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More and more to come when Apple release the little beast!

So iPad will produce a generation who grow up playing even more video games and watching Scooby-Doo. I'm not sure if that's the world Steve intended to change with this.

Feb 03, 10 - 06:13 pm Comment from: iSteve

For a family with one desktop computer In their house an iPad will be a nice addition.

The light is seen, but it is silver and black.

No blue screen of death.

Feb 03, 10 - 06:15 pm Comment from: auren

"you can bet every home with kids will have an iPad."
Not even close. At this price point EVERYONE IN THE HOUSEHOLD WILL THEIR OWN iPad !!

Feb 03, 10 - 06:18 pm Comment from: auren

EVERYONE IN THE HOUSEHOLD WILL HAVE THEIR OWN iPad !!

Sorry about that

This will be a product that will be dropped a lot! At 1.5 lbs, expect lots of news of breakage! U heard it hear first folks cuz no one has mentioned it!

Feb 03, 10 - 06:25 pm Comment from: TheConfuzed1

I must admit that I'm intrigued by the possibilities, but I'm not convinced that I want one.

I didn't see the big deal with the iPod when it came out either though.

However, my houshold has had six iPods and two iPhones, with two more iPhone purchases waiting for the next model.

Apple makes products that you never knew you had to have.

And once you get a taste, you want more.

More I look at the images of iPad, with that inch of bezel, I can't help but wonder whether it was inspired more by function over form, slightly unlike Apple on the surface at least, and therefore threw a lot of folks off.

Yeah, it should make them even fatter and more sedentary than they are now. Just what we needed.

The future of this country is doomed. If I had half of what these kids get today when I was a youngin, I'd probably never have left the house. Thank God I'm apart of the last generation who actually ventured outside to play with my buddies and chase girls.

America is on track to become a nation that no longer produces men. We'll have to import them from other parts of the world like we do everything else.

On an unrelated note:

“Google is a vampire, and you run scared,” Mark Cuban said. “There is no reason to be indexed in Google.”

He said readers who find headlines via Google rarely convert to traffic, and publishers have a hard time monetizing that traffic.

“You haven’t gotten anything back except that you’ve turned into zombies,” Cuban said.

http://searchengineland.com/google-vampire-mark-cuban-mahalo-35039

Feb 03, 10 - 06:34 pm Comment from: breeze

Most families with kids will probably purchase at least 2 iPads

@R2

Thank you for sharing that with us. Anyone else??

And finally, and maybe not too soon:

"Apple's iPad May Gain an Intelligent Bezel in the Future "

http://www.patentlyapple.com/patently-apple/2010/02/apples-ipad-may-gain-an-intelligent-bezel-in-the-future.html

The bezel was necessary for function. Look at the picture above, can you image what it'd look like if the hands cover the left and right hands of the screen?? The iPod touch and iPhone are both small enough where they can be cradled in the palm, so you can put the screen from side to side w/o a bezel.

@@krquet
I think that's what I said, 'function over form.'

Feb 03, 10 - 06:55 pm Comment from: Macdoc

WoW...Mark finally gets his head out of BasketBall for a minute...Good for him...

Bloodbath

Feb 03, 10 - 07:02 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

@ R2,

"Thank God I'm apart of the last generation who actually ventured outside to play with my buddies and chase girls."

Yeah, but look at you now. You're right here with all the rest of us fat-assed sissies. What happened, lose your mojo?

@Let's See
So iPad will produce a generation who grow up playing even more video games and watching Scooby-Doo. I'm not sure if that's the world Steve intended to change with this."

Consuming brainless Maoists - just the change he wants, long as they consume Apples.

R2, did you not have TV and the phone when you were growing up? That device certainly has kept a lot of kids from going outside to play and chase girls.

You said that "America is on track to become a nation that no longer produces men." and I certainly have to agree with you there, especially after watching the way the American people rolled over and took it where the sun don't shine during the Bush administration.

Now I know that many people will be wondering who would be willing to import real men to the United States? After all it looks like China is the only ones willing to do any business with you these days, and heck they are communists.

My goodness, there really are no more real men in the United States.

But I am sure there will be. Just look for the military uniforms. Oh, they won't be US military uniforms, most of those will be in Iraq, no wait Afghanistan, no wait possibly Iran, no wait, wasn't Bin Ladin in Pakistan, no wait, they are mulltitasking while listening to Pandora. Oh well whatever, the real men have left your country or their spines have dissolved. Take your pick.

Feb 03, 10 - 07:11 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

Speaking of uniforms, Hitler is really pissed about the iPads specs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lui0-4IW64

hey cuban, i'll buy or not without your recommendation. you are sooo inconsquential.

Feb 03, 10 - 07:16 pm Comment from: Ting

A book was published a few years back on how children of the new generation are growing up ‘wired differently’ through exposure to virtual tools and in particular, games.

As a Dad, I like the notion of one iPad per child in the family... Provided something is done to protect the little ones from certain websites and nasty predators who go phishing.

Any indication of what protection there may be for this device?

Feb 03, 10 - 07:26 pm Comment from: breeze

Ting:

Check out the Parental Controls Apple already provides in the System Preferences of your Mac. Since iPad is running OSX, there is all likelihood that these or better will be available for iPad parents. A Call to Apple or a visit to any Apple Store will get you the answers.

Huh?

Speaking of uniforms, Hitler is really pissed about the iPads specs.

I don't get it -- I ran thru the comments, they all seemed to misunderstand the video?? IMO Hitler represented ipad naysayers

Feb 03, 10 - 08:06 pm Comment from: Sir Gill Bates

" IMO Hitler represented ipad naysayers"

Yeah, so what? You don't see the humor in it?

When is the stupid fat belly pop up advertising going to stop!!!!!

MDN - its enough to drive me away from your site

Honestly, I wish I could dump my POS 27" iMac for 4 iPads.

Feb 03, 10 - 08:25 pm Comment from: Ankh

@road warrior
So Obama is a real man? Pffft.
@R2
if you are a parent with a spine, you can buy the iBox and lock up the iPad and get your kids some exercise.

Feb 03, 10 - 08:52 pm Comment from: Think

@ Ting

Yes, look in your iPhone or iPod Touch running 3.x or higher. You have all kinds of varying limits and outright blocks.

Feb 03, 10 - 08:53 pm Comment from: Jubei

R2 brags that he can be outside chasing girls while streaming PANDORA.

@R2....don't tell me...you walked to school uphill both ways in subzero weather while fighting off wolves with your bare hands.

"America is on track to become a nation that no longer produces men."

Well if you like, we can send some Canadian men down. We produce lots...just look at all the hockey players in the NHL!!!

R2 played with his buddies cause he couldn't catch the girls, so is it any wonder he wants to import manly men?

@Road Warrior nli

And what socialist utopia filled with Nietzschian Supermen do YOU live in?

Fsck you, troll.

Another iFail products from CRAPPLE because only MACTARDS will buy it!

http://www.bing.com When it comes to decisions that matter, Bing & Decide

Feb 03, 10 - 10:40 pm Comment from: Mr. Reeee

They didn't have video games when I grew up. We learned to use our imaginations!

Yes, the iPad WILL be huge!

@R2: "Thank God I'm apart of the last generation who actually ventured outside to play with my buddies and chase girls. America is on track to become a nation that no longer produces men"

So what is your excuse for being a whiny b*tch? Obviously, going outside and chasing girls did nothing help you become a man. My only guess is that you never actually caught a girl and prefer take out all that frustration online?

@R2
Most of what you have to say is obnoxious, but one thing rings true: fat kids with their iPads. It's the same thing that struck me in Wall-E. Humans were so fat they were confined to their lounges and transfixed by their screens. It seemed like Pixar's (ie Steve's) view of the human race.

Cuban then went on to say......"NBA officials $!CK!"

Don't you get it, monkey?

This computer Goes Outside.

MW: reading (try it)

Feb 03, 10 - 11:39 pm Comment from: Apple Cider

Scooby doo? That says it all-- a big fat electronic colouring book running OS X lite.
How many of you thought of this being the perfect airplane device for the kids? Not a serious machine. The lack of Flash support is beginning to p*ss me off. Did you hear the chuckles during Steve's presentation when he was on the "real" internet and the blue lego block scrolled by? I'll take a MBP any day. Thank you.

Feb 03, 10 - 11:39 pm Comment from: Ampar

"America is on track to become a nation that no longer produces men."

Screw you and your idiotic sexism, R2 the perennial cerebral failure.

Go hump ron.

Feb 03, 10 - 11:46 pm Comment from: Ampar

"a big fat electronic colouring book"

Fat? No.

Colouring book? Yeah, major fail for Marvel. And piss on imagination in as many layers as you can piss.

Flash? It's a battle of the past vs. future. I'll bet on future.

"I'll take a MBP." Wow. Thanks for admitting you're a fucking clueless, jack of the moment.

Is the iPad perfect? Hell no. But at least I understand WTF Apple is doing.

Feb 04, 10 - 12:05 am Comment from: Ampar

"but one thing rings true: fat kids with their iPads."


Then be a parent, lazy ass parents.

Lazy, fat parent = lazy, fat next generation. Duh, idiot.

Feb 04, 10 - 12:05 am Comment from: HughB

@R2

You do get a lot of us upset and that might be all you care about. But in any case you are on sorry son of a bitch.

Feb 04, 10 - 12:56 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

In just 7 days, Rob Halford will make you a man.

Feb 04, 10 - 12:58 am Comment from: ChrissyOne

@ Apple Cider

The wasn't a blue Lego block. It was a finger.

Feb 04, 10 - 01:10 am Comment from: Ampar

Rock On, with your Bad Self, Chrissy Onef

Feb 04, 10 - 01:12 am Comment from: Ampar

Oops. I left an f, Chrissy. Sorry.

Feb 04, 10 - 01:14 am Comment from: Ampar

Rob Halford came out as gay publicly (though fans already knew for quite some time} on an interview with MTV in 1998. This event was the subject of the song "Hats Off To Halford" by Atom And His Package.