iPad

[hans]

There is no endpoint in the Business model world view. Things are built to be replaced sooner rather than later. Aimed for Upgrades every two years, and that interval keeps shrinking. All rather detestable for someone who likes his tools to last for decades.

[emmline]

I also think it's a paradox that laptops get thinner and smaller, while cellphones are getting bigger (as exemplified by iPhones and texty-keyboard phones).

I guess that's why they're calling this thing a "third category"--for that very reason. Many people want to be able to port something that does most of the tricks their computer does. It's why I finally got an iPhone...for portable information. Where am I? Is there a Holiday Inn Express between here and there? Did I get that email?

It does not satisfy my need, though, to pop into writing mode whenever a likely moment appears--at the airport, while waiting for kid's school to end, while husband is jumping through assorted tests for his clinical trial. I'd love to be able to pull out something lightweight and ready at these moments. Even a laptop is cumbersome to carry everywhere. So, I'm waiting to see.

I would not buy one just because it's cool. Rather, I spend a lot of time considering what would work well for me...then, if they invent one, and it seems reliable, I might buy it.

[BillChin]

I rarely look at Apple products because they are often priced double or triple over other products, and I am price conscious.

Hopefully, by the time the Apple products start to ship, there will be similar offerings at 1/2 the price from other vendors with similar functionality. $15 a month for roaming 3G Internet (250 GB a month) sounds tempting. Especially because there is no contract, it is pay as you go.

[The Weekenders]

There is no endpoint in the Business model world view. Things are built to be replaced sooner rather than later. Aimed for Upgrades every two years, and that interval keeps shrinking. All rather detestable for someone who likes his tools to last for decades.

Amen. We are chided for not being evolutionary enough, I guess. I love owning tools that were so well built that they will outlast me. I like that permanence.

I keep looking for how the ease and command of electronic resources has made our society better. I know that a person feels much more empowered, so to speak, that the Net provides so many answers to problems and somehow, that can equalize people, the access to information. But I don't see that we aren't still descending into a Roman-like decadence on the large scale; a voracious hunger for increasing sex and gore as well as electronic entertainments of every variety keeping us from looking each other in the eye and smellin' the roses, so to speak. On the micro scale, I can't help but feel that this is yet another way to isolate us from the human community by having us staring at little screens instead of the polluted, unlivable world we are crafting/neglecting/enabling.

One exception has been texting Haiti relief. Wow, it's easy to instantly register and contribute from your reaction of sorrow. It's hard not to admire how our better angels can come forth so easily exactly because of technology (which in my case, I loathe, not being a text-er).

[I.D.10-t]

Hate to say it but it has been a few years since I have stropped my razor and have been using a Gillette double edge razor. Finding blades has become difficult, I might have to go back to the strop. The old cut throat is a great tool.

I do like one thing, recordings are now mine forever. I copy them from a disk and I don't have to transition from record to 8-track to tape to compact disk to etc.

[s1m0n]

What's the anticipated cost of this?

Five hundred bucks.

[s1m0n]

Hate to say it but it has been a few years since I have stropped my razor and have been using a Gillette double edge razor. Finding blades has become difficult, I might have to go back to the strop. The old cut throat is a great tool.

I do like one thing, recordings are now mine forever. I copy them on a disk and I don't have to transition from record to 8-track to tape to compact disk

I've been using those for years. I've shaved with a cut-throat razor for a while, just cuz.

[The Weekenders]

What's the anticipated cost of this?

Five hundred bucks.

Nyuk. Then, when they drop the price by $100 in six months, the acolytes will be dismayed, just like with the iPhone. Remember?

[emmline]

What's the anticipated cost of this?

Five hundred bucks.

Nyuk. Then, when they drop the price by $100 in six months, the acolytes will be dismayed, just like with the iPhone. Remember?

Just one, among many, reasons to let everybody else try it first.

[I.D.10-t]

... I've shaved with a cut-throat razor for a while, just cuz...

I have a feeling that your kitchen's knives are not dull.

[fearfaoin]

I rarely look at Apple products because they are often priced double or triple over other products, and I am price conscious.

Last week, there was speculation that this
thing could be over a thousand clams. I
wonder if Apple leaked that so $500 would
seem cheap.

Hopefully, by the time the Apple products start to ship, there will be similar offerings at 1/2 the price from other vendors with similar functionality.

There might already have been a CrunchPad
if Mike Arrington didn't insist on a $200 price.
Looks like that's not feasible, as his partner
that was actually making the tablet decided
to take it to market themselves at $499.
(Note: Yet another awful name: the JooJoo.)
It will probably take a while to get enough
low-end players in the market to get much
price drop.

Nyuk. Then, when they drop the price by $100 in six months, the acolytes will be dismayed, just like with the iPhone. Remember?

Just one, among many, reasons to let everybody else try it first.

I never buy a car or gadget in its first iteration.
Wait 'till they fix the bugs and possibly drop the
price.

[treeshark]

I was really disappointed that there were no teleportation or laundry functions... bit of a missed trick IMO.

[sbfluter]

Oh don't even get me started on upgrade fatigue. I loathe turning off my computer because as soon as I turn it back on again, every application in the universe wants to upgrade itself. Every time I start an application it wants to upgrade itself. It's absolutely absurd.

Everything that wants me to upgrade it gets the Never Ask Me Again box checked. Every application that warns me of security problems gets every form of security turned off. Every gadget that requires me to read the instructions doesn't get bought.

And I would stop shaving entirely if I could get away with it.

[Nanohedron]

And I would stop shaving entirely if I could get away with it.

[chris_coreline]

iPad is what happens when you hype up what is a very very boring piece of equipment.

that said, i for one cant wait to see what mr Eskin dreams up for it!