You would spend $500 – $830 on a device for your mom so she can play solitaire, read her e-mail, and browse the web? Not to mention one that only delivers a portion of the web (no flash), and needs to be used with two hands (mom’s hands and wrists are going to get tired playing solitaire)…Seems like a huge waste to me.

i like your article indeed! And also i do not like the journalists that praise an epic failure, like iPad.

This moment sirs, history is written. And if you go with Apple’s side, this means that you go for epic failure too!

The iPad has such a ridiculous amount of potential, the only people that are whining are those who are obsessed with Linux and hackable OS. Get a grip, we al know apple hold back on their original products so that the development never stops. Yes there will be camera’s, multitasking is a firmware update away. I personally would far rather have a device that could run its apps properly and with speed than one that can run 4 at once at a cost to the performance.

There are so many possibilities just on the fact that the screen is a brilliant size, it will attract a new breed of developers and it will simplify apps to make them accessible to the masses.

The original iPhone release was ridiculed as well for no 3G, it didn’t have many features and it basically just looked cool. That is where we are with the iPad, it is a platform there for the taking as soon as the developers get their hands on it. If the brain dead among you are so short sighted that you think that the iPhone OS is tapped out and there are no more developments to be made then you can all sit back with your netbooks and tinker with Linux while the world moves on to a simpler time where people look forward to using their computers rather than using them because they have to.

No one claimed this was a device to replace the Macbook Pro or the Mac Pros but it looks like a fun, simple device to use that has a world of possibilities to explore, the hardware is solid and all that is required is the development of the software i.e iPhone 4.0 software release that I’m sure will develop the iPad further.

@Nicholas What would you buy your Mum, a netbook? I’m fed up to the back teeth of being my families IT support trying to get scared or grumpy relatives a long way away to diagnose their PC woes. I want their user experience abstracted from the internals. I want something where the hardest thing that they will every do is enter their user credentials.

Hell, I want that for myself too 95% of the time.

The name for what Uncle Steve has done to the crybaby techies and most pundits is what I call ‘Future Punking’… take a gander:

http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/2010/01/ipad-y-been-done-futurepunked-by-uncle.html

I think we’re well on our way to the next thing:

http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/2010/01/dear-uncle-steve-i-can-has-camera.html

The Olds (Boomers and older) really don’t need all that much. They want it to ‘work’ and they want to MAYBE ‘share’. That’s the whole 2015 thing.

The only segments making all the noise dissing the iPad are the ones that have the most to lose. cough Flash cough Janky OS Vendors cough.

-Drunken Economist http://mindtaker.blogspot.com/ http://twitter.com/drunk_economist

I’ve seen this repeated on so many blog (etc.) posts I had to comment:

Yes true, the iPad doesn’t have a SD Card or USB port built in but apple has an accessory pack with two little dongles that plug into the dock port that provide these. See here: http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

“Pad Camera Connection Kit
The Camera Connection Kit gives you two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera. The Camera Connector lets you import your photos and videos to iPad using the camera’s USB cable. Or you can use the SD Card Reader to import photos and videos directly from the camera’s SD card.”