Thursday 28 January 2010

About Today: Will the iPad Be a Success?

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From Jen Hubley, Your About Today Editor.
If our Twitter account is anything to go by, more people were talking about the debut of the iPad than the State of the Union address. This either means that people really like gadgets or that we're all sick of news.

Meet the iPad
The iPad looks like a giant iPhone, acts like a cross between a netbook and a Kindle, and can fit into a purse. (Well. Can fit into my purse.)

What Does it Cost?
I was honestly expecting it to cost about a million dollars, which makes the actual price tag of (as low as) $499 seem pretty reasonable in comparison. It all depends on the model you want and the data plan you choose. Here's what to expect.

Will the iPad Be a Success?
Quote from a coworker: "OK, so I was wrong about the iPod, but this is going to fail too." I'm torn, personally. It seems to me to be a lot like a netbook with a stand, but I also have friends who could buy a single, beat-up, old shoe if it had the Apple logo on it, so who knows.

What the iPad Doesn't Have
Facial recognition, for one thing. I'm sort of glad. An Apple tablet with facial recognition would definitely take over Cyberdyne systems at some point, and then, the world.

 


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