I think the iPad is going to flop.
And I am a Mac lover going all the way back to the Mac Plus.
The problems with the pad have already been hashed over a million times, so I am not going to do it again here. Suffice it to say, the niche it is designed for is just not big enough to support it.
I agree. With Blackberries and laptops, who needs another gizmo?
Yep, and then there is also the Apple lock-in. Just for kicks I paged through the license for the latest update to iTunes - it was 76 pages long!
Basically, it says nothing is yours, stuff that is on your computer can be removed at any time without prior notice and if anything goes wrong its not Apple’s fault.
Ditto. Guy at the office just brought one in this morning. I messed with it for a few min. Unimpressed. Just a toy, nothing special. The lack of multitasking would sink it for me, I always have two or three things working at once.
The guy told me that you needed to spend $150 to get the 3G hardware. Then another $15-40 per month to get service. Beyond the hardcore Mac people, people that need to have "the coolest toys" and people with more money to spend than common sense....I don't see much of a market for it.
And, before all of the Mac users come out of woodwork to flame me because I'm obviously a knuckle-dragging Cro-Magnon that just doesn't get the genius of Steve Jobs .....I'm not a Mac Guy, or a PC guy. I just look at computers as a tool, nothing more, nothing less. If it performs what I want it to do, I'm all for it.
They lost me when I found out it doesn't even have a USB port.
What were they thinking drinking?
Even the i-phone is obsolete now. Try out the new DROID from Verizon! OH MY GOD ! ! ! ! !
I will be surprised if it is still selling in a year or two.
Once the gizmo is too big for your pocket,then you might as well CARRY something big enough to be fully capable.
Personally even netbooks don't do it for me,I want a larger screen to start with......
Ihave an ASUS EEE tablet netbook. It has FAR more horsepower than the Ipad, lots of slots for memory cards, and USB ports. When folded into tablet form it is significantly smaller than the Ipad. Runs Windows 7. Current pricing is just over $300, vs $499 for the Ipad. Runs Kindle for PC and is just great as an e-reader (far superior to the Kindle).