But by the same measure it isn't necessary to have full OSX functionality in a limited scope device. iPhone OS destroyed Winmo (which I was an ardent fan of until I held an iPhone) by stripping out the backend of the OS. It wasn't so easy to tweak but after a bit of usage it doesn't matter because the functionality that does exist is actually just what you need. eg I actually do know where my files are stored on the iTouch but I really don't care.
Look it may be that iPad is actually a failure - but I want to wait and see when it comes out. I somehow think that when it filters out and iteratively fixes the 1st gen complaints, it's going to be a breathtaking piece of kit. As for the complaint about resolution - actually the original iPhone had a weak resolution even for the time - my Dell Axim X51v has full VGA. But the quality of the iPhone screen outweighed the lower resolution.
The thing is when I put a Sharp WX-T92 (2008 model) next to an iPhone - 854x480 vs 480x320 with the Sharp beating the iPhone in colour reproduction and contrast, I just don't know. Yes the iPhone is more functional than a Japanese non-smartphone (>90% of the users there don't use smartphones) but I can't stand to wonder how nicer it would be of Apple to use a Sharp ASV LCD for their phone - with 1024x480 or even 854x480 and 16.7 mil high contrast colour. In terms of MP3/Video players, my Cowon A3 has an 800x480 16.7 mil screen with high viewing angle and no ghosting/smearing and plays more file formats (including H.264 formats which the iPods can't play). You know - you've put it well - for consumers, Apple is releasing media consumption devices - after all you don't need better resolution for their iTMS.
No this is totally about geeks. Do you really think OSX is EASY to use for the average person? Why, because it has a dock? OSX is very intimidating - I still have a difficult time coming to grips with it. Then if you dumbed it down the geeks - you - would be up in arms - why not this, why not that? You would put off people with a full-featured OS because then ipso facto it becomes reshuffled to the small PC category.
YES it is. I'm sorry but the average person can muster Windows - OSX is much easier. I have an 87 yr old grandfather who has no problems with WinXP and he would find OSX much easier. Windows is hard to use but not impossible. OSX is easier. OSX has been punted by Windows as the OS for the masses of less technologically literate people for ages. You ever watch any of these Justin Long Mac ads?
This isn't even in the same category as a small portable computer. If you commute to work, have your Starbucks in the morning and check your netbook for the news/feeds...read Conde Naste magazine online and just want it to come in an easily digestible format.... or in a pinch produce a work document, check email etc. You may also not want to play on a Nintendo Wii - but there are a whole slew of hitherto unserved customers who happened to want just that kind of a device.
Apple had a choice. The one option was to release a tablet PC you could do everything that your Mac does and they could have sold it for the price of the Macbook. The other option was to make another half-baked Kindle/half baked PMP/half baked netbook. They made the latter.
iPad will also be served by the app store dont forget - who I'm sure will step in to fill what was lacking in Apple's vision for the hardcore contingent
Exactly. It will make them money that way. That is cute and all, but "DO NOT WANT" and many Apple fans are saying the same. You see at present time there is no need in the market for an internet appliance like the iPad. Jobs is creating the need. He is saying that people need to dump their 10+ hour Macbooks (or PCs) for another device. Another piece of junk to just browse the web and read The Village Voice or HuffingPost. Most people were using their macbooks for that purpose already. So now they're increasing the carbon footprint because the iPad won't replace a full computer and if you have an iPhone/iPodTouch you can already do the other things a Macbook can't - like access those 140K of apps without which life is somehow impossible. So now, buy an iPad, buy an iPhone and buy a Macbook. Nice, except - 1. The carbon footprint is increasing - THANK YOU APPLE, 2. Who has the space in their tiny East Side Pad to keep all that junk. 3. An iPhone fits in your pocket, the iPad takes almost as much space as a Macbook and has 1/10th of the functionality. So it's take the one or the other or better yet - be a real idiot can carry both.
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