no....you can't stick an iPad in your pocket when you go to the gym, you can't readily carry it around with you when you go shopping, etc etc.....I think the large size of the iPad actually assures the continued future of Touch development
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no....you can't stick an iPad in your pocket when you go to the gym, you can't readily carry it around with you when you go shopping, etc etc.....I think the large size of the iPad actually assures the continued future of Touch development
Not to me.... but see where you are going....
I do see a iPad Mini down the road that would be between the iPod Touch and the new iPad....
much has already been shared, but i'll add my personal situation to the fact that the iPad is not a replacement for the ipod touch:
iPod touch: pocket and extremely portable for music/checking email (i have wifi at work and home) and i just ordered myself the 3rd generation 64gb model to upgrade* my 2.5 year old first generation model.
iPad: i'm not sold on it personally, but it's a potential "sofa" computer for checking email and web browsing. for someone that doesn't already own a laptop, it is a nice device for media usage. yet, it is note "pocket portable" yet slightly more portable than a laptop. i already have a laptop mac serving as my sofa computer and since i touch type, i remains to be seen whether i'd be happy with the reduced sized virtual keyboard. if i could get around that part, i'd probably buy one in a few years when my old macbook (going on 4 years) dies and can no longer serve "sofa purposes."
*in reality: for daily commuting, i will use my old ipod touch as a PDA and occasional music usage/email checking. the new one will fit most of my itunes library with a little leftover room for videos and stuff when i do personal travel and/or want to do things on the go, even at home when i sometimes like to check email while in bed.
iPod touch: pocket and extremely portable for music/checking email (i have wifi at work and home) and i just ordered myself the 3rd generation 64gb model to upgrade* my 2.5 year old first generation model.
iPad: i'm not sold on it personally, but it's a potential "sofa" computer for checking email and web browsing. for someone that doesn't already own a laptop, it is a nice device for media usage. yet, it is note "pocket portable" yet slightly more portable than a laptop. i already have a laptop mac serving as my sofa computer and since i touch type, i remains to be seen whether i'd be happy with the reduced sized virtual keyboard. if i could get around that part, i'd probably buy one in a few years when my old macbook (going on 4 years) dies and can no longer serve "sofa purposes."
*in reality: for daily commuting, i will use my old ipod touch as a PDA and occasional music usage/email checking. the new one will fit most of my itunes library with a little leftover room for videos and stuff when i do personal travel and/or want to do things on the go, even at home when i sometimes like to check email while in bed.
the touch will defiantly stay in the market as an zomg i have an everything player but the ipad will be used more as like an at home sit on the coffee table and get played with when im bored object =/
in a word no it has in no way killed the iPod Touch, the touch is an media player with extras the pad is a tablet computer in no way shape or form has this killed the touch.
it's running the same OS as it so in no way has it killed it, even if it ran snow leopard it stil wouldn't kill it becuase they are not the same product.
it's running the same OS as it so in no way has it killed it, even if it ran snow leopard it stil wouldn't kill it becuase they are not the same product.
I have no use for an iPhone.
That doesn't mean that other people don't have a use for it and that it isn't a remarkably successful consumer electronics device.
i cant put an ipad in my pocket, so not quite.
hahahah this guy knows whats up
doubt it. they're in different arenas
the ipad will be a good toilet device
**will definitely get one ^_^
hahahah this guy knows whats up
Yes and No, they have different markets.
iPad has the pros of iWorks, connects to projector, faster speed and possibly better battery life and XGA
but it isnt really portable, more for people on planes or trains or buses trying to be productive or people that want a similar browsing experience as the iphone but with full site view
iPad has the pros of iWorks, connects to projector, faster speed and possibly better battery life and XGA
but it isnt really portable, more for people on planes or trains or buses trying to be productive or people that want a similar browsing experience as the iphone but with full site view
Maybe many are missing the area that Job's really meant... and that was the area that you mentioned so well...
I see more now than ever that the iPhone and maybe the Macboook are a true part of the puzzle that the iPad completes....
If they do I will dump my iPhone and get a dummy phone and an iPod touch... And I don't think Apple wants that to happen.
It has the adaptor available to convert to VGA-out, so it will.
All the arguments I hear for the iPad are based on buying it in addition to an iPod Touch or laptop, so instead of using what you have, you buy something that just sneaks in the middle. So it's an iPod Touch but a bit better for viewing web pages/video, or it's a laptop but a bit lighter and more portable. Is this really the market for marginal, niche products?
One area it might really make a difference is medicine, but the developers would need to drive that; you can't view an X-ray in a useable way on an iPod touch...
My iPhone has replaced my iPod Touch, but if it hadn't of, the iPad certainly would have. I can do anything the iPod Touch can and more, sure I can't fit it in my pocket, but I don't need that... I'm happy to carry it around in my iPad sleeve with a strap that can hang across my shoulder.
And with a data-plan, skype, and a bluetooth headset/ iphone earbuds you're good to go.
That being said, I wouldn't want to carry it around on a night out...
I really would love to find the excuse to buy one, but I can't at this time - much as I want too.
Maybe next year when I replace my whitebook...
iPad cash flow...
I've been in the wholesale textbook business for 31 years. College division publishing is the most lucrative area of publishing in the U.S. Profiit margins are eclipsed, only by the pharmaceutical industry.
For more than 10 years, publishers have been trying to figure out a way to move their textbook content to an online or eBook format, and their have been a number of different implementations of these efforts... most of them pretty pathetic.
The most recent I've heard of, was a Kindle pilot program at a school in N.W. Missouri. The rpesident of the university championed the idea, and made it happen, and everyone has gushed about what a great thing it is.
What I hear in the buzz from professors, is that it was a terrible little episode. The limitations of the Kindle make anything other than literature textbooks, pretty difficult to render well on the Kindle Screen.
Seeing the iPad, suggests to me that all that is about to change. Now, all publishers have to do, is create the book and it's "media components". There is already a distribution system handled by apple.
Say goodbye to textbook revisions as we've known them. They can just use revision nomenclature similar to software developers. Robust publisher DRM, will limit pirating of textbooks, which will likely have an "expiration date" for each revision.
The biggest challenge for Apple, will be dealing with the greed of Educational Publishers, and their antique mentality (just like the recording industry) and inefficient business models.
The iPad is poised to be the device that FINALLY does for textbook publishing, what publishers have been trying, very poorly, to do for 15 years.
I've been in the wholesale textbook business for 31 years. College division publishing is the most lucrative area of publishing in the U.S. Profiit margins are eclipsed, only by the pharmaceutical industry.
For more than 10 years, publishers have been trying to figure out a way to move their textbook content to an online or eBook format, and their have been a number of different implementations of these efforts... most of them pretty pathetic.
The most recent I've heard of, was a Kindle pilot program at a school in N.W. Missouri. The rpesident of the university championed the idea, and made it happen, and everyone has gushed about what a great thing it is.
What I hear in the buzz from professors, is that it was a terrible little episode. The limitations of the Kindle make anything other than literature textbooks, pretty difficult to render well on the Kindle Screen.
Seeing the iPad, suggests to me that all that is about to change. Now, all publishers have to do, is create the book and it's "media components". There is already a distribution system handled by apple.
Say goodbye to textbook revisions as we've known them. They can just use revision nomenclature similar to software developers. Robust publisher DRM, will limit pirating of textbooks, which will likely have an "expiration date" for each revision.
The biggest challenge for Apple, will be dealing with the greed of Educational Publishers, and their antique mentality (just like the recording industry) and inefficient business models.
The iPad is poised to be the device that FINALLY does for textbook publishing, what publishers have been trying, very poorly, to do for 15 years.
I have an iPod Touch 2nd gen and it works very well for me listening to music, using a number of apps like ,"Shopping Cart" among others, where a small pocket size device works. The small screen is a bit much for me to surf the net and checking emails. I prefer viewing photos and movies on the larger screen. I finally bought a Mac Book Air to do this when I travel and it works great as an adjunct to my iMac. I could do the very same thing with the iPad for a third of the cost. I am one of those people where the iPad fills a need that the Touch does not.
Many of us, and I am 50ish, have all of the Apple products, because they are easy to use. And, if we have a problem, we go out to the Apple Store and the genius helps us.
We can't do that with any other product line.
I currently have the iMac desktop, an old MacBook, a new Macbook, a nano, a shuffle and a touch.
I use them all differently. For instance, I take the shuffle out to the pool. If it gets ruined, no big deal.
We are not a generation that shoves stuff into our pocket. We are not using a smart phone. But, we do like our pics and e-mail and books and music. The iPad will be great for that.
I see no problem putting the iPad in a messenger bag. It is lighter than my MacBook.
Apple needs to run some commercials depicting people my age using the iPad. We just want a product that works.
Oh, btw, I bought my husband a notebook and he doesn't use it. He uses the iMac.
We can't do that with any other product line.
I currently have the iMac desktop, an old MacBook, a new Macbook, a nano, a shuffle and a touch.
I use them all differently. For instance, I take the shuffle out to the pool. If it gets ruined, no big deal.
We are not a generation that shoves stuff into our pocket. We are not using a smart phone. But, we do like our pics and e-mail and books and music. The iPad will be great for that.
I see no problem putting the iPad in a messenger bag. It is lighter than my MacBook.
Apple needs to run some commercials depicting people my age using the iPad. We just want a product that works.
Oh, btw, I bought my husband a notebook and he doesn't use it. He uses the iMac.
Well don't speak for our entire generation. Lots of us do use laptops and smartphones and do shove stuff into our pockets (whatever that means, exactly).
iPad w/3G kills the Touch...
Definitely getting one!!!
I'm looking forward to the 3G & VOIP with Skype. Really wished they had a camera for video conferencing via WebEx, but nonetheless, I'm pumped about this April's release.
I can think of a number of ways I will be using this - on plane trips reading an eBook or watching a movie, help with consulting for work w/Keynotes, Numbers, Pages, Skype, etc... getting my daily itch of the news, looking at my magazine subscriptions like Time, Nat Geo, Wired, Motor Trend, etc... and have already thought about customizing an iPad mount on my boat so I can listen to Pandora & the Weather/Ocean Report while I'm fishing for Striped Bass, Flounder, and Tog in the spring, summer & fall.
I may have went a little overboard, but I have high hopes for the iPad...
It looks like analysts have doubts on Wall Street, but give this innovation some time. Remember, there is no cap on what the newspapers, journals, magazines, educational books, & children's books can do NOW. Apple may have found the solution to relinquishing the "paper/journalism" market into the modern era of incorporating the old with the new media.
Give it some time...
When the 4G(LTE) rolls out, and the iBooks gig has been well saturated into the market...
EVERYONE WILL HAVE ONE!!!
Definitely getting one!!!
I'm looking forward to the 3G & VOIP with Skype. Really wished they had a camera for video conferencing via WebEx, but nonetheless, I'm pumped about this April's release.
I can think of a number of ways I will be using this - on plane trips reading an eBook or watching a movie, help with consulting for work w/Keynotes, Numbers, Pages, Skype, etc... getting my daily itch of the news, looking at my magazine subscriptions like Time, Nat Geo, Wired, Motor Trend, etc... and have already thought about customizing an iPad mount on my boat so I can listen to Pandora & the Weather/Ocean Report while I'm fishing for Striped Bass, Flounder, and Tog in the spring, summer & fall.
I may have went a little overboard, but I have high hopes for the iPad...
It looks like analysts have doubts on Wall Street, but give this innovation some time. Remember, there is no cap on what the newspapers, journals, magazines, educational books, & children's books can do NOW. Apple may have found the solution to relinquishing the "paper/journalism" market into the modern era of incorporating the old with the new media.
Give it some time...
When the 4G(LTE) rolls out, and the iBooks gig has been well saturated into the market...
EVERYONE WILL HAVE ONE!!!
Any electronic device can be hacked. The only reason why Apple locked up the iPad (no USB port, etc.) is because it would facilitate easier hacking.