I am talking of course about the newest “innovation” that Apple is currently pitching to the market. The “iPad” is not the newest tampon design, however that would have been more useful than the actual product in mind.
The iPad, overwhelms the front page of apple.ca and the claims of it being “magic” and “revolutionary” seem to indicate a new step in innovation. Upon watching the keynote, Steve Jobs makes the claim that it (the iPad) is “between a laptop and a internet phone”. Or something like that. It doesn’t really matter though because it doesn’t do anything a laptop can’t do and it makes for a pretty cumbersom phone. And did Jobs stress the fact that is “really thin”? you bet. Only this time he had it in a case, not a cheap 10 cent buisiness envelope like he did with the Apple Air keynote. Even the website is peppered with this phrase. Frankly, thats the only thing it has going for it.
Let’s go through what the iPad can offer us. Phil Schiller, Senior VP Worldwide Marketing makes the claims that the iPad offers “the best”
1) Websurfing experience
2) Email experience
3) Photo experience
4) Movie Watching experience and
5) “Its going to change the way we do the things we do everyday”
Um okay Phil, sure. And adding “experience” after every ability it can do doesn’t make it sound any better.
So far the iPod touch/iPhone can do all of this, and really well too. Except the movie watching. But heck who is going to lug a giant iPad around just in case they feel like watching Dark Night? (Because we were all waiting to be able to watch movies whenever we want).
One of the features of this device is that it “easily views webpages”. Both the keynote as well as the iPad video, both available on apple.ca use “The New York Times” as the sample webpage. This is not a coincidence. The reason why is that the text is easy to read and there are lots of pretty pictures to zoom in to. But there is another reason. No Flash. Thats right, this $500 giant iPod Touch can’t even read flash player applications. You can see this in the keynote speech, when Jobs sits on the couch and starts using the web browsing application. But what you can’t see is the sweat that comes off his brow when he realizes that he just lost me as a customer.
Another disadvantage is that this device relies on existing wireless networks for internet service. You cannot just open it up and expect to be able to surf the web. You need a router. If you want 3G access, there will be another model shipping out a little later than the wifi release (thats just like apple though isn’t it). You’ll probably need a subscription for that though. And it will cost more too. There is not price yet on the website for 3G, but expect to pay around $600 minimum.
The only thing worth mentioning is that there are some flash drive inputs on the bottom of the device. That would be somewhat useful, except a laptop can do the same thing. It’s available in 16, 32 and 64 Gigs and the battery lasts for 10hrs (although im guessing thats just standby time ).
If you have a laptop and you were thinking of replacing it already, this might be for you. But if you don’t have a laptop and never really reeded one, you dont need this.
After watching the keynote and the iPad video for this article, I still don’t see how this is revolutionary, let alone “magic”. At a base price of $500, its just a really really big iPod Touch. By the way did I mention its .5 inches thin!!!!
By: Brad Globe
I am talking of course about the newest “innovation” that Apple is currently pitching to the market. The “iPad” is not the newest tampon design, however that would have been more useful than the actual product in mind.
The iPad, overwhelms the front page of apple.ca and the claims of it being “magic” and “revolutionary” seem to indicate a new step in innovation. Upon watching the keynote, Steve Jobs makes the claim that it (the iPad) is “between a laptop and a internet phone”. Or something like that. It doesn’t really matter though because it doesn’t do anything a laptop can’t do and it makes for a pretty cumbersom phone. And did Jobs stress the fact that is “really thin”? you bet. Only this time he had it in a case, not a cheap 10 cent buisiness envelope like he did with the Apple Air keynote. Even the website is peppered with this phrase. Frankly, thats the only thing it has going for it.
Let’s go through what the iPad can offer us. Phil Schiller, Senior VP Worldwide Marketing makes the claims that the iPad offers “the best”
1) Websurfing experience
2) Email experience
3) Photo experience
4) Movie Watching experience and
5) “Its going to change the way we do the things we do everyday”
Um okay Phil, sure. And adding “experience” after every ability it can do doesn’t make it sound any better.
So far the iPod touch/iPhone can do all of this, and really well too. Except the movie watching. But heck who is going to lug a giant iPad around just in case they feel like watching Dark Night? (Because we were all waiting to be able to watch movies whenever we want).
One of the features of this device is that it “easily views webpages”. Both the keynote as well as the iPad video, both available on apple.ca use “The New York Times” as the sample webpage. This is not a coincidence. The reason why is that the text is easy to read and there are lots of pretty pictures to zoom in to. But there is another reason. No Flash. Thats right, this $500 giant iPod Touch can’t even read flash player applications. You can see this in the keynote speech, when Jobs sits on the couch and starts using the web browsing application. But what you can’t see is the sweat that comes off his brow when he realizes that he just lost me as a customer.
Another disadvantage is that this device relies on existing wireless networks for internet service. You cannot just open it up and expect to be able to surf the web. You need a router. If you want 3G access, there will be another model shipping out a little later than the wifi release (thats just like apple though isn’t it). You’ll probably need a subscription for that though. And it will cost more too. There is not price yet on the website for 3G, but expect to pay around $600 minimum.
The only thing worth mentioning is that there are some flash drive inputs on the bottom of the device. That would be somewhat useful, except a laptop can do the same thing. It’s available in 16, 32 and 64 Gigs and the battery lasts for 10hrs (although im guessing thats just standby time ).
If you have a laptop and you were thinking of replacing it already, this might be for you. But if you don’t have a laptop and never really reeded one, you dont need this.
After watching the keynote and the iPad video for this article, I still don’t see how this is revolutionary, let alone “magic”. At a base price of $500, its just a really really big iPod Touch. By the way did I mention its .5 inches thin!!!!
By: Brad Globe
I am talking of course about the newest “innovation” that Apple is currently pitching to the market. The “iPad” is not the newest tampon design, however that would have been more useful than the actual product in mind.
The iPad, overwhelms the front page of apple.ca and the claims of it being “magic” and “revolutionary” seem to indicate a new step in innovation. Upon watching the keynote, Steve Jobs makes the claim that it (the iPad) is “between a laptop and a internet phone”. Or something like that. It doesn’t really matter though because it doesn’t do anything a laptop can’t do and it makes for a pretty cumbersom phone. And did Jobs stress the fact that is “really thin”? you bet. Only this time he had it in a case, not a cheap 10 cent buisiness envelope like he did with the Apple Air keynote. Even the website is peppered with this phrase. Frankly, thats the only thing it has going for it.
Let’s go through what the iPad can offer us. Phil Schiller, Senior VP Worldwide Marketing makes the claims that the iPad offers “the best”
1) Websurfing experience
2) Email experience
3) Photo experience
4) Movie Watching experience and
5) “Its going to change the way we do the things we do everyday”
Um okay Phil, sure. And adding “experience” after every ability it can do doesn’t make it sound any better.
So far the iPod touch/iPhone can do all of this, and really well too. Except the movie watching. But heck who is going to lug a giant iPad around just in case they feel like watching Dark Night? (Because we were all waiting to be able to watch movies whenever we want).
One of the features of this device is that it “easily views webpages”. Both the keynote as well as the iPad video, both available on apple.ca use “The New York Times” as the sample webpage. This is not a coincidence. The reason why is that the text is easy to read and there are lots of pretty pictures to zoom in to. But there is another reason. No Flash. Thats right, this $500 giant iPod Touch can’t even read flash player applications. You can see this in the keynote speech, when Jobs sits on the couch and starts using the web browsing application. But what you can’t see is the sweat that comes off his brow when he realizes that he just lost me as a customer.
Another disadvantage is that this device relies on existing wireless networks for internet service. You cannot just open it up and expect to be able to surf the web. You need a router. If you want 3G access, there will be another model shipping out a little later than the wifi release (thats just like apple though isn’t it). You’ll probably need a subscription for that though. And it will cost more too. There is not price yet on the website for 3G, but expect to pay around $600 minimum.
The only thing worth mentioning is that there are some flash drive inputs on the bottom of the device. That would be somewhat useful, except a laptop can do the same thing. It’s available in 16, 32 and 64 Gigs and the battery lasts for 10hrs (although im guessing thats just standby time ).
If you have a laptop and you were thinking of replacing it already, this might be for you. But if you don’t have a laptop and never really reeded one, you dont need this.
After watching the keynote and the iPad video for this article, I still don’t see how this is revolutionary, let alone “magic”. At a base price of $500, its just a really really big iPod Touch. By the way did I mention its .5 inches thin!!!!
By: Brad Globe
I am talking of course about the newest “innovation” that Apple is currently pitching to the market. The “iPad” is not the newest tampon design, however that would have been more useful than the actual product in mind.
The iPad, overwhelms the front page of apple.ca and the claims of it being “magic” and “revolutionary” seem to indicate a new step in innovation. Upon watching the keynote, Steve Jobs makes the claim that it (the iPad) is “between a laptop and a internet phone”. Or something like that. It doesn’t really matter though because it doesn’t do anything a laptop can’t do and it makes for a pretty cumbersom phone. And did Jobs stress the fact that is “really thin”? you bet. Only this time he had it in a case, not a cheap 10 cent buisiness envelope like he did with the Apple Air keynote. Even the website is peppered with this phrase. Frankly, thats the only thing it has going for it.
Let’s go through what the iPad can offer us. Phil Schiller, Senior VP Worldwide Marketing makes the claims that the iPad offers “the best”
1) Websurfing experience
2) Email experience
3) Photo experience
4) Movie Watching experience and
5) “Its going to change the way we do the things we do everyday”
Um okay Phil, sure. And adding “experience” after every ability it can do doesn’t make it sound any better.
So far the iPod touch/iPhone can do all of this, and really well too. Except the movie watching. But heck who is going to lug a giant iPad around just in case they feel like watching Dark Night? (Because we were all waiting to be able to watch movies whenever we want).
One of the features of this device is that it “easily views webpages”. Both the keynote as well as the iPad video, both available on apple.ca use “The New York Times” as the sample webpage. This is not a coincidence. The reason why is that the text is easy to read and there are lots of pretty pictures to zoom in to. But there is another reason. No Flash. Thats right, this $500 giant iPod Touch can’t even read flash player applications. You can see this in the keynote speech, when Jobs sits on the couch and starts using the web browsing application. But what you can’t see is the sweat that comes off his brow when he realizes that he just lost me as a customer.
Another disadvantage is that this device relies on existing wireless networks for internet service. You cannot just open it up and expect to be able to surf the web. You need a router. If you want 3G access, there will be another model shipping out a little later than the wifi release (thats just like apple though isn’t it). You’ll probably need a subscription for that though. And it will cost more too. There is not price yet on the website for 3G, but expect to pay around $600 minimum.
The only thing worth mentioning is that there are some flash drive inputs on the bottom of the device. That would be somewhat useful, except a laptop can do the same thing. It’s available in 16, 32 and 64 Gigs and the battery lasts for 10hrs (although im guessing thats just standby time ).
If you have a laptop and you were thinking of replacing it already, this might be for you. But if you don’t have a laptop and never really reeded one, you dont need this.
After watching the keynote and the iPad video for this article, I still don’t see how this is revolutionary, let alone “magic”. At a base price of $500, its just a really really big iPod Touch. By the way did I mention its .5 inches thin!!!!
