Apple iPad

[bitoysworld123]

another interesting gadget... un nga lang, will it be worth the price that you'll pay for? IMHO lang naman, at first aakalain mo na mura ung price nito given the trademark of Apple... ang kaso eh dami pang kulang na applications nito or add-ons di ba? for sure this model will be further improved kaya lang good luck na lang din on its increase in price... hmmm...

[bbadwidme]

"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:

 

Actually there's a version with 3G. Problem is, only for data, not for calling.

[bbadwidme]

What I was hoping for the iPad was that it would have been a combination of the iPhone and the Macbook where they drop the Superdrive, the keyboard, the trackpad, replaced the 13" monitor with a 10" touchscreen, phone capabilities including 3G while still retaining the OSX Snow Leopard although slightly modified for phone use.

[iangastic]

Actually there's a version with 3G. Problem is, only for data, not for calling.

 

 

imagine answering your calls using the overgrowned i touch hehehehe...joke lang

[triathlete]

I fad ????

[boomouse]

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.

 

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.

 

 

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.

 

 

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

 

badS. JOBs apple..

 

 

...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.

 

 

You guys have it all wrong. If you already use a computer, his thing was not meant for your use. Of course you would pan it but the truth of the matter is that we advanced computer users are just a small drop of the entire market. Why do you think Macs are so expensive? Apple needed the bigger margins to hit their profitability targets and they correctly decided that we would pay through the nose for the right product. Guess what, this is the right product for a different market.

 

Here's my other post: http://manilatonight.com/index.php?showtop...t&p=7226045

[triton]

Guess what, this is the right product for a different market.

 

kaya pala ang ipod eh naging music/video player lang at laruan ng mga nerds.

 

........for a different market talaga.

 

asahan nyo, babagsak ang presyo nyan or malamang........di kagatin sa merkado.

[akellu]

Something to read before buying the IPad.....

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/188185/appl...lash_clash.html

[noyzky7]

Or see this video before buying an iPad....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4...ature=topvideos

[boomouse]

Or see this video before buying an iPad....

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4...ature=topvideos

 

Something to read before buying the IPad.....

 

http://www.pcworld.com/article/188185/appl...lash_clash.html

 

 

Guys, really, it pays to get a bit more knowledge than to merely rely on uninformed gossip.

 

Had you actually been to the Apple site or watched the Keynote, you would already know that even if you had all the money in the world, you could not buy this product yet. Apple said the non-3G models ship in 60 days, the ones with 3G in 90 days. In Manila we'd be lucky to have access to it by July. There is a lot of time to watch a few thousand videos before buying it. Nothing urgent here.

 

That is time enough to fix things like the obvious problems with Flash media and I am sure there are still other problems that only hands on experience would show.

 

You guys are probably too young to have experienced the intro of the Mac in 1984. I was techncial editor of an Asian computer magazine when the Mac was launched and I made the mistake of panning it on the basis of existing computing paradigms ("Where's the command prompt?", "I need to spend $2,500 to draw on a screen with a mouse to produce pictures that I can draw better with pencil and paper?"). Guess what, in two years time, I ate my words and spent not just $2,500 on a Mac, but $800 on a 20 MB external SCSI hard disk, and $5,000 on an Apple LaserWriter. Why? Because my wife learned how to use MacWrite on her own after I have unsuccessfully tried to teach her Wordstar and WordPerfect on MS-DOS.

 

When it comes to techonology, it often makes good sense to give new tech the benefit of the doubt. Well, at least until you actually wrap your hands around it and see for yourself. A lot of the opinions we are reading today is written by people who have something to gain by seeing success or failure.

 

For example, pro-netbook pundits are in a tizzy over fears that some market segments will hold off their planned netbook purchases to wait for the iPad to ship and try it our first. Vendors with inventories of cheap netbooks and laptops would be trying their darndest to convince the market that a wait-and-see attitude is not worthwhile because they will see nothing new and potentially a lot less in the iPad.

 

Well, a netbook is nothing but any old laptop with an old OS, smaller screen (and therefore harder to see for old people), probably slow as molasses because the processor needs to consume less power, and be cheap and therefore use older technology to produce. Keyboards are small, cramped, hard to type in and the keys that matter are located in odd places. For experienced computer users, these are all minor inconveniences that would not stop them. But to the tech-challenged who don't even know how to send SMS, using a netbook would be like climbing Mt Everest.

 

Apple said that their target for the iPad would be people like these. Apple fans like me would buy it just for the novelty but if my 80 year old father who's hobby is collecting PhDs takes to it in his studies (yes, he is still in school, working on his nth doctorate–this time in Literature I think, at the UST) then, another nail would have been hit on the head.

 

In the meantime, all we can do is read about this new product and learn to distinguish between the sensible, the self-serving, the superficial, and the ridiculous. That's not going to be easy.

[artvader]

They're marketing it as a web device and yet it can't display some web pages correctly because it refuses to support Flash.

 

They're saying it's a media device where you can view videos, photos and play games yet the storage is so limited. C'mon, my music collection alone will use up more than half the storage space in iPad. Then there's my video collection...

 

Thing is: if you already own an iPhone or iPod touch, there's little motivation to buy this product...

 

The fact is, a lot of people were disappointed with the device (including a lot of Apple fans - not all, though-).

 

Will people actually buy it? We'll just have to see.

 

On the positive side, the screen looks gorgeous.

 

I can see this as a great email device, however.

Edited January 30, 2010 by artvader

[AE86]

San ko isisilid yan? sa breast pocket? :upside:

[boomouse]

San ko isisilid yan? sa breast pocket? :upside:

 

If you have a pocket wide enough and more importantly, deep enough.

[akellu]

San ko isisilid yan? sa breast pocket? :upside:

 

 

Why? kung meron ka flaunt it...... hehehe!! punta ka ng starbucks at kunwari may ginagawa kang importante

[RiverJordan]

when I saw this I just thought "That's a Huge Bitch"! from Deuce Bigalow I'd have to put that in the passenger seat and put a seatbelt on it.