Apple's new IPad

[titsrock]

I think the iPad is Apple's way of fighting back against copyrighted material by controlling how consumers can interact with digital content. There are no ports on this thing, no dvd drive. Basically, it only works with content coming from the Web (as long as it isn't flash-based) or from Apple's iTunes store.

--No flash-based content is very troubling in that it eliminates accessing the porn tube sites, right? Hulu is flash-based as well.

--The iPad could be the perfect home porn device IF the big porn companies would create an iTunes-like digital media store. If they would do that and price individual scenes correctly, porn could make a huge financial comeback.

I like the iPad, (I'm really an iTunes believer) but I see it as an in-home media device. I don't see how useful it will be outside the home.

I'm still on the path of iTouch (for 2010)-->iPhone (2011 and beyond)...

 

[lurkingdirk]

The big killer for the IPad is, in my humble opinion, the lack of multi-tasking. That will be the first thing they fix for the next generation. Until then, it is virtually useless to students, and that will hurt Apple a lot.

 

[Rydog11]

iPad.... Lol sounds like a feminine product

 

[Funkwerkz]

That thing has iPhone's operation software. I only buy this, when it has Mac OS and fully unlocked usb ports and i am able to recharge it directly from electricity plugs (not via usb from another computers).

It also doesn't have e-ink technology that makes you able to read e-books like you read from a printed material.

I'm gonna wait its 4th or 5th generation to purchase it and camera over the screen (for skype and so).

 

[Peashooter]

I want one. Don't really need it, but I want it even though I'm a BlackBerry guy.

 

[E-Ann-Hilden]

Zero interest... Much rather have a great pc laptop!

 

[hedonis]

Is the ipad super absorbent? Does it have wings?

 

[capricorn]

The iPad is getting poor reviews right now because only hi-tech gadget freaks are reviewing it. And frankly, if you're looking for cutting edge technology, this isn't it.

But the iPad will sell, and it will sell well. Because just like lo-tech consumers love the iPod Touch and iPhone for its simplicity and functionality, they'll love the iPad for the same reasons. It is, simply put, the perfect computer for people who hate computers.

I'm already thinking about getting one for both my wife and my mom. What do they need? Probably 99% of their computer usage consists of e-mail, Facebook, YouTube, Google Maps, music, cheap little games, news, and weather. Not only does the iPad do all of this, but it puts them each in their own pretty little buttons at the touch of a finger, and now with a screen that won't make my mom squint while she holds it 3' away from her face (she tried to use my iPod Touch once... it didn't go well).

And I'll be able to get them each for $500, because neither of them will come close to using more than 16GB, nor do they need anything more than the WiFi I've already set up in each house. If I bought it for myself, I'd hate it and probably toss it on a shelf to be forever forgotten. But for them? It will instantly become their primary computer.

Bingo.. I think you've summarized in an excellent way the iPad will probably have great commercial success.

As for my opinion of the product... somewhere I read that Steve Jobs, when first tablet PCs came out, said to his colleagues that he doesn't understand the purpose of such a computer, aside from being able to take it with yourself when going to the bathroom. And now Apple is presenting the same thing as something that they practically invented. Typical marketing bullshit.