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.]