Is the iPad Just a Rounder Wheel?

p>If you were to take a simplistic view you couldset in star ships and worlds littered with "data slates".
argue that the iPad is simply a scaled up iPhone andThe terminology will have varied according to the
as a result there is nowhere new to go. There hasprogram that you watched or the book you read but
certainly been a lot of negative criticism that hasthe idea is just the same. The sculpted beauty of the
accompanied the pre-release hype. Many have lookediPad is most certainly a helping factor to that illusion.
at the lack of flash support as the mark of doomIf you look closely you don't see a laptop, you see
and others have touted the lack of camera facilities.something else entirely.
Despite this the interest in the iPad has certainly beenYes the word illusion did creep into the article and
feverish and shows no sign of fading away just yet.yes there is always a danger to selling style over
Just in case you had forgotten in all the madness thefunction. That said a Ferrari is small, cramped, comes
iPhone has attracted, and still does, a huge amountwith very little interior features comparable to a
of criticism from release to this day. Sales figuresluxury saloon and is a nightmare to reverse park, but
show us that negativity may just be the not soyour wife wouldn't complain if you owned one.
popular kids being a little bit jealous of the mostThe iPad is right at the beginning of a life cycle and
popular kid in school.we should take our time before judging it a gigantic
No matter what anyone says the iPad promises toclone. The software will need to be developed to get
be a piece of technology that captures theto its' maximum potential. So for now the iPad looks
imagination and it is easy to understand why. If youlike a rounder wheel but it looks like a wheel with a
have been a fan of sci-fi for any length of time thenrampant stallion emblazoned across its' chest.
you may have been immersed in countless stories