A very highly hyped new product hit the streets today with a Bang! The Apple iPad was introduced to the world. As your able Technology commentator, I would surely be remiss if I didn't translate the hype and type a bit about this technology wonder.
So what is the iPad? Well like several other Apple products, competition doesn't really exist. The closest product would be the iPod, Itouch. Its not really a tablet computer. In fact lets take a paragraph to tell you what it is and a paragraph on what it isn't.
What it is:
It is nice size - 9.7" display (smaller then a netbook) and less then 1.5 pounds. I can run all the iPhone apps (140,000 at latest count). It can surf the Internet with the Safari browser. It can get let you buy books and display them like an Amazon Kindle. You can play all your iTunes music, display your Pictures, and view videos, movies and TV. You work with most email (on the Internet), get an app to edit documents, keep up your calendar and contacts. It does work on 802.11n WiFi (found many places) and if you buy a more expensive model it will also work on phone networks (data plan extra! Surprise!)
What it isn't:
I mentioned it isn't a tablet PC per say. It runs the iPhone operating system not OS 10. That means you can't run it like a MAC computer, you treat it like an iPhone or iPod. You can download a ton of iPhone apps, but remember they are designed for a 3 inch screen versus a 9.7 inch display (resolution sucks on apps played on the big screen). You can't run Firefox or Word or any other program written for the MAC. You can only run one program at a time (this is a biggy!). It doesn't have the phone function built in. There is no camera built in. It doesn't support Adobe Flash player and will only let you run Quicktime or Youtube type videos. So no Hulu or any other website that uses Flash video (another biggie). It has limited storage (16GB, 32GB or 64GB flash memory) which will eventually cramp what you save. (The smallest netbook comes with 160GB hard drive).
So first look, its pretty neat. Take a look at the apple iPad video: iPAD by APPLE
The first iPad's will ship end of March and I don't think I need one at this point, but hey I'm a gadget freak so you never know!
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My friend and I were recently talking about how technology has become so integrated in our day to day lives. Reading this post makes me think back to that debate we had, and just how inseparable from electronics we have all become.
I don't mean this in a bad way, of course! Ethical concerns aside... I just hope that as the price of memory falls, the possibility of copying our brains onto a digital medium becomes a true reality. It's a fantasy that I dream about all the time.
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