iPad Nano: the iPad that fits in your pocket
I stumbled upon this picture this afternoon and found it quite funny. I’m wondering what are your thoughts on it? Is the iPad just a big ass iPhone for you or a new kind of device?
What I saw from demos didn’t make me want one, but it seems that less tech-saavy people like it a lot. I’m curious to see how it will do, take your bets in the comments and we’ll take a look back in a year.
I personally cannot wait to get my hands on this. My old MacBook is on it’s way out and the iPad does everything I used to do on my laptop.
I find my laptop way too painfully annoying to code on which means I only code on my iMac. All I use my laptop for is the internet, email, meetings with clients (usually only need word processing – check, and internet – check) and if I’m on holidays then listening to music and browsing photos I took on the holiday. Apple is bang on this device for a lot of people. It’s so much smaller than a laptop making it more portable, the built in 3G will make it faster for me to get on the internet, and it’ll be a lot easier to show clients website just by flipping a light iPad that’s in my hands rather than trying to rotate the heavy laptop back and fourth. If you’re on a train, it’s annoying pulling out a laptop and trying to do stuff, the iPad would make it so much less awkward to browse the web or any number of things on the move.
If you do a lot more on your MacBook then this device isn’t for you. But it is definitely for me.
i personally want to see what the book deals will come like if i can use it for my textbooks and programming books this is kindle killer it may not be epaper but epaper also cant play video and surf the web in full color for me this an eduactional tool not a laptop replacement but an augmentation to my laptop
I don’t see a niche. I can buy the kindle for much cheaper, it’s easier on the eyes. The iphone and ipod touch have the same OS and apps for much cheaper, and have far more portability. The iPad is 4:3 not 16:9 so those videos aren’t HD. Oh and, they better not be FLV because there’s no flash support. Not to mention that digital keyboards are really a pain in the butt when trying to type long messages.
Tablets haven’t caught on at all. Netbooks have a small market but aren’t really competing with notebooks. The only market netbooks have captured is from cheap laptops. The iPad is a reasonably priced laptop (starting at $499) marketed as a netbook, without a keyboard and little storage ($499 gets you 16gb without 3G).
People who are comparing the iPad to the iPhone, or bemoaning the lack of phone features, camera, etc. are missing the point completely.
The iPad is a new category of device; I love my iPod Touch, and an iPad will not replace that as my primary, portable source of music and quick way of checking Twitter, email, or play games when I’m away from my laptop. But that doesn’t stop me from being interested in purchasing the ‘Pad. For one main reason: productivity.
The iPod is a great device due to the multitouch interface and its portability, and it gives me quick access to a lot of my important information (and even more so if I’m within reach of a wifi hotspot). But, it’s not a device to be really productive with; the iPad – with its larger screen, and (the real attraction from my perspective) the ‘Pad ported version of the iWork suite, seems like a device I could genuinely be productive on.
Truth be told, as excited as I am about the iPad I’m not committed yet to buying one – that will come after I’ve had a chance to pick one up with my hands at an Apple Store sixty-days hence; I’m more excited about what it represents: this is clearly a gateway product, and I’d expect to see 2nd and 3rd generation versions of the ‘Pad that have more of the bells & whistles (camera facing forward for video conferencing; more robust processor with the ability to have multiple app’s open at once, and background processes, etc.). This is where computing is heading, though; a touch interface where the screen displaying your data and your ability to enter, alter, and share this data are mitigated directly by your fingers instead of an “interface.”
web resauce is a Mac fanboy douche.
“I find my laptop way too painfully annoying to code on which means I only code on my iMac.”
You must be a webmaster? HTML isn’t coding. I use nano or gedit maybe even vim for html, because I’m not a douche who needs dreamweaver. I don’t find it painfully annoying. I do a lot of real development from my recliner with my Dell Precision 6400 laptop.
“and if I’m on holidays then listening to music and browsing photos I took on the holiday.”
Hmmm, let me carry around my huge oversized iPod touch (with no camera) to look at photos and play music because a normal pocket sized iPod touch (with a camera) would be far less convenient.
“the built in 3G will make it faster for me to get on the internet, and it’ll be a lot easier to show clients website just by flipping a light iPad that’s in my hands rather than trying to rotate the heavy laptop back and fourth.”
A couple things here. Built in 3G? Maybe if you pay the $629 for the 16GB model. You are better off paying $829 for the 64GB model. Nearly a thousand dollars for the “built in” 3G with any usable amount of storage. Oh and according to Apple the 3G plan is sold separately. http://www.apple.com/ipad/pricing/
It’s much easier to flip around your iPad, while holding it with both hands in front of you, than it would be to place your laptop on a table and spin it around? The iPad cannot stand on it’s own. You will have to hold it up in front of you. I can put my laptop on a table and spin it around fairly easily. Instead I’ll have to place my iPad down on the table to type, then lift it up and hold it with both hands. Not to mention I can connect my laptop to a projector so I don’t have to flip it around.
@Stephen
Maybe I am missing the point, but isn’t that the point of a new product? To fill some needed void where a product has been missing. I don’t see where this thing fits. It’s like the Zack Morris model of iphone (without phone service).
Productivity? Good luck using iWorks for word processing while you hunt and peck at the digital keyboard. You can’t place your fingers on the home keys on a digital keyboard, because you are pressing those keys. Watch Jobs trying to type on it in the keynote speech.
No multimedia drives (blu-ray, cd or dvd) locks you into the apple store for any media as well as apps.
No flash? Hope you aren’t trying to demo a flash site there web resauce.
An e-reader in color, for reading black and white text? E-paper is much easier on the eyes, IMO.
480p in 4:3 aspect ratio means no HD movies. They’ve gone completely the opposite of even over the air TV.
You are right though. Maybe Gen 2 and 3 will be better. If they add HD support and let me install my own apps maybe I would think about it. Throw in the ability to upgrade the memory and hard drive and you might have a customer. Throw in USB support built in (without an adapter) for external storage or maybe an over the air TV tuner. Then I can see it fitting a niche as a personal, portable media player slash e-reader.
As I see it now, it has all the functionality of an iPod touch, with iWorks, with none of the portability. I have nothing else to compare it to as far as functionality. So, I don’t see where I’m missing the point.
“People who are comparing the iPad to the iPhone, or bemoaning the lack of phone features, camera, etc. are missing the point completely.”
In the same sense, if so many of us are bemoaning the lack of features, camera, etcetera, maybe it is not us that are missing the point. Perhaps it is because there is no point to this product.
I could name a stack of features that would make this a viable product. So could many others. To say that I and many others have missed the point doesn’t make us purchase the product. If enough of us are missing the point then perhaps it is apple not know what our needs are.
It’s not functional as a laptop, nor is it portable enough for a PDA or phone. It has the features and OS of a phone or personal audio player, without the benefit of the portability.
I do like the large screen ipod touch for watching shows or videos. I don’t like the lack of HD and media drives. I could see a personal media player for DVD or Blu-ray, with ondemnad TV shows or movies purchased from the apple store.
I don’t really see this functioning as a laptop or netbook replacement because of the lack of analog keyboard that so many of us are used to, and trained to, type on. Not now anyway. There’s not even a hand writing to OCR scan feature to replace a paper notebook for taking notes. That I could see as useful. Touch screen keyboards are rarely very easy to use beyond two thumbs or index fingers.
It’s too big to be a portable gaming system. You can’t fit it in your hands to be a controller like the ipod touch or iphone can be. So, game play designed for landscaped ipod touch or iphone is going to be a bit awkward.
It can be an e-reader. We’ve gone the standard display route with e-readers. I think the reason they never caught on until the kindle was due to the problems with reading standard video screens in daylight. E-paper resolved that issue. I’m not sure how that’s going to work out for the ipad as an e-reader. We’ll have to see I guess.
I see a few die-hard Mac fans buying these. Other than that, I don’t think the masses aren’t going to take to it like the ipod and iphone.
Yes, it is just a big ass iphone/ipod touch. Apple builds some great computers and a great OS but the rest is crap.
The pic you saw was just a rip off of this one:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/ninedeuce187/4312041936/
The original is funnier and more cutting.
I personally would like to know what different features they can put on it because theyve probaably got the features on another electrical item like iphone does anyone know what features it has post a comment
It will be a success, because there are a lot of not very tech-savvy people and because Apple fans are… well, you know what they’re like.
Why do the most DRM-ridden devices get the most attention, like iPod, iPhone, iPad, kindle and stuff? I hate DRM, it’s just about limiting the user for the advantage of the company of the device.