Live from the iPad!

Tsuwabuki · (#1 (**permalink**))

Got a 32gb wifi iPad. I am posting this from it at the apple store in Texas. Heading back to Japan on Tuesday.

This thread is now about the iPad. Discuss.

Koir · (#2 (**permalink**))

Can't wait for the time in a couple months a more full-featured version comes out and costs less than the first version.

It will be hilarious.

Tsuwabuki · (#3 (**permalink**))

What features do you think you need from it?

I needed a combined ebook reader media player internet surfer with touch capability and no bulk keyboard or main body. And I did not get the most expensive one. I'm happy with what I paid. If I hadn't been, I would have waited.

Koir · (#4 (**permalink**))

I don't have any use for it, really. Just an amused observer watching the Cult of Jobs worship at the proprietary altar.

Aniki · (#5 (**permalink**))

Ipad is just the fat version of Ipod touch while being marketed toward multi-media users it lacks many important features for it. I simply don't see what kind of role it might play in my daily life.

metalmark666 · (#6 (**permalink**))

No offence Tsuwabuki, I'm sure it is great, but I still recon that the name 'iPad' sounds like Apples answer to the sanitary towel!!!

noodle · (#7 (**permalink**))

Agree with Aniki totally! It doesn't even have any USB's or memory card ports or anything! I'd rather have an Archos 9

JayT · (#8 (**permalink**))

I don't really see the point when I already have an iPhone.
It just seems like an iPod touch with a larger screen,
it doesn't really have any new amazing innovative features to it.
Need an ebook reader? iPhone has the kindle app, I use it all the time.
Plus the fact that it's wifi only. Almost all connections are secured these days,
so what's the point?
Pass.

Tsuwabuki · (#9 (**permalink**))

Actually, it isn't the same. It does have different features. However, it does have limited uses. These are just uses that I would rather not use my laptop or my iPhone for. My MacBook is for heavy duty content creation. I prefer Internet and media consumption on the iPad. The iPhone is for being on the move, on street corners, quick checks. The iPad is for along distance trips on trains, planes, and automobiles.

Reading on my iPhone is too difficult. I have to hold it too close and the text is either too small or too oddly formatted.

MMM · (#10 (**permalink**))

I am looking forward to checking one out. They look really cool.