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<\/p>\nAt first glance, the iPad seems to resemble a gigantic iPod Touch. From the traditional iPod Touch\/iPhone apps (contacts, calendar, notes) to the overall user interface, it’s quite similar (and it runs the iPhone OS – 3.2, to be exact). The defining difference here could be the partnerships that the company has forged in order to make the iPad the best it can be.<\/p>\n
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iBooks<\/strong><\/p>\n As a direct competition to Amazon, Apple partnered with Penguin, Macmillan, Simon & Shuster, Harper Collins, and Hachette Book Group to stock their iBooks (funny – it wasn’t too long ago that “iBook” referred to a product in their lineup) application. Resembling a virtual bookshelf, iBooks allows users to download e-books to the device.<\/p>\n New York Times<\/strong><\/p>\n The newspaper has developed an application for the iPad, with the goal of capturing “the essence of reading a newspaper.” Inline video clips, synchronization to your iPhone – yep, it’s all there.<\/p>\n Gameloft and Electronic Arts<\/p>\n <\/strong>The iPad supports popular games such as Need For Speed Shift and Nova. Needless to say, Apple’s 1 GHz A4 processor gets the job done. Pretty impressive.<\/p>\n My Thoughts<\/strong><\/p>\n I’ve always had a hard time justifying the tablet niche, just like I’ve found it challenging to justify the netbook market. Any time I’ve looked at a piece of mobile technology costing more than $300 (with the exception of cell phones), I’ve always defaulted to a cheap laptop. They offer much more bang for the buck, in my book. That being said, I can understand why someone would want one of these – and admittedly, I’m considering an iPad. After all, it offers an easy way to browse the internet and perform basic mobile tasks without lugging out the laptop.<\/p>\n My problem? The lack of multitasking. As if it doesn’t annoy me enough on the iPhone, having a tablet computer that’s unable to perform more than one task at a time would inevitably get on my nerves. And the fact of the matter is that deep down, most of us are multitaskers. Perhaps it’s counterproductive in the long-term, but I find myself annoyed when I can’t <\/em>multitask. I like listening to Pandora while browsing the internet. Based on what we gathered today, the iPad won’t offer such functionality (barring any software updates between now and launch day).<\/p>\n So, what about you? Is it worth the money to pick one up and give it a go? What will you do? I’m curious to hear from you, because at the end of the day, you and I will either make or break the Apple iPad.<\/p>\n At first glance, the iPad seems to resemble a gigantic iPod Touch. From the traditional iPod Touch\/iPhone apps (contacts, calendar, notes) to the overall user interface, it’s quite similar (and it runs the iPhone OS – 3.2, to be exact). The defining difference here could be the partnerships that the company has forged in order […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":671,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-240341","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240341","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/671"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240341"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240341\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240341"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240341"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240341"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"NYT](\"http:\/\/r.phonedog.com\/shared\/images\/2010\/1\/92418-apple-tablet-keynote_112.jpg\")
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