iPad: Looks Great, but Needs Flash

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Permalink Reply by Kimo Sutton on January 27, 2010 at 9:13am

Did you see the HD from Youtube? Where does that come from? It looks like a Mac product. Flash maybe, or a Quicktime . If you did not see it it was on Fax Business also engadget.com.

I like this new platform though as seen on Fox Bus. there are tablets with bigger hard drives but use pc tech and that is the difference.
I used to work for Apple and the reasons to explore better tech is not purvey to the public. The iPhone for instance is the king of the smart phones. You can get a google phone and not get support. Flash yes.
This will be the expansion of the aps store so where do you get that ? Not that great on Blackberry though no tablet. With innovation comes competition so MS is the biggest and cheapest, that does not mean a Ugo is better than a BMW. Or a Coby product vs. a Sony. Brands and reviews will give us value only if the high quality is there.

Permalink Reply by Kimo Sutton on January 27, 2010 at 9:20am

$$499 for this new tech. Unlocked 3G. My T-mobile is now dumped as they have no 3G.
Verison anyone?

Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on January 27, 2010 at 10:32am

Hi Kimo - I read about it on TechCrunch, CrunchGear and Engadget.

It looks like a great product. My three biggest gripes - no flash, no camera, no USB (requires a dock.)

Permalink Reply by Cameron Souza on January 27, 2010 at 10:34am

Here is a running blog w/ plenty of pics re: the iPad.

Permalink Reply by Gus Higuera on January 27, 2010 at 10:59am

The price is what really makes the Ipad reasonable. I was just about to pull the trigger on getting a Kindle/Nook but was waiting to see this Ipad. The fact the base model is $499 will completely kill the Kindle. Not too mention it will already run the gajillion number of apps already in the App Store.

Permalink Reply by Konstantin A Lukin on January 27, 2010 at 3:16pm

I never really understood Kindle. To me it always looked like something from the past..

iPad looks cool, but no multi-tasking? If you have Pandora installed, do you know how annoying it is to turn it off every time you'd like to check your email?.. pretty stone-age ridiculous.. I wouldn't spend my $$ on this just yet, maybe wait for Google to release Android Pad, or even better, Chrome OS Pad, or something along those lines. maybe not as pretty, but packing with functionality. If you ask me, Apple and Google need to get together for lunch one of these days :)

Anyway, iPad could make a nice Christmas present :)

Permalink Reply by Nate Sanders on January 27, 2010 at 3:40pm

These are probably my 3 biggest gripes, too. The camera thing is huge for me because I really expected for whatever Apple released to have great potential for augmented reality...and this could have....but alas...

You'd think they would have included it at least for videoconferencing to compete with netbooks, which is part of what they're competing against. I thought their disparaging comments about netbooks were just untrue, btw. I own a netbook and it's really very useful (and cheaper and does videoconferencing and more) and I know plenty of other people who have one and agree.

I think we're about to see an increase in Kindle ads and they will be touting battery life.




Daniel Leuck said:

Hi Kimo - I read about it on TechCrunch, CrunchGear and Engadget.

It looks like a great product. My three biggest gripes - no flash, no camera, no USB (requires a dock.)

Permalink Reply by Ken Berkun on January 27, 2010 at 5:29pm

Does it really have no USB port? How does it connect to the Mac/PC? You have to have a dock to sync? I'm missing something here.

Daniel Leuck said:

Hi Kimo - I read about it on TechCrunch, CrunchGear and Engadget.

It looks like a great product. My three biggest gripes - no flash, no camera, no USB (requires a dock.)

Permalink Reply by Ken Berkun on January 27, 2010 at 5:31pm

It is silly to think this is going to kill the Kindle. They are two different products entirely. The Kindle is built around the easy to read eInk. If you want primarily a reading device the kindle will be easier on the eyes. That said, the Kindle is a piece of junk compared to the iPad (or any Apple device). If the Kindle was engineered properly (better industrial design, better UI) then it it could compete forever. There is also plenty of room to lower its price.

Permalink Reply by Kimo Sutton on January 27, 2010 at 5:45pm

I have a good camera and a video camera that could connect to this platform. This is an in between product so it could also be a phone as in Skype. It has a microphone and small speakers and will play special movies from Quicktime. Can iTunes do all the work? It has to have a third party develop a connection to the dock as with USB and Firewire. I look for a wireless solution as with Bluetooth and 3G for most of the information to use this tablet. Imagine this as a separate mode not a cheap pc computer like those poor internet toys. Touchscreen and aps baby. This will evolve in time and as with each Apple new product skeptics are soon looking to buy one. With an iPhone model 1 you could not do what it does now. What does the market want and that will determine the whole advancement. I had 2 Newtons way before any other PDA was even thought of. Remember them or was that before your tech days? Jobs had to cancel that project when he took over 11 years ago as it was to expensive. Now he has made it the new upgrades PDA- hand held and great for seniors that do not want the bells and whistles of a computer. That is a 50 million person market now and growing to 100 mill in 5 years! Get grandma one for her birthday.
Do they care about photos- yes so their memory card can be read . 200 million iphone users can use this right out of the box. Apple will make a new iPhone to maybe go faster and work with another wireless network- the unlocked feature was amassing for 3G. Is that the big thought of the day?

Daniel Leuck said:

Hi Kimo - I read about it on TechCrunch, CrunchGear and Engadget.
It looks like a great product. My three biggest gripes - no flash, no camera, no USB (requires a dock.)

Permalink Reply by Daniel Leuck on January 27, 2010 at 5:58pm

Hi Ken - You have to use a dock for USB. My understanding is that there is no USB port or SD card slot.

re: Kindle - I'm not so sure. While eInk is a bit easier on the eyes, I don't know if that's enough to compete with Apple's sexiness. In my experience, sexy usually wins :-)

re: the display
Some of its personal preference. I don't mind reading on a bright, high resolution conventional display.

Permalink Reply by Nate Sanders on January 27, 2010 at 6:25pm

Oh, the lack of multi-tasking is a big downer for me, too, but I think that might have hit a little too close to their laptops at too good of a price.

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