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“Last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.“ – The Wall Street Journal
This week it was straight into it. The ‘it’ in question being, the iPad. Duh, hello.
The endlessly hyped, and much rumoured Apple tablet, is out of vapourware, and has been released into the meatspace. It’s hard to believe that anything this hyped, I mean, it was even mentioned on Radio 4 and they’ve only just come to terms with the loss of Empire, could live up to expectations, and so it proved. Anyone who was expecting the ‘Jesus Tablet’, a miracle device with the potential to cure the worlds diseases, feed the hungry and reverse climate change were disappointed, and rightly so. Instead we got, I think, the tablet that everybody else has been trying to make, an integrated device, designed from the ground up to do a range of tasks, and do them well.
Whether it will be the success as the iPhone, it so closely apes UI-wise, only time will tell. It’s already as polarising as the afore mentioned device, ‘It’s just a big iPod touch’, to ‘iPad 1.0 is still fantastic enough in its own right to be classed as a stunningly exciting object, one that you will want NOW’.
Either way, at least Dom Jolly can ditch his Nokia now.
