Apple Tablet Revelations
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Keeping in line with the biblical metaphor started with the release of the iPhone that some people called the Jesus Phone, the new Apple iPad was unveiled today in a worldwide simultaneous nerdgasm followed by softly weeping and feelings of regret. Chiropractors around the world rejoiced as hundreds of thousands of nerd’s heads all cocked to the left much like a dog when you call it’s name as Steve Jobs reveled that iPad was the blessed name of his new creation.
So to me it seems that there are two camps of thought on the iPad. There is the its just a big iPhone and then they begin a sting of maxi pad and tampon jokes and then there is the camp that sees the potential uses for the iPad and are somewhat disappointed that it didn’t have all the features that people like Jason Calacanis purported it to have, but are still setting aside the at least 500 bucks for the iPad. I am somewhere in the middle; I can see how the iPad almost destroys the rest of the ebook device market, and I’m more excited to see what developers do with the larger interface and I will be waiting for future releases to see what new features that Apple might add.
I think a big market for the iPad is in doctor’s offices where doctors already living the Apple lifestlye will want to move their office to Apple as long as developers are there with the software side of the solution. Also there are the possible uses in education but that will have to wait for a later post.
