The iPad is certainly still in the news — let’s take a look at the fallout from this week’s iPad evaluation and criticism – * Rival Debuts iTablet * CNET: Don’t buy an iPad * Spam potential * iPad ‘underwhelming’ * iPad: bandwidth fears * IPad and Flash Video * iPad pitch: The awesome 3-minute version * The myth of the free Apple iPad * How gamers will use Apple’s iPad? * and more
Would-Be Apple Rival Debuts iTablet
British company poaches Apple’s naming convention as it announces plans for a new tablet computer that could rival the recently unveiled iPad. But will the iTablet land X2 Computing in legal trouble?
The iTablet comes in two forms, with a 10.2-inch or 12.1-inch screen. Users have a choice of Windows 7, Windows XP Tablet PC Edition, or Linux.
continue reading :: Andy Patrizio – hardwarecentral.com
CNET: Don’t buy an iPad
CNET Executive Editor Molly Wood took on the hype surrounding the Apple iPad recently, questioning just how big of a market there is for such a tablet device.
In the video on this page, Wood outlines some of the missing features on the iPad that have been much-blogged — including a lack of camera, Flash support and e-ink display. continue reading :: www.freep.com/
iPad spam potential
The iPad is being seen as a cross between a laptop and an iPhone. but it looks more like an iPhone from an ad perspective. Apple, seeing big potential in mobile advertising, recently agreed to acquire a specialist in that business, Quattro Wireless.
The iPad does not support Adobe Flash, the software used for much PC-based advertising. So, to make their ads available to iPad users, marketers may have to develop new kinds of ads, rather than simply adapting existing Web ads. continue reading :: www.nytimes.com
Apple’s new iPad ‘underwhelming’
The IdeaPad is an interesting cross between a laptop and a tablet. Unlike other tablet PCs, the screen actually peels away from the base station. In laptop mode it runs Windows 7.
But when you use the screen by itself in “slate mode,” it runs a homegrown Lenovo operating system that’s optimized for use without a keyboard. continue reading :: Larry Magid for Mercury News
iPad: worsens strain on cellphone network
Could Apple’s new iPad end up being too much of a good thing?
Steven Jobs, Apple’s chief executive, played up the iPad’s ability to stream live baseball games and hit movies during his demonstration last week. But people who are willing to pay more to get that content over AT&T’s 3G data network may pay another price: glacial downloads and spotty service on an already overburdened system. continue reading :: Jenna Wortham – The New York Times
IPad Can’t Play Flash Video, but It May Not Matter
Web designers – and a fair number of Web users – noticed something missing from Steven P. Jobs’s demonstration of the Apple iPad
But Flash technology is too slow and unduly taxes laptops and netbooks. Flash also has vulnerability to viruses and other malware, as well as the way Flash-based content can voraciously consume battery life. PLUS, most screen spam, is based on Flash. So we may finally get a clean web page. continue reading :: www.nytimes.com
Apple’s iPad pitch: The awesome 3-minute version
Steve Jobs’ performances can be pretty funny when you reduce them to their buzzwords… iPad BUZZ video and the
An enterprising video editor (and body painter) named Neil Curtis has done just that with Apple’s (AAPL) Jan. 27 iPad event, and the result is 2 minutes and 54 seconds of pure comedic hype. continue reading :: by Philip Elmer-DeWitt
The myth of the free Apple iPad
Can Steve Jobs’ tablet do for magazines what the sneaker phone did for Sports Illustrated?
A new Design Blog suggests, magazines should lure readers to their struggling magazines by giving away free Apple (AAPL) iPads in return for paid subscriptions. continue reading :: by Philip Elmer-DeWitt at brainstormtech.blogs.fortune.cnn.com
Is this how gamers will use Apple’s iPad?
many have focused their enthusiasm for Apple’s new iPad on drooling over its potential as a device for consuming books and movies, below is some footage that might make gamers feel somewhat tingly, too.
The device in this video is a Multi G3 iTable from PQ Labs continue reading :: Chris Matyszczyk for news.cnet.com
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