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Apple's latest: iPad or iDud?

By Edward Shepard • Monday, February 1, 2010 of the www.burlingtonfreepress.com

Last week, after months of speculation, Apple Inc. unveiled its iPad table computer to decidedly mixed reactions. Some hailed iPad a brilliant, industry-redefining device, certain to save print media while simultaneously selling tens of millions of copies, like iPod and iPhone.

Others snickered at the name, immediately dismissing iPad as either a dumbed-down computer or an awkwardly overgrown iPhone. That is, a product without need or niche. At this point, negative opinions about iPad seem to be louder and more prevalent than positive ones. Some of that negativity is backlash to the frenzy leading up to iPad's launch. Apple isn't helping when it calls iPad "magical" and "revolutionary." But what is it?

What it does

Superficially, iPad does indeed resemble a large iPhone or iPod touch. It has a 9.6-inch multi-touch screen, is a 1/2-inch thick, and is made of aluminum and glass. Like the iPhone, iPad has just four physical buttons. It can run most of the 140,000 applications in the iTunes App Store, just like an iPhone or iPod touch.

While iPad can run those apps (more on that below), out of the box it is primarily designed for reading books, newspapers and magazines, surfing the Web, playing games, and enjoying media such as YouTube videos, HD movies, music, photos, and TV shows. You can also use iPad to send e-mail, touch up photos, edit documents and spreadsheets, and view PDFs. You hold iPad in your hands like a clipboard or book.

If you know how to use an iPhone or iPod touch you'll know how to use the iPad. Like the iPhone, the iPad has a software keyboard. Early reports say this keyboard is fine for basic text editing, but probably isn't ideal for complex word processing. Apple is offering two external keyboards to help with that.

All versions of iPad have built-in Wi-Fi, while three versions also have 3G wireless capabilities. AT&T offers iPad users two different 30-day, no contract 3G data plans for people out of reach of a Wi-Fi signal.

It should be possible to make VOIP and Skype calls from iPad, as it now is with 3G and 3GS

What it doesn't

Notable features lacking on the iPad include a camera or webcam, SD card port (though Apple is offering an adapter for SD cards), support for Flash, and true system multitasking.

It's surprising that iPad lacks a camera; perhaps it will be offered in the next generation iPad. Multitasking is also likely a feature in the next version of the iPhone operating system (which drives the iPad.) If iPad supported multitasking now, it would likely have far fewer skeptics.

The lack of Flash will be iPad's major shortcoming for many people. For now, this means no Hulu.com. Web standards are moving from Flash video to an open standard (led by companies such as YouTube), but this won't happen for a couple of years. In the meantime, perhaps Apple and Adobe will settle their differences and bring Flash to iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. I'm not holding my breath.

Early read

iPad isn't designed to do everything you'd do on a traditional computer; instead, as Steve Jobs has said, "It has to be far better at doing some key things."

It will be an exceptional, full color e-reader, not just for books, but also newspapers and magazines. As of this writing, the base iPad costs $10 more than the Kindle DX, but has far more features. Indeed, if Apple simply said it was launching and e-book reader with the iPad's features, I believe there would be high public acclaim for iPad.

Many mobile professionals will appreciate the simplicity of the iPad design, along with its considerable wireless abilities. iPad makes an excellent digital planner, with calendar, contact and Microsoft Exchange support built in.

Certainly many doctors, lawyers and teachers have been hoping for a simple, streamlined device (simpler than a notebook) for accessing digital documents.

All about apps

But the real killer feature of iPad is its ability to run nearly any of the apps in the iTunes App store. Many of these apps will be more useful on iPad's 9.6-inch screen than the iPhone's 3-inch screen. The apps let you make the iPad want you want it to be.

I know a videographer who uses his iPhone as a teleprompter, digital clapboard, script reader and storyboard tool. Imagine the utility of doing all that on iPad's larger screen?

The iPad was announced months before shipping to give developers a head start in developing new, iPad-specific apps. Those iPad-specific apps will define the iPad's real potential.

In summation

So, is the iPad truly a revolutionary device or just a toy for Mac fans?

Based on its potential utility, it's not a toy. But based on its specs, it's not a revolution like the iPhone was. Instead, it's a step toward a new form of appliance-like computing. You just turn it on and use it. You keep it out on your coffee table or desk for instant access. You download inexpensive, specialized apps as you need them. And you do it on a device that's easier to read then a cell phone, but more casual than a notebook computer.

As a step in an evolutionary process, iPad will certainly inspire interesting competing products in the future, just as iPhone paved the way for great new smartphones from Google and other companies. Who knows, you might read about those devices on an iPad someday.

Edward Shepard is a writer for Small Dog Electronics' newsletter, Kibbles and Bytes, and blog, Barkings, at www.smalldog.com

 

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by Jason Adams as seen on http://popwatch.ew.com

It won’t be in consumers’ hands for another 60 days or so, but at today’s Apple spectacle in San Francisco I got a chance to put the future of seemingly everything — video games, books, The New York Times — in my very own two hands. Our dalliance was brief, as there was a huge crowd of other eager test-drivers behind me, but it certainly helped to connect reality with the the mind-blowing presentation Steve Jobs gave — truly, the possibilities of the new Apple product were almost too much to process during the presentation — and it looks to be a very promising and exciting addition to the iEverything family.

I checked out Scrabble, a couple of YouTube videos, the Ted Kennedy autobiography that will be available in the new iBookstore — and I’ll tell ya, moving into a world where virtual things are both lifelike and life-size is nothing short of amazing. Yes, like much of the advance hype said it would be, it is in some ways like an over-sized iPod Touch: everything works off a very intuitive touch screen (i.e. so flipping a book page is very much like flipping a real book page; sorry Kindle!) and sizing and resizing video to fit snugly and appear crisp and clean on the 9.7-inch IPS display is pretty awesome. The weight (a pound and a half) doesn’t feel much heavier than the hardcover edition of Game Change I am currently reading, and the half-inch thickness rests even more nicely in two hands. And, I will be the first to report, the EW.com homepage jumps off the page. Or screen. Or the combo between the two that I was looking at.

For more on the technical specs, check out Margaret Lyons’ excellent earlier post. She asked me to handle the “touchy-feely” side of things, which at the outset of the event we both thought might just be about the geeky emotions a Steve Jobs-led shindig would evoke. But thankfully I got to do to the touchy-feely part literally with the iPad, if even for a few minutes.

I certainly look forward to spending a lot more time in the future with the iPad. But for now the glimpse of that future I got today is very clean, clear, intuitive…and yes, bright.

Not yet sent from my iPad — but hopefully soon!

  
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