After a lot of speculation, which for once came true, Apple launched its highly anticipated, and potentially game changing multi touch tablet, which most probably, would cystallize the tablet as a product as the iphone did for the smartphone..
I have not held it, and being in a ‘thrid world country with low demand’, I might not hold an iPad (atleast legally) for a long time (the iPhone 3GS is still to launch in India after almost 1 year of launch in the US), but from what I read and seen, the iPad seems a tad bit disappointing or is it so??!?
It looks ultra sexy, but is not revolutionary from Apple Standards, the iPad in looks is just a giant iPhone 3GS, what with the single home button in front and the rounded ‘makes it easy to pick up’ backside, so much so that even the button placement on the sides is very similar to the iPhone. Apple is known for their path breaking designs, and also for majorly changing designs between versions, the Apple Shuffle / Nano being a point in case.
The much talked about iBook should revolutionise the way we read information, already you see newspapers in the US which have embedded videos, and dynamic reporting, the iPad will crystallize this. I have long believed, in a few years from now, any paperback will be a rarity, so save that copy of the Chetan Bhagat ‘best seller’, it will also soon become worth something. But in addition to revolutionizing the way we deal with books, the iBook application will also help apple sell the iPad for as cheap as it is, can you imagine Apple, which unabashedly charges a huge premium on its products and is generally considered very elitist, selling a device at a price point which will enable every tom, dick and harry to buy one…I can’t, and that’s why I think that Apple wants to make its device so ubiquitous that majority of the world read and purchases books online throught he iBook, which means more online books sold for the publishers, which means more percentage profits for the Apple. It’s the iTunes stores story all over again!!!
But very few are talking about the iBook on the iPad, the iPad is today talked about more for its missing features then the ones which are there. No camera, and no multi tasking is just sacriledge. I take personal offence to the latter, is Apple assuming the general netizen to do one task at a time, I don’t think so. well think again Bose...
Apple has always been known to miss features, there were some glaring misses in the iPhone, but they also have been known to have their own ideas of a user today should be interacting with a device, should be using a device, and they have in the past shown the way. and so i ask, were these actually misses, or well thought about omissions?
I believe and have written about this before, in not very distant future, everything will live on the net. A perfect device will be a one for all purposes device, one which enables you to just connect to the net, gives you enough processing power to render it ultra fast, minimum local storage for the most important information like that ‘publish a reveal all autobiography after my death’ draft, and offcourse for offline support of online apps and a UI which matches up to the sexy net apps that we see today. In addition, it will be have ultimate multi user support, and will be able to communicate to other devices including your house appliances, you car, hell to you shaver. Google Chrome OS was the software which would enable this, Apple iPad has provided both the hardware and software…! Apple has a vision, and they are very subtlety making sure that people adopt that vision.
also i think the iPad, or tablets in general will bring slow death to the Laptops, i forsee the smartphone, the tablet and the desktop as the three computing platforms in the future. the desktop, with a very large screen, integrated strongly and completely with the gadgets in its surrounding and acting as a brain and contorlling point for all. the tablet as the medium to connect to the net, also a less stationary but mobile entertainment device (i don't use it when walking or cycling, but mostly when i am stationary) and the smartphone as my on the move device.
Do I have a wishlist for the iPad…well yes, offcourse I expect the UI to be ultra sexy, and as intuitive as the iPhone, I also expect a million apps which provide everything, but more then anything else, the one saving grace against the sacrilege of not providing multi touch is if the iPad can provide native support for running gadgets, well lets see, the google homepage already provides that, so do a lot of browsers, so maybe safari 4 would….lets see. and yea i would like to have a really good web cam. Other wise i would be really disappointed.
I expect the touchscreen to be more reliable, my iPhone died a sad painful death, and I hope my iPad does.
Yes my iPad, because I will buy one, I like it, and I know once I have it in my hands, with Apples penchant of giving less, but exceeding ur imaginations in what it gives, i am gonna love it.
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