Hundreds of pundits, analysts, consultants and tech watchers have now offered up their opinion of Apple’s new iPad. Having serious fanboi leanings (and ownership), I’m duly impressed by what I’ve seen. More relevant are the reactions of those who attended the Jan 27th Apple Special Event and had actual “hands on” time with the iPad.
Positive impressions:
- Walt Mossberg (WSJ All things D) > watch video
- Clayon Morris (Fox News)
- Tim Gideon (PCMag.com) > iPad demo
iPad “Haters”:
- Dan Lyons (Fake and increasingly synical Steve) > watch video
- Vicious Dave
For the tech purists who’ve slapped the #fail hashtag on iPad (It’s just an oversized iPod Touch! What!? No Flash? It has !) without actually touching it, my comment is simply this … who cares! Seriously.
Apple didn’t fail with iPad’s design. Geeks failed to comprehend that they aren’t the most important audience.
Apple’s cool new infotainment device (with vibrant screen, super fast A4 SOC*, highly precise and responsive touch interface) with a WiFi-enabled $499 entry price, appeals to Stephen Colbert (
- Tech elites (geeks) = .025% of the market
- John/Jane Q Public = 99.075% of the market
For a rundown on what’s to like about iPad, read > here
In case you missed the video replay of the Jan 27 iPad unveiling … here’s the 180 second version (watch below)
*While it has not been confirmed, several tech sites are speculating that Apple’s A4 SOC is based on central processing unit (CPU) and graphics processing unit (GPU) technology that Apple has licensed from ARM.
some of the opposition might be coming from
Adobe, Microsoft, Amazon, Nokia and Google employees.
especially adobe people are really using the comment
system in some blogs to just go after Apple.
Fear will only spread. Just waiting for Intel, Nvidia, etc.
@rd the $499 price has really shaken up competitors in the tablet and netbook space. Most will pay the Microsoft tax (licensing Vista) and they have to pay royalties for their chipsets. Since Apple has designed their on OS and system on a chip (CPU + GPU), they can keep costs down. It’s going to be very hard for competitors to deliver anything comparable to iPad at the $499 price.
And about Adobe Flash … It’s a buggy, CPU hungry (battery hog) piece of code whose days are numbered … Youtube and vimeo have switched to H.264 for video streaming. H.264 and HTML 5 will soon enough replace Flash. Another negative with Flash … hidden cookies that you can’t delete > http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2009/08/you-deleted-your-cookies-think-again/
Now about multi-tasking … nice to have but not essential on iPad. Multi-tasking is battery hog and can sometimes deliver more grief than benefit. Leo Lapote said his Nexus One freezes because of the multitasking….
paraphrasing Leo “It does not sense when the Nexus One freezes for 40 minutes.”
Well, the stock price of ARM looks to have tracked the progress of the iPad. I’m curious to see if those with both a mac and iPhone will also buy an iPad, or will the majority of buyers have just one, or no other Apple product.
most of buyer of ipad will be the relatives of techies, most
of these will be baby boomers who are afraid of tech.
only time will tell whether college students will buy
if Apple gets major discount on textbooks.
some of the opposition might be coming from
Adobe, Microsoft, Amazon, Nokia and Google employees.
especially adobe people are really using the comment
system in some blogs to just go after Apple.
I am agree with this …