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I used to have an iPod, an iTouch, and an iPhone :D (a friend gave me the iPod 80GB as a thank you gift, I won the iTouch, and got the iPhone as a work phone).

Used to have - my son has the iPod, and my daughter the iTouch.:dozey:

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Having used a tablet PC (admittedly running XP Tablet Edition) for me the standard desktop UI doesn't work very well on a touch-oriented device. While I believe the iPad definitely has room for improvement (I'm interested to see what's to come when iPhone OS 4 arrives; the iPad is running v3.2 apparently, just the standard iPhone OS with a few tweaks for the new features) I think it's a better fit for this type of device than the desktop OS X GUI would have been. Manipulating normal windows and controls would just be too fiddly with a touch interface, whereas the restrictions of the iPhone interface has made developers to come up with some very intuitive ways of interacting with the software.

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All I'm gonna say is this.....

If it is running the same OS as the iPhone for your own sake please don't put anything important on it :erm:

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An iPad-enabled version of this game could be quite fun. :)

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This made me laugh :D

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Why?

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Well the launch is 2 months off and a lot can change in that time. I do like all the apple bashing though it's quite funny. Just because the sony netbook sized laptops used to be £2k plus never stopped me wanting one. After using an iphone since the launch of the 2g I think I could definitely find a use for this. I could leave my Laptop for proper work and configure it as such and then have this for pootling on the web down stairs on the couch. I was pondering a tv for the bedroom as I quite often watch iplayer on the iphone in bed on cold hungover mornings and this would improve that no end. (Yes I know I could go hunt my laptop and wait 5 minutes for it to boot and then go hunt the charger etc..). Going to be plenty more 'meaty' apps for this come launch and a lot more productivity stuff. I can see me doing tech calls with this and wandering round like I'm in Star Trek ;-).

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Hitler responds to the iPad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0...layer_embedded

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:D

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Very funny :-)

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:rofl:

Brilliant. :D

Some good points, though. It's clearly designed for consuming the web - so why no Flash? That means no Youtube and none of the nonsense Mrs T loves to play about with on Farcebook. That one single omission renders the thing useless in our house. Otherwise, at anything under £400 we would almost certainly have bought one at some point.

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Because…

1: Steve Jobs is a control freak.
2: Flash is a buggy, insecure piece of crap.
3: Adobe couldn't code a decent version of Flash on non-Windows platforms if their lives depended on it.

As for the no YouTube problem, they're beta-testing an HTML5/h.264 version at the moment, which works fine. That, plus the YouTube app that comes as standard on every iPhone and iPod Touch and iPad. ;)

http://www.apple.com/uk/ipad/features/

Quote:

YouTube The YouTube app organises videos so they’re really easy to see and navigate. To watch one, you just tap it. When you’re watching in landscape, the video will automatically play in full screen. And with its high-resolution display, the latest YouTube HD videos will look amazing on iPad.

https://www.cableforum.co.uk/images/local/2010/01/6.jpg

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BTW, the Apple UK site now has an iPad page.

Unfortunately…

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Has everyone seen all the very funny youtube productions and blogs around the web..There is one youtube I loved but can't link to because it is so tasteless...

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I'm guessing a google for Itampon will bring it up though ;)

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Could be..but I suspect there maybe more than one..;)