Comments on: 12 Reasons Why the iPad is NOT “Just a Big iPod Touch” http://FLMUG.ORG/2010/03/19/ipad-12-reasons/ Your Macintosh User's Group of Orlando Fri, 28 Oct 2011 06:01:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Walt http://FLMUG.ORG/2010/03/19/ipad-12-reasons/comment-page-1/#comment-234 Walt Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:49:25 +0000 http://FLMUG.ORG/?p=603#comment-234 Its odd to me how many people try to make a judgement about iPad based only on one factor; the hardware, or the software, or the size, or a camera. I'd like to know how it compares when you look at the whole picture. Even if it was "just a big iPod" it could still succeed nicely. Is it a never-before-seen device with a never-before-used operating system and new user-interface style? No. Its got everything available that made the iPhone devices a huge success: Apps, Music, Music Videos, TV, Movies, Audio Books, Podcasts, internet access, instant gratification for impulse-buying with one-click, Mobile-Me features and desktop syncing to back it all up. iPad will also have new features: - native ePub support for books - SD card support for loading photos - USB and Bluetooth keyboard support - Projector Support Does that sound like a total shot in the dark? (It is confirmed that wired and wireless keyboards were purchase options for iPad pre-sales along with the video projector adapter.) eBooks I've heard a lot of people dismiss the eBook notions lately. They say "I prefer paper", or "it can't be as good". I say just watch any student load up 30 pounds of books and paper into a backpack and ask them if they would like a set of eBooks on 1 iPad... More importantly, ask this: Is the book market impulse driven? (Oh Yes it is! The fictional side anyway.) Does instant gratification help impulse-driven sales? (YES.) Then when your friend tells you about a really cool book, and you can get it right NOW on an iPad cheaply, will you wait to get paper by mail or drive to a store? Another question: if your friend tells you about a really great book series, and you really agree, but the first 3 books are out of print, would you just buy them electronically? Or troll the net and wait for delivery? Or do the footwork to get it from a used bookstore? Another impulse question: If your favorite author is about to release a new book, would you prefer the trip to the store? mail-order? Or the book automatically showing up on your device at 12:01 am on release day? A variation: If you owned a collectible paper book, would you hand it to friends, colleagues or children to read? Another variation: do you refuse to subscribe by mail because the product gets too beat-up in shipping? Its odd to me how many people try to make a judgement about iPad based only on one factor; the hardware, or the software, or the size, or a camera.

I’d like to know how it compares when you look at the whole picture. Even if it was “just a big iPod” it could still succeed nicely. Is it a never-before-seen device with a never-before-used operating system and new user-interface style? No. Its got everything available that made the iPhone devices a huge success: Apps, Music, Music Videos, TV, Movies, Audio Books, Podcasts, internet access, instant gratification for impulse-buying with one-click, Mobile-Me features and desktop syncing to back it all up.

iPad will also have new features:
- native ePub support for books
- SD card support for loading photos
- USB and Bluetooth keyboard support
- Projector Support

Does that sound like a total shot in the dark? (It is confirmed that wired and wireless keyboards were purchase options for iPad pre-sales along with the video projector adapter.)

eBooks

I’ve heard a lot of people dismiss the eBook notions lately. They say “I prefer paper”, or “it can’t be as good”. I say just watch any student load up 30 pounds of books and paper into a backpack and ask them if they would like a set of eBooks on 1 iPad…

More importantly, ask this: Is the book market impulse driven? (Oh Yes it is! The fictional side anyway.) Does instant gratification help impulse-driven sales? (YES.) Then when your friend tells you about a really cool book, and you can get it right NOW on an iPad cheaply, will you wait to get paper by mail or drive to a store?

Another question: if your friend tells you about a really great book series, and you really agree, but the first 3 books are out of print, would you just buy them electronically? Or troll the net and wait for delivery? Or do the footwork to get it from a used bookstore?

Another impulse question: If your favorite author is about to release a new book, would you prefer the trip to the store? mail-order? Or the book automatically showing up on your device at 12:01 am on release day?

A variation: If you owned a collectible paper book, would you hand it to friends, colleagues or children to read?

Another variation: do you refuse to subscribe by mail because the product gets too beat-up in shipping?

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