So, what do you think about the iPad?  

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and $630 to $830 US ? I heard that Jobs was making typos during the demonstration on the touch keyboard. Good luck with that. And he (Jobs) claimed that the battery would go for 10 hours working, and a month on standby ! No way, according to the reporter from Wired. . .lucky if it's half that.
Another gotta-have toy ? A traveling work machine with Internet access and a sexy touch-screen ? Apple stock dropped after the intro. . .

I'm with you Beloved. A tad...
I'm with you Beloved. A tad disappointing unveiling. The technology and presentation is impressive. The execution falls short of potential. I was looking forward to something between an IPod Touch & a laptop. What was unveiled today is merely an oversized IPod Touch directly competing with Amazon's Kindle, but with more functionality. In it's current incarnation, it's not the sub-laptop I was anticipating. Maybe in a year or two of "updates" it will be. Until then, to me, it's just another gadget to string along consumers. Then there's the name..."pad".
Disposable technology.

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I followed it twitter.(whatever that is)
From the moment it started at 1pm NY. (some bets)
Not what i wanted. I wanted a full keyboard clipped as the front cover.
Fold out. True 'lap top'
Tiny.
I'll still be in line, well i hate lines, so i'll be somewhere in the pact.
I just completed an entire job on my iphone. No paper. Sure life existed
before. But what a pleasure.
I was in Stanford, Ct today. A pay phone! With a dial tone!. I scrolled thru
my phone to call someone...may be fun to make a call on the old stuff...
It was the slimey, creepy handset that i remember from the 80's. Spit and
bubble gum. yeeoww. !
Accept the future on most things.

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silly but funny
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8QPhs&feature=player_embedded

Anothe useless gadget.
I've been a professional mac user since 92 and I was very disappointed. I was hoping for something like tablet PC with a real processor and the ability to run programs like Adobe CS, to actually save files to the hard drive, etc. It's just an over sized iPod Touch. Enough of the useless consumer gadgets. How about us professionals who want to be mobile and productive?
The mac fanboys are gonna need an iBelt to wield all of their little gadgets.

Apple is way behind...
...this guy - Panav Mistry and his sixth sense invention -
http://www.ted.com/talks/pranav_mistry_the_thrilling_potential_of_sixths...

Devices...
It's not a computer and it's not a tablet either... It's just another gadget to buy.

A big if!
If it had multitasking ability, I would love it because I don't have all the gadgets it combines. But that's a big if and a deal breaker. If I can't even copy and paste from the web or a book into an email, why bother?

You could get a couple Big...
You could get a couple Big Chiefs and a pack of pencils for like a buck when I was a kid, at the Ben Franklin. In addition to homework stuff, you could even play games on it, like Tic-Tac-Toe. I'm serious.

Oh MAN
This video is from 2006!!!! 4 years ago!!!!
You would think someone would have checked out past references to the name before finalizing it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eF0y0IfpPU

Brace yourselves for the...
Brace yourselves for the unveiling of the Maxi iPad, regular or with wings.

Well, what do you want it...
Well, what do you want it for? I, for instance, won't be running CS4 on the iPad. but something to use it as a photo-album to share with the family in the living room, read some kid's books to Isabella at nite, some magazine subs in either pdf or some sort of interactive, browse the net on a bigger screen while at the kitchen, etc...
A lot of my co-workers are seeing the potential to walk around the agency with their schedule, planner, email and pdf viewer.
Even my dad (doctor) wants one to display video of some procedures to his patients, access the web portal of his clinic and keep tabs of appointments and engagement.
Do I need it, no, do I want it? yes!

As I said...
It's just another gadget to buy.
Companies don't actually want to make a replacement for the computer... Then no one would buy computers.

I think
I think Apple would have had a better response if they had also announced Verizon getting the iPhone.
I mean, what did people expect? Apple is drifting a bit towards the Microsoft arena here, with new (and generally meaningless) product launches every year...there are FOUR different kinds of ipods - Mini, Regular, Shuffle, & Touch... and one of those is basically just an iPhone without the phone part.
Just about the only thing radical that Apple has done recently is to distill and focus OS X SnowLeopard into a tighter, smaller, more effective OS. If they had done that with the iPhone (multitasking anyone?) instead of turning it into a medium sized tablet, who knows?
And I know... the real story is going to happen when people start developing apps... a script to text app with a stylus would be nice, and easily convertible into a drawing/design app for us creative types.