iPad

[ArcaneSpringboard]

I love my iPhone, but the iPad doesn't wow me.

I think I'd be more likely to buy a netbook for half the price (or less) than this device.

However, with a couple more iterations, I may change my mind.

In the end, as much as I like the iPad, this is the way I'm likely to go, considering the price. I do have an iPhone, so that can handle my music/portable net stuff, and I'd use it mostly at home anyways...so I'd be watching TV on...TV.

In a few years I'll probably get one, once the price drops a bit and the features increase a bit more.

Who knows, by that time maybe the "Global" from Earth: Final Conflict will finally be reality.

 

[Nai_Calus]

Not impressed at all. It's a giant iPod Touch. Meh.

 

[JDragon]

Well I had been watching the rumors on this one for a long time and even went to work early today so I could see the event. (it was during my drive to work)

I had been laying the ground work at home for getting one as close to release date as possible. I was talking with the person that wrote the i4e app for the iPhone about working on some apps for it together for Pathfinder/3.5.


And now after finding out it doesn't do multitasking and I would be stuck with AT&T for data outside of Wi-fi I'm having a hard time getting excited about it.

So now I plan to wait and see what they do in the next few years with it and find a nice Win/Android/Crome OS slate to do my gaming work on.

JD

 

[Plane Sailing]

After further thinking, I've realised that what I was hoping for was essentially something with the Wow factor of Microsoft Surface.

While obviously the Surface multitouch method wouldn't work on a tablet, I think a tablet with the a 'Surface' style interface, usability and such would be a big win. Will Microsoft go there? I don't know; their marketing and PR savvy is pretty poor compared to almost everyone else ))

Time to wait and see, eh?

Cheers

 

[Vicente]

This is a big iPod Touch No multitasking, limited HD, limited apps,... Honestly, I can't see why anyone would want to buy this instead of a real TabletPC.

 

[Edgewood]

Gizmos are nice, but I don't have the disposable income for early-adoption. After a year or two, I'll look over my computer use, my income, and we'll see if a tablet makes sense.

To be honest, it seems to me that home use is not where tablets will prove to be killer-useful. I'm thinking medical professionals will eventually find them key - access medical records over a clinic or hospital network, every staff member having one to carry around. Now that's valuable use.

I can also see applications in police use, especially for maintaining federal, provincial/state and municipal laws and acts, as well as for a means of filling out the tremendous amounts of paperwork that has to be done on a daily basis.

 

[Scribble]

After further thinking, I've realised that what I was hoping for was essentially something with the Wow factor of Microsoft Surface.

While obviously the Surface multitouch method wouldn't work on a tablet, I think a tablet with the a 'Surface' style interface, usability and such would be a big win. Will Microsoft go there? I don't know; their marketing and PR savvy is pretty poor compared to almost everyone else ))

Time to wait and see, eh?

Cheers

Here are 9 other tablets comming out soon: Tablets!

 

[kenmarable]

And now after finding out it doesn't do multitasking and I would be stuck with AT&T for data outside of Wi-fi I'm having a hard time getting excited about it.

Technically, it's unlocked but GSM only. I'm not up to date on mobile technology, but doesn't that at least allow T-Mobile in the US as well, theoretically? (I don't think they currently offer data only plans yet, but I have never bothered to look.) The AT&T plan is just able to be activated right from the machine, but it's not necessarily tied to AT&T no matter what. It's not CDMA (which is pretty much EVERY other carrier in the US, right?), so it's certainly not rosy. But technically you should be able to choose between AT&T and T-Mobile for what that's worth. And for those outside of North America, I think GSM is far more common, so it's a much better deal there.

 

[Janx]

Gizmos are nice, but I don't have the disposable income for early-adoption. After a year or two, I'll look over my computer use, my income, and we'll see if a tablet makes sense.

To be honest, it seems to me that home use is not where tablets will prove to be killer-useful. I'm thinking medical professionals will eventually find them key - access medical records over a clinic or hospital network, every staff member having one to carry around. Now that's valuable use.

actually, nurses and such at modern facilities have to carry a "smarter" cell phone with beefy texting plan and installed medical software.

My friend's wife is a nursing student doing her clinicals. He told me about all the stuff they had to get. They chose a blackberry curve for her, it supports the special software she had to get and it has a decent keyboard.

They're not allowed to take calls on the phone at work, but texting is majorly used to communicate information to each other.

 

[Thornir Alekeg]

Looks nice, and I think it has a lot of potential. I was surprised that it is just going to run on the current iPhone OS. I honestly expected they would release a new OS that would include the issing multitasking capability. It is possible that is not far away, but it seems crazy to release the iPad without adding this to it.

I was talking with a friend last night about the iPad, and were discussing a way to make this a worthwhile investment as an e-reader: create an app that allows you to aggregate pages from multiple e-books you own into a single folder. Think about it for gaming: a folder with the relevant pages for your PCs powers, skills, spells etc. all together rather than opening four or five different books to reference each one as needed. It would also be nice for students while studying or gathering materials for research.