| When Apple CEO Steve Jobs raved in early 2009 | | | | for the consumption of digital media: games, music, |
| how the iPad would change the technology world | | | | photos, videos, magazines, newspapers, and |
| forever people in the technology world started to | | | | e-books." |
| grow crazy with anticipation. Even before the release | | | | Britain's Daily Telegraph tech writer Claudine |
| people expected the iPad to be the best thing that | | | | Beaumont "it won't replace your laptop, but I think it |
| Apple has ever released, which is a big deal | | | | may have sounded the death knell for notebook |
| considering Apple has created the iPod, which pretty | | | | computers." |
| much everyone in the world currently owns, and the | | | | MG Siegler of TechCrunch " it felt like I was holding |
| iPhone that transformed the way smartphones are | | | | the future." |
| now made. | | | | Nintendo President Saturo Iwata " it's a bigger iPod |
| But just like the iPod, and iPhone, the iPad which will | | | | Touch, there were no surprises for me." |
| hit the market with a $499 starting price tag got | | | | Was Apple the second company to make the iPad? |
| mixed reviews when it was launched early this | | | | Back in August a Chinese company by the name of |
| month. Some people loved the sleek new look and | | | | Shenzhen Great Loong Brother Industrial Co |
| others bashed it for not having most of the features | | | | developed the "P88" which looks just like the newly |
| that you could get in a laptop. Hate it or love it just | | | | launched iPad. The only real difference is the P88 is |
| like the previous two devices this is the first | | | | thicker with a larger screen, more memory, and has |
| generation iPad by the time the third version comes | | | | USB ports. While many believe Apple were the first |
| out it will be considered by most the best thing in the | | | | ones to come up with the concept, executives for |
| world. Even though the critics who hate the iPad | | | | the P88 say that they were first and Apple designed |
| have nothing good to say about it, they all agree | | | | the same thing they all ready did. However many do |
| that the iPad will be the end of the Kindle and any | | | | agree that the iPad is better than the already |
| other electronic reader out there. | | | | distributed P88 but it makes you wonder how did |
| I have yet to see or use an iPad so I will hold out | | | | two company design two similar products within a |
| my opinion of it, but here is what some experts in | | | | short period of time. |
| the field have to say about it. | | | | For what I can tell I think the iPad would be a good |
| Quotes on the iPad | | | | device to have because of it's light weight which |
| Tech Blogger Allegemeine Zeitung "expectations for | | | | makes it much more easier to carry around then a |
| the new Apple product were so high they were | | | | laptop. You can play games, download music and |
| difficult to fulfill." | | | | books right to it which saves you room. |
| Om Malik from tech site GigaOm " its perfectly made | | | | |