Other The iFail- wait sorry, iPad, is officially out

The official iPad site is live, with a video, and i swear the guy who designs apple products is English.

Sam

 

er, yes, jonathan ive is british.

also you've got it wrong - it's the Apple StooPad.

 

@ Sam: Yeah he's English.

But watching the video reminds me how douche-baggy Apple people are. I seriously wanted to punch my screen when the Software chap came on and said "you are holding the internet"

FFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

 

I'll be honest, it really doesn't look right!

Look at the netbook market, that popped up out of nowhere and look at it now. Maybe we'll see the same from the 'new' tablet market.

~£350 (depends on exchange) seems a bit pricey for a wifi-only portable computer, but then again it is an apple product and will therefore have a brilliant build quality.

I can never see me ever needing one of these, the only thing I could see a use for it would be as a lab book. But a pen and paper really does do me fine. Plus a laptop to type things up on the move.

Still imo the iPod is the only apple product I find useful to my day to day life.

 

Huh, they're using an IPS panel for the display. Awesome.

If I could get it for the dollar-to-pound conversion, would happily pay for one. Sadly it will problem be $1=£1ish.

Also god knows why they're calling this "the best way to browse the web" with no Flash support. Wonder if Steve knew we'd see the plug-in required sign when he demo'd it.

 

Nah i reckon it will be real currency conversion from dollars to pounds and then x1.2, just like the base model ipod touch.

 

Slate me for this (or iSlate me) but it's hardly a very desirable product. You have appreciate it for what it is, but in the cold light of day, what purpose will it serve ? For the same price, you are probably going to be able to pick up an 11" netbook with a 1366x768 res a dual core Atom (or whatever) and Nvidia graphics that potentially can run any OS and have change to buy an iPod touch, (at the probably UK pricing anyway).

Another Apple 'solution' looking for a problem.

Over at Mac Rumours this thing is getting slated by about two thirds of the the members and the rest are either on the fence or loving it. They even have a dedicated forum for it now. Looks like there is no flash and a pretty low res.

I was thinking Apple's answer to Netbooks would be an 11 or 12 inch Macbook 'Mini' or Air or something not something that resembles the ******* love child of a Digital Photo Frame and an Etch a Sketch.

 

I kinda like the idea and I kinda want one, but I can't justify it.

Just sitting here reading the coverage for 2hrs (among other things, of course ) reminds me what a headache LCDs can give you. I'm not sure how fantastic IPS LCDs are at curing this, but as an eBook reader (which it seems very competent as) I can't see it winning me over 100%. Was also hoping for some magazines in the iBook store or at least a hint of a Wired app, but alas nothing has been said thus far.

Secondly, and most importantly, it doesn't cut it for me as a lifestyle companion device. As I said in the other thread, I want the Courier badly and iWork isn't enough to convince me that this could allow me to go paperless at work. I need a device I can rely on to start within a couple of seconds and have me scribbling a note down that I can organise later. It might work well when it's your main focus of attention, but not as something that will be a 'bit on the side' for a lot of the time. Essentially, Apple's aversion to the stylus has kinda killed it for me.

 

The screen on the iPad is 1024x768 according to Apple's spec sheet.. and there's no camera

 

When it comes out in uk and the prices are as comparable to todays prices, I can see me getting one of these. I think it looks wonderful, I think it will do pretty much anything I would need it to do and its not that expensive (by apple standards.).

 

"... and you just.. DO!"
:rolleyes"

Since the screen is 1024 x 768 you don't actually get HD quality video :/

 

He does a really bad job of selling it:



The iPad's best features:

• It's very thin
• It's very thin
• You can change the background image, to anything you want!
• You can view entire webpages

I am really dissapoint so far, I love my iPhone, but this looks really poor.

On a related matter, I'd like to see the rest of that video, but can't seem to find it anywhere, anyone got a link?

Edit: Also, can it multi-task? I think that will be a real deal breaker for a lot of people.

 

Of course you do, might not be 1080 but its still HD.

 

It's like a retarded iPhone on hormones.

 

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=854907

73% on Macrumours do not want

 

Fixed.

 

Apple are claiming here :

http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

support for "H.264 video up to 720p"

Talk about misleading, how about 'plays 720p format but not at its intended resolution, so in all honesty, it can't support 720p'.

Another thing, if the screen is IPS, why did they drop the S-IPS panel, CCFL backlight. SWOP certified Macbook Pro screens and substitute them for rather nasty LED backlit, TN 6 bit panels ?

 

Apple tends to stick the video online an hour or so after the show...and no, no multitasking.

 

Engadget confirmed that there's no multitasking.

 

You quite obviously did not understand the purpose and segment this product falls in to if you compare this with a netbook.