47 Responses to “Apple iPad, not iSlate”

1. iPad
   January 28th, 2010 at 4:54 pm

   While I like it – alot – I don’t think it’s as revolutionary as the iPhone, and as such – the market for this is going to be much smaller. As a cross between a iPhone and a iMac, it doesn’t really fill a niche. I just don’t really see the point of it…

2. müzik dinleme
   January 28th, 2010 at 8:15 pm

   I’m using and I am happy

3. used tires
   January 28th, 2010 at 9:04 pm

   I usually think Apple stuff is cool, although due to being overpriced I’ve never bought anything from them, but I really don’t see the appeal of the iPad, apart from the interface and being nice and light.

   It’s alright for Jobs to slag off netbooks, but a netbook will run any windows app, that’s tens of thousands of apps, many of which are free and I already know how to use. A netbook also has much better connectivity, a real keyboard (not a seperate keyboard dock at additional cost), far more storage for the price etc. I can also change the OS on a netbook. The latest netbooks like the EEE 1201N with the dual core CPUs and nVidia Ion (8400M GPU) even have respectible gaming performance (search for 1201N on youtube). I’d take features and versatility over cool anyday.

4. Morocco Blogs
   January 29th, 2010 at 6:33 am

   I’ve gotta agree. The beauty of the netbook is the price and it seems that apple is unable to release anything that ordinary folks can really justify buying. Of course the netbook is the result of trying to build cheap laptops for kids in Africa and the i-pad is the result of trying to build fancy status gadgets for silicon valley wannabes.

5. used tires
   January 29th, 2010 at 4:34 pm

   @Morocco Blogs: Haha, couldn’t have put it better myself!

6. Kitkat
   January 29th, 2010 at 6:56 pm

   Don’t get me wrong, iPad is cool and I wish I own one too. But if you’re comparing it with netbooks, iPad is lack of many features that are available in netbooks. Perhaps HP Slate which run Windows 7 is a better choice. But as a simple, digital photo frame, web browser, media player and ebook reader, iPad has no competition at the moment. The bottom line is, it all goes back to the question of what you really want.

7. Nicole Price
   January 29th, 2010 at 7:50 pm

   This launch has received much publicity and acclaim in the world press and is particularly welcomed by the advertising fraternity for its versatility. It is likely to be a trail blazer in the IT area just like all previous Apple launches were.

8. Nicole Price
   January 29th, 2010 at 7:54 pm

   Incidentally, the name IPad also has its share of derision. I quote from the Guardian – “The iPad name also attracted derision because, as the Examiner pointed out, “For North American women the word ‘pad’ means but one thing, a sanitary napkin”:

   “So flabbergasted were women, and a good many men, at the name that not only did iPad quickly become a trending topic on twitter but so did iTampon. And the jokes were flying through cyberspace …”

9. used tires
   January 30th, 2010 at 1:24 am

   Haha, that’s true. The jokes have been flying around like anything. Here’s a video that was made about. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eF0y0IfpPU Very funny. This can either be helping Apple or hurting them depending on how you look at it.

   Till then,

   Jean

10. Aluminum Case
    January 30th, 2010 at 2:30 am

    While the ipad looks pretty cool, I think it is only practical for specific people. I think most of us would still prefer a laptop. The price for the ipad is actually not too bad compared with the price of their laptops.

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12. KLSE
    January 30th, 2010 at 11:46 am

    iPad looks a glorified iPhone without the phone. Is Apple running out of ideas?

    How about this… Just half the price of the Macbook Lite, it’ll be a much more useful device than the iPad.

13. 1Malaysia
    January 30th, 2010 at 12:26 pm

    The iPad looks like a giant iPhone to me. Seems to me the advantage of iPad over the iPhone is the better browsing experience. But then again, how many of us would carry an iPad around just for the better browsing experience? The iPhone can do most of what iPad can do. And it’s so much easier to carry the iPhone than the iPad.

14. Dominic Yee
    January 30th, 2010 at 11:38 pm

    i think the iPad is the best of its kind for now, you can’t compare it with a notebook or even a netbook per se, as the iPad is merely an entertainment device and best used only for consumers that are looking at browsing, video’s, photos, simple gaming and so on.

    But having said that, i have to agree that whatever an iPad can do, an iPhone can too!just in smaller sizes i guess, and the name…it just feels wrong even uttering it. haha.

15. used tires
    February 1st, 2010 at 5:47 pm

    Apple has touched on this before. They explained it when iPhone software 3.0 came out. The CPU s in these lil’ gadgets, iPhone & iPad, are pretty low end in the horsepower. So to overcome any problems of background tasks slowing down the entire gadget, they don’t have multitasking.They do allow certain parts of the OS to run in the background, but no true multitasking. Such as, itunes can be playing while you’re in a game or writing an email.

    For the folks that this gadget is marketed towards, the lack of multitasking isn’t that big of a whoop. This gadget is meant for very simple tasks, web surfing, email, watching videos. It isn’t going to be a monster computer, meant to take on the fastest laptops of the world.

    And if they did have to put in a much more powerful CPU to get it to multitask, then possibly the price wouldn’t be $500. It would be more.

    Till then,

    Jean

16. flights to pakistan
    February 2nd, 2010 at 2:30 am

    i love apple, they have really done well with thier iphone and im sure this ipad will do even better.

17. Aluminum Case
    February 2nd, 2010 at 2:35 am

    It will be interesting to see how long it takes for this to go from being a new product to being a product that is truly integrated into daily life. In time this could be the computer everyone dreams of having mounted on their fridge door and bathroom wall.

18. Car Transporters | Serge
    February 2nd, 2010 at 5:37 am

    Ipad to me looks like an over sized Iphone. If you going to carry that around why not get a lap top already. The $499 model comes with only 16 gigs that’s horrible. I’m getting it any way just because I’m a gadget geek. I feel the need to try it out. If the Ipad sucks I’ll make sure to come back here and tell you all about it.

19. Table Tennis Cover
    February 2nd, 2010 at 8:17 am

    Apple has definitely built anticipation for its latest product the ipad with this announcement. I still have quite a few unanswered questions surrounding the ipad before I would actually go out and purchase it, but i must admit it does look to have lots of potential.

20. Inner Game
    February 2nd, 2010 at 8:37 am

    I’m sitting on the fence on this one. I’d want to try it out and see how easy typing is on it.

    I struggle on the iPhone keyboard without the tactile sensation of the keys so it should be interesting to see how this goes…

21. pays to live green
    February 2nd, 2010 at 8:03 pm

    I really like that they are making a device like this, but may people are going to ditch or stop using their old netbooks and possible even laptops. We don’t need more waste in our landfills, yet apple keeps coming up with new products ever few months.

22. Kitkat
    February 3rd, 2010 at 10:12 am

    Cool. Car Transporters | Serge, if you’re getting it, do give us some review on it. Anyway, many people out there are complaining on how sucks iPad is but there still a lot of Apple Fanboy loves it. We’ll see in few months time whether iPad is a successful product.

23. Ian
    February 3rd, 2010 at 2:55 pm

    I think iSlate would have been more appropriate, but I’m sure Jobs will be right once more!

24. Program
    February 3rd, 2010 at 6:31 pm

    More fun than my normal notebook use. I can not use any product for some reason could be apple products.

25. ninjaproxy
    February 3rd, 2010 at 10:43 pm

    Couldn’t have put it better myself.

26. Website Marketplace
    February 4th, 2010 at 12:37 pm

    Here’s what I think is crazy. I know you mentioned the pricing, but I couldn’t believe that the $500 model didn’t even have 3G capability. You’ve written articles about 4G coverage and 3G isn’t even the base technology for the worlds greatest technology company… it’s too bad.

27. kl-stock
    February 4th, 2010 at 4:29 pm

    I’m not sure if Apple is the world’s greatest technology company, more like the greatest technology design company. The title of “world’s greatest tech company” would clearly go to Google or Microsoft.

28. Nicole Price
    February 4th, 2010 at 5:48 pm

    After all the initial noise has subsided, it is obvious that Apple has yet again come out with a big winner. There has always been two sides in this business, Apple and the rest and design or technology, Apple loyalists have prevailed and grown.

29. G Web
    February 6th, 2010 at 3:12 am

    The thing I like the most about this iPad is the brand new processor that it is using, developed by Apple themselves, and not dependant on a major chip manufacturer. I look forward to seeing proprietary chips in their larger offerings.

30. sikiş
    February 8th, 2010 at 2:01 pm

    I agree with the fact that it really looks cool but, I can’t see why people want to buy that. It’s so weak , İphone is definitely more revolutionary than İpad. we’ll see how it will turn out…

31. sikiş
    February 8th, 2010 at 2:04 pm

    I don’t think it’s worth the money. Again it’s cook but they have to work on it way more than this…

32. mayormeor
    February 8th, 2010 at 3:54 pm

    heh looks interesting. What can you aspect it’s the typical consumer magnetic Apple. But, at least it don’t have the Yellow Apple virus yet. For now

33. Raffy
    February 8th, 2010 at 5:50 pm

    love this thing, its a very cool gadget.

34. Bob
    February 8th, 2010 at 5:51 pm

    It sleek and handy. Im sure others will copy this invention.

35. kayyu izle
    February 10th, 2010 at 9:53 pm

    It is likely to be a trail blazer in the IT area just like all previous Apple launches were.

36. iPad
    February 10th, 2010 at 10:02 pm

    It all looks good, I’m just a little sceptical for about the lack of multitasking. Still, for anyone such as me who owns around a hundred medical books, it would be really useful to be able to effectively carry all of them around with me without putting my back out! I think that when it’s availble in the UK I’ll get the base version, provided that my studentconsult subscriptions are accessible through the iPad that is.

37. Metin2 Hile
    February 11th, 2010 at 8:28 pm

    i love apple, they have really done well with thier iphone and im sure this ipad will do even better.

38. Best Free iPad Apps
    February 18th, 2010 at 7:38 am

    I think Apple will do better than most critics expect them to do with the iPad. Who would have guessed the iPhone would evolve into the “more than a phone” gadget that it has become. With over 140K apps and counting, this should give the iPad a jump start with capability over other competitive products like Kindle. If the battery life is good, and they don’t have any issues like the 1st gen iPods than it should do well.

39. Anonymous
    February 20th, 2010 at 5:19 pm

    The Ipad looks like fun to play with, but I doubt if you can really work with it? But many people will buy it because of it look.

40. Dyson DC23
    February 21st, 2010 at 10:47 am

    As with all apple products, there will be a loyal or fanatical followers who will buy and try their products. Whether or not the ipad is a good product as it is does not matter….Apple will get more than sufficient feedback about their products that they will soon launch a ipad 2.0 which will become the hottest product..

    one thing apple does not have against are buyers who complain about their price…somehow everyone is willing to pay high prices for their goods…i just paid a ridiculously high price for their wireless apple keyboard which i am using to write this comment:)

41. apple ipad
    February 23rd, 2010 at 8:36 pm

    I dont know why people are writing off apple ipad so soon .. there is a market thats why there are so many companies coming in
    http://myapple-ipad.co.uk/appleipad-competitors

42. Quick Sale
    March 10th, 2010 at 1:33 pm

    I think one of the implausible apple ipad i found and i am dam sure that people will love this apple ipad, because of the great quality and features of the ipad.

43. Program
    March 11th, 2010 at 12:06 am

    While the ipad looks pretty cool, I think it is only practical for specific people. I think most of us would still prefer a laptop. The price for the ipad is actually not too bad compared with the price of their laptops.

44. The Arka Teks Lyrics
    May 28th, 2010 at 6:00 am

    Not a huge fan of the Ipad personaly, i like the new iphone i saw that is coming out. I hope it comes on verizon i hate At&T there terrible!

45. ipad mad
    June 10th, 2010 at 4:01 am

    Great product and im sure it will be well made and last a long time, Apple do make quality goods however, my goodness do they know how to charge for em

46. Data Analysis
    June 11th, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    Believe it or not, I’ve still to see one of these in the flesh in the UK. I’ll hold off any decisions until then, since my gut feel is that it’s going to be too large.

    Won’t touch the 3G version here though since data plans are a rip off. I’d pair with my mifi

47. iPad Free
    July 18th, 2010 at 6:00 pm

    Remember all the hype surrounding the name and the laugher when it was announced? I think it’s grew on us now. Anyone else feel the same?