04-01-2010, 07:08 AM
I'm sure it is a neat toy. If only it had some use to fill in my life I would consider burning money on it, but it offers nothing my current gadgets don't already do and is not small enough to replace any of them.
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Quote:The Apple iPad is basically a gigantic iPod Touch
Quote:There’s an e-book reader app, but it’s not going to rescue the newspaper and book industries (sorry, media pundits). The selection is puny (60,000 titles for now). You can’t read well in direct sunlight. At 1.5 pounds, the iPad gets heavy in your hand after awhile (the Kindle is 10 ounces). And you can’t read books from the Apple bookstore on any other machine — not even a Mac or iPhone.