The Apple iPad

Posted At : January 28, 2010 10:05 AM | Posted By : Gary Gilbert
Related Categories: iPad,Apple

The much rumored and anticipated announcement was made yesterday at the Apple Media event by Steve Jobs. The Apple iPad, which looks much like an over-sized iPhone or iPod comes with all the bells and whistles that both of the smaller versions come with, only bigger.

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Yes :)

What we need now is an app to code coldfusion in it, preferably cfeclipse or some such.

# Posted By Sam Daams | 1/28/10 10:33 AM

They should have added a front facing camera, I mean, just perfect for those video conferences don't you think? iChat on it would have been awesome!

I would love one of these for flights to be honest. I have been thinking about getting a kindle but this kicks arse on that front.

# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/28/10 10:33 AM

Well, I can't say much yet, but the important part will be to see if you can run CFML on it ;)

# Posted By Mark Drew | 1/28/10 10:34 AM

Isn't it basically the same "OS" as the iPhone, meaning its not full version of osx snow leopard, meaning you can't install anything on it other than apps from the app store?

# Posted By Gary Gilbert | 1/28/10 10:57 AM

@Gary:

It's essentially a giagantic iTouch. There are some unique UI elements, such as drop down menus and pop-ups, but it's going to be running the same OS as the iPhone/iTouch. I can certainly see the appeal to those who have a need for a eReader. It's in the same general price range, but can do a lot more.

However, it seems more useful to get something like a Tablet PC. The biggest advantage I see to the iPad over a Tablet PC is the battery life (if the iPad really will do 10 hours of video playback.) Tablet PCs aren't going to give you that kind of battery life.

# Posted By Dan G. Switzer, II | 1/28/10 4:33 PM

No real use for me but is kinda cool, you can already tell it's gunna be a massive hit for games and would be perfect for my mom.

I don't see why you couldn’t run cfm on there just get the dev sdk and make your own lil iphone app with railo/resin running it and you can install it, i mean "debug" it lol without going through app store so why not?

# Posted By dave | 1/28/10 5:12 PM

I'm not going to buy it. Dan's right, it's just an oversized ipod touch. And it's a lot less portable than the ipod touch. I don't get it. And believe me, I've read a LOT about it, so I'm not ignorant of it's capabilities. I just don't get it.

# Posted By Jake Munson | 1/28/10 8:50 PM

@Jake,

Im not sure I get it either, I've checked the features and read reviews and all that, and Im not overly impressed.

I guess I should be given all the hype, but quite frankly Im not. It is a cool idea for watching videos or something but thats about the only use case that I can think of at the moment.

# Posted By Gary | 1/28/10 9:11 PM

And that's the problem, Gary. You, like others, can think of one or 2 small use cases where they'd like it, but are those worth $500 (at minimum)? Usually no.

# Posted By Jake Munson | 1/28/10 1:26 AM

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