Apple iPad

[bubuy]

:sleepysmiley03:

 

Jobs may be ready to step away from Apple, but not before completing a tablet as his magnum opus.

 

On smartphones, Apple was late to the market, but if there is another vendor doing a better job of currently defining what a smartphone is, I don’t know who they are. With smartbooks, a new class of product based on smartphone technology that looks like a netbook computer, the market hasn’t even really launched, and already Apple appears to be moving to define it.

 

Word is they are rushing to try to have a product into the market in the fourth quarter. Were this anyone else, I’d say they had a snowball’s chance in hell of making it, but this is Apple, which likely has a patent on hell snowballs, so let’s chat about the Apple iPad this week.

 

iPod Sales Slowing

 

In what was a stellar quarter last quarter from Apple, the one really troubling mark was that iPod sales were slowing. Now, part of this was Apple drawing down inventories in advance of what will likely be a broad product refresh in August or early September, but I think it reflects on the fact that people are focusing more and more on smartphones, and not as excited about MP3 players as they once were. This suggests that Apple needs to move to the next big thing after the iPod, and while they are partially hedging this decline with the iPhone, it will probably be a long time (if ever) before iPhones will ever replace iPods.

 

Apple needs something exciting this year, and what better than something new and very different.

 

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visit iPad page for more info.

Edited January 28, 2010 by bubuy

[triton]

i'd say, WAIT UNTIL APPLE RELEASES ITS 3RD GENERATION IPAD. lam nyo naman ang gadgets ngayon, ilang buwan palang nakalipas ilabas may kapalit agad. sa nakita kong launching ng IPAD sa STATION C dito sa montreal, i would say, BORING.

 

IPAD looks like an enlarged IPOD. ang borders ng screen ang kapal parang TV.

 

para sa akin, not now IPAD. wait na lang ng 3rd or 5th gen baka mas maganda na yan by that time. saka mas mura na.

 

isang tanong ko lang dyan is papano kung walang wifi. bale wala din. isa pa, monthly subscription: at magkano naman kaya ang mga apps nito. sabi kasi 14,000 apps agad ang available sa launching day palang kahapon. eh free naman kaya? sa ipod nga may bayad eh. yung mga free naman eh puro borloloy lang.

Edited January 28, 2010 by triton

[bbadwidme]

While I agree with most of what you said, I disagree though on this part:

 

lam nyo naman ang gadgets ngayon, ilang buwan palang nakalipas ilabas may kapalit agad.

 

Apple is known for not immediately upgrading their products. They want to maximize the development costs by earning as much money as possible from the model they just released. And the iPad is no exception.

 

The iPhone, iPod, Macbook, iMac all follow an annual model upgrade. Apple doesn't do an upgrade in a span of months only. The only product Apple has that takes more than one year before a new model is released is the Mac Mini because their margin of income from the Mini is among the lowest among all Apple models and is thus upgraded in a once every one and a half year cycle.

[arvinix]

truth to be told, its a bit expensive at $499 starting price. heck i can buy a decent netbook on half of that price. but then again, with apple, its all about the form factor. which would make everyone drool and shout: "i want one!", same hype that surrounded the iphone 3 years ago with people camping out the apple store for 24 hours prior its date of release. to buy this for now would be purely compulsive. tama si triton wait na lang for the 3rd generation when they've sorted out the bugs on this. although as a photographer, i may need one... but not just yet.

[enlightenme]

Ayos sana eh... kaso parang hindi siya ganun ka-productive, like a netbook, at least dun madali mong maiiopen yun documents mo na walang kailangan na ibang gadget na gamitin. Maganda daw ang media experience, pero hassle naman kasi mag-upload ng vids sa itunes, kailangan mo pang iconvert to compatible format, tapos it still DOES NOT support FLASH?! c'mon Mr. Jobs... sayang naman ang internet experience dito, galing sana ng browser kaso sana may FLASH diba? And with all the horsepower, still no multi-tasking? Hassle, kasi you'd have to switch from say browsing and IM diba?

 

Hilaw pa ito para ngayon... kahit sabihin na 'There's an App for that' it still is an over-sized iPod touch.

[arvinix]

Hilaw pa ito para ngayon... kahit sabihin na 'There's an App for that' it still is an over-sized iPod touch.

 

more like amazon's kindle.

[kempaf]

While I agree with most of what you said, I disagree though on this part:

 

 

 

Apple is known for not immediately upgrading their products. They want to maximize the development costs by earning as much money as possible from the model they just released. And the iPad is no exception.

 

The iPhone, iPod, Macbook, iMac all follow an annual model upgrade. Apple doesn't do an upgrade in a span of months only. The only product Apple has that takes more than one year before a new model is released is the Mac Mini because their margin of income from the Mini is among the lowest among all Apple models and is thus upgraded in a once every one and a half year cycle.

 

business is still business pa rin..

[noyzky7]

"iPad" apples new release gadget.. No 3G support, no built-in camera, no flash support, no user-replaceable battery,small storage capacity

 

no tv subscriptions, no jaw-droppingly new interface, no iphone software, no usb port and even no operating system (leopard).

 

What a piece of $@#t !!!! Very disappointed.. :thumbsdownsmiley:

[brian]

Amazon is shitting in their pants right now. This will surely k*ll the Kindle. They better come out with a better hardware.

 

iPad...well the feature is probably what you'd expect from Apple. They would not put in the essential features just yet. They're gonna milk whatever they can from the hype this has created. I can't say I blame them. It is business after all and they're doing a great job in marketing their products.

 

Apple fanboys are rejoicing right now.

[brian]

Oh and just to add to my post...

 

I read a comment from Facebook about the iPad.

 

iPad? More like iPadthetic!

 

[noyzky7]

iPad is not a computer, netbook or tablet ... Its a big iPod that's all folks..

 

badS. JOBs apple..

[Brownman]

...time will only telll if this is an Iflap just like the Itv.

I'm a Mackie but will not be getting this, nothing that the Iphone or Macbook Pro can't handle but again I'm probably not the market for this tablet.

[Nismo]

C'mon guys did you see and hear Steve's keynote? The iPad is being positioned as being in the middle of an iPhone and a Macbook. Apple is trying to make a niche (I believe there is none right now) in the market for this kind of product. It will be shipping with a 3G and Wifi come 90 days. Surely when you physically see the iPad from some rich ass dude/gal out there, it deserves a second look! Just my two cents!

[Kurtsky Keigee]

overpriced brick.

[noyzky7]

Maybe it is the most expensive PHOTO FRAME .. he he he