Apple's iPad3: Should we really care?

I bought iPad the first generation two weeks before Apple came out with iPad2. To me the only difference between iPad1 and iPad2 is the camera and iPad2 is thinner than iPad1. I would probably buy an iPad3 when and if it does come out, and give my old to my wife.:) I love the Apple apps, making phone calls directly from iPad using Google voice!

I bought iPad the first generation two weeks before Apple came out with iPad2. To me the only difference between iPad1 and iPad2 is the camera and iPad2 is thinner than iPad1. I would probably buy an iPad3 when and if it does come out, and give my old to my wife.:) I love the Apple apps, making phone calls directly from iPad using Google voice!

What I would find a compelling reason to buy an iPad 3 would be the ability to function as a standard cellphon e. Thus I would need to only carry around one device and I wouldn't be spending over $1000 on two rather expensive devices. No technical breakthrough required, just Jobsian common sense.

My daughter runs essentially her entire classroom from an Ipad. It works her smart board, brings up any files for display - the list goes on and on.

She can hold it in her hand anywhere in the classroom.

Difficult to do that with much else.

I recently purchased an ASUS Transformer Prime, migrating from a netbook as my travel companion. AT the recent CES show, ASUS announced a new Transformer model, scheduled for mid year, that probably is in response to the iPad 3. So far, I haven't had any of the, much publicized problems that ASUS has had with their tablet. If ASUS get's their SH#T together, the Transformer will be a formidable competitor to the iPad.

I'll stick with my Motorola Xoom, 16GB, dual core,Hi def screen, 4G. I'm not going to pay double for apple and I like the open concept of Android. There are lots of alternatives to ipad - save your $

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As I eagerly await the arrival of the iPad3, I love to read articles such as this. 2 years ago I was strictly PC. Then I had an epiphany - iPad. What an elegant user interface. Runs for 10hrs+. Goes and connects anywhere. 80% of my work and home use on such a device. Ahhh.
None of you must have children or grand children you talk to. iChat/Facetime provide new avenues of communicating with them everyday. One can even do family get togethers.
Bring yourselves from the PC age into the tablet age or go the way of the Dinosaur.

Well, I guess you're right. Nothing special in a new iPad. Nothing except we are witnessing the computers of the future. As a tinkerer since the age of 6 or 7, I always viewed the PC like an early TV or radio. A metal box with a bunch of tubes, rectifiers (Remember the Selenium Rectifier that alway needed to be changed?) and solder joints. I used to like tearing things apart and computers for the past few years are still techie devices, not for your granny to mess with. Apple, after it's own failure with a tablet computer ten years back, has now got the tablet pretty near perfect, for everyone's use, even granny. I am working with iBooks Author in order to use it for a new publishing project and I have to say this is a really neat product. Why, we should ask, did Apple get so many thing right and leave others to try to copy their products in a feeble attempt to catch up? People have said they are elegant, innovative and expressive. I think the have gotten the mature computer worked out to a T. I heard a story the other day about a child in the Amazon who picked up an iPad and began using it with no instruction. I made a feature movie and used Final Cut Pro to edit and do post production for it. I learned FCP to do this. Apple has enabled me to do things I have wanted to do all of my working life. So, I think Apple is special and anything they do is worth watching and using.

Interesting article, but did not tell me anything I already know. The iPad CAN NOT and SHOULD NOT be compared with a computer. It is not a computer, and was not intended to be one, nor replace one. But I do use my laptop a lot less since I bought the iPad in Sept. 2010.

A lot of articles have been written about the fact that the iPad is not a production device, it is a consumption device. Well, recently I got paid $4375 for drawings I made on the iPad using iDraw. And in the pre-iPad time I used to do those drawings using AutoCAD. Making those drawings was a lot easier on the iPad than on the desktop computer.

And I never use the iPad for watching movies, nor playing games. However, it is loaded with games ... my grandkids love my iPad. I see the kids everyday. I do a lot of photoshop type stuff with the iPad (FilterStorm, Autostitch, PhotoWall). But remember, it is not a production device.

I recently bought a Samsung Series 7 Tablet-PC with Windows 7. It has a Wacom digitizer and of course a pen. Love the pen, 5-6 hrs battery, only 2lbs. BUT I really DISLIKE Windows 7, specially after using iOS on the iPad. By the way I have been using Tablet-PC with Wacom digitizers since 2004 (Toshiba M205).

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