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10 reasons why I like the iPad
Nicolas Mokhoff
1/29/2010 12:01 PM EST
6. This is more than a new product; it's the continuation of a commitment. One blogger caught this comment from Apple chairman Steve Jobs at the iPad rollout: "More than 75 million people already know how to use the iPad; these are the owners of iPhones and iPod Touches. And there are more than 125 million customer accounts with credit cards, all enabled for one-click shopping on iTunes, the App Store and the new iBook store. We are at scale, and we are ready for the iPad."
7. Technology wins over hype. According to one blogger, the iPad's A4 is a system-on-chip that integrates an ARM Cortex-A9 MPCore with a memory controller. According to that blog, brightsideofnews.com, the SoC is mostly ARM IP clocking at 1 GHz, which is the " thermal sweet spot of the core, given that the maximum achievable clock of 1.3 GHz comes with a significant thermal penalty." Speed is everything in touch computers' screen response.
8. It's multilingual. According to Apple, iPad language support includes the following languages: English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, simplified Chinese and Russian. Keyboard support is provided for English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, Italian, simplified Chinese and Russian. Dictionary support is provided for English, French, German, Japanese, Dutch, Flemish, Spanish, Italian, simplified Chinese and Russian. Don't quibble about what "support" means.
9. Apple has gotten a bum rap for too many years. According to the blog entry iPad or iMonopoly?", the iPad is being positioned as a media consumption device, an electronic outlet for large publications, like the New York Times or Wall Street Journal, and as a device to be used in manufacturing or for giving demonstrations on the fly. Apple could control the user experience and the applications market. Take that, Microsoft.
10. EE Times was banned from covering Apple's launch event. Reverse psychology works. I didn't get to play with the iPad, but I feel in my gut that my fellow engineers who love the iPhone and all its high-tech apps will also give the iPad its due as a technological achievement.
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Fretboard
1/29/2010 12:52 PM EST
Yeah I know, no Flash and no camera...I still think it's a great product that will only get better. Price will come down, memory will go up within a year or two.
But what about the fight over the name with Fujitsu? It's going to be real interesting to see where this story goes. Will Apple actually have to give up the name iPad at this stage in the game? Wow, that would be a site to see.
Check it out:
http://www.ipadlot.com
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stefnagel
1/29/2010 1:29 PM EST
PostiPod, Steve Jobs looks to huge content areas to run through Appleâs hardware. With the iPad, there is a confluence of content that Apple has already secured: music, apps. But Steve knows that new hardware must be matched and mated to new content sectors. The last slide in his presentation says it all: Steve is going after education as a market. The whole enchilada.
* The hardware is spot on: Simple, safe, small, cheapâor soon will beâexactly right for students, from grade school to grad school.
* The software provides the creativity/research tools students need. The iWork apps are astonishing, lovely, and fun software. Maybe add a camera; maybe not.
* It will not mean all printed books be damned but it will mean printed textbooks be damned.
* Textbooks will move onto the iPad but I'm guessing it's the creativity tools that Steve really cares about.
* Ten years out, every student will have an iPad or something just like it. Except Apple will be there first and foremost. That's a done deal as of Wednesday.
Everything about the iPad says that Steve wants to be remembered as the guy who revolutionized schooling if not learning. Take a look at the mission at the OLPC site. That's Steve's kind of language and visionâexcept he not only thinks bigger than most of us, he thinks better.
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specee
2/2/2010 2:46 PM EST
pl. dont be disingenous.
If these "textbook" ideas are yours, then say so. If they are Steve's, let him voice them.
Also, its a late entrant to textbooks, defin.
not the first. So, dont trumpet it as such.
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terion
2/17/2010 3:44 AM EST
"Apple could control the user experience and the applications market. Take that, Microsoft."
I understand that this is good for Apple. But why such strict contorl over device I bought is good for me?
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JohnABC123456
7/27/2012 5:20 AM EDT
Ipad means fashional,with ipad you could catch up the Flow of High-Tech phones.
Ipad help booming some accessories industries,such as iphone case and bags.
http://www.beckmall.com/goods_c3BlY19pZAk3NjI=.html
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