Apple finally announces iPad

The Presentation App does look a little slow – partly due to the bloke demoing it clearly not knowing what he’s doing. The Engadget guy also spends a lot of the time pressing all over the place during some parts. Look at stuff like the photo app and how smoothly and quickly it handles the pictures. The CPU – which was the point of discussion – is clearly capable.

LOL, the iFanboys at iGizmodo are still wetting their pants – one of them has called this the “death of the laptop”, I kid you not.

Its so bad its freaking hilarious. But remember folks: this will save the written word!

I just cant stop laughing…..

@reask,

You’re believing a bullshit meme. Jobs stole his ideas from those clever IBM chaps at PARC so stop giving him the credit.

So is this a new games console or what, the fourth main console to the other 3 etc

@The Hindle
It kind of sits in a strange place games console wise. It’s portable, but not pocketable. So one of the big advantages something like an iPhone has is that it’s always with you – not the case here. It should benefit from the publishing process which has given the iPhone a vast wealth of incredibly cheap games though. I’m not entirely convinced.

It’s crap.

You can read books, but it’s like looking at a monitor, so prolonged reading will give you headaches.
You can listen to music, but it’s not really small enough to be portable to make it more viable than an ipod.

The 499, 599 and 699 price points are only with wifi. If you want to get internet anywhere you’ll need to stump up 130 extra for each memory iteration.

16, 32 and 64gb. Awfully stingy with that memory aren’t they? You can get an ipod classic with over 100gb. Why not use that?

The gaming, oh dear….
‘Look, you can interact in ways never before seen, like using 3 fingers to open a door.’ What else can I use 3 fingers for I wonder?
‘In a driving game, you can touch the rear view mirror to view behind you (what this means for your main view, and the other controls that you leave so you can touch the mirror is not explained)’
(They may not have been the exact words from Gizmodo, but you get the idea).

Apple will be following this up with a second generation version within a year, and it needs it.

for err, ‘laptop gaming’ I’d rather buy that Pandora console than this thing. way more impressive actually.

btw Eregol what do you mean “prolonged reading will give you headaches”? these days I read books only in pdf.

I’ve never read an ebook to be honest. I still like a nice hardback tbh.

@Eregol
Books seemed like one of the better apps – but it was very woolly on details and iBooks won’t actually be ready outside the US on launch.

The extra for 3G is too steep agreed.

Memory wise it is very expensive – but a iPod classic uses a HDD not solid state doesn’t it?

Gaming will gain from the extra screen size – hands getting in the way of the view is the biggest problem with touch screen gaming. It’s not the most flexible input system though – great for some stuff, very poor for others.

“Apple will be following this up with a second generation version within a year, and it needs it.”

I think that is a given but agree it needs it. Though most of my beefs could be solved in software rather than hardware.

“I’ve never read an ebook to be honest. I still like a nice hardback tbh.”

I’ve read a few on proper ebook readers with “electronic ink” tech, and they’re pretty good. I can’t say I’d be comfortable reading for any prolonged duration from an LCD screen though.

But yeah, hardback for the win.

Any News on the Phantom Lapboard? =D

Very swish, as usual. And… er… I can’t imagine why I would ever want one. The Apple fanboys in the office are basically circle-jerking around a monitor in the corner, though. I daren’t look.

This is, by all accounts, a useless piece of kit.

sg1974 said:

@reask,

You’re believing a bullshit meme. Jobs stole his ideas from those clever IBM chaps at PARC so stop giving him the credit.

My memory is not the best unfortunately but I had to read a couple of books for a OU course many moons ago one of which was where wizards stay up late about the development of the Internet.
I cannot remember the other book.
I know what my conclusion was after reading them so I stand by my earlier comment.

All of those fucking tech fag writers are having a baby over this damned thing. I guess they really do want to live in Apple’s Orwellian future of absolute control.

Stephen Fry is the worst at the moment.
He’s practically flooded his abode with spunk.

@Reask

I never fail to be amused at how people are utterly incapable of accepting that Bill Gates “stole” nothing off Jobs and Wozniak that those two didn’t first rip off from PARC and the Xerox Star themselves.

As for those boffins at Xerox Palo Alto (later sold to IBM) who did invent all those things which became MAC and Windows(building on Stanford Uni’s Doug Engelbart’s excellent work in the 60s – after Jobs was barely done sucking on his Momma’s tits), well, I’m not so sure they find it so amusing.

Apple didn’t come up with the mouse idea or first pair it with a personal computer either, contrary to the insistence of far too many. I’ll give readers two clues who did: 1) a well-known US west-coast University; 2) a US hardware manufacturer known mostly for its copying machines. I see a pattern emerging….

I wonder if Steven Fry will wet his pants over this thing announced two weeks ago to utter silence:

http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/14/digitalrise-x9-tablet-has-atom-multitouch-780-price-tag/