Thursday’s Charlie Rose show featured a discussion with Walt Mossberg, David Carr and Michael Arrington about the upcoming Apple iPad.
Their wide-ranging discussion covered topics such as the iPad’s surprisingly low starting price, Apple’s decision not to support Adobe’s Flash in iPad’s iPhone OS, and Apple’s challenges in this new market.
Mossberg began with, “First of all, I think people who are focused on the hardware — they say, you know, it just looks like a big iPhone — are missing the key thing here. The key thing here is going to be the software and the services that it will deliver… The other thing I will say is, from the short time I’ve used it, it feels great in the hand, it’s wicked fast — I mean it’s really fast — and it has software flourishes that are more like a Mac… than they are like an iPhone. The photo app on there looks more like the one you would get on your… Mac computer than it does what you would get on an… iPhone. And they have a full-blown productivity suite [iWork for iPad] on there; word processor [Pages for iPad], spreadsheet [Numbers for iPad], slide presentation program [Keynote for iPad], so it’s a different animal than an iPhone.”
Mossberg also said, “The price point shocked me… When [Jobs] said $499, I was amazed… It’s going to make it harder for competitors… under $499 is going to be hard [for competitors] to make a profit.”
During the discussion, both Carr and Arrington explain why they think iPad will be a hit.
See the entire video (23:36, in Adobe’s shitastic Flash, so crank up those CPUs and cooling fans!) via AllThingsD – highly recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “dslarsen” for the heads up.]
Darn. Video is in Flash.
Hah! The video link on their web site requires Flash. No go on my iPod touch.
” it just looks like a big iPhone”
Why is that perceived as a negative? It’s beautiful.
Adobe is an enabler. Think stoned developer, not empowered, content provider.
http://www.skipintros.com/
It is a testament to the perfect form of the iPhone.
What else could it have looked like? A PSP? An Etch-A-Sketch? A Windows “Can O’ Worms”?
“Stoned developer”?
Did he say “Jehovah”?
nice discussion- recommended
TT, it’s just one toke over the line.
You know.
Damm it, I guess I gotta watch it in that POS Flash and enjoy my CPU going full blown overload and fan blasting to cool it off… C’mon developers get rid of FLASH FOR YOU VIDEOS!!!! PLEASE!!!!!
“What else could it have looked like? A PSP? An Etch-A-Sketch? A Windows ‘Can O’ Worms’?”
Can you blame Phil Dick?
Rock on, Jubei.
Great video, thanks for posting!
what? no boston jokes?????
Guys its the iPAAAAAAAAAAAD…
He just called it WICKED FAST…..
*faints
Michael Arrington says in the video that this is definitely a whole new category of device…umm, yeah…could’ve sworn tablets have been out for a while now…
Wicked Fast.
My wife gave me that nickname on our honeymoon.
Saying it looks like a big iPhone is just lazy, they’re both pretty much all screen. You may as well say it looks like a MacBook screen with a button on it.
@ kneugent
…but nobody quite knew why!
@kneugent
The ipad is a tablet like Windows is OSX.
Amazon recently announced plans to release an upgraded Kindle to compete against Apple’s iPad. Tech specs at this point are unconfirmed but industry insiders have leaked the Kindle wish list to bullshit.com
– 16 color active matrix screen
– 4MB Memory (upgradeable to 8MB for $249)
– Dot Matrix printing enabled via parallel port (standard)
– Vector clip art package (select art to display upon launch)
– Animated Gif upgrade: $99 (selections include puppy chasing butterfly across screen, black and white only. Color soon!)
– World Wide Web Internet Access Unlimited. Text only, images will be displayed as black and white Lego Cube.
– Expected Delivery Date: 3Q 2012
– Sign up to be notified of pending release
Why do some people need so much convincing?? Perhaps their brains are fried beyond numbness from using Windoze/PC for too many years.
It’s hilarious how IGN’s editors are negatively viewing the iPad as something “unnecessary”. That comes from a game specialized site. Are your PSP’s necessary? Did you really need to spend $200 in a mouse?
They keep talking about previous attempts to release tablet PCs and seem to miss the fact that they were just that – PCs with Windows, etc., with a touch screen overlay. Windows, and all the tablet predecessors, and all the current Windows-based tablets weren’t designed for touch screen operation. It’s tough to try to operate Windows with a touch screen (or stylus).
On the other hand, the iPad, and it’s cousins the iPhone and iPod Touch, were designed from the ground up to be controlled using your fingers. Big, big difference!! And, all the best apps are designed for the fingers, not the keyboard and mouse.
Mossberg said, and I agree completely, sales will be viral – it’ll start a bit slow, but when people finally see it they will understand and sales will explode. I just hope Apple can keep up with demand.
I also think that we haven’t seen everything that will be on the released product, just what Apple was ready to show. Has anyone that would know actually said that it won’t have a camera? Don’t think so. Only a bunch of self-proclaimed experts.
@Bezos
Nice one. Aren’t those the specs on an original Macintosh computer, excluding web access?
Wait… you are joking, right?
Bezos, where’s your head at? There are several arguments you could have made that might have struck home, yet you missed most of them. Those you hit were less than effective.
The Kindle is a reader, which means color is not THAT important.
The smaller one holds 1,500 books while the larger one holds more than twice that for the same price as an iPad.
As a reader, the Kindle has no need for a printer, as it would were it a computer.
Why would a reader need Vector Clip Art?
Why would a reader need animated GIFs?
Why would a reader need Web access?
Dumb snipe.
Dumber snipe.
Look, the big point for the iPad over the Kindle is that it’s a computer, not a reader. As a reader, I’d have to say the Kindle wins out … a week of battery, half the weight, glare-free screen, built-in 3G, huge selection of material … so, if the iPad were Just A Reader, it would lose out. But, it isn’t.
So, get with the plan. Quit with the silly, childish, sniping. Let Kindle have its market, such as it is, and watch/help the iPad grow far beyond that modest niche.
Flash?!?!?
Everyone with an iPhone go there so they can see how many people came to visit their site but couldn’t see the video.
“And they have a full-blown productivity suite [iWork for iPad] on there”
BTW – I thought iWork for iPad was going to be an extra fee.
Small fee, but not included like the quote above implies.