<p>Agreed! My iPhone is mostly a viewing (and sometimes listening) device, and I would be really happy with a bigger touch screen and no keyboard. H and I are not Appleheads, but we love our iPhones.</p>
<p>MoWC & Bunsen - yesterday DD skyped me laughing about the name. She said the same thing - she is waiting of an itampon. We decided that for a brilliant man, Steve Jobs doesn’t have enough women working for him. </p>
<p>That said - I still want one. Funny thing is my husband was my hero when he bought me my kindle for xmas. I am using it to keep me company when I am waiting at appointments. I love it. I must admit, I do love this new gadget. Hey, since DD doesn’t want anything called an Ipad, maybe I will just send her my kindle…</p>
<p>I just don’t think they have made my device yet. It would be the IPad, with true tablet features with Kindle like pricing for books and access to the books. I want to take notes like I do on paper, with arrows and doodles and circles. Store the pages with my client notes, annotate them, keyword them and be able to find them. They do not have to have OCR. Looking like paper is good enough. I have checked all of the tablet and OCR like devices I have found and none are there yet. If IPAD had all that I would be first in line.</p>
<p>The iPad switches from one page mode to two page mode when you flip the screen horizontally and back to one-page mode in vertical mode. You also flip the page as with a book where you can see part of one page and part of the next page at the same time if you flip the page part-way. It’s more “book-like” than I’ve seen compared to any other e-book devices. It would be cool if there were a way to flip through the pages quickly with a gesture.</p>
<p>Apple apparently has a trademark issue with Fujitsu over ipad. Should be interesting. They do have an excuse to change the name if they want to.</p>
<p>Am I going to be able to listen to videos on youtube and access other websites at the same time on the ipad?</p>
<p>You can watch YouTube videos on the iPhone and iPod Touch so you should be able to do so on the iPad.</p>
<p>I don’t think that Safari on ARM supports Flash so there would have to be special applications for videos that use flash.</p>
<p>I think the " bozo" name was a brilliant marketing move on Apple’s behalf. The more buzz the name generates, the better! I bet all late night comedians are “promoting” the device right now at no additional cost to Apple. 
And it is not hard to figure out who will prevail in the trademark suit :)</p>
<p>Cisco had the trademark on iphone but they didn’t use it. They tried to pick it up again when Apple showed interest. They made some kind of settlement. They will probably work things out but these aren’t shipping for two months so they could change the name if they have to.</p>
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<p>Well, I’m a woman and the name, “I-pad” seemed like the most logical thing in the world to me. Not once did it occur to me that the name could be conflated with a woman’s sanitary product. I was surprised when my D told me that one of her friends joked that that’s what it sounded like.
I still like “Ipad”. I mean think of it: Iphone, Ipod, Ipad. Makes perfect sense. Years ago, when people said, “I’m throwing a party at my pad”, did most people think it sounded like that person was talking about a sanitary napkin? I think the difference in this case is that people just can’t resist the urge to knock Steve Jobs down a peg.</p>
<p>Apple reported absolutely blowout earnings on Monday. In the deepest recession since The Depression. Probably hard to take him down a peg when he’s on top of the world.</p>
<p>Poet - that’s the point - he didn’t have ENOUGH women working for him. I wasn’t the one in our house who made the association. Hey, we are big fans of Steve Jobs, but those twenty something girls think this is too funny:</p>
<p>[8</a> Reasons Women Should Be Excited For Apple’s “iPad” - apple tablet - Jezebel](<a href=“8 Reasons Women Should Be Excited For Apple's "iPad"”>8 Reasons Women Should Be Excited For Apple's "iPad")</p>
<p>I like Steve Jobs- he dropped out of my daughters college-( but hung around to take calligraphy) he refuses to wear a necktie and he makes a computer people can use without knowing how to program.
But still I worry cause they have had some good ideas, that then lost support- ebooks- newton et.al.
I do like snowleopard though but I miss the games that used to play on os 7.6</p>
<p>Everyone thought the Nintendo Wii had a silly name when it came out, too… =)</p>
<p>Steve Jobs is a visionary. I used to take my son to MacWorld in SF and fly half way around the world at Christmas time to do it and stay through New Years when Macworld was early and Jobs was speaking there. It was the greatest educational experience I was able to provide for my 10, 11, and 12 year old. He learned what a good public speaker does. He, my son, became good at making presentations. As far as the ipad goes, it will help folks see how to move on in terms of newspapers and books and new technology that will blend with the old in ways I can’t even see now. That is what this visionary Steve Jobs has been doing for a long while.</p>
<p>Jobs is ridiculously good as a presenter but don’t forget that he’s often presented some great stuff. I’m not a Microsoft basher - and remember Bill Gates from the old days when Microsoft debuted Excel on the Mac and he’d pull out a pad and take notes. </p>
<p>But the iPhone software has revolutionized the user experience on phones - in the best possible way. Imagine if Nokia and Motorola were still driving that user experience, with the hideous, warped Windows Mobile their competition?</p>
<p>I couldn’t understand what the deal with the iPod was until I spent an hour with one. That thing changed my life. It completely altered my relation to the music I have and listen to.</p>
<p>It’s funny using Windows 7 a little and talking to people - in various tech businesses - and realizing that only now has Microsoft caught up to OS X. And of course now the choice is much less important than it was when the processors weren’t compatible and when Microsoft would lock other programs out. </p>
<p>It remains to be seen what the iPad will do because we haven’t yet experienced it.</p>
<p>I agree with this from a TIME columnist
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<p>Look at John Gruber’s comments on his site, daringfireball.net. He’s very observant and notes that the thing is ridiculously responsive and that the experience of interacting with it is terrific.</p>
<p>MacMillan’s books have been pulled from Amazon’s site (ebook I assume). MacMillan asked Amazon to raise their book prices to $15. Amazon declined and I guess that they no longer have a contract. I read this on Slashdot.</p>
<p>Molly Wood at CNET.com had a Buzz Report on the ipad that was not favorable. The iPad lacks a lot of things you would expect for the high price. It lacks multitasking, no camera, no flash support, no HDMI interface, no SD cards, no e-ink so it is hard to read book on, and no kickstand. You have to hold it up all the time. I would link the video but this site does not permit doing so.</p>
<p>But you can’t have multiple windows going at once.</p>
<p>I thought I was going to buy one…but I’m not.</p>
<p>I guess I have to buy a computer.</p>