The iPad – The IWOOT Verdict
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At last! It’s here! But is Apple’s brand spanking new tablet-y, computer-y, entertainment-y, eBook-y, baking-tray-y iPad worth your time and money if you already have an iPhone or an iPod Touch? Via the medium of Skype, we Wooters have a little look at what Steve Jobs spent last night having nightmares about…
Danny Woot: So the iPad – doth it rock or doth it suck?
Jimbo Woot: Don’t you mean the Really Big 3G Ipod Touch?
Danny: I think it looks like a baking tray.
Jimbo: I am an Apple snob. So obviously love everything about it. I just don’t see myself ever needing one.
Jenna Woot: It could be the new version of the Trigger Happy “HELLO!” sketch.
Danny: “YEAH… YEAH… IT’S AN IPAD… NAH, IT’S RUBBISH…”
Jimbo: I would definitely consider buying one if my daily commute was an hour or so, and if as Jenna suggested earlier in the kitchen, it had an amazing sketching app. I also think that it is quite a bold move for Apple to rely on the delivery of saucy apps determining the success of it.
Jenna: Yeah, I’d love it to sketch on, thing is you can get this awesome stuff – paper and pencil – that costs next to nothing…
Danny: Oh yeah, I’ve heard of that.
Jenna: I’d buy it if it would let me play super flight control.
Danny: So what other apps are going to be available? I’ve read about the New York Times one, but that’s another “should we pay for the news?” issue.
Jimbo: They have the basic word processing and spreadsheet apps.
Jenna: They have plenty games.
Jimbo: Sky News is free on the iPhone. Again, the relevance of the device is determined by third parties. Weird.
Dino Woot: Not really, look at the original iPhone. It was massively successful without an app store.
Jimbo: BUT IT WAS A PHONE.
Dino: But the app store definitely blew it away.
Jenna: Otherwise you have a glorified mp3 player and web browser.
Jimbo: HAHA! I would love to buy an iPad just to walk around pretending to talk on it!
Dino: That would be classic. I am disappointed that it runs on the same OS as the iPhone and iPod Touch.
Danny: What kind of OS would suit it better?
Jimbo: The OS is irrelavant if apps are created properly. This set of pics gets me excited about the iPad.
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Jimbo: Imagine walking into a job interview, and showing your portfolio on it. THAT would be sick.
Jenna: If you could use a stylus with illustrator it would be really good for logo design/illustration.
Danny: I could definitely imagine using the bottom right image – kind of like an old word processor machine.
Jimbo: Have you guys ever seen this video?
Jimbo: It’s about Multi Touch interface. Imagine taking some of this and adding it into it – and this was in 2006!
Jenna: eBooks are really popular and they cost £150+.
Jimbo: The new Kindle is £200.
Danny: And what’s the RRP for the iPad?
Jimbo: No one really knows yet.
Danny: Care to hazard a guess?
Jimbo: Starting @ £400? It says it will start at $499 in the US. The Kindle DX Wireless is $489.99.
Dino: That is stupidly expensive for en eBook reader.
Danny: So, without the opportunity to get one on contract like an iPhone, are people really going to pay that much?
Jimbo: Good question. I might actually get suckered into a £20/month contract if I get one for free.
Danny: They can bill you at the same time they bill you for your iPhone.
Jimbo: The standard rule of thumb is generally to wait for 3rd gen anyways 
Jenna: You can get Apple products on credit, it would be sort of like paying for a contract.
Danny: I suppose so, but I think you’re right about waiting – how much of this will be obsolete by the time the next one comes out?
Jimbo: Well for a start they are going to have to increase the memory size.
Danny: Any more physical size and you could do oven chips on it.
Jenna: You could have your steak cooking on the PS3 and chips on the iPad – thats multi-use technology!
Dino: The option for removable media is also disappointing. The lack of, anyway.
Danny: So final thoughts – good or bad?
Jimbo: Only time and the app developers will tell.
Jenna: If I had a private yacht I would totally get one to use on it- it would definitely be my web browsing/word processing device of choice
Danny: I still struggle with an iPod, so I’m going to wait until five years after everyone else has one and then consider getting one second-hand.
Dino: I really think that it has potential in terms of what third parties will do with it, and I am quite excited to see what they will put out. But at the same time I am quite disappointed that it doesn’t seem much more than an enlarged iPhone. Maybe my disappointment will turn around when I see what is really possible with it.
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Come on guys – it’s rubbish. It could improve with later versions, but as it stands it’s an embarassment.
The fact that you can only run one app at a time, need an adapter to plug anything into it (including USB) and that it won’t read flash makes it a bit puzzling that Apple decided to release it at this stage of development at all.
Tablets already exist in some form or another, so Apple could have taken their own sweet time to polish it up before they released it to the public.
People will buy it anyway though – if the packaging’s nice enough I probably will at some stage too.
Hmm… I think “embarrassment” is far too harsh. I think the question is really where it stands in the market. Currently it’s somewhere above an ebook reader and possibly below a netbook. It tears apart ebook rivals, and with time could be a decent entry level netbook.
Watch this then decide!!!! http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/167d70800c/the-ipad It’s really informative!!!
“With Time” – that’s exactly my point. All of the criticisms that are being thrown at it could have been predicted by their devo team. Apple control their own market; when they say people need to own a new piece of tech, people snap it up – but this seems different. You can see why they rushed the iPod release due to the competition from other phones, but the iPad? The tablet isn’t even a consideration for most consumers, so why try and convert them with such a shoddy product? Make it perfect, avoid the negative blog and press coverage and for once prove windows fan boys wrong from the get go. I’m apple to the end, but sometimes they make it extremely hard.
I think they may have alienated a generation of tech savvy customers who were already slightly put out by the original iPhone’s teething problems.
Best piece of copy I’ve seen so far, courtesy of Apple Store -
“Our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price.” – no kidding. I can’t believe it costs the best part of a grand for 3G and less than 120GB either.
Can I also add that I am completely stoked that I got to partake in IWOOT Blog’s first flame war. My baby’s all grown up, sniff.
[...] superbly-named Peter Serafinowicz has effortlessly lampooned the iPad hype and pointed out what JennaWoot argued in our Skype-aided dissection of Apple’s latest method for taking money off of their cult-like followers. Won’t stop [...]
Ed – Jimbo came across a similarly excellent piece of copy from the Apple mail-out:
“This device has not yet been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. This device is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until authorization is obtained.”
Let’s hope they get it!
Here is Hitler’s reaction on YouTube http://youtu.be/lQnT0zp8Ya4?a
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