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hey guys jon rettinger from TechnoBuffalo here yesterday January 27 to the surprise of no one I will unleash their iPad their much-rumored and much type tablet while the announcement of a tablet device wasn't so surprising the specifics of it may have been a little bit shocking to some certainly was an roi believe of disappointment a little bit about what the tablet was so I'm going to give my take on the device itself what I think about it or I think that lies in the industry and really whether I think it's going to be a success let's go ahead and get started this is not going to be a recap video of all respects I did that yesterday post announcement so first I think tablet is definitely the way the pc market is trending we've seen tablet devices be announced from HP toshiba asus and now apple however the utility of a tablet device I'm still not convinced about your lacking a full physical keyboard most of them lesser convertible tablet sort of swirls out and you lose a lot of the functionality of a standard laptop or even a netbook so I'm a bit uncertain and unsure so what the niche market is for the tablet I initially thought that Apple is going to sort of carve that out with a magazine ebook text book reader but they didn't announce that yesterday I think the most exciting thing about the tablet and the iPad in particular isn't what Apple announced but the potential for the device itself what they sort of unleashed yesterday is nothing really more than a fat bigger a little more horsepower ipod touch you know it does browsing it's got the e-book reader sort of talked about in a minute but didn't bring any revolutionary features that people were expecting an apple is often a victim of their own successes an apple has innovated so many times in the past people expect a revolutionary device every time Steve Jobs Act stage and unfortunately that's just not always possible so you look at the ipad to the rumors that preceded it front-facing camera Oh LED display bigger than nine point seven inches you know none of that really came to fruition I think that's a bad thing not necessarily Apple certainly can't structure their business model based on rumors and speculation or they can structured on is based on consumer interests think consumers will ultimately purchase and i'm a bit unsure so where the ipad slots at least as it is now the platform has a lot of potential i really like the e-book reader store that Apple announced yesterday I think certainly that's going to be a big boon to the publishing industry but also to the iPad that's actually when the big reasons out consider purchasing the ipad i currently have a kindle too but i find the e display well nice on the eyes and non stressful I've to be a bit boring oftentimes i wish i had a color display or even a touchscreen certainly did the ipad slots in very nicely a book tour competitively priced I believe starting at 409 on up may be able to sort of get access to the new release catalogs that you would expect I think what's most exciting about the ipad isn't what Apple announced put the potential for the device I really at the hands of developers that's where would be the ipod touch in the iphone i think differentiated itself certainly the browser on the iphone and ipod touch is fantastic but there are a lot of device stuff and now a good browsers you look at web OS or Android both of them very capable devices i think what separates apples platforms are the app store and the developers then we're looking forward to seeing what the developers do with the ipad and that's when we'll see if starts really differentiate itself for example we saw come in a few months back a Sports Illustrated demonstration what they could do with the ipad i would have liked to see magazines as integrating to the ipad i think we're going to see that very shortly you know company can very easily set up an appt essentially the magazine subscription that can be a very interesting way to sort of get your digital content I was very intrigued by the New York Times demonstrates as well sort of having the video play within the browser certainly wasn't flash-based most probably to most people chagrined myself included I can't help but they gonna look at the ipad that's gonna be great for using on a toilet I know people gonna laugh but probably a pretty good device for that too you're sitting there you want to flip through a newspaper read a magazine so literally bring bags of questions how are you going to input text on a device as well I don't how I segue from toilets text but that was sort of the way my warped mind works well the ipad has an on-screen keyboard similar what the iphone has certainly a 9.7 inch screen is bigger than the three AA tijd found on the iphone but you're still left with sort of no physical buttons type on it's got thousands of multi touch inputs on the screen supposed to be very responsive but you can supposedly type using just your fingers as you would a standard keyboard when to landscape mode I'm a bit skeptical veteran I think you need to have lisanna device that size from sort of physical buttons and enter apples keyboard accessory clearly sure is showing that their users want a keyboard but not sort of integrating when it's a device I'm making apple have benefited out into the keyboard is going to be usable with the new sort of keynote and the iwork features that they announced as well text entry is going to be a big deal and speaking of I work and sort of the new suite of applications they announced enthusia don't know what I work in sort of apple's version of office here's where I'm bit uncertain of how this is going to work if I'm creating a spreadsheet I'm going to want to save that spreadsheet to a desktop maybe mail it later since they didn't know things for a file management system how am I going to save that spreadsheet or save that word document order save that excel sheet you know whatever the equivalent is is an iwork how are you going to do that how are you going to open it back up laterz it can save something to a cloud heck what really didn't specify a sort of made me feel like perhaps what they showed yesterday was an unfinished software I think that there's a lot more potential we're going to see from the ipad when it finally is unleashed in about 60 days but without a file management system not so sure how useful having a folk office suite of applications are going to be in this case i work is anybody really going to make presentations on the fly i can see definitely being useful for giving presentations so I can hand this out to someone that I'm pretending to turn it over and say look at this here's my presentation I can see the utility in that as far as creating and editing on it mmm not so sure do that some very cool features with the photo gallery where you can pinch and zoom your way and welcome bored with all that stuff the more with the iPad being i'm not sure what the market is I don't think the market Ford has yet been defined Apple did a fantastic job pricing it I think sort of starting at 499 price point was well below what most people accept it are expected rather and that's for the 16 gigabyte non 3g version sort of going all the way up to eight hundred twenty nine dollars for a 64 gigabyte version with AT&T s3g and speaking of three gee I think what Apple did was evilly brilliant with these new micro sims soon as the i first iphone was released locked 18teen the u.s. it was almost immediately well a few months later have to be a lot how many other companies out there you know have micro sims or use micro sims right now the answer is pretty much zero so while shipping the device unlocked and applicants a we're giving the customer the choice that really give you any choice you can't go to tmobile the only other GSM carrier in the US and pick up a micro sim swap it in and set up a data plan I haven't worked there's no alternative apples essentially locking the device locking the device which is pre interests extremely I think we'll see some micro sims come out in the future but for right now you're kind of up the creek without a paddle with that and let them sort of interesting model also segments in between having 3g and not having 3g i thought was very interesting it's giving that consumers more choice but Apple is not necessarily known for if you're not out very much you're always near a Wi-Fi connection no need for 3g save your money but if you want the 3d connection having the option is quite nice especially for a 29 29 99 all-you-can-eat plan with no contracts go month-to-month i was really nice i'm going out i know i'm going to need data i can just go ahead and turn that on activated I think cancel it when I get home and I'd have to worry about to rip and next month's data rates I think that something that is you know quite nice feature overall I think I will definitely purchase an ipad just mostly out of curiosity and you know something to read on the toilet I think initially we're going to see a big success with the iPad and think received things sort of taper down until an expected next version where all these rumors will start up again it's gonna have a camera when I bola led ultimately never live up to expectations I think the ipad is def be a young device similar when the iphone was introduced it didn't one or two things very well but laughed a lot of the features and most people expected i think ultimately will see the ipad get those features namely a front facing camera for video conferencing and perhaps a different or improved text input but for right now i think that's it's a interesting device certainly intriguing and at the very least it's going to drive the tablet market forward it's going to force companies to innovate so if you would hate apple or hate the ipad it's kind of hard to ignore that it's going to drive the tablet industry forward and force these other company HP Dell a suits and the rest to integrate I think in that effort is very good for the consumer pc industry so it might take sort of on the ipad do you agree disagree on my way off base and you're never going to use on a toilet maybe just use it in bed you know leave a text video response and sort of curious to what you guys think about the device for all your exclusive tech content to the checkout technobuffalo where you can create your own sub blog and even monetize it make some money interact in our social network and for exclusive content giveaways pure check me out at twitter twitter com splashed john for lakers i'm jon rettinger and i will see you in the next video but by