On the 27th January, Steve Jobs announced the tech world’s worst kept secret, the Apple tablet PC, after Seth Godin, random publishers, leaked China replicas and every thing else pointed to the fact that Apple was indeed developing a tablet PC. On 28th January, I decided NOT to blog about it, didn’t have a clue on what I felt about it.
So here it is.
Do I need an iPad? No.
Do I want an iPad? Probably yes.
Why do I want an iPad? Probably need to think about it, maybe when my MacBook reaches a ripe old laptop age of 4 years, which in computer years means 100. Probably.
Ok. So here’s why I probably want an iPad. I have a feeling its going to be a love-love situation just after buying my iPhone, what I thought I didn’t need, I just felt in love with. Now nothing, even if you pay me 100 bucks to use a Nexus One for a year, would I give up my iPhone.
(1) Games. I hate the App Store. I really do. I’m spending money on Cluedo, GTA Chinatown Wars, and all sort of time wasting stuff because having the App Store with its 170K Apps is easy to download. So, what are the possibilities of the iPad? I used to bring my MacBook everywhere, now I’ll just bring the iPad everywhere.
(2) Home. I have a feeling somewhere deep inside me, I’m a control freak. I want to know how many calories I’m using. I want to know how much money I’m spending to the last dime. I imagine controlling my television, heating, lights and whatever using a tablet PC, just like what we used to envision. We would know how to regulate energy in the home, or if having the room at 3 degrees more would cause a great change in our electricity bill.
(3) Work. Its weird. iWork? I don’t know about this, but I rely on Keynote that much to give good presentations.
(4) Size. Is perfect. Giant iPod? Is great.
Why won’t I buy it now?
(1) Camera. I probably need one. Eventually.
(2) Price. 16GB on an iPhone is insufficient for me. I have too many photos and videos I want to bring around. I like the 64GB model with 3G. That’s going to be expensive. I might have to wait for my MacBook to literally start working like a snail first.
(3) iBooks. Has that tiny print to show that it is for the US market only. Along with downloading of movies and what have you not which we outsiders in the international market do not have. I would buy this over a Kindle though.
(4) Instability. Uh. I’m not going to be an early adopter of code adopted for the iPad.
I think that’s what I can think of for now. Ignore the name iPad, everyone hated the name MacBook Pro when it was first announced, but now MacBook eventually is well sort-of-okay. And even if it was called iHippo, iGraffic, iWhatever, you would have bought it anyway. Names are only important when establishing an entire product line, read: RAZR.
