Just found a good write up about the iPad by Louis Trapani over here.
He drew my attention to the PADD from Star Trek, the next generation, and the all knowing handheld from The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy, both of which I’d long forgotten (The tricorder I certainly remember, and is how the iPhone, and in certain less powerful ways, the palm, android and other phones seem). And made good points that I agree with. Like:
The possibilities are bountiful.
But I have some comments.
Nice post Louis, and I must ask if you’re closely related to Gina Trapani? But on topic, everything you wrote makes lots of sense, and you’re one of few who I find uses the Phone on the iPhone as little as I do, so cool, glad we meet there.
The only comment I can differ with you on is the space issue, with your portfolio in the cloud, then you have zero limit to your storage(depending on your provider), wheras 64gb is still a limit, so why get 64 over 16gb for simply media? Personally, I see, as does Tim Cook, the $499 model as an AMAZING value, with the price of 64GB of Flash memory costing maybe $50 at the store, why spend the $200 extra for that unamazing part?
For $499 you get the following features (ranked by amazingness in my eyes):
The Platform
The A4 Chip
Giant screen
Connectivity(Wifi N)
Keyboard capable
All the blood sweat and tears of the Apple engineers
Everything Else
Storage, dead last.
The only thing that can bite you on storage is if you dont have a permanent mobile connection to the net (boo, this will change rapidly, see the amount of places offering free Wifi? The honda dealership on market has it, unadvertised, welcome to the future, or drop your home comcast/dsl and grab an overdrive), OR, an app needs lots of room, so that’s the chance to take, but with Apple’s recent purchase of Lala, which will take your entire iTunes library online, the wealth of podcasts, and available resources online, and the increasing power and storage potential in the cloud, does your local storage on a mobile device still matter?
Comments welcome…