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I have observed a Law of Steve Jobs. If he hypes it, it will suck. If he says nothing, it will rock. The iPhone he said nothing about. Before today, he was hyping the iPad as the most important thing he's ever done.
Where?
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I don't think so. Kindle targets people reading stuff, this targets people interacting with stuff. That's a fundamental difference and e-ink lends itself to reading much more than to interaction. Also, the kindle has a battery life that this device can't hope to match and works well in various light conditions.
Sure.. but it's ugly next to the iPad and as Steve Jobs has proved time and time again looks count. At a $499 starting price this might not kill Kindle but it will take a huge bite out of its market. There is clearly no doubt about that. EDIT: I am a Kindle owner btw.. I even wrote a blog post defending it against the new Apple tablet but after seeing this I have to change my mind. I had no idea that Apple was pursui…
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If you're halfway smart and not just one of the 'I got it first' crowd I'd advice your credit card to solidly cling to the inside of your pocket for the next 6 months. Let others deal with the inevitable 1.0 bugs. When dealing with new technology second best is best.
Apple's history with the iPhone/iPod though is that the hardare is generally pretty good at launch and all bugs are in the software/firmware which can be fixed. It won't be a business critical tool for me - I will happily deal with some of the teething issues. Still want one ;-)
Pretty amazed there is apparently no front camera. That's the wow moment I was waiting for.
Apple brought nothing new to the table today. They didn't solve text entry on tablets, they didn't make it easier to video chat (or even voice chat for that matter), and they didn't come up with a new form factor that is better than a big flat slab of metal.
It's bad when the biggest wow moment for a product is the price and data plan.
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Motorola doesn't do semiconductors anymore, they spun that off to Freescale. Also, Apple bought chipmakers PA Semi a few years ago. The Apple A4 CPU is probably built by the former PA Semi.
PA Semi is fabless, right? So who's knocking out all these A4 processors for iPads?
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3G, decent processor, Mac OS X instead of iPhone OS, front camera...
> Mac OS X That would have been a bad thing with a touch screen IMO.
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No phone. Less computing power than a MacBook. Lame.
In case anyone missed the reference: http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=01/10/23/1816257...
I too am underwhelmed with it, but this is just the 1st version of a new /platform/. They can add all kinds of things later.
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Between my desktop, macbook and iPhone...
Except this doesn't replace any of those...
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Can you be a little more specific as to what would have met your expectations?
I was personally hoping for a new user experience. I want a tablet like Microsoft's Courier prototype. It's a book, which can easily be held with one hand. You interact with it in fundamentally different ways than both a phone and a laptop. It serves an entirely different purpose. The iPhone works because I can operate it with one hand. They effectively took the iPod Touch and scaled it up... this left me underwhelme…
This is why Apple doesn't do concepts and prototypes anymore. There is undoubtedly someone at Microsoft wincing every time someone says something like that, seeing as how they don't have a product to sell you along those lines in spite of being on their third try at tablets. (I don't mean that at a jibe at you at all--what you say is perfectly reasonable!)
People are going to compare the iPad with other tablets/laptops
True, but I'm not convinced that everyone will do so and that those who do will not decide in favor of the iPad.
I mean, it compares in some ways to smart phones, netbooks, laptops, gaming portables, eBook readers, and media players. Obviously it's not going to be the best at everything, but I think it stands a good chance of being a successful blend--Apple won't win everybody, but they might win a respectable share over from each. A $500 laptop or netbook might "do more", but is the battery life there? Is it pleasant to curl up in bed and read on? Do people want Windows or do they want the App Store? The Kindle DX is about $500. Are people going to weigh e-ink against everything the similarly-priced iPad does? Is someone looking at a $400 iPod Touch going to reconsider the importance of portability?