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Yup, Apple killed it with this idiotic product.

Everyone will run to the HP Slate now.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
wrong. by all means, go buy one though. Jobs will need someone to videoconference with... oh wait. I guess you can play Need For Speed with him. No? Hm, well at least you'll be able to read about bad sales numbers on the all new NY Times app!]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
This one? Yes.

And please stop embarrassing yourself trying to whip up enthusiasm for this thing. Unless you are getting a check, you are just being sad.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/lol

insurance mandatory!]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
doesnt even have a webcam, what more a projector....]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
What a useless device. For the price you pay for the ipad and keyboard you could get a nicely equipped notebook or thin-n-light.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
http://www.apple.com/ipad/]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
THAT DOES FLASH!]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
also, this is not big on features, steve has made a smart move with the pricing though, his targets people who think "oh well this costs me less than a unlocked iphone and doesnt have recurring contract fee (if not opting for 3g data that is)

implied bad news from the event, we arent probably seeing multitasking (non apple apps)....

i am not half as excited as i was before the event, steve gimme an update on this soon, make the ipad 2g much better ]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
i meant built in]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
"Imagine being able to page through websites [...] or watch a movie. All on a big, beautiful, Multi-Touch screen. With just the touch of a finger."
There is only one sentence in that quote-- the rest are fragments.
"140,000 apps at your fingertips. From day one."
That period was completely unnecessary.
"There’s also a slight curve to the back. Which makes it easy to pick up and comfortable to hold."
Again, why do we need two sentences here.
I guess part of the reason I'm not Apple's biggest fan is because of the way they talk. It really bothers me.]]>Jan 27th 2010 3:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Why couldn't they just add a proper Godamn Bluetooth Stack that supports the current Apple Bluetooth Keyboard!?

OH, I KNOW!

Accessory $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$
-_-]]>Jan 27th 2010 4:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
I think Apple did the right thing here, pitching this as a casual device to pick up and do common things comfortably, without having to go and sit at a computer or have a hot chunky laptop on your lap!

Especially with the flurry of PC tablet computers that have hit the market in the last few months (trying to beat Apple to the punch) those companies kinda look silly now because they are all competing with each other and with other devices like laptops etc.

This will sit nicely on my coffee table which will allow me to have a quick glance at the net from the couch with little effort.

When the parents come round, I can hand it to them to look through the latest photo's of the kids.

I can give one to my Dad to get him on-line, so he can surf the net and use email finally with a simple device, without him having to know a load of stuff about computers that he doesn't need to know.

I know people that spend double the price of the iPad on Harmony remotes for example, I predict some slick universal remote software to come out.

That's just some reasons why I think this will be useful, I mean its going to cost around £300, peanuts!

At that price bracket, you could quantify the device for just one of those applications like the universal remote idea. The kindle ebook reader is around £250 I think!

I think people need to get some perspective on where Apple pitched this device before they start complaining it doesn't have laptop type features, that's not where Apple wanted it to contend, which makes complete sense because everyone would then be complaining, "I can't replace my laptop with this without a proper keyboard...blah...blah".]]>Jan 27th 2010 5:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
http://www.apple.com/ipad/design/
"Accessories
There are lots of great accessories that have been specifically designed for iPad. The Keyboard Dock, for instance, is a dock with a full-size keyboard. There’s also a standalone Dock. And because iPad has built-in Bluetooth 2.1, it’ll work with an Apple Wireless Keyboard, too. There’s also a Camera Connection Kit that lets you import photos from a camera or SD card. T"]]>Jan 27th 2010 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 7:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/would this also work with an iPhone? I mean they're both the same 30pin connectors]]>Jan 27th 2010 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/seriously. Engadget == Crapgadget blog on apple's sacaroni lately.
waaahhhhh burger and french cries, this porridge isn't iPhone-ish enough for me. ]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/I concur, I think a KIRF version will actually be better than this thing.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Since when did little girls utilise sarcasm to demonstrate their indignation?]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/still wont let users just pair it with a bt keyboard? why???]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
Jobs: "Now, some people thought that was a netbook—the problem is that netbooks aren't better than anything!"

Now they are: Introducing the iPad - "better than the laptop, better than the smartphone."

"We think we've got the goods. We think we've done it."]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
A BT keyboard would be a better solution. It wouldn't be tied down to a dock and wouldn't need to be jammed up against the device.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
http://www.apple.com/ipad/design/

"The Keyboard Dock, for instance, is a dock with a full-size keyboard. There’s also a standalone Dock. And because iPad has built-in Bluetooth 2.1, it’ll work with an Apple Wireless Keyboard, too."]]>Jan 27th 2010 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/I have an iPod touch. The screen is too small for my liking. The tablet is too big. Something pocketable, the size of my GPS (4.3" widescreen) would've been pretty cool to have with the screen being large enough to actually use it efficiently.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
Sent from my iPhone.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
God bless HTC and xda-devs]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/i would rather buy the LG x300. that is one slick laptop and it thinner than this piece of junk]]>Jan 27th 2010 3:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 7:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 7:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
Come to your senses people, just because it has Apple on it doesn't make it a good product.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
Completely agree, this thing is stupid.

And it costs LESS than an iPhone yet has more memory and a better processor? FUCK YOU, APPLE.

Just buy a netbook, and have a full computer, with full document editors, and processors made by REAL processor companies.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
Yep, agreed 100%.

I'm not some Apple hater, I think the iPhone is a great product.

But typing text needs a keyboard, period. So this big iPod Touch (let's call it for what it is) is useless without one.
Netbook > big iTouch]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
Now I want HP to get their slate out. Then compaines like Asus can also come in and clean up here.

Here is the stupid thing. If you have a tablet PC, then you can connect a wireless portable keyboard - say - even a bluetooth one. With the iPad I would not be surprised if you can only use Apple branded or approved devices.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
@Jordan

This or a netbook?? thats the ultimatum, how bout...No!!!, net books suck, they're generally slow/too thick. Imo just get a regular fucking laptop if you want a portable pc,. I dont know how you even begin comparing this to a net book because they are completely different products and fill completely different niches.You clearly cant accept the fact that this is an interesting piece of technology.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
This or a netbook?? thats the ultimatum? how bout...No!!!, net books suck, they're generally slow/too thick. Imo just get a regular fucking laptop if you want a portable pc,. I dont know how you even begin comparing this to a net book because they are completely different products and fill completely different niches.You clearly cant accept the fact that this is an interesting piece of technology.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/Jan 27th 2010 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
The only scenario in which a netbook sucks is if you don't know how to use one and install a load of shit on it (like A/V software).]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
You're right, it is interesting. It's interesting how Apple took a device that they already make, and have for a few years, give it a bigger screen, and try to proclaim it as the new jesus device.

It's also interesting how the name sounds like a feminine product.

I'm relating it to netbooks because that's exactly what Steve Jobs did. The only thing is, netbooks are useful, this is not.]]>Jan 27th 2010 2:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/27/ipad-has-optional-keyboard-dock/
Really?? Give me a break.The marketing scheme is irrelevant to the usefulness of the product. I could care less what jobs says. I dont use windows 7 because i like the commercials or eat at Mcdonalds because i deserve a break today. ]]>Jan 27th 2010 3:43PM