“What wa Steve thinking?”… MONEY, money money,
He still thinks everyone is a sucker. He’s trying to sell the razor and the blades too.

Apple never used intel inthe begining, until he gave up becasue everyone wanted to run windows programs. Since the iPad (UGG!) is just an iPhone without phone and since the tablet doesn’t do anything, he doesn’t need the Intel chips and saves some money. so “wake-up call for Intel” Ha, ha, not even 1% of the global market?… like a mouse scaring an elephant.

First, they apparently want you to purchase all content from Apple. They don’t mention that you can download free content. No thanks, no way. Then, no flash capability, no USB port, no multi-tasking, no user-replaceable battery, and a really ugly bezel. What was Steve thinking?

What does it do that a normal tablet PC won’t do? Even one several years old and available for far less? Or a used netbook, for that matter. Show wide-screen movies? Not very well with the 4:3 screen dimensions they use.

My ten y/o Walkabout HH3 tablet pc holds my 800+ free ebooks, shows my videos, pictures, has GPS, wifi, and cost a lot less. Did I mention it’s waterproof rugged, and almost indestructible?

I see that there are only two things of positive note with the iPad. That it uses an Apple-designed chip, and an SSD drive. Both went almost unnoticed in the hype. The SSD drive will soon be the industry standard and Apple doing their own processors should be a wake-up call for Intel.

Other than those two items, I see a big worm in the Apple.

Since you’ve actually tested the iPad I was curious if you could comment at all on it’s web capabilities?

I’ve heard people say things like “there’s no good way to hold this thing and type on it?”

Jobs claims that surfing the web on this thing “is a dream” but perhaps he doesn’t type in more than a URL here or there. I wouldn’t be surprised if he has a secretary for posting comments on web blogs. (Too bad he couldn’t put a microphone into the iPad and enable some speech-to-text).

I’ve seen a number of apps out there for creating queries out of speech and even Google searching for products based on photos you’ve taken with the Nexus. Sadly revolutionary technologies like these seemed to be too pie-in-the-sky for Apple.

Suckers paid for the iPhone when was sold without GPS (while other companies already had it) then they paid again for the iPhone 3G without cut and Paste and they paid again for the SAME phone because they added and “S” but still no multitasking.

With the iPad, the same suckers will pay again for the same iPhone but huge and without a phone. And they will pay again when they put the camera, and again for the 3G, and again when they put a USB or a wired connection and again and again….

The malicious thing is that the technology already exist but Apple doesn’t include it while the other companies, they add it when the technology becomes available.
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I mean lets face it… No matter WHAT Apple had announced, the tech press would have found a reason to declare it a fundamental and historic milestone in the history of technology.

Years ago when Microsoft released slate tablets, the world laughed, claimed they were a problem without a solution, and declared them useless and pointless. This despite the fact that Zinio was actually quite a nice first foray into the exact same crap Apple is promising – multimedia periodicals.

Fast forward about 5 years and Apple releases a 10″ slate and a book extension to iTunes and the very same folks who snidely laughed at the Windows slates now genuflect and come up with rationalizations how this is “different”.

Such is the power of marketing, hype and branding.

Btw, I also suffer from LCD blindness. For whatever reason I can never seem to find dumb spelling/grammatical errors until I print something off.

Your Macbook (to do real work) in your back pack.

And if you find a wifi spot, your iPad under your arm will give you a quick surf (it’s ok with no Flash) If you want to read a newspaper don’t forget you cannot roll it and put it in your back pocket.

And please don’t worry about syncing them together because you can’t find the USB port.

Well a little bit clumsy, but that’s OK you will look cool and snub.

It appears you do not have to read a lot, especially not complex texts or whole books. 130dpi makes a good screen but it is not good enough for longer reading sessions. 130dpi is going to kill you if you want to display A4 size pdf on 10 inch. Even on the Kindle with 150dpi it could be better. Backlight is nice when there’s no ambient light, but for some reason it also stresses your eyes much more and makes it difficult to concentrate. Just try spell-correction on a computer, then print it out and check again.

To summarize: Not using PixelQi or Qualcoms technology, no usb, currently no wireless, no memory extension…this is something I can’t imagine any informed person to buy right now. Except maybe…there are quite a few people who seemingly bought the iPhone and iPod touch as status symbol, showing off their silly games in restaurants etc. Anyways, I’m quite happy about this since it gives NotionInk the chance to score big time with their Adam. Which, btw, has an open extendible OS, wireless, usb and will likely be an great experience for reading books outside. The geeks can finally come back into sunlight :-)

and for other apps, the GPU can again be used for the lifting; this as its not being used to render something heavy like 3D game graphics.