iPad???

[NoisyDante]

[cyrus buelton]

...and battery life.

My Dell Netbook's battery life is pretty damn good.

[yotogi]

I am sure its going to shine in the apps department. I can see this being a pretty cool gaming platform.
I currently dont own a tablet and I love my Iphone so I can see myself picking one of these up.

Would you consider the iPhone a "cool gaming platform"? From a game developer's perspective, the iPhone is a crappy platform not because of the hardware or the software, but because it is next to impossible to differentiate your quality $5-10 game from the tens of thousands of crappy, derivative or just ripped off games. I was really hopeful about the platform but unless Apple can change the way that the App Store works, don't expect anything really innovative as it is just too much of a gamble to develop for that platform.

There will be a few big games from the major players, but almost every real game developer that I am know is getting crushed in the iPhone space.

[ab]

I don't understand why you would buy this for reading books.


How about a Kindle or Nook?


They are cheaper and specifically designed for reading books with a killer battery life.


Now......I can see Statler's justification as it would work very well for his job.

IPad being backlit, I am not sure how pleasant experience it would be for reading books without straining your eyes.  That  is my issue with it and see the Kindle DX better for ebooks.  I am curious to see it in person see if the books have some adjustment that may make it easy on the eyes.

(Camera would have been nice and I am sure multitask will come along in due time)

[trenner]

Rather than cut and paste the HTML from my first thoughts on the subject, I'll just point to my pre-formatted iPad musings here:

http://trenner.blogspot.com/2010/01/this-isnt-hitlers-ipad.html

In particular, I found a Gizmodo article that mentions Jef Raskin, and which was written prior to the iPad announcement, especially illuminating.

[ROBsS4R]

Well Put

I can think of a few idea's off the top of my head for things you can do with the Ipad that you can not do on a netbook, laptop, ebook reader etc.

How about art applications like painting programs or think about the music implementations such as making a cool DJ Turn table with it or a mixer?

Call me crazy but since I bought the Iphone which is the only apple product I own so I am no Fan Boy. I have been always telling myself... you know a bigger version of the iphone would be kick ass. I may be drinking the coolaid.

You know my GPS just died. If I had a data plan enable Ipad I would simply be using that right now. There are going to be countless applications that are going to make the ipad a very enjoyable device. Niche yes... But very enjoyable 

[NAKID]

Does the iPad have a GPS receiver?

[ROBsS4R]

Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)

http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

[NAKID]

Ahhhh. That's what I figured. I can do something like that on my BB even though it does not have a GPS receiver...

[herm]

apple should have kept it in development for another year, at least until the could come up with a better name for it.

[cyrus buelton]

Ahhhh. That's what I figured. I can do something like that on my BB even though it does not have a GPS receiver...

What do you mean GPS Receiver?

What model BB do you have?

Maybe I am confused by your post, but my old 8310 had GPS and my Bold 9000 has it too.


Google Maps is real time GPS.

[Kopfjäger]

apple should have kept it in development for another year, at least until the could come up with a better name for it.

Like, iCube or iTab.

[NAKID]

I have the Storm...

[MendoDave]

So does this thing have real WiFi or just AT&T 3G?

[ducatiz]

So does this thing have real WiFi or just AT&T 3G?

basic model has 802.11n wifi, top model has both.