Apple iPad released - Whats your take?

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This does sum it up quite well.

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Will you be able to tether it with your iphone cause then im going for the normal wifi one.
 
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Last night on Sky or CNN News they said something about Iflop, but I missed the story.
 
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Moonglum said:
Will you be able to tether it with your iphone cause then im going for the normal wifi one.
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I hope so.

jak3 said:
This does sum it up quite well.
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I'm not convinced it belongs in either one.

adsl3g said:
You won't be able to use it here on 3g due to the micro sim..
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And Vodacom/MTN wont bring out micro sim here?

Wag said:
Last night on Sky or CNN News they said something about Iflop, but I missed the story.
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You also missed what channel it was on?
 
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adsl3g said:
You won't be able to use it here on 3g due to the micro sim..
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Of course you will. A Micro sim is just an embedded sim. Thats all. You just give the details of the sim to VC or whoever (but probly vc) and they load it onto their system.
 
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Like we needed sims to get any damn smaller. Do we know why Apple decided to go for the Micro Sim?
 
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Nope you're not the only one. Just wait until the developers come up with iPad specific to the iPad. We are going to see some amazing apps for this device!

Have a read through this thread on macrumors from when the original iPod was released in 2001. Remind you of anything?

http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=500
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Yep, I was one of the first people in SA to own an iPod. Way before Core even sold them.

While the iPhone was a dedicated music device and easily allowed you to load any music on your player (with a 3rd party app you had full explorer integration and drag/drop) this is a very locked down, device which allows you to only run apps which apple allows and very specific video types. Without an itunes store in SA this will not be the glamorous device Starbucks patrons in the US will experience. The iPad is basically a marketing platform for Apple software and music. Now there's nothing inherently wrong with that but for those of us who wanted an OSX computer in tablet form, this is not IT. This is just a BIG iPHONE (without the phone) and had I wanted such a device, I would have owned an iPhone from day one.
 
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The iPad has Adobe's Flash on Apple's video

You saw it here first, folks. In Apple's official video the iPad, they show the New York Times being used. Looks pretty nice right? Well, unless the Times has a special iPad version of the site that switches HTML5 out when it detects Apple mobile products (btw, check current iPhone version of the Times below), THE IPAD HAS FLASH.
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http://9to5mac.com/apple-flash-ipad-3954934055
 
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PeterCH said:
Yep, I was one of the first people in SA to own an iPod. Way before Core even sold them.

While the iPhone was a dedicated music device and easily allowed you to load any music on your player (with a 3rd party app you had full explorer integration and drag/drop) this is a very locked down, device which allows you to only run apps which apple allows and very specific video types. Without an itunes store in SA this will not be the glamorous device Starbucks patrons in the US will experience. The iPad is basically a marketing platform for Apple software and music. Now there's nothing inherently wrong with that but for those of us who wanted an OSX computer in tablet form, this is not IT. This is just a BIG iPHONE (without the phone) and had I wanted such a device, I would have owned an iPhone from day one.
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How do you know this is a very locked down device?

There was no way this was going to be your macbook in tablet form. By now you should have known that Apple doesn't like to cannibalise their product line and to think otherwise shows a certain lack of understanding about apple.
 
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After all that i think Apple could have done better in giving us the standard OSX to load other apps on as well.
 
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How do you know this is a very locked down device?
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Because it uses the iPhone OS which is itself fully locked down. It's nothing like OSX on Mac PCs. Secondly, it uses the app store and finally - it is an outlet for more Apple sales. It's a device, meant to create sales for apple's other products - music, apps, subs.
It's more of an appliance except this appliance does not have the specs a proper appliance like that should have for $829.

There was no way this was going to be your macbook in tablet form. By now you should have known that Apple doesn't like to cannibalise their product line and to think otherwise shows a certain lack of understanding about apple.
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Why not? What you're saying is that there is no way this was going to be a macbook in tablet form because Apple sells Macbooks and MacBook Pros. That's akin to saying - they won't sell Macbooks because those would cannibalise the sales of their Macbook Pros or they won't sell 13 inch Macbook Pros because then no-one will buy a 17 inch MBP. Also what about the Macbook Air?

What makes computers great is that they're general purpose devices. What makes them also great is that they can run a number of things at the same time and you can purchase software from various vendors OR use OSS. The Pad is a cute appliance and Apple will punt it - or rather the ecosystem of integrated services - to make it successful but it's not a computer.

This is great for some, but for others who like computers and not customised solutions to deliver content Apple gets a royalty cut, this is just a big conflict of interest device - UNLIKE the MB/MBP/MP/iMac.

Also I don't think Job's dissing of Netbooks was great. He only chastised them because they don't run HIS content. Jobs is forgetting the 12 inch Powerbooks notebooks he used to sell. Those were powerful yet tiny devices. Some of us want THAT, small, gwerful, good quality and ability to run OSX. That's why netbooks are popular - they're TINY and reasonably light. They should all be 700g and thin but those are expensive but even the cheapo ones are not that bad.
 
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Shardie said:
After all that i think Apple could have done better in giving us the standard OSX to load other apps on as well.
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They will do that one day. However this device will be a newspaper/ebook/applet/iTunes movie/music end use platform.
 
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