It's the perfect form factor to help replace print.  Books, comics, and newspaper apps have already been shown and they're even better than their paper counterparts.

Re this thread....I think telling someone to 'shut up' or 'quit posting to the thread' is pretty impotent, pointless and inappropriate in light of its topic and 'opinionated' viewpoint.

Being controversial invites controversy.

The adage 'If you can't stand the heat.....' is apt.

Same rules apply to everyone.

I just want to say that IMHO unlike what most people say right now the iPad can and will be a content making as well as a content consuming device.

I have a friend who is an animation stident and he likes to go sit at pubs and sketch people things like Sketchbook Pro would fall right at his corner, not to mention that apps like Dragon Dictation already allow you to insert large amounts of text without moving a finger on your iPhone (now coming to the iPad) and slew of other 3rd party apps that will make the iPad a more atractive device than it might seems right now (I saw on YouTube an app for iPad to build apps and web sites...).

Some people don't like Apple just because, that fine for them, some people don't like the iPad because they think that the technical specs aren't good enough that is fine and dandy for them, what I don't understand are folks who have the nerve to talk smak about people who do intend to buy the iPad, who are they to judge what I or other folks need and wants? I respect folks when they say that the iPad/iPhone/banana/etc is not for them what I don't respect is people who jump on an hate wagon just for the thrill of talking smack about other people.

I'm not pointing fingers to anyone here it's just a general observation on my experiance around the web.

p.s here is the civ game for the iPad: Civilization Revolution

Warder

Except for the fact that it's an LED screen, which is still not good in sunlight and will tire your eyes out like any other computer screen. The reason the Kindle is so popular is because it uses e-ink, which relies on the refleciton of light rather than emitting light of its own, making it much more readable, not to mention longer lasting.

Tablet PCs have existed for years and do everything the iPad does and more.

i KOO LAID - a reference to Prince Andrew perhaps?

That article was a real jerk fest.  It's not every day you get to see someone so expertly gloss over the glaring defects of a product by turning them into benefits...

It's going to replace Windows because it's simple and can't do anything a real operating system is capable of!

When the president does it, it's not illegal!

I've heard this since I was seven years old and my eyes have never felt tired after staring at a computer screen for 10 hours at a time.

No one here is trying to bash people who buy the iPad, we're just having a good laugh at an article written by a technically inept individual about the future of technology he doesn't understand. The iPad just doesn't do anything spectacular compared to a netbook or a laptop. It's a small device that does a few tricks that is being compared to processing powerhouses and lauded as the beginning of the second coming of Steve Christ and his Apple band.

I've heard of CRTs before though, although I had associated them with TVs rather than monitors (and after a quick Wikipedia scan they appear to have been present in both). So do LCD screens not hurt your eyes? Several doctors have told me so, but what do they know, they could be spreading old information

The real issue is staring at the same focal length hour after hour.  It doesn't matter what you are doing....looking at a Computer screen [any sort]....driving on a highway....or, like me....Concentrating on a piece of race track in order to keep an eye on what the Formula One drivers [or MotoGP riders] are doing wrong, and to whom.  ALL those instances require the same thing....a rest/change from time to time.

I dont feel there is anything wrong with the ipad its just a little overpriced like every apple product.. especaily since they have those laptops that have the spinable monitor to make it the same thing as an ipad anyway.  I just wonder how many people will accidently skip 50 pages ahead in their book by touching the screen on mistake.

Heck, I just read the thread for the first time and I am leaving too!  Got better things to do.