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Old 02-01-2010, 04:17 PM   #20
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Originally Posted by Jack Tingle View Post
Now that the Apple pink unicorn is the iPad, I took a look and decided it might just be a decent product for my needs. The spec sheet for the iPad looked good, once I realized they use a proprietary USB connector that you have to buy an adapter for. They also offer an SD card adapter; so far, so good. I could work with that.

How much are the adapters? They don't say. Well, it's new; they don't even sell the iPad yet. No harm, no foul.

The list of things it does includes a lot of things I don't. OTOH, it's a computer. Just add software. So, let's look at the App Store, and see if there's really an App for that. Nope, I'm not allowed to look at the App store; the link doesn't work. Again, it's new, they aren't selling them yet, etc.

Well, it's basically a giant iPod Touch. Let's see if IT has an App for that. Nope you seem to have to own a Touch to find out if there's a App in the store for what you want to do.

Sorry, Steve. It may be I'm looking in the wrong place for information, but if you can't make it easy for me to discover if your product does what I want it to do, don't expect a lot of sales.

Sadly,
Jack Tingle
Dear Jack,

Apple will be struggling to keep up with the pre-orders. I suspect the chances of them worrying that you need convincing to part with your cash are close to zero. Once it is launched Apple Stores worldwide will be full of iPads for you to play with, and plenty of turquoise clad Apple Peeps to answer all your questions.

In the meantime, many, many people will figure that the features demoed, plus what they know about the iPod Touch measured against the price point is more than enough to take a punt on being an early adopter.

I suspect you'll be impressed by what you'll ultimately experience. If you're not you will enjoy the competitive response from Amazon, Sony et al. It is going to be a good year for eBooks - it started well at CES, Amazon are thrashing pricing out with the publishers, and love them or hate them Apple just squeezed the accelerator.

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