What’s so happening about Apple IPad?

Everybody is talking about IPad.  I don’t know why… Robert Scoble is abandoning his Amazon Kindle for Apple IPad.  My colleagues are talking about it… My twitter friends are talking about it… Everybody is retweeting about IPad… It seems like Apple IPad has brought in a lot of awareness even before it is being released for us to use…  Here’s a presentation from Steve Jobs about Apple IPad below:

There are basically two camps for IPad…

• There’s a supportive camp…
• and there’s also a resistance camp…

You cannot compare Apple IPad with laptops

I think the resistance camp is basically comparing too much with the actual specs of laptops.  I think this is a wrong perspective of looking at IPad… IPad is more like a gigantic IPod touch actually… Many of us (including myself) think that Apple IPod touch is a waste of money when you can get an Apple IPhone… Now that they have increased the size of an Apple IPod touch (and called it Apple IPad), this is a really different ball game to play with.

You cannot compare Apple IPad with Amazon Kindle

While I am envious of the Americans who can get to own an Amazon Kindle, I think that it is wrong for those of you to get rid of Amazon Kindle for an Apple IPad.  (Robert, you hear me?)  Thanks to the presence of Amazon Kindle… I can finally sense the presence of the ebook readers around the world… That’s when I found Hanlin A9, which I am still waiting for them to start manufacturing in the Q2 of 2010.  No matter what, an Apple IPad is still a big LCD screen where it will tire our eyes after reading for a while…  That’s where ebook reader shines… But of course, you got to have an ebook reader which has more capabilities than the existing versions of Amazon Kindle… It’s not enough when you can’t read websites, powerpoints, excel spreadsheets and word documents…

Do you think I will get myself an Apple IPad?

Very unlikely… Even if I have paper books to catch up from the PR folks, I think an ebook reader is still a better choice… No, I have not gotten an ebook reader yet… But I will get one for sure… Trust me that I will get an ebook reader very soon!

I would think that Apple IPad will be suitable for those who enjoy surfing the Internet at home with comfort.  It’s more like a luxury where you have extra cash in your pocket to spend on.  Apple IPad will be a good-to-have gadget.  Just see how easy it is when Steve Jobs surf around the net with Apple IPad…