<p>By the way, when I think of the word pad, it conjures up what I used to call my friends’ places back in the day. It shows the different generations’ perceptions.</p>
<p>I think a killer combo product would be a builtin eyeglass holder on the back.</p>
<p>I have an iPod Touch but I use it mostly as a music player because my vision is decaying rather quickly.</p>
<p>The i-pad’s full color capabilities for e-books is exciting to me, and exactly what I’ve been waiting for. I think it will revolutionize the way print media is circulated and digested. I imagine reading magazines like National Geographic on the i-pad in full color, but in addition to the normal photos and print articles, being able to view imbeded video as well. I’d like to download a culinary magazine (Eating Well, Cook’s Illustrated, Gourmet, etc) and not only see full color photographic illustrations, but video tips on exactly how to string-tie that expensive roast. I’d like to download a bestselling novel, and have the option of watching an interview with the author as well. The I-pad (or a device like it) will make graphics intense e-text books usable by students at every level. No more hauling around multiple 10 pound hard bound paper text books. They can all be stored on a single one and a half pound multi-function device. And with a ap for note-taking with a stylus in your own handwriting, they won’t even need to buy paper notebooks. The possibilities really are endless with this thing. It’s way more than a kindle in color. I can’t wait to get one of these devices. But, I’ll more than likely wait until it’s been in use for at least a year, and many of the kinks have been worked out.</p>
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<p>At the current price, it would cost $1 mil to supply a school with 2,000 students. I think systematic use of something like this is still a long way off.</p>
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<p>Best status update on Facebook today was “XXXX recommends that you purchase the 64GB iPad for your heavier days.”</p>
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<p>I love my iphone, but my eyes aren’t good enough to read the small font when I’m using the internet browser, so I would love to have an ipad.</p>
<p>MOWC, you’re not alone:</p>
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<p>The jokes there were hilarious! some of my favorites–uneven WiFi should be called “iSpotting” and “Are you there God? it’s me, Marketing.”</p>
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<p>One has to wonder if they’re brainstorming other names right now.</p>
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<p>You and I both know that prices for computer/electronic devices go down precipitously over time, even as quality improves and width of applications expands. Plus, how much are school systems spending right now on text books? How much is a single World History Book or Calculus text book? My D had text books that cost her $175 dollars when she was an undergrad. I know school systems usually buy in bulk from a publisher, but I’d be willing to surmise that the text book that costs the individual student $175 will cost a school system at least $100. Multiply that by the number and variety of different text books school systems must supply students at every level. </p>
<p>Due to the drastic reduction in costs to publishers to produce e-texts, prices for these products should drop by quite a bit. By the time the trend to go the e-text route has gained momentum, a $500 i-pad (or similar device) should be considerably cheaper—so cheap in fact, that most parents will be be able to buy them for their kids as one of their routine back-to-school expenditures. We’re going paperless in this country, and sooner than a lot of people think.</p>
<p>The biggest problem with the iPad is the same problem with the iPhone – you can only run one application at a time. If you want to listen to music with Pandora and read your email on the web at the same time, you will have to use the Nexus One or another Android powered phone. Even with a regular notebook computer, you can run more than one application at a time.</p>
<p>On the other hand, I think Amazon will have some trouble selling their black and white Kindle rather than the color iPad.</p>
<p>There’s a big difference between e-text and electronic textbooks. Electronic textbooks would have photos, diagrams and color. The size of an electronic textbook would be orders of magnitude larger than etext files. An electronic textbook could even have video and interactive components (such as a self-test quiz).</p>
<p>Kindle reader here … and I won’t be getting one for e-books. I want an e-book to just be an e-book and that’s it, and I don’t want it to be backlit because then it would strain my eyes just like reading for any length of time does on the computer. Plus, it appears at least with first glast that the I-library will be more expensive for books. I also like free whispernet to get my books. I don’t want to pay additional fees past the fee of the book. Now, my s has an Iphone, and he’s cool with that. He doesn’t want to carry around anything extra. He doesn’t see the increased screen as worth it to carry around something extra. And for word processing abilities I can’t see it being something I’d like to use, nor can my son who types a lot on his laptop. Seems like a techno gadget that we’ll have a difficult time moving along the need, want, desire list that we use to evaluate all purchases.</p>
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<p>That could be fixed with modifications to the operating system.</p>
<p>I keep hearing “I can’t listen to Pandora and do x.” I don’t listen to Pandora. Not many people do. They mostly listen to their own music and if they do listen to internet radio then they have to mind so much turning it off for a few minutes to check their mail that they give up whatever the ipad offers. I don’t get the objection. I use my iphone and don’t notice the lack of multi-tasking because I stop a game, start something else, switch, etc. While I can think of a few cases where multi-tasking would actually be useful, the only one I hear is “Pandora,” as though a relatively little used service is the be all of requirements. </p>
<p>As for the name, no one believed the name “iPod” was anything but silly and now it’s completely taken for granted.</p>
<p>And the thing does have a keyboard built in. I assume one can annotate books because McGraw-Hill and others have already said they’ll be selling textbooks on the thing. I think that would be a great use. </p>
<p>I also assume they didn’t add video because of battery life.</p>
<p>Finally, slashdot notes the new SDK allows VOIP over 3G and that means you’ll be able to buy a headphone/mic and buy a month-to-month ATT plan and use the thing as a phone. No, you won’t have to hold it to your face. It has a jack and also bluetooth.</p>
<p>I don’t use Pandora anymore as they’ve added more commercials and are a bit more intrusive than before. I have an iPod touch but mainly use it as a music player as my vision isn’t that good. I can use it with glasses but then I have to find them.</p>
<p>Apple bought PA Semi a while ago and many were wondering why since they use ARM chips for the iPhone and Intel chips for their Macs. They basically did their own custom chip so that they could optimize performance and power for their own applications.</p>
<p>Apple has been an operating system company for a long time - I don’t think that it would be that much trouble to go to a multitasking OS.</p>
<p>I just got a unibody 13" macbook pro- I knew this thing was coming out- but it doesn’t fill the same niche as a laptop.
I think for the price the ipad is too much and doesn’t do enough- doesn’t even have a camera.
Plus I never buy the first generation of anything- at least not until it has been out for a while.
The name doesn’t bother me- I don’t think of sanitary pads- because the only time most people use them is right after they give birth.
I like islate better though.
If it could be used for text books that would be really cool & if they can use more than one app at a time.
you can play itunes and surf the net with the ipod touch, so I suppose you could do that with the ipad-</p>
<p>BC–I’ve heard you can pay a small fee, (maybe 30ish a year?) for commercial-free pandora. My BIL does this.</p>
<p>I also have an itouch, still pretty new to me. I’m still not adept at getting around on it, beyond music. We do use if for backup Internet when someone needs an extra computer. But I really hate the touch screen, it turns out. Give me a real keyboard–please!</p>
<p>The problem with iSlate is Is Late.</p>
<p>Pandora is nice for randomness but I have my own music library which is fine.</p>
<p>The iPad is a viewing device more than a data entry device. If I need to enter a lot of data, I’d use a desktop.</p>