Apple Ipad and the Great Hype Machine

Well they did it again...

Come on people, it is a tablet, an enlarged Ipod Touch. There is a coolness factor to it and eveyone wants to play with one, but give it a few hours and then what?

It is an enlarged tablet-Iphone-thingy-without-a-phone-camera-or-cellular-connection.

The Iphone was revolutionary, years ahead of its time (and still is IMHO), but we have already seen it and done it. The wow factor is gone.

Yes the screen is bigger, but who cares, that just makes it more difficult to type. I realize that I will not be the first to state this online, however I did keep an open mind to this device. Afterall, I am the target market for this type of gadget. But I am a minority. I am not an apple fan boy. But I do like to have useful gadgets to compliment my simple lifestyle. For instance, after taking an old Celeron PC and purchasing a nice designer case, I made myself a very affordable but stylish media pc for my living room. Since I cut corners on the insides (and it works just perfect for watching movies and TV on my 52" LCD) I splurged on the Logitech DiNovo Edge keyboard, which works great and looks just as good in the living room. I use this setup in my living room to do everything that I see available on the IPad, and then some.

Lets face it, the IPad is a luxury device with no real market other than the Mac Heads that have to have everything Apple sells no matter what and talk about it with such passion and conviction like its something that they actually created.

I give it a few more days and the hype will subside, maybe in a few weeks we may even see some backlash from the ridiculous nonsense that happened around the launch of a toy.

I am sure it is a cool toy and probably a lot of fun to play with for a while... but so was the Pleo.