Apple Sells 300,000 iPads on Day One

[AndyFromMonday]

For the price of an iPad I can buy a cheap laptop which does everything the Ipad is trying to do better.

 

[cobrausn]

But won't they all just have to buy another next month?

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Anyway, seems gimmicky. It's like a tablet without a keyboard, which makes it far less useful.

$900 Alienware > Netbooks > iPad

 

[Treblaine]

You can.... you can get Plants Vs. Zombies on it?


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This had better come to the UK.

Why bother? You can get a netbook for HALF the price of an iPad and play plants vs zombies on that.

I object to the iPad because its ads trick people into thinking it is unique and can therefore get away with charging twice as much as the competition which can do the same and more.

 

[Treblaine]

Why would you want to buy this? You can get a high-quality lap/desktop PC for less than that.

Because it is possibly the first tablet that doesn't offer consumers a traditional gui OS. Now that I think about the failings of the tablet market I would say the main problem is that people had the wrong expectations of running a full fledged computer on a tablet which is why using a microsoft OS didn't work. Microsoft expected too much from the consumers to actually be competent enough to fix any hardware or software issues with a tablet PC.

Apple jumped on the consumers that less is more and giving a closed and limited OS that lets the consumer do only one thing with the ipad, consume. What Apple does is enable anybody to do anything with the least amount of effort because apple doesn't expect the consumer to know how to run a program understanding the complexities of audio and sound. Apple just creates the most idiot proof products available at the cost of freedom and more importantly accountability.

The ipad will succeed because it is a successful tablet that the masses can use for recreation and informal business taking the physical load off the consumer from carrying that laptop around back and forth from work to home. You can leave the work laptop at work and handle any off the clock work issues at home on the ipad while watching television.

It wasn't the Operating system which meant Tablet PCs never took off... simply that they are an ergonomic nightmare! A laptop is easy to work on thanks to the lower half with keyboard flat on your lap or a table (good fulcrum point, both hands free) and the screen elevated and can be angled for the best position.

How the hell do you comfortably hold and type on a Tablet? Typing on a small touchscreen is convenient for short messages like a text, tweet or message as in the phone model, but a extended periods is just completely impractical.

Watching a movie is a pain in the neck, not to mention a pain in the wrist.

Touch screen works for iphone/ipod-touch because it was small and light enough for one hand and the second you are done with it then just put it back in your pocket.

What apple SHOULD have done is just released a Super-Iphone, i.e. around 7 inches and a 800x480 resolution, that size would be just about big enough to fit in most pockets and can just about be used one handed, as well as having a screen size to justify the increased resolution. It's also not too stupid to use as a phone holding up to your head with a rough 6x4 inch area.
That resolution would also let most web-pages be displayed undistorted and DVD movies in their native resolution. this Super iphone would bring back the 1.5 inch hard drive of the old ipods with the aim of total video library.

Oh course that is what consumers would want, a logical evolution but that is NOT what Apple is all about, they tell you what you want, they are the trend-setters and we'll all follow the pied piper because everyone else are trying to offer the most practically and technologically "sweet" designs as possible.

 

[Rack]

While there are definitely some problems with ergonomics (the thing really needs a stand) there will be an enormous market for a some consumer device that can access the web and do emails without the need for a full OS. The iPad isn't significant as being a tablet, it's significant for being a user friendly way to get online without needing a degree in computer science.

 

[Disney Walton]

someone convinced me of its use the other day (eg long plane trips), but i still maintain a small laptop will do just as good a job..

 

[Tron-tonian]

someone convinced me of its use the other day (eg long plane trips), but i still maintain a small laptop will do just as good a job..

I take my netbook with me when I fly. 10" screen, 160GB HD with all sorts of media. 6+ hour battery life. Why would I want a separate iPad to do that?

 

[AceDiamond]

The iPad: Looks like a tablet, is weaker than a netbook. And yet because Apple has presented itself as a "good" monopoly unlike the "evil" Microsoft, idiots continue to buy their products and get overcharged. Best part is? They're putting out another version in a few months! A FEW MONTHS! And people will probably buy that one to replace the iPad they already bought!

 

[Disney Walton]

someone convinced me of its use the other day (eg long plane trips), but i still maintain a small laptop will do just as good a job..

I take my netbook with me when I fly. 10" screen, 160GB HD with all sorts of media. 6+ hour battery life. Why would I want a separate iPad to do that?

fair go, im just saying with 10+ hours of battery life whilst using video, its not that bad a buy. also with the inbuilt gps, it makes for a great map
i still wont get one, they're not useful for me, but i can see the use in one