While I don’t necessarily agree with her assessment of the leadership of Apple, I do think that the name “iPad” was a bland, lame stab at a name that they HAD to know would wind up being associated with...
...With...
...Well, you know.
I am also rather disappointed in the features (or lack there of) that this product has. It is like a kid who thinks “If people love the iPhone, they will love it more if we make it REALLY BIG!”
It was just this sort of thinking and hubris that produced the Lisa, and ultimately the decline of the company.
Is it possible that the iPad is Apple’s version of “Jumping the shark”?
I’m dissapointed in this product.
I want the ability to install apps that I want to choose, not apps controlled by Apple, and I want Flash, multi-tasking and a camera.
When it comes out with those features I’ll buy it, but not ‘til then.
It doesn’t make sense to not install Flash when so much video and games are written in Flash, which, of course, is the point...Jobs want all games and videos to come through Apple, at his control, and with him getting a cut of the proceeds.
I hope Google comes out with a Chrome tablet that offers those features, I’d buy it in a New York Minute!
Ed