I seriously admire a great deal of the design that apple uses, but they must be joking with their latest offering, the IPad, which is effectively a big IPhone, that cannot make phone calls.

It is a little like a netbook, but just without a decent processor, or keyboard, or operating system.
I expect they will release the IBoard later, which will be an ultra thin keyboard you can attach to your IPad to make it even more functional, lol, just stick them together with an IHinge, and you will have an IThink( I think I have been royally conned and ripped off once again by sleek design and massive marketing), but at least I give apple credit for finally offering computers now that have decent processing power thanks to intel, (but not for the IPad, apparently they had a whole warehouse full of their own rubbish processors they still needed to dump) even if you do pay double, or triple, or more, than you would for similiar features elsewhere.

Now we just need to see apple invent "their" version of a mouse with scroll and context menu functionality, and for just a few thousand dollars more they could offer a computer that 'lombards' could be truly proud of.

A lombard you say?
Lots of money, but a real d-------, fill in the blanks with your own imagination.

Well they were trying to do a few things at once, and I guess it's best functions will be as an e-book reader, and a toy.

You are right about screen sizes, the pop it in your pocket functionality of an IPhone is not there.
They can make flexible screens now, which are basically just a sheet of plastic with a couple of wires running to it, so your idea of a fold up, or more likely, roll out, (like a holland blind) portable is probably something we will see sooner or later.

abu_rashid wrote on Feb 4^th, 2010, 10:17am:


Off topic, unnecessary comment deleted. edited by Locutius

Just to get back on topic, people saying the iPad doesn't have USb amuse me. It is like the initial iMac release "Oh, it doesn't have a floppy disk drive!" Well, neither do PCs now, Who has used a floppy recently???

The iPad is a WiFi device, it networks, doesn't use slow USB! In 5 years the competing pads, long left in the dust, will also stop offering USB.

Ummm the iPad might make manbags popular?

I like the device. Sorry they have taken so long to run with this format of technology.

The ability to use it for phone calls could be easily fixed if the demand was there. People carrying a mobile and a laptop are simply going to swap out the laptop for the iPad or something similar.

These or similar are going to be everywhere soon. And as a convenient ebook reader I absolutely love it.