iPad Lust
Written on January 27, 2010 by Katherine W. Prawl
After watching the live feeds of today’s Apple iPad announcement, audio/video from Leo Leporte’s Twit, and live blogging by Gizmodo and Engadget (both of which crashed their servers from time to time), I have to have one! As expected, Apple blew away the competition. My KindleDX is now obsolete (not that I was ever really thrilled with its low-contrast, grey-on-grey screen and dismally slow Web experience, but it was the best available at the time), and my little netbook, cute as it is, may also get donated to somebody soon, even though I just recently upgraded its RAM to 2GB and acquired a USB CD/DVD drive for it, as well as a handful of SD cards. Well, maybe I’ll keep it around to run Linux when my desktop computer isn’t available, but that’s just about the only reason I can think of. And I’ll keep the Kindle, too, thanks to all the ebooks I’ve bought from Amazon. But those devices sure look lackluster now that we’ve seen the iPad.
Now the wait. Naturally, I “need” the version with 3G, otherwise what’s the point of a mobile device? That won’t be available for around 90 days. But in the meantime, I am downloading the SDK with iPad emulator from the Apple Developer site, and who knows? Maybe I’ll even get around to developing something for it someday? In my copious spare time, of course.
