“Wow. So Apple has unveiled its iPad, an iPod touch like tablet computer that, so far at least, doesn’t seem impressive at all,” Paul Thurrott writes for Supersite for Windows. “And what’s with the huge bezel? It’s actually … can I say this about an Apple product? … ugly.”
MacDailyNews Take: “The iPad’s bezel is its handle. It’s where your fingers grip the device without covering the content on the screen, no matter which way you’re holding it. Give Apple some credit; they’re not Microsoft, they think things through.” – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, January 27, 2010
Thurrott continues, “The thing I don’t get here is… Nothing new. This has all been done before elsewhere. I’m astonished this isn’t nicer looking or more interesting… OK, this has to be a joke… It’s a joke. It’s gotta be. Right? …A 1 GHz Apple A4 chip (What the???)”
MacDailyNews Take: Oh, trust us, it’s all being iCal’ed for future use.
Thurrott continues, “This stuff is just boring. If Apple wanted this to be a game machine, they should have built hardware controls into that huge bezel.. Overall, this is a letdown. I’d be surprised to see anyone try to claim otherwise.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Apple’s iPad is obviously destined to be a huge hit.
Game controls in the bezel.
Why not? I can’t believe Paul said something useful. At the very least, a third party clip-on.
unless APPLE does what I mentioned….then they can NOT call this “MAGIC”. sorry.
and to clarify…I am an APPLE fanboy. trust me.
come on guys/girls. you know deep down you were not impressed with this announcement. the tablet isn’t even a 16:9 device so you can’t watch movies on it in a way that’s “better” than a laptop. it doesn’t easily hook up to your TV. you have to dock the freaking thing to sync it. what am I missing? why is this thing so great at $499?
“2. How do you turn the user’s thumbs invisible so they aren’t constantly blocking the damn screen?”
so you’re saying the iPhone is a terrible gaming machine? wha?
Someone over at Ars Technica posted a link to a slashdot article with reactions to the first iPod in 2001, they were along the same lines as Thurott’s drivel….some people never learn.
This guy is an idiot… typical windows fanboy…
IT IS TOO BIG.
The reason the icons and the home screen look awkward is because the screen is too big.
iPad is a hunk of shizzz… I am a fanboy and my sorry ass isn’t plunking money down on one. Pass!
Who cares what Thurott thinks. He’s probably paid by some hedge fund to spread this FUD with the sole purpose of driving down the stock price.
many miss the point… you have million’s of iphone users, who are NEW to a apple product… what a better way to migrate them into the apple computer world, then to give them a device that they would already know how to use, but it’s more like a computer than a phone…. building a customer base…
“Nothing new. This has all been done before elsewhere.”
Funny, They said the same thing about the iPod when it first came out.
I spent an hour reading all of the comments following Thurrott’s article.
Highly recommended. The windows users contribution far outnumber the one’s on this site and I found them to be highly entertaining.
Aside from the usual unimaginative drivel, the comments fall along the two-camp lines.
Windows users are quick to point out the inadequacies of a product they’ve never seen, much less used and the Mac loyalists are attempting to define what they’ve never seen or used; what is the purpose of a tablet computer.
I love the way people complain about a device as though it will suddenly become mandatory to own one. Some of the wildest and biggest fools on that site act as though they’re being forced to buy one and feel compelled to regale us with their objections.
I will buy the cheapest model that offers wi-fi/3G this summer and if the experience is half as good as my Touch, I will be ecstatic.
I like the iPad, it looks pretty cool, but i do wish it had a camera for video conferencing. Can an external camera be plugged in?
Also, if I use any of the new iWorks apps on the iPad, how do you print them, con you even setup a printer> Do I need to print it from another system? I guess we’ll wait and see.
“The iPad’s bezel is its handle. It’s where your fingers grip the device without covering the content on the screen, no matter which way you’re holding it. Give Applesome credit; they’re not Microsoft, they think things through.” – SteveJack, MacDailyNews, January 27, 2010
More importantly than fingers covering up the content, is avoiding spurious touches on the active area of the screen. Lessons learned from the relatively small bezel on the iPhone/Touch.
What did Paul said when iPhone was launched in 2007? Did he liked it…
I print wirelessly from my Touch, so I see no reason why developers couldn’t create print software for this device.
If EuroSmartz can create Print n’ Share (highly recommended) why can’t Apple build in Wi-Fi printing to their products as well?
Remember when the iPOD Mini was announced? These very same bozos were all over the web predicting doom and gloom for the new product claiming that it was too expensive, people would NEVER pay that much $$ for a smaller unit with less storage capacity, blah blah blah, whine, whine whine.
Fast forward to 6 months after the release of the iPOD Mini and it quickly became the BEST SELLING iPOD model in Apple History!
Once you start going back and looking that the track record of these Windows apologists and anti-Apple idiots, you quickly discover that whatever they predict is going to happen, will end up just the opposite in reality.
I ignore everything these tools say and predict. They have no idea what they are talking about, abd obviously NEVER learn from their past mistakes, which considering the volume of their WRONG assumptions is amazing in itself.
MORE BUTTONS!!!!!
” the tablet isn’t even a 16:9 device so you can’t watch movies on it in a way that’s “better” than a laptop.”
Trust me, there is more to life than watching widescreen movies. And for many/most of those uses, a 16:9 display is nowhere near to being optimal use of real estate.
Most of us on this thread and Thurrott’s followers are the techies anyway. Apple didn’t make the iPad for us. My wife is already saving up for this because she loves how the OS is out of the way. To her the iPad does everything she needs (web surfing, FaceBook, email, music, casual games, photos and video) without having to deal with a computer OS. I think she and millions of other non-techie people will buy the iPad for that reason.
Sci-fi movies have been doing this stuff for 5 years. Same with flying cars and teleportation. Yawn. Wake me up for something NEW.
Thurrott is an idiot. I have increased my buy of ARMH slightly because *I* understand the importance of the A4 (and beyond!!!!).
exactly what you would expect from a guy that owes his living and claim to fame to Microsoft.
@Demon
exactly what you would expect from a guy that owes his living and claim to fame to Microsoft.
My sentiments exactly.
And the fact that MDN has iCal’d this doesn’t surprise me either. They’ve got their thinking caps on, fer sure. When the tablet sells a million units in the first weekend, MDN will regurgitate Thurrott’s words verbatim to prove how much of a putz he is… in other words preaching to the choir.
MDN’s membership will say, “here, here, harumph!”
For those who just don’t get it, just don’t get it. More for those of us that do get it. But don’t expect us to help you get it, because if you don’t get this, we can’t help you. Got it? Good!
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“I’d be surprised to see anyone try to claim otherwise.”
Considering the positive press I’m reading around the web, Thurott has got to be way beyond surprised.
His head must have exploded.