Some of them bashed it, others adored it. Apple’s newest creation, the iPad, received mixed reviews from critics, tech experts, business analysts and bloggers. Here are some excerpts:
The Economist: “The tablet of hope (…) Apple’s arrival in the tablet market means that publishers will have to develop digital content for these devices, as well as for e-readers and smart-phones. Many will prove unable or unwilling to do so themselves.”
J.A. Watson, ZDNet UK: “I am amazed at how little “excited chatter” there has been today, after the announcement of the iPad yesterday.”
Michael J. Miller, Pc Mag: “The pricing was much more aggressive than I thought it would be, at least on the entry level (…). I wasn’t expecting a demo of a painting application (called Brushes, now out for the iPhone), and certainly not of productivity applications, like the iWork suite.”
Jennifer Gunter, The Examiner: “So flabbergasted were women, and a good many men, at the name that not only did iPad quickly become a trending topic on twitter but so did iTampon. And the jokes were flying through cyberspace …”
Bobbie, Johnson, The Guardian (UK): “It’s just a big iPhone”.
Nicholas Carr, The New Republic: “With the iPad, Apple is hoping to bridge all the niches. It wants to deliver the killer device for the cloud era, a machine that will define computing’s new age in the way that the Windows PC defined the old age. The iPad is, as Jobs said today, ’something in the middle,’ a multipurpose gadget aimed at the sweet spot between the tiny smartphone and the traditional laptop. If it succeeds, we’ll all be using iPads to play iTunes, read iBooks, watch iShows, and engage in iChats. It will be an iWorld.”
David Pogue, The New York Times: “My main message to fanboys is this: it’s too early to draw any conclusions. Apple hasn’t given the thing to any reviewers yet, there are no iPad-only apps yet (there will be), the e-bookstore hasn’t gone online yet, and so on. So hyperventilating is not yet the appropriate reaction.”
Mark Moskowitz, J.P. Morgan: “Apple has done it again. With the iPad, we believe Apple cleared another hurdle, entering a new market category with a high-value content and computing-driven experience. We think this cleared hurdle is important for investors’ perception of Apple’s strategic leadership.”
Richard Gardner, Citigroup: “Unlike the majority of past Apple events, the shares remain firm today primarily because of the pricing for the iPad. Investors are extrapolating that unit estimates could be materially higher than expected given the $499 base price. The flip side is that the low price point together with overlapping features does increase the risk of cannibalization of iPod touch sales.”
On the other hand, consumers expressed (and keep expressing) their love or hate for the new gadget on Twitter.
Any thoughts?
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