Beyond the hype, style, and speculation, the truth is that the iPad is really just another tablet device. A really big PDA, where a touchscreen does what a laptop's keyboard used to do.
The seven-inch tablets are tweeners: too big to compete with a smartphone, and too small to compete with an iPad.
I think that devices like Glass are going to do a terrific job of capturing your first-person perspective. And that's what people first think of when they think of GoPro.
I do like the iPhone. I've been a Blackberry person from, like, literally day one of Blackberry, so it's been a real switch, but it's a great device.
And not only that, I also have the MacBook Air which is really cool. Even my wife is jealous of my MacBook Air.
Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray.
He stopped what he was doing and pulled out his magic phone. Okay, the phone wasn't magic, but it does things my computer struggles with.
In my view the tablet and the PC are different. You can do things with the tablet if you are not encumbered by the legacy of the PC.
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
Cell phones are like a dog's nipples... you don't have to shout into them!
When I first reviewed the iPad, I wrote that, to succeed, 'It will have to prove that it really can replace the laptop or netbook for enough common tasks, enough of the time, to make it a viable alternative.'
The iPad needs to catch up with Flash before I put a hand on it.
I have no plans to get an iPad. I know it will do more things than my Kindle, but I don’t want more things. If I want other stuff - movies, TV shows, weather forecasts, the forthcoming Josh Ritter album - I have my Mac.
I use my iPad many times a day, and it has cut my use of my laptop by more than half.
You could have sex relatively comfortably on a platform of books, but not on a platform of PDA.s. Hardcover books. Paperbacks might start sliding around. Though I.d still prefer paperbacks to a pile of PDA.s.
The laptop computer is a workhorse. The tablet is just a display.
There's a time and place for the Kindle, and I own one now and have books on it that I don't otherwise have. But I don't find that my hand reaches out for it the way it does for a trade paperback, or (in the middle of the night) for the iPod Touch.
The car is the ultimate mobile device, isn't it?
The iPod Touch is basically an iPhone with the phone part taken out, which is fine - since making calls is the one thing that the iPhone doesn't actually do very well.
Early on, Android phones were pitched as kind of ersatz iPhones, devices that could do most of what an iPhone did - but were available on carriers other than AT&T, a relatively horrible network that was the biggest source of complaints about Apple's transformative device.
I hate the iPhone. I love the BlackBerry - BlackBerry wins in my opinion. The iPhone is a toy.
I had an iPhone and a Droid and both of them were miserable pieces of equipment.
I think that I do about 85% of what I used to do on my computer now on my iPad.
Tablets are more intuitive than a PC or laptop. They also have more real estate than a smartphone.
The iPad - contrary to the way most people thought about it - is not a tablet computer running the Apple operating system. It's more like a very big iPhone, running the iPhone operating system.
