The iPad – who wanted one?

Thursday, February 4th, 2010

The temptation was too much.  I really did not want to write about the iPad.

With every piece of information I read about the iPad, the HD-quality video or web-browsing, email, music/iTunes, photo albums, videos and eBooks, I can’t help but think, doesn’t Apple already have an iSomething for that?  Outside of the eBook, it appears that Apple tinkered around then injected steroids into the iTouch.  Apple has been right in the past when they created the iPod, when the mp3 player market was almost non-existent, but this has to be a bit of a stretch.  Right?  I’m not saying the iPad isn’t “cool”, and playing around on one at the Apple store wouldn’t be fun to do for a while, I’m just questioning whether or not it’s practical.  To do so, I have a couple quick questions. (more…)