[TheZookie007]

There's a commercial that purports to be for the new Apple tablet making the rounds: you can see it here

[Palomine]

Looks as plausible as anything else I've seen. If genuine, one can only hope that the familiar icon dock on the desktop and iMac-like row of ports on back means that the 'iPad' has more in common with an actual Mac running OSX than with the iPhone. Perhaps it'll run BOTH OSX programs AND iPhone apps? Of course... the commercial *could*  be a fake: the front/top half of a MacBook Air and the back of an iMac. Whatever it turns out to be, it'll surely make a splash and we'll all probably know this Wednesday.

[solvegas]

There's a commercial that purports to be for the new Apple tablet making the rounds: you can see it here

Popular Mechanics had a glowing article on this device. They sounded like a pack of women at Nordstrom's shoe department when the newest Jimmy Choos are being sold. They said it was a Home Run.

[TheZookie007]

That tablet would make any publisher of paper-based magazines slobber over themselves. It would give them such a good way to engage their subscribers and would allow them to have greater control over their content than ever. I don't blame them for being so enthusiastic.

[TheZookie007]

"Oops. McGraw-Hill CEO Confirms Apple Tablet Runs iPhone OS"

Guess who's not getting a Christmas card from Steve Jobs this year

[TheZookie007]

So it's confirmed: the Apple tablet's name is the Apple iPad.

This Week in Tech is providing a live videostream of the announcement here, and Engadget and Gizmodo are liveblogging it as well.

[MaxBigfoot]

iPad?  Sounds like a woman's panty liner.

[Palomine]

OK, it's been a busy day and I've only seen a smattering of info since Jobs' 10am presentation in SF. So the iPad seems to be an iPhone/eBook reader... which is fine. And for $499. to start, it's actually fairly well-priced for an Apple offering (yes, I know the biggest-RAM 3G-enabled version is more). Given that the upper-end big-name versions of most eBook readers (from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, etc...) are generally within a couple hundred dollars of a base iPad, and that they're mostly just monochrome 'digital ink' display devices, not having a 140,000 app library of tools on which to draw, the iPad is probably going to attract a fair number of buyers. I don't expect it to rival the iPhone or iPod for sheer numbers however, since it IS essentially a special-interest device: at some point in the future EVERYONE will get their printed matter subscriptions electronically... using iPads and similar devices. However, the transition to that future is sure to be a gradual one.

A nice device from my very initial impression, but it would have to run OSX and Mac apps for me to lust after it.

[TheZookie007]

iPad?  Sounds like a woman's panty liner.

I think it's fairly obvious that Apple has no high-ranking female engineers, otherwise one of them would have warned them about this. I also think it's obvious that they never really watched MADtv when it was on the air:

YouTube: MADtv: "iPad"

[TheZookie007]

There's a lot of feedback from the presentation.

• Bottom Up: "The Case against the iPad"
• Scobleizer: "A 16-Year-Old's View of Apple's iPad: iFAIL"
• NY Daily News: "Top 10 things you need to know about Apple's new iPad tablet computer"
• G4's Attack of the Show: "The Loop: Apple Unveils the iPad"
• NY Times: "iPad Blurs Line Between Devices"
• NY Times Bits: "Live Blogging the iPad Product Announcement"
• NY Times: "With Apple Tablet, Print Media Hope for a Payday"
• NY Times: "Pogue's Posts: The Apple iPad: First Impressions"
• MediaBytes with Shelly Palmer: "Is Apple's iPad as Revolutionary as Steve Jobs Says?"

Overall, the iPad has some good points, but it also has a lot against it. DRM? No USB ports? No multitasking? No Flash? No webcam? No standard-sized SIM card? No way to increase memory? No thanks, at least for now. Maybe when someone jailbreaks it or something

[rtpoe]

Am I the only one who gets uneasy about media events like this, where they go crazy over the latest "revolutionary" tech toy?

[Chestnuts]

Am I the only one who gets uneasy about media events like this, where they go crazy over the latest "revolutionary" tech toy?

Reality Distortion Field on.

iPad. Really. What's in a name? ugh. Can I get it in pink? LOL


Time for Apple to get off the "i" theme.

Think Different

[Shara]

at this point it's made of fail... but you know the drones will buy it

[SwitcherX]

and the same kind of people that bought a Kindle.....

[TheZookie007]

The iPad is trying to be a better Kindle than a Kindle, whereas I and many others hoped that it would be a true OS X-based tablet Mac computer, and not just an overgrown iPod Touch. Maybe next time.

Assuming you haven't already done so, you can watch the Apple iPad keynote announcement at Apple.com, or to save time you can watch it condensed to just over 3 minutes here. And of course, unless der Führer has weighed in on something, it didn't happen.