| now that feeling where your heart races in | | | | paying for it. iMean, they did that with the iPod, |
| anticipation? It accelerates until it feels like it could run | | | | except they just kept making things smaller: Nano, |
| out of your chest. Well, Mac devotees get that | | | | Shuffle...if they could have made anything smaller, |
| feeling every time their fearless leader, Steve Jobs, | | | | they would have. Apple just shrinks or increases the |
| shows up to give the keynote address, and | | | | size of the device. It worked for McDonalds. I guess |
| introduce the new product. | | | | it works for Apple. |
| Past announcements have lived up to the hype: OS | | | | The thing is, I didn't want an in-between product, |
| X, Snow Leopard, the iPod, the iPhone, the MacBook | | | | which is exactly what the iPad is: not quite a |
| Air. When it was rumored that Mac would be | | | | computer, not quite a dedicated movie player(no |
| releasing a tablet PC this year, fans of Apple design | | | | DVD support), not even an eInk based, dedicated |
| almost wet themselves in anticipation. They should | | | | book reader like the Kindle. Nope, the iPad is the |
| have kept a closer eye on the cup. | | | | Labradoodle of electronic devices. It looks kind of |
| At any rate, what we received for all of our yearning | | | | neat, but it is just a little of this, tossed in with a little |
| was a 10" iPod Touch, aka the iPad. Awesome Steve | | | | of that. Not a purebred machine, but expensive and |
| gave us a product that couldn't quite live up to our | | | | interesting looking. |
| imaginations. Supposedly, it will be a fantastic eBook | | | | That's not to say it won't be a commercial success. I |
| reader/video player/music device. It will also browse | | | | know people who already have theirs picked |
| the web. That is comforting, except for the fact | | | | out...although, at around $1000, I think they might be |
| that it won't be supporting a major component of | | | | better off with a laptop. The price is what gets me |
| the web: Flash. Now, there are many arguments for | | | | the most: I could buy 2 netbooks and an iPhone for |
| and against the inclusion of Flash. The biggest | | | | the price of a single iPad. At some point, it becomes |
| problem is, not all the web will work on the iPad, and | | | | impractical to pay extra, just for the bragging rights. |
| that is an issue. It doesn't support the whole web, | | | | Never in the history of electronics have people payed |
| just the portion that Steve Jobs is willing to put on | | | | so much, for so very little in terms of features. |
| the iPad. | | | | This is the trouble with the iPad: It does stuff that |
| While the iPad nice and all, I find myself looking for | | | | other stuff already does, except you pay more for |
| something a little more innovative. I guess if you | | | | the privilege. That, my friends, is the gorgeous |
| have a design that works, the next option is to keep | | | | mediocrity of the iPad. |
| increasing the size of the device, until people stop | | | | |