It’s new, something starting the new era of how people will grab the computer.

The iPad is only the first model and others will follow the path of “Make It Simple”, no strange alert window, no virus thing, no pain connecting thing with wires, no 1.3 hdmi compatibility, no all the stuff the people don’t want to know because it’s boring and too geeky

MAKE IT SIMPLE : that’s the ipad MO.

On the show you mentioned you don’t like drawing with your finger on your iPhone, I’m the same.
But with a stylus I think you may change your mind.
You can pick up a awesome stylus to use with all the drawing app eg: Brushes or Sketchbook mobile apps called a Pogo Sketch from One Ten Design thats works great with any iPod Touch or iPhone. The website site says they are 98% sure it’ll work on iPad.
Work checking out.

http://tenonedesign.com/sketch.php

Finger’s crossed.

This is my main beef with apple. They are like a leach, but instead of sucking blood they suck money out of you. You don’t think they could add all those extras on the iPad if they wanted to? Pa-lease, you know they COULD. They choose not to so they can sell iPad 2.0, 3.0 and so on.

Just like with the iPhone. There is soooo much you can do on a jailbroke phone that you cant on a non-jailbroke one. The phone CAN do all these great things but apple chooses not to give you the ability to do these things out of the box. You have to JB it and “void the warranty” to get the full potential out of the product. And the next iPhone will have some of these functions but you have to buy the newest phone to get it. I understand they’re in the business of making money, but in my opinion (and that’s all this is, is my opinion) apple takes it too far. How about coming up with new stuff to add to your great product, rather than just unlocking features that should have been there (and are, if unlocked) in the first place!

The first thing that popped in my head was that the iPad would be the ultimate home board game system. Chess, checkers, backgammon, etc… Those things are doable on the iPhone/iPod, but you really have to pass the phone back-and-forth…

On the iPad, it’s big enough to sit between two people to play.

It could be so much more, though… think of all the little solid-state gadgets that people buy to do *one* thing… weather station… electronic photo frame… portable DVD player… eBook reader…

I could also see Apple getting into the eTextbook market with this…

The iPad is the ultimate household gadget. Picture this the sleek, sexy frame of the iPad stands (on the integral dock) on a sideboard, it is charging whilst also playing a slideshow of pictures – a family holiday, a new birth etc… An expensive digital photo frame but with a kick. On the school run I pick it up and the kids watch ‘UP’ on the 9″ screen, when I need directions I quickly access maps and print wirelessly over my Wifi network to the printer. I can kill 30minutes playing a game when there’s nothing on the TV or even surf the web.

In the morning I can access the newspaper with video content, read a book or listen to the radio.

At parties the iPad is the DJ, perhaps with full screen visualiser, or I can set the mood and stream content to my Hifi. The iPad is predominantly for the home, yes it is portable, but with a 10hr (suspect) battery life its not for a long walk, holiday or business use. Who’d need to anyway – I have a laptop for the daily grind and a iPhone for communications, a quick game, contacts, calendar etc…

The iPad is the new hub of the house. Everyone can quickly scan the calendar, the web, the TV listings.

Oh and you can draw on it too.

Give the iPad a break! It doesn’t need to be a phone… It doesn’t need a camera! (look at the size of it, would you take a picture on that?) It is what it is… pure genius, and in a couple of years we will all be wondering how we lived without one.

I was really hoping it would have handwriting recognition-but I guess I’ll wait and see how Microsoft’s Courier stacks up.

“No wireless. Less space than a Nomad. Lame.” – Rob Malda, founder of technology website Slashdot.