Is anyone else already sick of hearing about the iPad?
Apple announced today their brand new invention, the iPad. The device is sort of a Kindle meets iPod meets Laptop…
For someone who has all three above, I’m decidedly unimpressed and perplexed at the amount of Twitter buzz that I’ve witnessed today. For some unknown reason, today is a day where people seem most concerned about the decline of print media.
What was that sorry? Oh print media dies TODAY! *slaps forehead*, silly me, I forgot!
Let’s all rush out and get our iPad’s quicksmart.
Don’t believe me? Here’s some evidence from the past couple of days:
8 Reasons Women Should Be Excited for Apple’s ‘iPad’ @ Jezebel.com
In less than one week, Apple is expected to unveil some thingamajig that will be like a Kindle from heaven and supposedly save print media. What this new gadget might be called is where people might have an issue.
Recent evidence suggests that this divine new product will be called the iPad. Obviously, this presents some immediately troubling connotations — as opposed to a word like “notepad,” a single letter “i” doesn’t give us enough emotional distance from the “pad” part of the package.
New York Times Ready to Charge Online Readers by Gabriel Sherman @ NYMag.com
New York Times Chairman Arthur Sulzberger Jr. appears close to announcing that the paper will begin charging for access to its website, according to people familiar with internal deliberations. After a year of sometimes fraught debate inside the paper, the choice for some time has been between a Wall Street Journal-type pay wall and the metered system adopted by the Financial Times, in which readers can sample a certain number of free articles before being asked to subscribe. The Times seems to have settled on the metered system
Salvation (for Newspapers) Is at Hand by Robert Wright @ NYTimes.com
Last week the debut of my online column for The New York Times (that is, this column) came on the same day that The Times announced its plan to start charging for content. Coincidence?
Sadly, yes. I’d love to think that The Times was parading my prose as an example of something worth paying for, but I fear not.
Well, if I’m not the key to this newspaper’s future, maybe I can at least throw in my two cents about that future. Here goes.
My first reaction to The Times’s announcement was: “Wouldn’t you know it? As soon as I show up they build a massive pay wall that will doom me to obscurity by dooming The Times’s current dominance of its content category.”
The iPad Is Like Holding The Future. But Only Because I Graduated From iPhone School by MG Siegler @ TechCrunch.
When the iPhone first launched in 2007 I was sure I wasn’t going to buy one. Then I played with one. 15 minutes later I was $600 poorer. It was arguably the best tech purchase I’ve ever made. After the Apple event today, I got a chance to play with the new iPad for quite a bit of time. My takeaway? The thing is beautiful and fast. Really fast. If you’ll excuse my hyperbole, it felt like I was holding the future. But is it a must-have? That’s a complicated question.
