I see this going the way of the Macbook Air.
The Apple Tablet Is Here, And It's Called the iPad
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#12ynterestingly, Fujitsu already have this particular product name trademark and apple has been trying to wrestle yt away from them for a while now.
yt ys an ynteresting feat of branding that apple has been able to establish president that they have claim to any name starting with the letter i. (The same thing happened with Cisco and the iPhone).
Personally, y've always found that particular piece of branding obnoxious. Really? a lowercase i?
Luckily we have cognates and perhaps y-combinator can release its own brand of yPhone, yTouch, and yPad? (all, of course, running on a lisp OS).
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#13The innovation was in the iPhone. The news apps, book apps, content consumption and games, all MOBILE. The i-pad makes these innovations PRACTICAL with a bigger screen, and that is something worth buying.
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#14If they include a pull-out or pluggable physical keyboard, arranged to allow the pad to stand like a frame, it could be a great replacement for most netbooks and allow for hands-free reading--therefore a Kindle killer as well. Wonder if they have ever considered the idea and reject it simply for the aesthetics of having the simplest, smoothest device possible. Aesthetics is good, but if a small compromise can be made…
Or just a USB port to plug in a mouse.
What would also be nice is that if it has a USB port so that you can download movies/books from your PC to the tablet. And it also should charge through USB...
Re: The Apple Tablet Is Here, And It's Called the iPad
#15I thought you are supposed to under promise and over deliver? I see nothing new and innovative.
To be fair, Apple didn't promise much. The lunatic media did.
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#16I thought you are supposed to under promise and over deliver? I see nothing new and innovative.
Since when has Apple "promised" anything about the iPad? Most/all of the hype around it was externally-generated.
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#17It seems their main target is the macbook-buying college student. I wish this thing doesn't cost more than 499 ($599 max).
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#18ATT providing the 3G service: #FAIL
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#19Yeah - it's a big iPod. yawn
As an instant-on, full-page web browser, it's far more useful than a netbook, but it's pretty underwhelming for everything else.
With shorter battery life, greater cost, and more eyestrain than the Kindle, I doubt it will have much impact on the e-reader market.
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#20I see this going the way of the Macbook Air.
Indeed. Apple is allowed to whiff every now and then just like everyone else.