The first official commercial for the Apple ipad aired today during the Oscars. You can criticize or praise the ipad all you want, but here at the Hub our stance is that the device is innovative and we can’t wait to get our hands on one. Apple announced last Friday that the ipad will officially sell in stores April 3, and pre orders will be available on the ipad website starting March 12. Check out a Youtube video of the ipad commercial after the break:
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My Credentials: I've owned and used extensively a Windows Tablet, Kindle and an iPhone.
A couple of points:
* Apple products have very easy learning curves (kindle as well)
* Apple products tend to have few functions
* consequently Apple products tend to have fewer UI “failure” modes — things that don't work as expected.
Example: the Win tablet had a beautiful reader, but it would be interrupted with windows update dialog boxes, etc etc.
My guess is that Apple tries really hard to make a very workable device the does just the right things, but not too much.
IMHO, the iPad would be great product but that fact that it won't support flash means that it isn't a “workable” web browser. Close but not good enough.
Maybe their innovation is only being able to run one program at a time, those others can't do that right??
I'll wait for the overseas imitators. I recently picked up a 'mp4' player that among other things shows HD on a nice screen for under US$60 (I could hardly read anything on the site through an online translater, though…)
It's innovative because nobody has thought to slap an apple logo on one of these before. That's out-of-the-box thinking, there.
lol ad doesn't even show iPad working – you can clearly see the screen is inserted into video
Courier might be innovative. Let me see one when it ships and I'll let you know. Right now it's pure vapor.
I'm still curious as to what specifically people think is the innovative part.
Touch tablets from 5″ to 12″ screens have been around for years, running various UIs from full Windows through customised Android to device-specific. Archos, Giinii, Camangi, LBook, QOOQ, eviGroup, Vega, Toshiba, NEC – all released or demonstrated touch tablets in the last few years, and many of them have hardware specs not dissimilar to the iPad. Heck, the iPod Touch (which was innovative 3 years ago) is virtually identical, just smaller.
Is it because it's Apple's, and therefore has a decent UI? Or is it just because Apple is the first company that's managed to capture people's imagination?
Innovation in marketing aside, I would point out devices like the Courier as more deserving of the label; a completely new approach in both form and UI, designed more for tablet-style tasks than a UI adapted from a phone.