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Trust me.

As long as there is a market for a $6000 Rolex that tells the time and the date, and consumers choose it over a $120 Casio that is shock-proof, tells 40X world time, Has a stopwatch, five alarms, synchronizes with an atomic clock, you can dive with it, it will work under temperatures ranging from tropical to arctic, has a digital compass, a barometer, an altimeter, charges on a solar cell and lights up in the dark.

I always use the watch market to remind myself how important specs really are to the consumer.

People don't care that much about functional values and specs. Millions of years of evolution tell them status is much more important. Because status get you laid.

Oh, and Casio watches are also remarkably effective as a woman repellent device.
 
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dtugg said:
Apparently this huge piece of fail can only run one app at a time. What a joke.
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No that is a great marketing gimic. They need to leave lots of room for improvement with future models. How else will they get people to buy the Ipad2?
 
Darat said:
They'll add wings.
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I was thinking more like

"Buy the Ipad2. With apples new innovative multitasking technology you can chat and surf the web at the SAME TIME!".

You can't give them everything in the first model, you need to hold things back for next years model.
 
Again just to check, what does it do that a phone doesn't do?

I have Microsoft Reader on my phone and read books perfectly happily on that (but then I am used to a smaller screen).

I really don't get what market this is aimed at.

It's too big and heavy to be an efficient reader device, you can surf the internet on just about anything these days, a laptop is better for working, typing, watching films etc.

And that's ignoring all the things it doesn't have (which have been detailed in this thread).

(ETA: Just saw an amusng comment on another website about how if you take one out on the train you may well resemble Dom Joly)
 
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Babbylonian said:
While the Kindle may "only" be an ebook reader, based on what I've seen from the specifications the iPad can't even compete with it in that area. The iPad is bigger, weighs over twice as much (1.5/1.6 pounds versus 10.6 ounces), and doesn't use e-ink (which looks so solid, like a real page from a book). Oh, and if you want the convenience of 3G, you get to pay $370 more up-front (the Kindle is $259, the 3G iPad starts at $629) and, as a bonus, you get to pay monthly for the 3G service (3G doesn't have a monthly cost on the Kindle).

I'm sure some folks will find uses for it, but the only way it will win outright over the Kindle/Nook is if a) people never try out a Kindle or Nook, b) people really do have uses for this that aren't being satisfied by a smartphone or notebook, and/or c) the hype machine wins by hype alone.

A friend of mine summed up the picture of Steve Jobs holding the iPad brilliantly: "That pic of Steve does look like he is holding the 1995 version of an iPhone."

This has the look of a fail in the making.
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Color & web for the win.
 
GreNME said:
I look forward to see if there will be any devices coming out that are meant to directly compete with it, or if something like the iPad but running a Google (or even a Microsoft) OS shows up in the coming year.
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Now that MicroSoft has killed off the iPod with Zune, they can set their sights on this market. The "ZunePad"?
 
Forget bundling in a camera, phone, GPS, OSX or any of that stuff. I'm not getting one until they include electrolytes, because it's what plants crave.

Michael
 
Here is why I will buy one. I will get the $499 one. I don’t want to use it on the go. I will buy one for the house. It makes a good digital picture frame (which would cost $150ish) and when I want to quickly look something up on the internet I can. I think the iPhone web experience is a good one. Rather than opening my laptop I will often (several times a day) use my iPhone instead. The big screen clearly makes this more suitable. I will have it in my living room, hooked up to my stereo so I can use it to listen to occasional music. I assume my iPhone “Remote” app will work with it. I may occasionally use it to check me email. That’s it. I think that’s worth $499. The 3G versions do not interest me at all. I am disappointed it wasn’t the all singing and dancing version the rumors suggested.

Where this device could be amazing; I work in the healthcare field. There are many healthcare apps for the iPhone already, and most big EMR vendors have iPhone apps. But the screen is a little small. A Physician could easily round with an iPad. You hold it like a paper chart.

Could also work really well in some education environments as well.

Clearly the aim here was price. I wasn’t expecting that. But after a little reflection time this could be a far better idea than what I wanted, which was a high end gadget lovers paradise capable of video conferencing, gestures, touch sensitive back, OLED etc etc etc. But thats a very small market.
 
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