product failure when the iPad came out...just like they do every time Apple introduces products.
Then they follow up months later gleefully predicting some product will a an i(fill in the blank) killer.
It is so predictable you can almost set your watch by it.
I don’t own an iPod, or an iPad, or Barnes@Noble’s latest colored (can ya say ‘colored’ any more or must you say African-American?) e-reader gizmo (own stock in the companies that are making bundles on these devices, thank you very much) and I agree that these are fads, like the Osborne computer once was, even if they lead to something else, as Osborne did, such articles and threads are self-congratulatory, and one doesn’t expect to read a critical article about these devices, except perhaps Walter Mossberg’s semi-critical WSJ column.
First Apple product ever in my household.
First computer product that I ever had to READ instructions on how to perform certain tasks.
However, once done and movies, books, photos loaded, my 95 year old mother uses it in her nursing home to watch her favorite movies and view pictures of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren AND read her King James version of the Bible.
This is a lady who, at times, has made me wonder how in the world she ever learned to operate a light switch.
But she proudly proclaimed that she finished watching "The Sound of Music" and listened to the overture of "Oklahoma" all on her own. (Before she fell asleep) Because there was no one else around who knew how to operate her iPad.