Would have been more impressive a year ago. i would have bet everything i owned that there was no way in hell the Apple Tablet device would be called a freaking iPad. good thing i didnt. ifail. Being one vowel off from the company’s flagship product is an equally wtf-ish move.
The price is the the big news. Macworld:
$499 for 16GB is the base model.
For 32GB it’s $100 more, for another $100 you get 64GB of storage.
The 3G models cost an extra $130 to build in radios. $629, $729, $829.
These are the six models.
The most expensive model is just $829. Unbelievable price.
So what can you do with this giant iPod? everything the iPhone does (including all the apps) except make calls – BUT – since the screen is bigger, you can burn out your eyes by reading books on the large backlit screen… yeay…
i want one just cuz it’d be easier to surf web stuffs on a smaller hand held thing than my 17inch Macbook but bigger than the iphone. i, along with the human race, have no real use or need for one.
What’s missing? NY Times Blog:
* No ability to play Adobe Flash animations, widely used on the Web.
* No camera, still or video
* No non-Internet phone function
* Unclear whether you can bundle your AT&T iPhone plan with an iPad data plan
* No removable battery for a device that can suck a lot of power
* No removable storage
Some of these are obvious, like the battery and storage being locked in – duh – Apple is even starting to do that with it’s laptops, so of course this thing wouldn’t have those. I don’t know why either is so great anyway. Removable storage would be nice, but not necessary.
No flash however is just frigging unacceptable. wtf is that shit about? no flash? I can’t watch Hulu videos on this thing? uhm… ya. now I’m not buying one. thanks for that necessary deal breaker. No camera? at all? not even a forward facing one like on the iphone? Why are you downgrading, Apple? your previous smaller device has a forward facing camera that takes pictures and video. You just put HD video capturing and editing on the otherwise useless ipod NANO for Christ sake and you cut it out of the iPad? what the hell? the iPad should have 2 cameras facing front and forward (or a single one on a hinge that you can flip to the opposite direction, though that would interrupt Apples one-piece sleekness it goes for in everything). Not having even one camera is a major fail.
Still can’t get over the name… It’s another “why are you making this harder than it needs to be?” moment. why IPad instead of the hundreds of better choices?
If you think the stupid name iPad sounds like a product for a bloody vagina, so did MadTV 5 years ago:
President Obama is set to give a rebuttal speech to Steve Job’s event later tonight.
UPDATE: the actress and writer of the sketch talk to CNN via…webcam for some reason…