#iPad is about consuming everthing #Apple

Skinning the furby

When you buy an iPad, you buy it from Apple. When you buy content, you buy it exclusively from the Apple store. When an application competes with an Apple application it will be shelved. When you buy content, a large percentage of the revenue will go to Apple.

To get an iPad, you buy at a premium. In a way an iPad is like a furby it is until you want to skin it. Experience with the iPhone shows that nowadays in the Apple dictionary tinkering is synonymous with bricking.

At the time of the 1984 video, Apple had an enviable reputation, the Apple ][ series were a hit because it allowed for tinkering. When you want to do original work on the iPad however, the restrictions are truly Orwellian. Rumour has it that Apple intends to develop its own search engine, given its license this will allow Bing and Google to be removed as a service from the iPad..

I will pass on the privilege of an iPad and look forward with interest how competition will be treated by Apple.
Thanks,
      GerardM

PS you cannot edit Wikipedia on the iPad..

iFad, iPad or iGilette

Only when you live under a rock, you are unaware that Apple started selling in the USA the iPad. As a marketing campaign it is a text book success that is likely to be studied for some time.

For me it is a truly hyped product, with a computer press that is bought and sold on the idea that the iPad will be the saviour of the press industry. The iPad being the vehicle that sells its content.

Apple sells closed systems. It has shown with its iPhone the extend of its control to ensure that only those products that meet Apple's strategy will be available. As the objective is profit, open and free information is not in Apple's interest; there is no margin.

The iPhone has had several iterations without providing language support for languages like Hindi, Malayalam... Given that the iPad is associated with paid for content, this may change. It is not the need of people but the need of industry that will be served.

There are two reasons why I will not buy an iPad; the most relevant is that I prefer to read my books in bath.
Thanks,
      GerardM