1. Steve Jobs. His reputation, his brand consistency, his black shirt.
2. Liver transplant and back. Seriously. He takes medical leave and still comes out with the iPad.
3. It’s gorgeous and thin, like Steve.
4. There is nothing like it. yet……..I’m sure that HP and Sony and all the rest are R & D’ing now. Ripping off and duplicating.
5. It’s really not that expensive.
Nice try haters. Apple wins again.
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January 27, 2010 at 12:20 pm
Chris
I’ll preface my comment with a disclaimer: I’m not an Apple hater, but I’m not an Apple lover either. That said, I have to disagree with you: $500 – 800 for a cool toy is expensive. Until I see a defendable business purpose in the iPad–something that lays out a compelling reason the iPad is better than my laptop–I’ll pass on the iPad. Sorry, my friend.
January 27, 2010 at 9:17 pm
dbkayanda
It may well sell and I wish him well. But I don’t currently think there’s a niche between my MacBook Pro and my BlackBerry (and my iPod.) And every additional device we have is another thing to fail, require maintenance, require synchronization, and all that good stuff.
But I’m probably not a typical consumer.
January 27, 2010 at 9:18 pm
dbkayanda
Oh, I should also say I’m a fanatic for my Kindle. But the ONLY reason that works is the screen. A beautiful backlit computer screen isn’t good for hours of reading.
January 28, 2010 at 6:59 am
Denise Wymore
@Chris – Apple hater! Just kidding. I totally agree with you because you are not the target audience for this product. It doesn’t make sense for you.
@David – I have to agree with you too. I own a MacBookPro, a Kindle, three iPods and an iPhone. Steve got our money as we were drinking the kool-aid. But…….I think my mother-in-law would love this thing. So would my teenage niece.
The price? My mother-in-law and my niece own clunky old desktop computers that cost double, five years ago. And, they take up a ton of room, have slow processors and are running out of memory. The only thing they can with this massive dust collector is surf the web and check email. Oh, I suppose they could use the Microsoft Word that was loaded and write a letter. What the what?
With the WiFi capability of iPad you get a television, (hulu.com), book, photo album, newspaper subscription, address book, calendar, VCR, and all the crazy iPhone apps plus a gold rush of new iPad apps. You could effectively eliminate your entire bookshelf, computer table, television, VCR, all your old CDs, shelves of movies – think about it.
It’s insane what this thing can do. But Steve Jobs’ gift is solving problems we didn’t know we had.
http://www.apple.com/ipad/#video
And for all of those people making menstrual cycle jokes, grow up. IBM’s ThinkPad didn’t come by this kind of sophomoric ridicule because, well, it was IBM. And who wants a Big Blue ThinkPad, right?
January 29, 2010 at 2:54 am
john
Why i don’t want a iPad :
iPad is so ugly !
iPad doesn’t support flash !
iPad doesn’t have camera !
iPad doesn’t support multitasking !
iPad have a 4/3 screen…
February 1, 2010 at 5:48 pm
tinfoiling
Interesting that the comments hinge so much on the hardware when we have seen the software as the accommodating factor with technology. Not too many mentions yet about what type of apps may be appearing.
I think this might be the kitchen table device. Who is doing what and when. The newspaper subscription and articles available without having to recycle. The email and Twitter feeds with a link that you will be able to read easily. And what about handwriting and notebooks. Hope it can take cereal bowl milk splatters.
For work it could easily replace notepaper for those meetings.
Will we be viewing something different next year at this time? I think so. This could be much more disruptive than we think as time passes.
February 2, 2010 at 7:58 am
Denise Wymore
@tinfoiling – i couldn’t agree more. It’s great to hear your comments, especially coming from someone who looks at Apple in an entirely different way.
There’s nothing really quite like it and that’s why I think some people are confused. They’re trying to compare it to one thing. You should invent the iPad condom to protect it from cereal sloshing and coffee spills – you’ll make millions.
February 17, 2010 at 3:57 am
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