iPad: Investors shouldn't think short-term

I was thinking of buying one iPad. But after watching the Keynote with my wife and kids I think I'll be buying four. :)

The iPad will appeal to toddlers and seniors and most non-tech oriented consumers in between. It's a very versatile device even if it doesn't excel at anything in particular. It's about as middle-of-the-road device as you can get. It would have been nice to get a SDHC slot and USB onboard instead of a couple of dongles. Still, with 802.11n, file transfers should be fairly fast as should be video streaming. Guaranteed, Apple will sell 5 million tablets in the first year regardless of some of the flaws that tech people are mentioning (no multitasking or Flash playback). There doesn't seem to be much griping from the millions of iPhone or Touch users who also don't have those capabilities.

Apple has hit another home run and I'm definitely going to buy an iPad. It appears I'll have to buy the top model if I want a lot of memory and GPS services.

First off I dont know why people are looking for a camera. This is geared for reading books with the ability to access other functions as email, internet, photos, etc. I disagree with the statement you can do the same on the Ipad as you can with your Mac. Wrong...You cannot use any apps on your Mac as you can on this device. So in turn what is the advantage of this device? A bigger screen and the new bookstore. I use my apps on a daily basis and would love to use them on a larger screen. I am excited about this and it will just keep getting better and better as Apple sends us those updates with more capability.

I think the "no multi-tasking" is misleading. I can listen to iTunes and browse the web. I just can't run multiple apps. To me, Not a big deal.

If there was a (front facing) camera, I would be buying "his and hers" iPad's the minute they come out. I just don't understand why they didn't include one. Even my 2G original iPhone has a camera...

I will not be early adopter this time for that reason alone. Otherwise I think it is a perfect gizmo for people like my wife who only use their laptop to:
surf the web
listen to iTunes
check email

It is perfect for that use case.

Cripes, someone writing about Apple who also knows something about market incompetence regarding tech. You can expand the remarks to include most of NASDAQ.

Nice to see.

BTW, yes I own AAPL. Last time I bought it was at $89. :)

the apple brand is a solid one: http://onthebutton.wordpress.com/2010/01/28/ipad-a-terrible-name/

The iPad couldn't be more perfect for my needs. I drive for a living and was thinking about buying a cheap used Macbook Pro to serve as a Netbook for maintaining blogs. It's a pain to do with my iPhone, and I am away from my Mac Pro most of the time right now. Everything else can be cloud based on the 3G.

What I am wondering is why nobody is talking about the Apple A4 chip!!!! I have a feeling that is the start of something huge.

Long on AAPL since 1999.

I would imagine that the iPad does not do flash or have a camera for video conferences for one reason: bandwidth.

I think that there are at most a thousand people who have actually touched this device. If I know apple products (and I do) looking at this thing online and reading reviews of it will do NOTHING for it's mass appeal. This is something that needs to be held and played with before criticizing.

With the market as fickle as it is, it's no wonder that the stocks are dropping. I have no idea what people actually wanted. What could Steve have introduced that would make the stocks go up?

We sit back and scoff at its lack of a camera, no multitasking, and ridiculous name. But the truth here is that barely anyone has a product like this at home, so we don't really know what it needs. I think the iPad is a kick ass product. for $499, consider it a done deal.

Hey, who needs an iPod anyway, I mean there are already things out there that do everything it can do and more. Oops, I meant iPhone, wait, no, iPad, my bad.