Watching Apple’s exciting unveiling of the over hyped iPad did little to mask the plain fact that is is a cool gizmo with no real niche to occupy. I am sure it will be a lot of fun to play with and the interface is just as snappy as the iPhone. With the giant group of developers and available compatible apps orignally designed for the iPhone the iPad does have some great things going for it. But still if you already have an iPhone and MacBook Air (um… like some of do), then what do you really need this over sized iTouch for?
Frankly what the iPad needs to move it in the marketplace is sex, and lots of it. Every one knows that the Internet is rife with pornography. What you may not realize is that without porn to drive innovation the web would not be as fast, or as commercially developed, or even as widespread. To deliver high quality images and video you need a big pipe, by that I mean broad band to every home. E-commerce is largely based on the pioneering work of porn sites. The basic technology of the Internet, DVDs, cable TV, VHS, and even traced all the way back early photography in the 1800s, and even further back to shortly after the Gutenberg press was introduced all were driven by sex and pornography.
The iPad can deliver streaming video content to a beautiful 10.5 screen almost anywhere. Other then that it is just an over sized iTouch, that is to say an oversize iPhone that cannot make phone calls. The iPad needs sex. Without it, it serves no purpose at all.
Photo credits http://www.flickr.com/photos/8363028@N08 and http://www.flickr.com/photos/glennf with apologizes
February 11th, 2010 at 8:21 pm
Hands down, Apple’s app store wins by a mile. It’s a huge selection of all sorts of apps vs a rather sad selection of a handful for Zune. Microsoft has plans, especially in the realm of games, but I’m not sure I’d want to bet on the future if this aspect is important to you. The iPod is a much better choice in that case. Have you tried the ipad?
April 9th, 2010 at 11:34 pm
Idk why it would need sex, that’s retarded
September 16th, 2010 at 5:32 pm
This article is one of the reasons I hate the ipad. But not from what is said on the article, I couldn’t even read your article because your screen for the mobile user is set, for whatever reason, to what I can only assume to be the ipad screen. I’m conecting from an iPod touch. I can’t zoom out of it and I’d have to patiently scroll foward and back on each line. I even tried but I got lost before the end of the first paragraph. This is not the first mobile page in which this happened and it makes me really annoyed. I blame apple mostly (the iPod should be able to tell the screen is not set to it’s resolution and just allow me to zoom out) but if this can be fixed by webmasters, please start fixing this.