iPad

[back2onett]

nice, I've always wanted an iPhone but bigger so it couldn't fit in my pocket

[slothrop]

I'm just gonna preface this and say I couldn't give a fuck about the iPad, I'd have no use for it, but it will sell...very well. I also don't have an iPhone.

But do better specs mean a better product? Look at the iPhone, it is a technically inferior phone to almost everything on the market. Yet it is slaying everyone.

Do you think the person who this is aimed at gives a fuck about ram and GHz? No. They care about user experience and a nice looking product. Ever tried downloading an app on a Nokia N95? It's fucking hard and most of the apps are fucking shite. Aesthetics are important to people, more than they'd like to admit, why do people spend money on nice clothes/furniture/cars. rather than purely buying the cheapest thing possible? Because the looks are important to them.

Yeah, agree with all of this. How many people on here have spent cash on nice trainers even though you can get a cheap pair from Clarks or somewhere that stop your feet getting cold and dirty equally well?

Also, I'd guess that a lot of the bigger omissions - camera, gps, usb, flash etc are going to be sorted in version whatever. Paradoxically it's a lot easier to shoehorn in new features than to make a shit user interface actually be nice to use.

It's not the most revolutionary product ever (and the way that Apple tend to announce every slight iPod upgrade to their legions of fanboys as if they'd just created jesus multiplied by LSD to the power of writing is really fucking irritating) but it's got a use case - being better for web browsing, email, video etc than a smartphone but lighter and shinier than a netbook - and it does it reasonably well. I probably wouldn't be arsed shifting one around just so I could do computery stuff in the gaps between being at work and being at home but I can see how being able to watch decent quality films on the train would be quite nice.

[-dubson-]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... why-idunno

Charlie Brooker on the iPad.. As you can probably imagine, not a big fan of it.

[Luke Yeah?]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree ... why-idunno

Charlie Brooker on the iPad.. As you can probably imagine, not a big fan of it.