Apple's Steve Jobs Announces the "iPad"

[TheYellowCellPhone]

What is the use for that... Sure, it has more battery life, more memory, faster processor, etc., but it doesn't have an iPod or iPhone trait that many love... you can put it in your pocket. It's a big waste of money, it's just if you pumped steroids into an iPhone... it's better and faster but too big.

 

[Jawshey]

I don't see why this is getting loads of negative press.

Amazon brought out the Kindle (Okay it was MONOCHROME, and alot lot cheaper) but this seems to me to be the step up. I don't see it as a toy, just another eBook reader but this time with an Apple stamp to the back, and alot more functionality than just letting me read. It gives internet and mail and so on, which is nice. If the price went down a bit, I'd probably buy it just for that, as it's too big for a phone and too small for video conferencing.

If you were that miffed about phone calls though, I'm sure Skype still works for it like it did for the iTouch.

Overall, I find it more interesting than just denouncing it as a useless gadget. Besides, I bet Apple has something else like a new iPhone, iPod or Mac waiting in line for WWDC.

 

[ucciolord1]

Great, one more thing I don't have that I really want.

 

[1gremlyn1]

I don't get it. All the inconvenience of having to carry it in a bag like a netbook, without any of the advantages of a netbook, like, say, being able to do more than one thing at once on it, or view flash.

 

[Virgil]

Ahh, thank you internet. I knew this would be on YouTube.

 

[Gitsnik]

What is the use for that... Sure, it has more battery life, more memory, faster processor, etc., but it doesn't have an iPod or iPhone trait that many love... you can put it in your pocket. It's a big waste of money, it's just if you pumped steroids into an iPhone... it's better and faster but too big.

I hate that the next few lines I utter are going to sound like fanboy-ism.

But you realise that people don't use CURRENT tablet machines to put in their pocket right?

Assuming this suits hardware requirements, it's going to be perfect for what tablets are currently perfect for: SCADA monitoring, doctors checking patient records, walking around a warehouse checking connotes, that sort of thing. Apple may be marketing it a little off ball (since when have they not), but when you make a tablet machine... YOU USE IT AS A TABLET.

Basically everything you uttered indicates that your first question was accurate: You've got no sysadmin experience, or anything more than school and perhaps stuck-in-an-office experience. Perhaps.

I'd love to see one of these in the boardroom, so I don't have to leave a laptop in there for the staff to deal with - they can just bring up their calender and notepad on this thing. It's cleaner, more efficient, and it looks prettier than the bigass XPS that's in there at the moment.

I hate how fanboy-ish that sounded, but I've made the same argument about other tablet PC's before, and probably will again.

 

[bakonslayer]

Funny thing is, that while all the Escapist sillies talk about how they'll never buy it, all the business sillies on other forums are discussing the best way to buy one for themselves and the cheapest way to buy one for their spouses.

http://i.gizmodo.com/5458349

Also, nice to see Master Jobs's old head in a dark shirt and jeans, as always.

 

[Brotherofwill]

It's a big waste of money, it's just if you pumped steroids into an iPhone... it's better and faster but too big.

Maybe it isn't so big. Maybe it doesn't have such big features. Maybe it's compensating for his...iPenis. Sorry but the name of the thing is just so ridiculous that I can't stop making stupid names with i- up in my head. It's almost as if this was a joke like the iRak video.

It would be kind of cool if you could draw on it but as a laptop or even netbook it doesn't seem very usefull to me. That probably won't stop the frappucino drinking bastards to buy it. ikid.

 

[Doug]

Looks really, really boring. Kind of looks goofy to carry around too.

And yet, Apple is releasing it - it is presently physically impossible for it to fail. The iPad will get the devoted Apple slaves to join straight away, and as they do, the gadget crowd will join, then the business "trying to look modern" crowd, then everyone else, until its momentum is unstoppable.

 

[Plurralbles]

They need to be more original with their naming. i{something] is kind of lame.

But hey, it looks okay really.

 

[SantoUno]

this is alot funnier to me because there was a madtv skit making fun if them called the ipad it was a music playing tampon

I'm surprised no one else thought this as well.

Honestly I was expecting something along the lines of that, I was ready to laugh .

 

[haruvister]

Surely Apple of all corporations should know that ripping off the blinkered general public with expensive, DRM-crippled products is no longer revolutionary. They've been doing it for ages.

Cheaper, more storage: http://www.archos.com/products/imt/archos_7

 

[NLS]

At last I'd expect something more resembling a standard desktop environment and multitasking, but this is basically just a big dorky iPhone.

 

[Heart of Darkness]

And here I was, thinking this could've been a good product. I should have known this was going to happen just by looking at the rest of Apple's product line.

*sigh*

My $650 budget laptop outperforms this piece of "tech," but only loses out in battery life (7hr v. 10hr) and touchable surfaces (no-touch v multitouch). Looks like my next portable computer is going to be a Wacom tablet.

Also, isn't the point of a book supposed to be tactile? Isn't it easier to read in paper format than by straining your eyes looking at a white screen for hours?

 

[mayney93]

Meh, netbooks have better specs and are still cheaper.

MS 1 apple 0

 

[Weaver]

I lol'd so hard when i saw the announcement. No multitasking and no flash are absolute deal breakers for most people except the most diehard (and brainwashed?) apple enthusiasts. Just buy a netbook for $150 dollars and you'll have way more functionality.

 

[martin's a madman]

I hear the Apple iPad runs at 30 Giga-mehs and if you don't change to one with more storage before you go to bed, it will leak.

*Snicker*

 

[koga88]

Man whatever happened to the old days of reading a book on paper? I've never quite understood the whole e-book fad. I'm not even that old either, but I much rather prefer having a book and turning the pages as opposed to just sliding my finger along a screen.