Normally I don’t like posting every little thing about Apple – ooh, there’s a new 30 second commercial! Wow! Let’s do 40 posts about it. I admit that everyone hating on the iPad – with good reason, makes me want to get one. I think most iPhone games are terrible, so I don’t see myself walking around playing games on this oversize screen. If I use it in bed like Steve Jobs want, why would I play a game on this device when I own a Wii, 360, and PS3?
I love my Kindle, I’d just like something a bit bigger, with a back light. I can put the iPod Kindle App on this and run it as a Kindle device. It’ll also be cool to read comic books on this thing once I find a hack that will let me put all my Comic Book scans onto it. Now that I have a use case for it, the price is ridiculous for a device that would only be useful as an eReader. I love my Kindle, I’d just like something a bit bigger, with a backlight.
Since I would only use it as an eReader, the $499 model is appealing, but I hate feeling the space crunch – my iTunes library is 54 Gigs so I’d most likely go for the 64 Gig version and then there’s the question of Wi-Fi or 3G. Let’s face it, if I’m anywhere where 3G would be required, I’d just use my dumb, crappy, unreliable iPhone so do I really want to pay another $130 plus another $30 a month for ANOTHER data plan that I ALREADY pay for? No. So as I write this, I’ve come to my decision – I’m going with the 64 Gig Wi-Fi version.
I would be shocked if this thing doesn’t sell out within the first hour or so of preorder. Not because I think it’s revolutionary, but Apple Fantards will buy anything Apple puts out. The real test of the iPad’s popularity will come after it’s been out for 6 months – not the first few weeks when we’ll get all the inevitable “supplies are short” stories. I’m curious if anyone else is getting the iPad today.