So Apple's gone out and released a whole new computing device. I stayed up to 3 to watch the live broadcast (for the first time in my life) and it's really quite ... well, interesting, what they've managed to do with the idea. But first:
I know, I know, you probably don't like the name. But my god, it looks so easy to use. It seems almost like something my grandparents could ... you know, use. And it is Apple's cheapest new computer!
What do you think about the new iPad?
Also: there's this Twitter hashtag called #iTampon that's the second most popular trending topic at the moment. This is crazy. Absolutely crazy.
I personally don't think this kind of humour's going to last long. I think Apple's capable of hacking into our heads and changing our perception of a horrible name. I believe this is going to be a device that'll change the way people see computing - not struggling with software, or forustrating monitor-banging ... but simple, tactile, touch-based devices that gives us whatever we want, when we want.
I think the iPad's here to stay.
PS: couldn't resist:
LOL! i think ipad is just another gadget. we'll wait and see the response.
And the itampon. Disgusting thought.
And it seems like you're the only one posting on UGS.
Kubuk
Member
I'm always reading. Never posting.
Kinda bulky stuff considering its for reading ebooks.
Things got kinda slow after I left it alone for the hols, I think. =(
When you go back to Kuching, go poke Garrick and Paul and the rest!
I think it's actually a good gadget but I don't see myself getting it, well at least not in the next 5 years. XD I know a lot of my friends are saying that it sucks because it doesn't have a lot of things a computer has and that it's too big to be carrying it around like an iPod touch bla bla bla.
I don't know. I think they're still going to shove it to the market eventhough I seem to be hearing that it's getting very negative reviews, but I have a funny feeling that people will eventually adapt to it and grow to like it. And it's not like Apple won't revise the model and come up with a more advanced version in the future yea?
Jeryl
Member
It looks like a giant iPod Touch with wifi/wifi + 3G
Well, we can use it play games and use apps from the AppStore just
like the iPod Touch.. That's something....
It's a whole computer, I think, not just an iPod Touch. I think Apple sees the future of computing as ridiculously simple devices that act as a bridge between the user and the Internet/content. Really simple, easy to use things that don't crash, start up in seconds, and pretty much can be chucked anyway - even in the toilet. In simpler terms: computers your grandmother would be able to use.
I think people like Garrick, for instance, would agree to this - he's already using his iPod Touch as a secondary computing device. The iPad does what Garricks uses his iPod to do way, way better.
It's actually kinda scary, for people like me, since I'm studying computing and all that. If the iPad represents the future of computing, then by extension that would mean the laptops and desktops that we know and love today would become the archaic mainframe-equivalents of tomorrow - used only by experts, geeks and developers.
In a sentence tho, I think the iPad is basically the computer as an appliance. And I find that cool and scary at the exact same time.
Lol, I think the iPad is a brilliant concept but not something I would go for even though it's better than the iPod.
It's the future. It's here. AWESOMENESS. ;-)
I went back for a second helping of Avatar this Sunday. There’s a scene early on in the movie where one of the scientists walks across the lab carrying the “mobile computer slab of the future.” We’ve seen one of these in almost every sci-fi movie of the last 50 years. It comes free with a jetpack, I suppose. Except this time, one month later, my 12 year old son turns to me and whispers “Look Dad, it’s an iPad.”
As many others have noted, the release of the iPad might be the cannonball into the consumer device pool the iPhone dipped its toes in. It’s also been referred to as a thing that sits between that iPhone and your laptop. I see it as more of a fork in the road. It’s the thing many people will get INSTEAD of a laptop.
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