2010-01-27

Apple iPad

Upplagd av Sotiris

Tonight Apple presented its new product, the iPad.

Here is the video of the presentation :


Just some specifications of it (from engadget) :

"It's a half-inch thick and weighs just 1.5 pounds, with a 9.7-inch capacitive touchscreen IPS LCD display, and it's running a custom 1GHz Apple "A4" chip developed by the P.A. Semi team, with a 10-hour battery life and a month of standby. It'll come in 16, 32, and 64GB sizes, and it's got the expected connectivity: very little. There's a 30-pin Dock connector, a speaker, a microphone, Bluetooth, 802.11n WiFi and optional 3G, as well as an accelerometer and a compass. There's also a keyboard dock, which connects underneath in the portrait orientation, support for up to 1024x768 VGA out and 480p composite out through new dock adapter cables, and a camera attachment kit that lets you import photos from your camera over USB or directly through an SD reader. The device is managed by iTunes, just like the iPhone -- you sync everything over to your Mac. As expected, it can run iPhone apps -- either pixel-for-pixel in a window, or pixel-doubled fullscreen "


FYI, it does NOT support flash, its cheapest version (16 GB) costs $499 and its main advantage is that it is an Apple product.

Now look at that picture :



Is it just me or it looks like Steve Jobs is holding an iPhone that has mutated to something bigger, heavier and more scary ?

And its name is iPad... Apart from the total lack of inspiration and imagination when it comes to names, the marketing guys should have thought a little bit more I think about possible interpretations of the product's name.


A total FAIL imho... What do you think?


UPDATE
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Back in 2006 an American show called MadTV had predicted the future ! See the video :)


Now, how about bad marketing and sloppy market research ?

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2 kommentarer:

Linus Ericsson sa...

No fail. The important thing is what people do with their computers! Image this as a learning device - no more heavy mathematics book - but well a wolfram alpha application!

Think about videochatting on iPad! Think about reading a glossy magazine!

If you are a programmer, iPad is totally worthless, otherwise you should give it a chance.

I would love to slid one of this into my bag before going to school.

27 januari 2010 kl. 23:16  
Sotiris sa...

Again from the latest review from engagdet:

" * It's not light. It feels pretty weighty in your hand.
* The screen is stunning, and it's 1024 x 768. Feels just like a huge iPhone in your hands.
* The speed of the CPU is something to be marveled at. It is blazingly fast from what we can tell. Webpages loaded up super fast, and scrolling was without a hiccup. Moving into and out of apps was a breeze. Everything flew.
* There's no multitasking at all. It's a real disappointment. All this power and very little you can do with it at once. No multitasking means no streaming Pandora when you're working in Pages... you can figure it out. It's a real setback for this device.
* The ebook implementation is about as close as you can get to reading without a stack of bound paper in your hand. The visual stuff really helps flesh out the experience. It may be just for show, but it counts here.
* No camera. None, nada. Zip. No video conferencing here folks. Hell, it doesn't have an SMS app!
* It's running iPhone OS 3.2.
* The keyboard is good, not great. Not quite as responsive as it looked in the demos.
* No Flash confirmed. So Hulu is out for you, folks!"

So we have a really thin surface that can run only one task at a time (!), load webpages pretty fast but can't play embedded flash videos, just like back in the 90's. And it doesn't even have a webcam !!!

And all these for at least 499 dollars? Netbooks are way more useful, fun and interesting. I think that Steve Jobs wanted to make an intro at the netbook market and came up with something that is an iPhone on steroids which would really like to be a netbook but ended up being really expensive.

Ok, Jobs said that you can change the background pisture but I'm still not impressed from that feature...

28 januari 2010 kl. 15:19  

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