What was Apple thinking?!?

[tbayrgs]

so tell me if i have a laptop and an iphone, why should i get this thing?

you shouldn't. but this product isn't just for you. there's a lot of ppl that don't have an iPhone and/or laptop that would use the iPad to it's fullest

I don't know just my opinion but the iPhone is a lot different than a computer, multi touch, apps on the homescreen, ability to flick through home screens etc. I love apple but, the ipad just seems like a big iPod touch. I was hoping for something like a mac os x computer with multi touch. I was dissapointed, and I wonder how this device will sell?

Exactly--many people are upset because Apple didn't put out the product they were hoping/fantasizing for so immediately, they claim Apple has lost touch or the iPad is a failure. This product is targeting a certain type of consumer that Apple thought they could accommodate--it just wasn't them.

My 1st Gen MacBook Pro 15" CoreDuo is getting long in the tooth and slow (even though I've added extra ram and a bigger HDD). I've been waiting to replace it and was wondering about the 13" or another 15". But instead I'm going to buy 2 iPads - one for me and one for my wife (I bought her a Kindle at Christmas; when she saw the video about the iPad she said, "I want one!").

I use my notebook almost exclusively for web-browsing and light word processing now. I use my iMac for all my photography. I don't like processing photos on a laptop because the screen is too small.

Given my needs (web-browsing, light doc work), and given how much I travel (and I hate lugging around my laptop and camera and gear), the iPad is perfect.

I've been considering eventually getting an e-reader but hesitated because with the current products on the market, I'd still need to carry my iPhone and often my Macbook. I also have a Mac Mini presently being used primarily as an HTPC. Given my personal needs, an iPad will be an ideal replacement for my older macbook and eliminate the need for a separate e-reader. Anything more intensive than what the iPad can accommodate will just fall to my mini.

 

[dave1812dave]

What are you talking about?

Do you allude to my view as being apologetic of Apple?

I'm a consumer, but I use my computers for work too, and for my line of work (video editing) I currently see no use of the iPad, but as a consumer I can see the "usefulness" of that device. But as I have already four Macs and an iPod Touch (and maybe another, if I can find it) I don't really would use that iPad efficiently. It would be a "cool" gadget, nothing more. But the future will tell.


So what does "drinking the Kool-Aid" (without the "e") having to do with the consumer and its consumerist habits?

PS:
consume from Latin consumere "to use up, eat, waste," from com- intensive prefix + sumere "to take," from sub- "under" + emere "to buy, take"

LOL! Thanks for the spelling lesson! Since I don't drink kool-aid, I forgot how to spell it.

 

[Jaydhil24]

The iPad is not for me because I own a iPhone and a MacBook. However, it would be perfect for my dad who only really uses a computer to check email and surf the web but lack of flash is disappointing. No contracts because consumers can use 3G when needed.

I like the iPad but I would not purchase it because I cannot justify the purchase. I basically have no use for it and cannot wait to see how the iPad will effect consumers by pulling in a new customers.

I do want iBook a downloadable application on OSX and should not just be limited to the iPad.

 

[spinnerlys]

LOL! Thanks for the spelling lesson! Since I don't drink kool-aid, I forgot how to spell it.

So you just threw words and acronyms around without properly participating in the discussion and presenting your arguments and thoughts?

I would really like to know what you mean by kool-aid?

 

[dave1812dave]

So you just threw words and acronyms around without properly participating in the discussion and presenting your arguments and thoughts?

I would really like to know what you mean by kool-aid?

I leave it to you to educate yourself on the meaning of "kool-aid drinker".

 

[spinnerlys]

I leave it to you to educate yourself on the meaning of "kool-aid drinker".

I know what that term means, but why won't you explain?

And are you sure it is not the other way around?

 

[ditzy]

I pretty much agree that the iPad is more or less a iPod touch on steroids. Kind of like the modbook, (the tablet that I think a lot of you wanted.) is just a macbook with a touchscreen. Both are evolutionary.
However I happen to believe that an iPod touch on steroids is a very useful product. One that I will be perfectly happy to buy. It is certainly more useful to me than a modbook.

 

[lordhamster]

Does the iPad let you install Adobe Photoshop? No

It's an oversized iPod/Phone dude.

Because we are all eager to use photoshop on a 9 inch screen using our finger as the stylus while riding the subway.

 

[icechunk]

Clearly, it is not just an oversized iPod touch

Even if that were true. Whats wrong with that?

I'd like an IPod/Iphone with a large navigable screen. Its roughly in the same price range as well.

 

[icechunk]

However I happen to believe that an iPod touch on steroids is a very useful product. One that I will be perfectly happy to buy. It is certainly more useful to me than a modbook.

You beat me to it. I agree with you a 100%

I think there is general disappointment that its not as revolutionary as people had hoped. Its not a tablet computer, its a tablet media device for internet/email/music/movies/games.

The one downside for me, is the limited memory. You can't have a media device with such limited memory. I hope it can mount a remote drive/Itunes library.

 

[bigjnyc]

Does the iPod touch have 3G? No
Does the iPod touch have iWork capabilities? No
Does the iPod touch have GPS? No
Does the iPod touch have the iBooks and the iBookstore? No

Clearly, it is not just an oversized iPod touch

you've been served

 

[Etnies419]

A Mac Pro is just an oversized Mac Mini, right?

 

[rasmasyean]

I think the iPad follows the iPod and iPhone life cycle model.

None of them were ever "new" concepts. But they bridge the gap between the computer illiterate and the computer pro.

The iPod was a simple music player that the common person can pick up right away.

The iPhone was a simple smartphone that introduced most dumbphone users to the technology.

The iPad is a simple tablet that is supposed to introduce desktop only users to mobile computing.

Microsoft works from the top. They make everything much like a full PC and nerf it "just enough" to fit on a weaker device. And then it will be slow and a pain to use unless you put up with it for "power and versatility".

Apple thinks of the grandma's and little kids and tries to work up from the bottom. Apple is not a computer company anymore. I think we have to understand this. Apple is a consumer electronics company...and a very good one at that.

 

[JoshJosh117]

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[SeattleMoose]

Well.....

They were thinking I would buy one.....and they were right.