[gui-talk] Fwd: Article: Don't buy an i pad - YET!

[Steve Pattison]

 From:    GlenJan glenjan42 at bigpond.com
 To:      vip-l vip-l at freelists.org

 Thought you all might find this article interesting - it's not long BTW!
Glen.
Why You Shouldn't Buy an iPad (Yet) by Gina Trapani, Fri Apr 2, 2010.

First-generation Apple products are for suckers. Only lemmings with no
self-control and excessive disposable income buy first generation Apple
products, especially in a new gadget category. When they do, they pay the
double the price for immature hardware and software.

Remember the iPhone? It debuted in 2007 with two models priced at $500 and
$600, with no native applications--only mobile Web apps, few of which came
inan iPhone-friendly format at launch because it was such a new device. A
year later, in 2008, a faster iPhone 3G went on sale for $300 less, with
native application support. At the time, there weren't very many native
applications because it was a brand new application platform. Finally, last
summer, the iPhone 3GS--a beefy, snappy phone for the same price as the
3G--actually ran a huge catalog of native apps a few versions old at a
reasonable speed. The 3G is now on sale for a measly $100, one fifth of the
price of the first generation's cheapest model.

Don't be the guy who bought the first-gen iPad when Apple slashes the 2011
iPad price in half.

Next year's iPad will be faster, cheaper, less buggy, and have better apps
and worthy competitors. Let all the deep-pocketed Jobs apostles be your
canaries into the iPad coalmine. Give developers time to fix their apps to
work well on the iPad. Give Apple a year to lower prices on faster hardware
and fill in all the gaping feature holes. (Remember how long early iPhone
owners lived without copy and paste?)

While the Apple faithful could argue that the iPad's application platform
matured during three years of deployment on the iPhone and iPod touch, keep
in mind: iPad developers have been working on their software not with an
actual iPad, but with a software simulator. You can't truly see how your
application works in a simulator. The great iPad apps haven't grown up
yet--and most of them haven't even been born.

Regards Steve
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