Hands-On With Apple's iPad

Wired.com takes a look at Apple's latest creation, the iPad. Sporting a beautiful, responsive 9.7 inch touchscreen and a store chock-full of useful apps, the iPad presents an intuitive way to casually consume media.

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[akaCharlieG]

bahaha "one of the great things about the ipad is that you can add apps from apple's app store"

you mean... wait... you mean its AMAZING because its hardware you can install programs to also? That my friends is TRUE innovation. Unique and "great about the ipad"

oh wait... i can oly add the stuff apple will elt me add? tahnks...

intellectual property whores

[Gerraldinho]

@netsoj you doesn´´t give a shit but you spend a minute to write this ipaddiscription

[rockomundo]

I-Pad: Only good for drawing with your finger and making music.

[caseygraham14]

adobe dose not support apple not apple fult blame adobe.

[caseygraham14]

it is not a large ipod touch it is wayyyyyyyyyyyyyy different and better

[88Kamikaze69]

Honestly though, this gadget is quite useless considering the hardware...

When you think about the processing power in an ipod touch (which was quite mindblowing when it came out) you'd naturally expect this to be a full fledged tablet pc, but ofcourse that wont come out until they have peddled this piece of shit on as many people as possible... the technology is there already but we consumers just bend over and take it every time the computer industry does shit like this...

[noflyzonnn]

Thanks for your iPad presentation and inputs regarding disadvantages, such as Adobe Flash, Typing and adding apps only throung iTunes.

But in general it is amazing tool. And I think there will be a solution regarding Adobe Flash. Regarding typing you can buy a keyboard dock or wireless one. Also apps downloading can be jailbreak easly now by (Cydia ....)

[lockergnome15]

multitasking is coming to the iphone in the summer and for the ipad in the fall. All you need to do wait!

[tburns79]

@mytotallyawesomename I have one and honestly I haven't run into any sites that have the flash problem yet. A lot a heavy visited sights are making HTML versions for Iphone and Ipad. It could use a cam, but really only a front face cam for video chat, it would be tarded to running around taking pics with this thing. It does alot, I use it at school instead of my laptop, play games on, get my mail with it, and watch movies on it. so for me it works, not for everyone though i guess

[mytotallyawesomename]

@tburns79 as a matter of fact i have seen it in person at the apple store, and you know what? it actually did feel kind of nice in your hands, but what the fuck can you do with it? no flash, no cam, no nothing. you just wasted a shit load of money on an ipad which your PAYING TO BETA TEST IT.

[SpacedTime]

@tburns79 I don't know how the music and movie industry will cope when all content is live and high quality. they are already struggling when we are D/loading it, what will happen when they can't even prosecute us for stealing it when we don't even ever have to touch it?