Comments on: Far Better At Some Key Things

By: Bruce Barber

Bruce Barber — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:26:06 +0000

It’s interesting – the thing that seemingly got the LEAST amount of attention yesterday is the thing that makes me want to own an iPad: the iBook app/store.

There are books I want to read (the one Steve demoed – Ted Kennedy’s – is among them), but I end up being too lazy to go out and buy them.

The iPod got me listening to more music. This thing just might have the same effect on my enjoyment of the written word…

By: Kirk

Kirk — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:28:41 +0000

Jim,

I think the price point guesses came from too many different sources to be just Apple trying to manipulate the story. I think with a base laptop at $999 and the high end iPod at $400, they tried to put this device right between those points.

The replication question is sort of like asking do you need another model in a car company’s line. All of them replicate the basic transport functions, the differences are in form and features. If you already have a smartphone and laptop, do you need an iPad? Probably not.

But the idea of having a large screen web/media/email device that would fit in my briefcase would seriously get me to think about leaving my laptop behind a lot of the time. And it would be better than a laptop for my Mom and a whole lot of people like her.

Assuming of course, the thing is as impressive in person as it is “in the virtual showroom.”

As always “your mileage may vary…”

-kv

By: Jim Scott

Jim Scott — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 13:31:14 +0000

Apple probably started the $999 price-point rumor so that the $499/$599/$699 cost (depending on memory) would seem like a bargain by comparison. (Ever think you’d hear people being excited about the prospect of only paying $2 a gallon for gas? Everything’s relative.)

A 3rd device that primarily replicates some functions of the existing two? They won’t be getting my money.