Here it IS!!!! Apple new iPAD

Nota por Anect Rivas

Apple has unveiled its iPad tablet and almost instantly the debate began: Is this device a computer or a mobile device? Is it an e-reader or light laptop? Where does the iPad fit? Is this tablet really different? Apple likes those questions since the iPad is one device aimed at two markets—e-readers and netbooks.

Simply put, boxing the iPad into a strict definition just doesn’t work. In some respects, netbooks and e-readers are designed for the same tasks: Reading, Web content and light use. Apple CEO Steve Jobs appears to be targeting both with the iPad.

Consider Jobs’ unveiling on Wednesday (Techmeme):

“more intimate than a laptop and more capable than a smartphone.”

Sounds like a netbook rival. But then Jobs uncorks the Amazon Kindle jabs.

“Amazon has done a great job with the Kindle and we’re going to stand on their shoulders and go a little further.”

Jobs really revealed that the iPad is a netbook and e-reader heat seeking missile when he outlined the device’s pricing. “We had very ambitious technical goals and user interface goals, but also aggressive price goals because we wanted to put this in the hands of lots of people. The iPad pricing starts at $499,” he said. In fact, the pricing probably saved the whole event. Every skeptic I know—including the one I see in the mirror—was on board for $499. Why? That price is well known and it’s an amount where you say, “I could do that.”

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