The Real Reason the iPad Matters
“It means that book publishers will have to earn their bound-book sales, though at the same time they will be able to mass-market digital pulps.”
When everybody calms down that this thing doesn’t have a camera, they’ll realize, like AKMA, that the iPad isn’t about replicating the iPhone, only bigger.
Apple’s purpose for the iPad is all about disrupting the print, picture, television, and movie media industry in a way that the iPod disrupted the music industry. The iPad isn’t a transformation of the iPhone, it’s a transformation of how we will consume (and later produce) media. It will start slow, much in the same way the iPod did back in the day. Ten years out, we’ll be transformed.
Most see this now as a “book or device” thing. The secret sauce is in the delivery. The transformation of the print industry into a mass market of digital pulps, as AKMA puts it.
It will also get it’s camera.
January 28th, 2010 at 8:36 am
“Apple’s purpose for the iPad is all about disrupting the print, picture, television, and movie media industry in a way that the iPod disrupted the music industry”
what kind of video entertainment these days has a 4:3 display?
January 28th, 2010 at 8:36 am
Please correct the grammar in the last sentence. Hint: “it’s”. Thanks.
January 28th, 2010 at 8:42 am
If this thing has legs, it will be because of the multi-touch interface. I don’t think it will be too long where Apple will begin licensing MT to other devices and that “gesture language” will be the same on all platforms. Pinching, flicking, and swiping will be common with our devices in a few years. But my device will run Android.
January 28th, 2010 at 8:49 am
“Apple’s purpose for the iPad is all about disrupting the print, picture, television, and movie media industry in a way that the iPod disrupted the music industry”
Yeah I mean nobody uses MP3s anymore now do they? The iPod didn’t change anything in the music industry other than slow the eventual demise of the rip off music industry. I can’t believe in 4 minutes Steve Jobs couldn’t tell you one single unique thing the iPad has as feature any other Apple or non Apple product can already do. Literally, NOTHING.
And let me guess? Will we see more exploding batteries and cracked screens due to fundamentally unsound build of containing a li-po battery in a something weighing nearly 1kg and 1/2″ thick. If you look at the youtube video, you notice as he picks it up he’s already pressing buttons on the screen by accident, so he showed you a major ergonomic blunder in the moment he picked it up.
January 28th, 2010 at 9:10 am
I don’t know…I might buy the media argument. As a device toward transforming print media into a more interactive experience has merit. But really, the ipod Touch/iphone as a personal media device is already there — it just needs the apps that do in some cases. If we’re talking video content: Hulu app? Boxee app? Netflix app? Where are these things? The bigger screen is cool and all, but with many sites/content providers already formatting content to smaller/more portable devices–what’s the point? Its not because people can’t program them…more so app developers can’t because of copyright/liscensing schemes (I think). (Its about the network….)
Being able to slap on a keyboard as an accessory makes it (maybe) more of a competitor for the lightweight netbook crowd…but the thing’s too expensive still by comparison.
Overall, you’re probably right. This is just the first step down an attempt to create a new path. Elsewhere someone made the suggestion that they thought iMovie would be on there. I wouldn’t have been surprised…maybe that’ll show up when a camera comes along. Besides would you look holding that big thing up to take a picture/movie?
January 28th, 2010 at 10:06 am
Android? Why would you want to run Android and buy your device from a company that does not own it’s own Operating system. The reason Apple devices are so awesome is that they make both. Google wants to control the world like Microsoft has. I don’t want to be part of the next Microsoft but rather use devices from a company that truly gets human interface design and is innovative. I just don’t see Android going in that direction.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:22 am
The real reason the iPad matters is that not 3 hours after Apple had made the announcement, I had a teacher asking me how to write a grant to get a set of them for her classroom. She had a list three scrolls long detailing how she would use it in her curriculum.
The iPad matters because you don’t have to teach people how to learn with it.
January 28th, 2010 at 10:54 am
There are 140,000 reasons why education should jump all over this one and that doesn’t include podcasts and new things arriving. With iWork on the machine it will be possible to do all sort of creative things with presentations, newsletters etc and then just imagine using an app like mover to simply slide the project over to your friend.
February 6th, 2010 at 8:12 pm
Personally, I think it’s ironic that “lori” took the time to correct you on your “it’s” grammar, but didn’t think it important to capitalize her own name.