Intriguingly contradictory.
On one hand, most people are disappointed with the many missing features on Apple's new gizmo and, perhaps more fundamentally, that it's not going to redefine computing/change the world/cure cancer.
In spite of all that, however, most people seem to agree that it does mark a profound punctuation point in the evolution of the computer and that it's changing the way the mass market looks at mobile computing.
I must admit to considerable schadenfreude seeing Apple have the piss taken out of it so savagely over the launch, but it may have seeded the mobile Internet device market in the same say it did the smartphone market with the iPhone.
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I can't agree with this, the iPad is complete and utter pants. How you can launch a device of that size with no multitasking given it's purpose baffels me.
ReplyDeleteIt's typical Jobs though, first launch the device under the "shiny" heading.
6 months to a year later, take that device and re-launch it under 2.0 or whatever with all it was meant to be.
Take the apple brand and milk every red cent you can out of it is his purpose on this planet.
It may have created a new battleground but the lack of innovation from Apple, after so much waiting and hyping, is bathetic - not a typo.
ReplyDeleteBeing an Apple enthusiast, I can only hope that they still have a few surprises up their sleeves before the commercial launch. If not then they have made idiots of themselves!