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.]
@LordRobin,
Arrington is also the TechCrunch guy who got pawned by the Fusion Garage “partner” who hijacked their joint prototype tablet computer project and renamed it from CrunchPad to JooJoo – basically a dedicated browser viewer.
I am sure he is rife with shoulda-woulda-couldas when he strokes the iPad
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@ C1
When you go with your father to look at the iPad, you’ll see me walking out with one. Oh, yeah: a “thank you” to ron, x, and all the neocons — I’m using your tax dollars to buy it.
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Adobe has to be really worried. All reviewer agree the iPad is FAST. If someone ask – “how come I can’t get Flash” – and the universal answer is that Flash will really slow it down, most people will say “oh forget it then.”
“@Ampar…
You completely missed TT’s Monty Python’s Life of Brian reference.”
I’ll play the I Didn’t Care Card, Alex.
People who can’t tell the difference between a Kindle and and iPad are doomed. Kindle is walking dead, and Bezos knows it.
WTF?!?! The one guy is under the impression that the iPad is locked to AT&T;when Steve Jobs made it very clear the device is UNlocked and you can use it with any carrier that has a microSIM and neither Walt or the other guy corrected him, so it seems that all three were oblivious to this point.
Seriously, WTF?!?!?
That’s the first thing that struck me- the software, the potential. It’s going to be a monster.
I’m surprised there isn’t more criticism about the screen ratio, which is the same as the first monitor I had with my 486SX 25 MHz system with a 100 MB HD back in 1993. Hmmm. Progress I guess!
@iMaki
“I’m surprised there isn’t more criticism about the screen ratio, “
I’ve heard some. Mainly from those bemoaning the letterboxing of movies. But I think watching movies was never thought of as the “killer app” for the iPad. I think Apple built in the iPod functions simply because they could, and it would have been weird if they hadn’t. No. The iPad was built for print. Books, mags, email, web. 9 out of 10 buying the iPad will spend 90% of their time with these functions, along with app designed to fit the screen’s aspect ratio.
Aspect ratio, the bezel, the weight, no flash, no camera… all straw men for those grasping at straws. No device is perfect for everyone, but this one is going to be perfect for a good many.
@ DLMeyer;
You yourself provided the most damning statement EVAH against the Kindle, so get off your high horse and join reality already.
Quoth the thundering dunderhead DL;
“one holds more than twice that for the same price as an iPad.”
You’d have to be mind numbingly stupid to buy a READER that costs the same price as an iPad, but thanks for playing!
“shit-tastic”
Awesome. Can someone make one of those inspirational posters?
How come I’m not on Charlie Rose …. I could do what these guys do and a lot more with a little research .. and come up with a lot more convincing and technical arguments … Nobody has mentioned that the ipad is a trojan horse into the pc world because you don’t need a Mac to have one!! … it interfaces with itunes for both mac and pc …. doesn’t anyone else notice this but me …
huhhh … anyone else … huhhh … anyone …?