The Apple Tablet

[floridaorange]

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I don't get it ... it's an elarged iPod with ugly proportions and a huge border. I'm watching the keynote now and he's just fiddling around with apps. Which I'm sure you can do on an iPhone.

I was expecting a more interesting user interface ... this is quite an anti-climax.

are ya kidding?

watch the whole thing, it's actually awesome.

[ddr]

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i agree with feather actually... its just an enlarged itouch. =\

if it was more like a computer. thing is useless imo.

[res0nat0r]

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If the no mulitasking comment above is true, then that is ridiculous and not worth buying for that fact alone. i was annoyed enough with my iphone (before i sold it) that i had to stop streaming pandora to read a new email.

i thought this was fixed in the latest iphone sowftware update though?

[ganjamo]

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i personally wouldnt buy one. But i know many people will do hehe.

The only thing thats really better than the other tablets out there atm is the iBook thingy.

[feather]

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are ya kidding?

watch the whole thing, it's actually awesome.

What's so awesome about it?

[Troklo]

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Even thou I find the ipad pretty I don´t think I´ll get one because it dosen´t do anything else my netbook with hackintosh does.
Maybe in a couple of years i´ll give it a try. When it´s time to change my netbook and they allow multitasking.
The other stuff people complain about I personally can live with out.

[poults]

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As has already been mentioned, this is a serious anti climax imo. Far too overhyped before the conference.

[subterFUSE]

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If the no mulitasking comment above is true, then that is ridiculous and not worth buying for that fact alone. i was annoyed enough with my iphone (before i sold it) that i had to stop streaming pandora to read a new email.

i thought this was fixed in the latest iphone sowftware update though?

No this was not "fixed" because Apple has no intention of fixing it. At least, not yet.
If they allowed multitasking then it would affect the performance of the applications due to hardware restrictions. Apple maintains a philosophy which says they want their devices to do a few things, and do them well. They don't want to do more in a half-assed way.

I completely agree that without multitasking, these devices lose a lot of convenience and overall functionality. But I do see where Apple is coming from on this. They don't want people running 4 programs at once, lagging the devices and complaining about how slow the hardware is. This would hurt the Apple image of high-end performance devices.

I have a Blackberry Storm right now which does allow multitasking. However, I must take care with watching my resources or else everything can get laggy. I've got a memory cleaner app which is pretty helpful... and an app which automatically restarts the system every night while I sleep. But these steps would make Apple cringe.

[Kamal]

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you have the storm, which in itself is buggy. if you have the storm 1, its even buggier than the storm 2.

As for the maxIPAD, I'm with feather and res, this thing is a major letdown. for a company that introduced the world to the iphone, has, 5 odd years later, come out with an enlarged photo frame version of its best selling product, is pretty lousy.

in giving the benefit of the doubt, yes there is only so much they could better an already good thing, but the fucking buzz around it felt like it was going to give you a tiger woods experience right out of the jar. no thanks.

rather go with the iPhone. It's cheaper to buy, cheaper to rent from att, you can make calls with it and with their trade-up program, get the new improved version after 2 years. this thing won't be worth shit after 2 years.

[Jenks]

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i think at this point apple didn't go all out with this is because they're not ready to give up on the macbook, which is a huge portion of their sales. if you could get a ipad well under 1k, that supported flash, multitasking, hdmi, etc etc...that basically merged the iphone and the macbook into one awesome machine...then the macbook becomes less relevant.

i also read about a lot of companies with new tablet style pcs on the horizon, and i'm sure jobs wanted to be the first out with his, whether it had 100% of the features it needed to have anyway. look how long it took iphone to get copy and paste. introduce the base model, people will buy it anyway because it's new, then slowly improve on it making each additional release worth buying for new features. seems to be apples m.o.

i won't buy one now, but i could see buying one of these in the future. at the moment it's not doing anything my iphone doesn't do.

[dusk]

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The more I see it, the more I LOVE it, sure with a few more tweaks here and there, get something like iCall or GV mobile on there and I'd be all set.

I'm surprised that so many people are bashing it now and guess what, tons more people will pick it up. Its perfect, I love my itouch, (much prefer it over the iphone, hate BIG phones) just imagine a bigger version thats not a laptop.. can't go wrong really IMHO

[res0nat0r]

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I guess they have done the correct thing and have not said anywhere that this thing is a 'netbook', so since it can't multitask it is just a big version of an itouch + a new app to do what the kindle does. bleh.

[Jenks]

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will be interesting to see what third parties do with the ipad.

[dusk]

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will be interesting to see what third parties do with the ipad.

True, you get some super apps on there and this thing will be rocking.

[res0nat0r]

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jailbroken ipad might = win