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God forbid you were another company trying to launch a product today.\u00a0Anyway, here’s a round-up of the most interesting coverage we saw today (from our blog and others).<\/p>\n
What gaming executives think: Here’s Dean Takahashi’s extended take on the device <\/a>with interviews of entrepreneurs including SGN’s Shervin Pishevar and Smule’s\u00a0Ge Wang<\/a> on the tablet’s potential for gaming. Electronic Arts’ Travis Boatman offers his take here on prepping games<\/a> for the device.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n McGraw-Hill gets axed for spilling the beans: <\/strong>One publisher was conspicuously missing from Apple’s demo today<\/a> after its CEO spilled the beans about the tablet on CNBC yesterday.<\/p>\n Developers decry Apple’s advancing “closed” model for software distribution:<\/strong> With the iTunes app store instigating a great deal of angst among developers because of its cryptic approval process, it’s no surprise that several observers lashed out again. The Free Software Foundation\u00a0called the iPad “bad for freedom.”<\/a> Media artist Peter Kirn said Apple’s\u00a0mobile product line-up\u00a0”is doing immense harm to the computing legacy the company has forged.”<\/a>Aaron Swartz, who helped create RSS and Reddit, <\/a>said that the iPad spelled out the company’s vision of “total control by Apple. It\u2019s a frightening future.”<\/p>\n Gizmodo covers the device’s many weaknesses:<\/strong> No camera and no multitasking.<\/a><\/p>\n Pogue and Mossberg each have a crack at the iPad: <\/strong>The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg\u00a0thought Jobs’ presentation made the iPad seem<\/a> “more like a hybrid” of a laptop and phone than a radically new type of device.<\/p>\n Fanboy Pogue\u00a0cautions us to stay open-minded:<\/a><\/p>\n “Like the iPhone, the iPad is really a vessel, a tool, a 1.5-pound sack of potential. It may become many things. It may change an industry or two, or it may not. It may introduce a new category \u2014 something between phone and laptop \u2014 or it may not. And anyone who claims to know what will happen will wind up looking like a fool.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n Educational startup Inkling gears up to take advantage of the tablet:<\/strong> One San Francisco startup sees lots of opportunities for interactive educational modules<\/a> on the device.<\/p>\n Shareholders applauded the price, not the device: <\/strong>Investors weren’t actually all that jazzed about the device itself, as the tablet was already priced into the market. Shares headed lower during Jobs’ keynote<\/a>, until he said the starting price point was $499 — half of what analysts had anticipated. That’s what triggered a spike.<\/p>\n The name gets panned, with iTampon trending high on Twitter:<\/strong> Yep, it draws an instantaneous mental connection to feminine hygiene<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n
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