[Quote]Achieving Steve Jobs' long-held dream of creating a tablet device as cool and useful as the one we've seen for years on science fiction shows now appears to be a dream realized, in the form of the iPad. Ironically, the iPad makes the iPhone -- Apple's game-changing technology of 2007, whose impact still reverberates through the wireless, mobile, and computing industries -- obsolete. And as the iPhone fades away as a short-lived marvel, so too will disappear the mobile Web.
Think about it: The iPad does all the neat stuff of the iPhone (OK, except for the camera), and it does so with a big screen that allows even richer applications and more compelling media experiences. It also works as a laptop replacement for the kind of basic work we do most of the time when we're on the road: working with email, Web pages, and Web forms; creating and editing documents, spreadsheets, and presentations; catching up on our reading; and handling work tasks like order entry that today's iPhone apps only hint at.
The iPhone is a bad phone and a brilliant but now-old-school media device
The iPad doesn't make or receive calls. So what? Face it: As cool as it is to use an iPhone to surf the Web, check e-mail, play games, and run apps, it'll be cooler and more productive on an iPad. And since everyone seems to hate AT&T's phone coverage (it's always sucked in San Francisco, where I live, years before AT&T began blaming the iPhone users for its inadequate network) and have been frustrated with the iPhone's own phone-calling flaws -- everyone will be able to have their cake and eat it too: reliable phone service from someone else, and compelling data services over Wi-Fi and maybe one day even over AT&T's 3G network on the iPad.
So you'll gravitate very quickly away from the iPhone's once-groundbreaking capabilities and do them on your iPad. That turns your iPhone into just a phone -- but you won't pay AT&T $30 per month for that soon-to-be-occasional usage once you're paying $15 or $30 per month for 3G connectivity for your iPad.
I suspect most iPhone users won't renew their current data service plans with AT&T when they expire. They will instead get a cheap, reliable regular phone -- and won't miss the iPhone. The good news: That iPhone then becomes an iPod Touch with a camera, probably taking the place of one of your iPods. After all, there are some occasions when the smaller form factor is handy, such as on a crowded train or bus, for a quick check of your tip calculation at a restaurant, or checking your grocery list at the store. And if you have an iPod Touch, you'll likely keep using it as an über-iPod supplement to your iPad -- and be relieved it was a lot cheaper than an iPhone would have been.
You may think I'm nuts to expect such a dramatic change in the iPhone's position. But I'm serious. It was only three years ago that the iPhone up-ended the mobile market, making once-vaunted devices like the BlackBerry suddenly look like creaky old DOS systems.
Why there's no longer a need for the mobile Web
But consider how quickly the iPhone changed the paradigm for the Web and for smartphones. I believe the iPad will have just as dramatic and short-term effects. Only this time, it's the iPhone that will look out of date. And forget about the wannabes like the Palm Pre and the various Android devices. They're walking dead now.
When it was unveiled in early 2007, the iPhone was about the Web and messaging -- there were no apps, and Jobs even said there was no need for any, that HTML and JavaScript were enough. Just as suddenly, the mobile Web was born, with sites optimized for display and interaction on the iPhone's screen. Windows Mobile and the BlackBerry had been around for a decade, yet there was no mobile Web until the iPhone. Today, many sites have mobile-friendly versions, and there are companies that "mobiize" Websites as their business. The Pre and the Droid have hitched a ride on the mobile Web bandwagon, but the iPhone created it -- and fast.[/Quote]
Apple Screwed Mobile Web :smug:
Source: [url]http://www.pcworld.com/article/188286/apples_ipad_will_be_the_death_of_the_mobile_web.html[/url]
The iPad is a piece of shit.
Woooo super big iTouch. With no usb ports, no flash support (cool so about 80% of the internets content is eliminated), no SD card slot, no CD/DVD tray, and about the processing power of a Ps2.
I just don't get it. I'm reading over the specs expecting something to pop out and wow me but it hasn't happend. This thing is litterally a super sized 9.5 x 7 iTouch
I expect the iPad to fail and I hope it does.
Are people actually going to buy the iPad?
[QUOTE=kidwithsword;19989202]Are people actually going to buy the iPad?[/QUOTE]
The dude for "will it blend" will.
For sure.
[QUOTE=sloppy_joes;19989216]The dude for "will it blend" will.
For sure.[/QUOTE]
Dont forget "Is It A Good Idea To Microwave This:
I still think the iPad is an overgrown iPod touch
The legions of Apple fanatics shall throw their bodies into the furnaces of the Apple corporate machine to stoke the fires of the iPad, I don't see it dying soon.
It's an editorial.
Death of the mobile web? More like the death of Apple, come back when you can play Flash content.
"Hey guys, look at me, I just saved up a ton of money and bought myself the decent version of the iPad, aren't I cool now?"
"Sweet bro, can you check a youtube video for me?"
"Uhm..."
this is apples test to see how stupid their fanbase really is.
[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;19989522]"Hey guys, look at me, I just saved up a ton of money and bought myself the decent version of the iPad, aren't I cool now?"
"Sweet bro, can you check a youtube video for me?"
"Uhm..."[/QUOTE]
The iPad does Youtube
[QUOTE=SweetSwifter;19989522]"Hey guys, look at me, I just saved up a ton of money and bought myself the decent version of the iPad, aren't I cool now?"
"Sweet bro, can you check a youtube video for me?"
"Uhm..."[/QUOTE]
"Yea sure here you go"
[IMG]http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//gallery-software-youtube-20100127.jpg[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Aman V;19989196]This thing is litterally a super sized 9.5 x 7 iTouch
[/QUOTE]
yeah, that's why it's cool
[QUOTE=Wii60;19989779]"Yea sure here you go"
[/QUOTE]
Why the hell are you looking up something called "Wet Woofy"?
[QUOTE=Fables;19990226]Why the hell are you looking up something called "Wet Woofy"?[/QUOTE]
Jobs has a wet dog fetish.
[QUOTE=Panda X;19990396]Jobs has a wet dog fetish.[/QUOTE]
don't we all
It can't even fucking multi task, i'd rather buy a real fucking PC than that crap.
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Also when it was released apple's stock price dropped lol
Can it make a phone call?
[QUOTE=Wii60;19989779]"Yea sure here you go"
[IMG]http://www.pocketgamer.co.uk/FCKEditorFiles//gallery-software-youtube-20100127.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
What kind of a video title is "Wet and woofy" ??
I wonder how long till someone buys it for the pads other meaning
I'd rather buy a Lenovo Tablet.
Brushed black aluminum = pure sex :haw:
And it can actually run a decent OS.
I read that article a few days ago.
The author is an idiot.
People will not carry an iPad everywhere. It's too big. It's designed for household use.
Thus, it is not a replacement for existing mobile browsing devices.
This article is pretty stupid.
He seems to think everyone will carry their ipad around all the time. What he says is pretty much a step backwards from what we have now. A basic phone and a tablet for media and internet instead of a good phone that can do it all.
And why would he call the iphone "old school tech"?
[QUOTE=Metanoia;19991995]I read that article a few days ago.
The author is an idiot.
People will not carry an iPad everywhere. It's too big. It's designed for household use.
Thus, it is not a replacement for existing mobile browsing devices.[/QUOTE]
So it's a personal computer?
I'd rather have a laptop
I just don't understand what this thing is supposed to do, that something else can't. So it's an ipod Touch/Kindle e-reader? I don't see a big market for tablet computers anyway, especially when we already have netbooks.
[QUOTE=phantom87;19992311]I just don't understand what this thing is supposed to do. So it's an ipod Touch/Kindle e-reader? I don't see a big market for tablet computers anyway, especially when we already have netbooks.[/QUOTE]
I can already read pdf's on my itouch...
[QUOTE=Aman V;19989196] (cool so about 80% of the internets content is eliminated)[/QUOTE]
I don't think we're at saturation point at all (read: you're pulling an inflated statistic out of your ass, I think). I honestly don't see Flash a lot, and I usually have it disabled unless I really want to see content out of the blue, which is rare.
If 80% of the internet was Flash reliable and useful search indexing would be nigh impossible.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;19992309]So it's a personal computer?
I'd rather have a laptop[/QUOTE]
I guess you could say that.
It's the computing equivalent of magazines. A lot of people read magazines, and they're portable enough, but nobody carries them everywhere like they do with phones.
[QUOTE=ProboardslolV2;19992309]So it's a personal computer?
I'd rather have a laptop[/QUOTE]
It seemed more like an appliance to me until Apple announced the price. If it was 399 it would far more legitimate as an ebook reader of the sort.
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