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May. 1st, 2010 05:30 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cyranoTech folks? Tell me about the iPad. My personal research tells me it's kind of like an iPhone except it has a bigger screen and doesn't make phone calls. I don't really understand the revolutionary nature of the iPhone, which may be part of the problem.
However, I know many people (most of whom are not part of the "It's shiny and I have lots of money" school) who desperately want an iPad. Joel at Gizmodo has called iPad "the stage for some of the most exciting software of the last decade."
There is something that I'm obviously missing, and this would not be the first time, but in this instance I hope that somebody can explain it to me in words.
However, I know many people (most of whom are not part of the "It's shiny and I have lots of money" school) who desperately want an iPad. Joel at Gizmodo has called iPad "the stage for some of the most exciting software of the last decade."
There is something that I'm obviously missing, and this would not be the first time, but in this instance I hope that somebody can explain it to me in words.
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Date: 2010-05-01 09:42 pm (UTC)The better analogue to the iPad is the iPod Touch. Both do exactly the same thing, save one is bigger.
In this little corner of the Verse, all the people who lust after an iPad are non-computer oriented folks, most of whom are members of the Church of Apple. All the computer literate folks are yawning with boredom, because, let's face it, the iPad is a tablet computer, albeit a wussy one.
Personally, I'm not going to bother. The Kindle works much better for books (can't read an iPad in full sunlight) and the iPod is good for music and video. Games hold zero interest for me.