Okay, the truth is I love apple products. Was I happy about the ipad reveal today? Overall, yes. I’d give it a “B/B+”. It’s hard to beat the initial iphone hype without something abso-friggin-lutely amazing and different and “WOW” (especially hardware…for the iphone it was the multitouch).
However, I DO feel bad for those responsible for branding this puppy. There will be endless ipad/maxipad/itampon jokes (as has already been shown today with Twitter’s trending “itampon” meme. I’m hoping that they will eventually fade, and this amazing product will get better and better, but until then, a little fun is to be had.
What I like about the iPad?
- Beautiful
- Fast Fast Fast
- Great Size
- Great Price
- Nice re-work of apps and new apps
- Cool ebook reader
- Can do just about anything (remember when a DVD player cost this much)
- Compare all you can do with this to a Kindle… (though i like e-ink on the eyes, and 3g is free on kindle, bust much less data with kindle too…so a cheap $1 day unlimited data seems fair)
What I don’t like
- No Camera and thus no videoconf. I was expected front/back camera or at least swivel
- No multi-tasking so far
- The name iPad
Will I buy one?
Not sure. I’d give it a 50/50 on this first gen, and a 90% likely on the next.
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