Wednesday, 27 January 2010

Apple iPad


Apple iPad, what is it and is it worth a thought and hence a buy!
Steve Jobs, Apple's CEO launched the Apple 'iPad' at 13:00 EST, today 27th January 2010, at it's San Francisco headquarters, putting to rest months of hightened speculation.

iPad prices would be in the range of $500 to $900 in the US and around £400 to £700 in the UK. With Apple already leveraging the vast support of mobile service providers, enabling it with 3G, WiFi is the basic that it could include in the new gizmo. Measuring 9.7" and 1/2" thick , it's a giant iPhone, weighing 1.5 pounds. It comes with 16, 32, 64 GB of flash memory. Battery lasting 10 hrs. iPad with 3G costing aroun $600 to $850. Potential iPhone customers or iMac may take the opportunity to give their decision a second thought.

Steve Jobs, talking about a third segment, a segment between smart phones and laptops. Notebooks being just cheap laptops, which some may want to classify it as the 3rd segment. iPad fills the gap here. Apple has always been an innovator, be it the desktop PC, true type fonts, Mac books and lately iPhones and now iPad. Integration is the name of the game in today's world with thousands of devices wanting a space in your bag, pocket and palm.
iPad hopefuly would replace, phone, ebook reader, digital phot frame, camera, laptop and much much more. You may not see it as a revolutionary product but what with a diverse and vast market, most of these gizmos find their way in. It's the one which make to the majority that make it to the top and stay longer in everyone's memory.
Share prices of Apple were down during mid trading session to $203, but closed higer at $207.98, which has doubled over the past one year.