Apple's iTouchPad

[gordo]

Kindle's really going to have to cut their prices to have any chance against Apple's iTouchPad.

Nice bit of kit for sure.

best, gordon p

[mattbeals]

And develop a music/video player and web browser and... Oh yeah, full color.

[Cory Smith]

Not to mention with the B&N App and Kindle App, you can really have the largest selection there is.

Doesn't have flash, which is a bummer. It's easy to overlook that limitation on the iphone, harder to swallow on something like this.

Overall I think it's a great device, it has some limitations, but like anything with Apple, they are just going to continually improve it.

[ondemandbindery]

Either way this is just another nail in the coffin of the Graphic Arts Industry........

[Lukas Engqvist]

I like the idea, my kidds said, oh in the future we won't need all our schoolbooks it will be enough with just one of those... maybe that summs it up?

Graphic Arts industry? I mean there is plenty more work to create motion graphics than static graphics, I presume you mean "Printing industry". There is still the need to layout pages, good typography and many more of the skills many of us have accumulated over the years. I see it as an oppertunity. Other businesses have adapted and diversified. Look at how theatre changed to compete with cinema, and Cinema is developing to compete with TV, and video.

Letts find out the unique abilities of each media and build on that. I'd still be taking a pocket book to a sandy beach, or when I read on the train. And love the smell of a library or bookshop. The iPad can't give me that (not saying I'm not drooling for a it for other reasons ;p)

Discussed today the Gardners' learning models, and I think even though the interface is touch, it does not appeal to all those who need a tactile learning. Texture is equally important in media as in food.

btw arts and insustry is too much A Worhall for me. There is Arts and there is Industry?

[stargate]

Still, I would want to have USB port, so I could download pics directly to iPad from the camera. I am not sure how many BT cameras are out there. Wireless charging would be a plus too.

[gordo]

Still, I would want to have USB port, so I could download pics directly to iPad from the camera.

iPad has that.

gordon p

[ondemandbindery]

I like the idea, my kidds said, oh in the future we won't need all our schoolbooks it will be enough with just one of those... maybe that summs it up?

Graphic Arts industry? I mean there is plenty more work to create motion graphics than static graphics, I presume you mean "Printing industry". There is still the need to layout pages, good typography and many more of the skills many of us have accumulated over the years. I see it as an oppertunity. Other businesses have adapted and diversified. Look at how theatre changed to compete with cinema, and Cinema is developing to compete with TV, and video.

Letts find out the unique abilities of each media and build on that. I'd still be taking a pocket book to a sandy beach, or when I read on the train. And love the smell of a library or bookshop. The iPad can't give me that (not saying I'm not drooling for a it for other reasons ;p)

Discussed today the Gardners' learning models, and I think even though the interface is touch, it does not appeal to all those who need a tactile learning. Texture is equally important in media as in food.

btw arts and insustry is too much A Worhall for me. There is Arts and there is Industry?

Printing Industry. If that is what we want want to call the coffin. I will have one and that is like shooting myself in the foot......

[almaink]

Economy is dead and it's to much money IMO.

[Verdant]

I think it's dumb that they used the iPhone OS and not OS X. It severely limits what it can do (no multitasking or file management). It's a great concept, but I'll wait until version 3.0 or later when they make it actually more useful. I mean, I already have an iPhone, what's the benefit of me buying this?