The Truth Behind Apple's iPad

I completely agree with you Tuan. Apples use of the iphone operating system completely crippled the iPad. Really loved; "The iPad is a console" summed it up in four words.

Tell that to all the bozos oozing of smug who even right now are picturing themselves sitting in a snob cafe sipping on a cup of something I can't even pronounce with a modern jazz track in the background while reading the latest gazette on an iPad.

The focus group for this thing was never the productive cross section of the bell curve.

haha, first to comment......i wouldn't buy one, kinda pointless when u have an ipod and a macbook....

Im equally dissapointed. No USB so that you can share documents and presentations. No infrared eye to cannot be used as a remote controll. Flimsy instable docking solution. Biggest mistake, no OSX. Screen resolution seems also totally wrong. As an eBook you will get very tired eyes with the backlight screen and too limited battery capasity. This 1st edition will be given a pass by me. Maybe if some of these issues are corrected it might be a chance to get this one. As is now it's just a iTouch with a bigger screen and the advantage of the new aps is not too bad but how do you import the photos from your camera when on the road? Oh, you need another computer, right!

I give it 4 weeks and someone will crack this mutha open like an egg and have Linux running on it...

Start your watches... NOW!!!

I this is pretty useless. it's just an ipodtouch/iphone with larger screen. There is no reason to get it if you have either of those two devices. The only thing good on iPad will be internet browsing , like iphone . It's great

I wonder how long it will be before someone jailbreak this thing.

Must be something they whipped up in a few months when they figured they could not "NOT do it" without the whole world throwing tomatoes at them.

I have to wonder why you would watch a movie on a iPad rather then your TV?
As a country that has embraced big screen TV's. I cannot imagine anyone tying themselves to Apple and iTunes for content. Except for the Apple cult users. The other downfalls with it are a weak CPU, no full OS which probably means no Flash. What exactly is thing going to bridge? This looks more like hardware trying to sell Apps. Another way for Apple to bring you into their ecosystem. I am not buying.

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given there is a legal dispute with Fujitsu (not to mention Tampax...), I suggest they change the device's name right away to: iUseless

*Pounds gavel* As far as tablets go, I deem the "iPad" a dud.

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An apple based processor, no graphics performance, and limited memory for a very large price tag.

I know it lack a bit of the wow factor people were expecting, but I think Apple hit a homerun again with this device business wise. People come up with all kinds of things to knock it for, like

for photos or video conferencing, but really lets get serious here. Who in the world would try to use something this big to take a picture? No one with half a brain is the correct answer.

As for the video camera camera for video conferencing, I'd like to know how many people actually use their web cams to video conference? Counting the four computers in our house plus friends and family computers that I get asked to look at now and then, I see maybe 30 computers on a regular basis. Maybe half of them have a webcam that came with them, but I only know of three people that have ever used them, and two of those are on my wifes and mine computers to talk to each other while I am on the road.

I mean come on people, if you were going to video conference with this thing the far better way would be to have a camera in the dock so that you don't give the people on the other end motion sickness from you trying to hold the iPad up in front of you the whole time.

which i don't understand at all. The main things that this thing needs to do is play back 720p video, surf the web and play some iPhone games. If you look at the specs on the PowerVR designs they are way more than capable of doing 1080p video and 3d gaming. This thing isn't going to play Crysis for crying out loud.

This thing is not intended to replace a laptop or a desktop, so stop trying to compare it to one. It is designed to do just what it does, give the Touch experience to people that need more screen to look at.

Think of the Medical apps on the iPhone, they will be way better when done with the SDK for this device and the extra resolution and space. I can see this hiting big in that community.

You aren't going to use this while driving your car, or walking down the street like you do with your smartphone. It's not intended to work that way.

This is for: laying around on the couch, sitting in a coffee shop, studying at the library, relaxing in your dorm room or taking the place of your textbooks in class. You will carry it in your backpack if it ever leaves the house in the first place. Personally I don't even think I would get one with 3g at all. Everywhere I named above probably has Wifi (except for home, most are probably free).

Not loading OSX on this was dumb.

Mac's "tablet" fails the primary definition of being a tablet.

I respectfully disagree with the majority. Since it’s competitively priced against the Kindle DX, but has more functionality, I think it’s promising. Could it be better? Sure, but it’s a start in the right direction. I can see this replacing a netbook in a lot of cases where the users only want to surf the web or send/check emails. I’m sure it will evolve very quickly.

Much like the iPad, the fail is strong with this one.
This would've been great if Asus didn't have an Eee Tablet with 32GB SSD for $485 on Newegg. But as stated at the beginning of the article, it's an oversized iPod Touch with optional 3G.
They did beat what I anticipated for a price tag ($999 for the 32GB), and the new processor has potential. Stick that thing in the next iPod Touch, give me flash support, and I'll buy it.
A 'multimedia' tablet without flash support, handwriting recognition, and multitasking... sacrifices made to achieve the $499 price point. Maybe the $999 would've been worth it for improved functionality? Not even a camera for video conferencing! Huge misses on Apple's part!
Sure it's sexy (like the iPod Touch), but it's not practical anymore. As Tuan pointed out, it's big draw was it's ability to do so much and fit in the pocket. If they want to market something bigger, it has to be more than an increase in surface area. You must bring more productivity.
I'd pay $999 if it had all the things it's missing. Gladly, too. I would've actually bought an Apple product for once in my life.

In light of this, I would say that the MS tablet ("Courier") will wipe its *ss with the iPad.

If they were marketing the iPad as an e-Book and then some, yes it would be great. But they're marketing as a portable computing device that can handle e-books. It is a start, and for once, I hope Apple gets it right.

I think this device is the perfect "platform" idea for the next generation of applications. To me they are releasing a piece of hardware and saying to the developers "we gave you a bigger canvas, paint us a masterpiece".

Good enough to use right out of the box, but also something for people to build much greater apps than they can on the iPhone/Touch because of the small screen and big fingers. Like the Zii developer platform only out of the development phase and in the hands of users.

I don't think their target market are the kind of people that multitask. Most of them can't talk on the phone and do anything else at the same time.

Touch screen driver is not avaiable for Linux yet. Windows 7 may works but I would wait for the dual screen window 7 tablet. Sorry I do multi-task..

very true, I would buy one of these in a heart beat if it wasn't so locked up like the itouch and iphone. the same thing that put me off getting one of them.

I agree with it having THE SPECS of an itouch, that makes sense, your not really going to be doing anything intensive on a tablet, and it keeps costs down and battery life up! but I WILL NOT buy something this locked up, if it had the free form nature of a normal laptop, then perhapse it could compete against them, but as it is, people are still gonna need a laptop, still gonna need a pocket device, so where the hell does this fit?? as an ereader?? I'll just buy an ereader, they are cheaper! I mean it's not even cheaper than a netbook... who is going to buy it??

Everybody agrees the iPad is a huge failure. Its not a console. It's just a huge iTouch

I don't agree with it being a failure. As a matter of fact i think they got it mostly right. I would maybe have left off the iWork stuff, but overall it is very close to the perfect gift for my wife. I've been saying for the last year on various tech sites that she wants something that was a good lounge on the couch and surf the web/check email device. She absolutely does not want work applications on it. SHe has a desktop she hates with a passion now. No intrest in office suits or DVD/BR drives or anything else that a desktop or laptop has over this.

This is not supposed to replace a computer either laptop or desktop. They said that right from the start. It is a Touch for people like my wife who love the touch but can't stand the small screen. It is not to replace their phone, it not to replace their computer. It's the Touch XL with more performance and higher resolution.

Laptops are not casual friendly, lounging around devices. If you think they are then you and most people have a different idea of what lounging is.

I would be surprised if our friends in the Linux community took even that long.