The Apple iPad is finally here with a custom 1GHz processor, HD ready display and multi-touch screen in a very clean uncluttered form-factor.
The Apple iPad has a decent 10-hour battery life which will make it useful for reading books, documents and watching movies. The charge-daily mantra of the iPhone is well established so the iPad could be a viable alternative to Kindle/Sony e-Ink platforms which have longer batter life but much less functionality.
The high performance wireless 802.11n networking will help with downloading performance on home networks although public hotspot performance will need to catchup. The impact of the Apple iPad on already overloaded 3G networks must be of some concern for the potential carriers of the 3G version.
If the browsing experience is as responsive as the Iphone/Touch then it will be a great browsing platform only marred by the missing Adobe Flash and Microsoft Silverlight support.
The price is in the luxury end of the market and I’m sure the memory will quickly seem very tight when loaded with videos. However, this the first generation of Apple iPad and capacity will grow with every new model. The lack of space could be offset by syncing to videos/music/documents over the intentet to remote iTunes libraries on home networks. A future feature could include selectively syncing to Apple’s subscription based Cloud services.
What is going to be really interesting is what app developers will do with this greatly expanded screen real estate and slightly faster processor.
Will I give up my netbook, iPhone and laptop – no – but I think my Sony Reader may be in jeopardy.
[Disclaimer: I recevied no inducements from Apple]
[Update: Fixed typo in cloud sentence]
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+1 for the first mention of missing Silverlight
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I agree with your impact statement – in the first place this will be viewedf as an exec toy by most of the market. However as you point out; with all that screen real estate there is a number of serious applications that can be applied – Im mulling over the idea of Adobe life-cycle and the iPad currently as a starter for ten (ok without giving away any real slick ideas!).