Thursday, January 28, 2010

First Feelings on the iPad

Yesterday, Apple announced the iPad and this morning I had a look at the video on ZDNet.

It is a really cool device ! Let's comment on Steve Jobs's demonstration:
  • Graphics : just like on the iPhone/iPod, the system looks really great
  • Pictures : the iPad will become a great way to share photos
  • Internet : It's surely the best experience for browsing the web in your sofa, nevertheless if you want to write long texts (like blogging), I'm not sure yet.
  • Email : I don't believe in it yet. I'd need to test the virtual keyboard to see if it's convenient to write an email like this
  • Reading eBooks : I'd need to compare reading during 1 hour on ePaper and 1 hour on a iPad.
The iPad will probably deeply hurt ePaper manufacturers. Their only chance of survival is a price war against the iPad. Also they will have to innovate aggressively to come nearby the same user experience. See an example here : http://vimeo.com/8217311. (Thanks to Michel Duperrier for sending me this video).


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2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2010 at 9:48 AM

    Mine are here! http://ectopist.posterous.com/the-apple-ipad-29

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  2. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2010 at 9:50 AM

    Hmm, I'm sure there's a good reason why your blogging platform can't recognize a URL in a comment and tag it up automatically....

    Let me try manually

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