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On Wednesday Steve Jobs announced the newest addition to the Apple family, the iPad. The way he described it during the presentation you would have thought that this was the greatest creation in recorded history. He also downplayed the netbooks that are swamping the market now. He actually had me going until he said how much storage space the iPad’s come with. 16gb, 32GB and 64GB. Early reports are saying that the 16GB model will be available for $499. That is too much money for the features in my opinion. Basically the iPad is a supersized iPod Touch, in looks as well as features. The battery life is the best part which is rated at 10 hours and over a month in standby mode.
Overall I feel like the iPad is nothing more than a rushed prototype. Why? First of all the name iPad just doesn’t strike me as a very appealing name. It looks like Apple didn’t want to go with the name iSlate because that’s what everybody thought it would be called and had been calling it. Second of all the design is just like the iPod touch, just bigger. Speaking of size, Steve Jobs bragged about how thin it is. Honestly, as big as it is it doesn’t really matter how thin it is because it’s not like you’re going to be putting it in your pocket. If you take it on a trip you will still have to take a some form of a laptop bag. If you need to do anything productive then you would probably opt for an actual laptop, not a glorified ebook reader, which by the way is what I believe this was actually intended to be.
Who will the iPad appeal to? Teens who think it’s tight, middle aged men with too much money who need a new toy and general Apple fanatics. How could this release have been better? Release the iPad as an 8GB model with an option for expandible storage and stick a $299 price tag on it. In the presentation Steve Jobs mentioned netbooks as well as smartphones. The iPad can’t compete with either of these. Will I be getting one of these? Probably next year when 128Gb solid state drives are being stuck in it. No matter what I’d rather have a Macbook Pro than this oversized iPod.
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