Okay. I promised I’d tune back into the Apple tablet hubbub when the fateful day came. Well, today was the day, and, while I can’t break a promise, I’d like to state the obvious, aggregate a few opinions, and be done with it.
Responses to the announcement of the Apple iPad have been overwhelmingly negative (common crits: giant iPhone, awkward size, no camera…). It’s been picked apart by Gizmodo, its “under the hood” capabilities questioned by lalawag, and the Onion, ever the barometer of popular opinion, has implied that it’s as though Steve Jobs pulled an all-nighter and the iPad was the result. [For a view on the bright side, see the Apple iPad page].
David Pogue’s reaction has just been published on NYTimes.com, and, as usual, his appraisal is level-headed and he cautions us not to jump to conclusions. The iPad offers an incomparable reading/watching experience, perhaps at the expense of creating; it’s a “sack of potential” over which we should not hyperventilate.
So that’s that. Until I hold one in my hands, I’ll leave the opining to the techies.
