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.
There's no doubt: The iPad is a beautiful, extremely well-designed device.
The iPad is a superior consumption device for material on the Web.
In 1991, I co-founded my first start-up, Ink Development, which made software for an early tablet computer.
Dell Computers announced they're releasing a competitor for the iPad. Now it is, in fact, a great alternative for people who already have an iPad, but are fed up with it working all the time.
The iPad falls between two stools - not quite a laptop, not quite a smartphone. In other words, it's the spork of the electronic consumer goods world.
The iPad! What is better designed than that? I read magazines on it, I play Scrabble. I use it for everything.
I have got an iPad, what a joy! Van Gogh would have loved it, and he could have written his letters on it as well.
There's a new iPad out...People are going nuts for this thing...And, today, Mitt Romney said, 'It's a flat piece of white plastic. If you can love it, why not me?'
The Nexus 7 is about the same size as a Moleskine notebook, and it just 'feels' like the right form factor for doing all those things you want to do on a smart phone, but can't quite do in the right way. It's not too big, and not too small - just right.
The iPad is far and away the most successful product in its category.
I don't have a phone, but I do have an iPad.
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.
