It was an open secret, and indeed we saw last Wednesday as he presented Apple rumor and anticipated tablet, which had raised enormous expectations. But it was so high that the level of the presentation was almost inevitably a kind of anticlimax, as if often used the analogy of an iPod or iPhone at large to describe this device, that’s basically what Jobs showed the world.
Although it is true that said he did not know if there is a market for such devices mounted between the mobile phone and computer, but which, if any, the iPad is the product that can prove it.
And although the idea of such devices is not very new, it is also true that so far no manufacturer has sold a significant number of them. However, I believe that Apple may be the first to do so. On the one hand, there are literally millions of users who already know how to handle the iPad for its resemblance to the iPod. For another, since leaving the original iPod, Apple has been creating a content ecosystem around it, first through the music and videos from the iTunes Store, and then through the App Store, where there are more than 140,000 applications available that at this point are over 3,000 million downloads. All these applications and content will be available from the day on which the iPad may reach early adopters.
EBooks
As if this were not enough, the company’s apple iPad has been added to a program for reading electronic books also have their own store, the iBook Store, and not forget that you can access the contents of the Kindle and the iPod family by the application that Amazon provides for this.
So like Apple has not devised something so outlandish making the iPad looks so much younger siblings, and you can almost turn a blind eye to its shortcomings, if that has managed to market a device as simple to handle from $ 499.
Because, as we see it, the iPad will allow those who do not clear with computers “real” access to all kinds of multimedia content and the Internet without thinking that are managing a computer. In this sense, the iPad does not replace the phone or the computer, but to become its own niche, probably in the room.
And this is not important for this model iPad itself in a few months will be replaced by a better one, but the change that may lead the way in which the general public is faced with computing, as in the time it accounted for iPod and iPhone much they doubted them when they were launched.