True. On the flip side, it allows one's background art to be showcased to better effect. I have a nice Modigliani that will find a nice home on my ipad as soon as it arrives.
The idea of the "ipad" is so cool. i dont want to spend 499 on a tablet. I was hoping it would have snow leapord or some o/s on it. I wanted to do a dual boot of back track or some linux os on the tablet. Sorry i will stick to my netbook.
What's iPhone OS then? It's definitely not an OS! And it's definitely not based on Linux (Unix precisely, but I digress...) As a developer and an avid reader, I'm very excited about the possibilities for the tablet.
iPad doesn't sound like a stupid name to me anymore. i think it works now. iSlate just doesn't sound like apple. iPad looks really cool. but I feel like they made it so it's not perfect on purpose so people who buy it now will most likely buy the next generation to get the upgrades like the camera and such.
If you can get used to ipod, ipad is only a step away. : ) It's like going from Leopard to Snow Leopard just change one vowel. It makes sense the way it works. I still haven't upgraded to Snow Leopard so will wait awhile until the bugs are worked out in the iPad. It appears to be the future for college students. If you think of a poor college student right now hefting a 25 pound bag full of textbooks which gives him/her the muscles of Conan the Destroyer plus a worn out back, think how nice if all he/she had to do is slip the Ipad into their backpack, loaded with all the textbooks they need. It's the future, I think. : ) And Apple always comes up with new updates and things that makes us user ends happy. : )
Technically, OS X is based on the Mach microkernel. Mach requires a host kernel; some form of Unix to which it can attach. NeXT used BSD4.3. OS X uses FreeBSD as its base. (FreeBSD continued the linage of the original BSD code.) The BSD lines are in many ways more Unix than Unix, but they are officially NOT Unix. Yet amusingly, Apple paid enough money to where OS X officially *is* Unix. That's right. The hybrid OS that's not really Unix is named a Unix while a direct descendant of one of the bases of all modern Unixes is not considered Unix. Strange world we live in.
This thing is a toy. I can see myself playing games and surfing the net, but for more serious work-related stuff, I'd rather stick to my macbook pro.
im a college student getting one. I like that it doesnt have a full OS and sockets etc... just simple and quick. I could get a macbook air if thats what I wanted I have a 13" macbook pro but its just too heavy to lug around with books and take in out of my bag to be a part of my daily routine. iPad works for me, and its apple so you know it will be good. theres always the air if u want a full-fledged computer, people seem not realize they arent replacing the air with a tablet style... I personally think apple seeded rumors of iSlate to trick Ballmer/'teh industry' into calling everything slate which sounds like a fricken heavy ass caveman notepad.. then introduces iPad, a notepad, not Fred Flintstones gear
It seems that everyone that doesn't want this already has a laptop. I think this would be great for people without laptops because it's light does almost everything you need to do on the move, it has wireless internet, GPS and it's cheap. I think this is perfect if you already have a desktop and an iPod. It would fill the void between them without encroaching on their individual strengths. Anyway, if I can afford one I will be getting one because that is the exact setup I have (desktop and ipod touch). Roll on the revealing of the Aus prices and data prices!
So what category does the iPad fall under? Laptop? Game console? Music player? There's not really a category that it belongs to. It does a little bit of everything, but it doesn't do any of those well.
I think it would fall under the ultra-portable simplified laptop category . Because it does most of the necessary things (for the normal people) in an easy to use fashion with small form factor but big enough to use it as an actual computer.
I think it falls under the category that Steve Jobs created in the keynote, the third category of computing devices, tablets, that are better than either a laptop or smartphone at: Browsing the web Email Photos Videos Music Games Reading eBooks I know you may say that this isn't a change for gaming, but how many other consoles you've seen have a 10" multitouch screen, and over 140,000 programs (not all games) at launch? Even with the larger form factor, the iPad would still trump the iPod at playing music. Put it in a bag, and listen for "140-something hours of continuous music." (Steve Jobs in an interview after the keynote) For videos, it's not widescreen, but it's relatively portable, and since you'll hold it close to your head, it won't make a difference. Browsing the web, there's nothing more natural than a scaled up version of Safari on the iPhone, where you can hold and manipulate the internet in your hands, and load pages by just tapping. Photos, you can't argue. It's like iPhoto, plus it's a virtual picture frame. eBooks.. Well, it's a color display, has a 10 hour battery life and simulated page turns. And you can read in the dark, thanks to the fact that it's not eInk. Email. Same as browsing the web. I hope this makes some of you understand the niche for this device. And that it is really good at many things. Try not to judge it before you get your hands on one, whether it's a demo, or your own. (Then I really shouldn't be talking either. )
1 other thing I noticed about the iPad. Why is the calculator, stocks and clock icons missing from the homescreen? that way the other icons might not look so spaced out and isolated. Anyway it seems weird that they would leave them out.
Apparently the dock can fit six icons on it. An interesting tidbit from John Gruber about the curiously-sized bezel: http://daringfireball.net/2010/01/ipad_big_picture Great article.
