Steve Jobs this recent week introduced to the technology world the iPad. An extreme and big “gadget” that Apple has to offer. It’s basically a three in one deal. You have your iPod, iPhone and Mac in a single device that you can carry around. Seems to me Steve Jobs just created the hottest item on the market…but will it last. Apple has created some astonishing devices especially the iPod that has eliminated purchasing music at your local music store all together. Out came the iPhone, the latest Smartphone on the market today, again a device that has everything, except your personal Mac. Although Apple thinks it’s a great idea…do consumers think the same?
Having technology at your fingertips is always what a consumer is looking for these days. The iPad smaller than a Net book, is most likely going to revolutionize the technology world. But the iPad already does what most smart phones already do along with the Kindle DX. How convient is it to have your laptop at your fingertips while waiting for your train in the morning. Extremely useful for the career minded people, who have to stay on top of things? It’s even small enough to carry around either in your purse or your handbag, whatever it is that you bring with you daily. It weighs almost nothing compared to many laptops or net books.
The iPad just seems like a larger version of the iPhone. The iPhone already acts like an iPod you can download all the apps onto it, so why is the iPad so great? Also do can you envision yourself using the iPad as a phone? How weird would you look holding up a huge device almost the size of your head? Think of the safety issues if you don’t use Bluetooth? Will there be other networks beside AT&T that will take on the iPad?
It seems that Apple only added the feature of a computer to makes things interesting. Who doesn’t have a smart phone already to do half the things the iPad already does. And most people still stick to reading the newspaper like it was in 1950, they are still buying books at the bookstore. And let’s not forget the Kindle DX in which the iPad is already being compared to. The iPad really isn’t revolutionary as many may think. When it’s going to come down to consumers actually buying this, I believe a comparison of the iPad and the Kindle DX will weigh in the winner. Since new ideas are always wonderful, is this product going to make it or break it? Apple will have a lot of work to be done on this new invention of theirs. Hopefully, they will fix any issues that come along.
The iPad seems to only be filled with unanswered questions to the consumer. Is Apple trying to phase out the iPod, iPhone and the Mac all together? Only time will tell.
I have to agree with you. I already have my ipod and I have a Kindle. I don’t think I need another device. I don’t have the Kindle DX, just the regular size one and I don’t know that I would want anything larger – so maybe bigger isn’t always better?