Comments on: The Apple iPad — What You Need to Know http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/ Tue, 18 Jun 2013 20:48:51 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: S http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/#comment-432550 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 02:04:36 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=54914#comment-432550 It starts at $500 not $600.

“Not much thicker or heavier”.

Average netbook: 3 pounds, 1.3 inches thick
iPad: 1.5 pounds, .5 inches thick.

“I see very few circumstances where the iPad would beat existing devices”

Just today, I’ll give you a couple examples.

My wife left to run a couple errands, so I was watching our puppy. I also was waiting on an important email and wanted to check my feeds. The iPad beats a netbook and the iPhone for this because it lets me stand up while still using a decent-sized keyboard and screen. In the end, I used my phone, and writing the email took more than five minutes.

I am about to go visit Boston, so I want to do some research on the best sites to see while waiting for my kids haircuts to finish. My iPhone has a teeny screen, but I don’t want to lug my netbook around, not to mention that data plans for netbooks are 60 bucks a month, so an iPad would be ideal. I didn’t end up doing any research as a result.

Tonight I am going to some close friends for dinner and I want to show them some pictures from my family’s recent trip to San Francisco. I don’t think I have to explain why an iPad is the best device for this scenario.

The iPad is not the be all and end all of mobile computing. Smart phones and netbooks still will have their place. But for many of the computing tasks I do daily, the iPad best suits my needs, and I imagine that it would fit some of the needs of others too, if they gave it a chance.

One final thing. Have you used one? Because initially I was somewhat skeptical about the iPad too, but using it at a store convinced me of the iPad’s utility.

]]> By: S http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/#comment-432549 Wed, 07 Apr 2010 01:48:37 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=54914#comment-432549 That’s what I thought. Until I used one.

]]> By: Christine Holmes http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/#comment-432548 Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:36:08 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=54914#comment-432548 Honestly I do not understand the purpose of this. What can it do that a television, computer or iphone, for that matter, can’t?
I watched the video on the Apple website and it showed a person sitting on their couch watching movies on it and surfing the internet. In my opinion I would rather watch a movie on my television that is sitting in front of my couch, not on a 10 inch screen. As for surfing the internet, that is why they invented laptops and computers.
I just think this product was an epic fail on apple’s part, however I am sure they will do well with sales as people will buy in to their marketing scheme.

]]> By: pritam majumder http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/#comment-432547 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:47:33 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=54914#comment-432547 The only surprise to me was the price,but I want to know how can I extend Its 64GB memory?Could I extend d hdd-flash memory by any external hard-disk divice such as seaget or anthing like it?And why ti called as a tablet media player?aand in kolkata where can I found this spectacular pad?Givve me the address of "imagine store" of appls dealer please.Thanking you._Pritam(Kolkata).

]]> By: pritam majumder http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/#comment-432546 Fri, 29 Jan 2010 09:41:09 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=54914#comment-432546 The only surprise to me was the price,but I wanna know why it called as a “Tablet media player”?And could I extend It`s 64GB memory by any externel hard-disc divice fo exta space?_Pritam Majumder.(Kolkata).

]]> By: cintra http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/#comment-432545 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 19:16:08 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=54914#comment-432545 Am I right in thinking this is unusable without an iTunes account on a PC or Mac?

]]> By: Daniel Peiser http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/#comment-432544 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:14:06 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=54914#comment-432544 I agree, the iPad is the ultimate toilet web browsing device.

It’s one of the Top 10 reasons to Buy the Apple iPad
http://www.bealoud.com/technology/apple-ipad/

]]> By: Michal M. http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/#comment-432543 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:25:59 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=54914#comment-432543 That’s why I’ll rather wait and see some Android based devices.

@Scott: Don’t know the drawbacks of Win7 touch mode – standard Win7 on my EeePC runs just fine+standard input methods. Could you comment/direct me to a relevant discussion?

]]> By: geancarlo http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/#comment-432542 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:10:50 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=54914#comment-432542 I have to say I’m a big apple fan and I’m kinda disappointed.
- No camera.
- No flash support
- Not even ONE USB port (that would have been useful…very, useful).
- Games, meh…shoulda put Tegra on it if they wanted games
- AT&T…are you serious Mr. Jobs? COME ON!?!
- $130 extra for 3G? WTF SON!?
- Multitasking Defficiency
- It’s just a 9″ iPhone kids! An iPhone that WONT fit in my pocket.

I’m sad to say I wont buy one until I see at least 3 out of these issues fixed. Until then, my iPhone 3G will keep me company.

Maybe I’ll get a new Acer Aspire One and save some money while Mr. Jobs thinks about iPad 2.0

]]> By: Jeff Dickey http://gigaom.com/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-what-you-need-to-know/#comment-432541 Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:39:09 +0000 http://jkontherun.com/?p=54914#comment-432541 I can (mostly) see that; and I’m wondering about the “iStrain”, particularly outside in natural light. (Indoors, it’ll be just like my other Mac displays that I sit in front of 12 hours a day.)

If I do wind up getting one – and I’m not absolutely sold on the idea yet, surprisingly – I’ll get the 3G version. I learned my lesson with the iPod Touch; the times you absolutely, positively NEED to get online are the times you won’t be in range of any usable WiFi.

Beyond that, I’ve got one serious, conceptual beef with the way this is being pitched, as I blogged today. http://archlever.blogspot.com/2010/01/whats-wrong-with-this-picture.html

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