Summary of the Apple Event in San Fransisco

Of course, I’m pretty sure that most of you know how yesterday was pretty much devoted to Apple, in fact, it was all Apple’s day yesterday. In this post, I am going to summarise everything that went on during that event yesterday.

Of course, the highlight is iPad: Apple’s new tablet computer. It is simply beautiful with a 9.7” screen, and being 0.5 inches thick it is slim enough to come from the Jobs.

This new computer is not revolutionary, but evolutionary. It makes people finally want a tablet PC. It gives incentives such as iBooks and iWork. This is what the whole show has been about, and that’s exactly how Apple would want it.

You see, the amount of hype about iPad was huge; with rumours stretching back for years. Now that it has been announced, Apple can finally sit back and relax and watch it fly off the shelves.

Many technology journalists have been getting hands on with this device; and first impressions are mostly positive. Tom Dunmore of stuff.tv said

The iPad is really thin and light. It feels much more like an overgrown iPod Touch than a fully fledged tablet PC.

The Times were equally as impressed, but not all reactions were great. Engadget said

It's not light. It feels pretty weighty in your hand… There's no multitasking at all. It's a real disappointment. All this power and very little you can do with it at once. No multitasking means no streaming Pandora when you're working in Pages... you can figure it out. It's a real setback for this device … No camera. None, nada. Zip. No video conferencing here folks. Hell, it doesn't have an SMS app! …The keyboard is good, not great. Not quite as responsive as it looked in the demos …No Flash confirmed. So Hulu is out for you, folks!

I myself am stuck in the middle, but as soon as one of these reaches the UK I am off to the Apple store to try one out. I shall give my full views in my next post in which I will why I will not buy this current version of iPad. Until then, though, check out all our posts yesteday which pretty much cover iPad.

You can read my summaries of the iPad here: for the outside , for the insides  for the software and design