I laugh so hard when I think about the “overhyped” complaint. It was the idiots at Engadget, TUAW etc. that overhyped it with endless, almost daily speculation and wishing, NOT Apple. When that level of expectation-building happens, nothing can possibly satisfy. It’s as though they honestly believed that Apple developers were sitting around reading their blogs for cues as to which features the iPad should have, so they were angry when the resulting device wasn’t aimed at obsessive spec-driven geeks.

Cheers
Enz

[I agree, that's one thing I like about Facebook - anonymity is overstated as a virtue of the web - Dan]

there’s a lot of noise coming from the unveiling of the iPad, but the one most notable to me is this from IEnumerable’s YouTube comment:

“… By the end of the year we will see equal or better tablet devices.”

this is a common statement whenever Apple releases a new product. my prediction is that HP, Dell and Acer will respond to the iPad by offering a device with similar features, but without the ‘flaws’ that the commenters like to mention. it’ll basically be 2001’s tablet PC all over again, and noone will realize why they won’t be selling in 2011.

codeincomplete (3 days ago)
What about multi-tasking? Apple dropped the ball with this in iPhone 3.0 notifications last year and again this year with the iPad. Some apps need multi-tasking support (Skype, Pandora, etc) and are really half-baked without it. Do we have to wait another year or more for multi-tasking apps?

TedBrk (3 days ago)
I have seen some of your videos and I generally support your views. Negative reactions from people in the beginning were usually not based on facts.
I am not an Apple fan, but the idea behind the iPad is very tempting.
You are comparing a GoogleOS tablet with the iPad, IMO that is wrong. You should compare it with Android tablets.
That is where the competition is. I own a 200$ SmartQ7 and it is already a pretty decent tablet and runs android.
Not a device for spoiled apple users though ;)

johnmonk66 (4 days ago)
you are full of shit, microsoft NEVER announced the courier, stop the lies

gdigiart (6 days ago)
when apple introduced the iPhone they didn’t decide to put a full mac os on it. It didn’t fit the product usability. iPhone based os would be great for the ipad that targets consumption consumers. But from the get go.. When You buy a MacBook pro instead of a pc It’s because You’re a creative and mac had become a necessity. how will this product appeal to creatives… the pro series was invinted to meet that need. It would be cool to see This implemented into ipad.

JawnMercernary (1 week ago)
wow, good point. Apple did not hype the iPad.

henriok (1 week ago)
Excellent posting! I chuckled as much as you did. Hilarious :D

IEnumerable (1 week ago)
The iPod and iPhone took the world by surprise and were years ahead of the competition. Whereas the iPad was predicted a year in advance and barely delivered on that. By the end of the year we will see equal or better tablet devices. Apple is a victim of their own success. When most people say over-hyped, they are taking into account other media sources than Apple. I’m not saying the iPad is a bad. There’s just no myth here.

thehighconcept (1 week ago)
That would be interesting were it true.

The iPod was neither a surprise nor even a radically new product. There were plenty of marginally successful MP3 players ahead of it, and a decade of Walkman players. Apple just made a music player people wanted, with a few features that set it apart.

The iPhone was not a surprise nor even a radically new product. There were plenty of smartphones ahead of it. Apple just made a phone people wanted, with a few brilliant features that really set it apart.

thehighconcept (1 week ago)
The iPad isn’t a surprise or even a radically new product. There have been plenty of not very successful tablet devices. Apple just made one that people want, with brilliant features that really set it apart.

And get real. the iPod has been out since 2001 and nobody has made anything that the market has cared about nearly as much. Not Microsoft, not Sony, not anyone new.

thehighconcept (1 week ago)
The iPhone has been out since 2007 and no phone has become anything more than a briefly touted “iphone killer” before falling into history as a failed attempt.

The iPad will have plenty of copies, but nobody is going to off anything that really compares. I mean, if they could, why didn’t they copy the iPod or the iPhone? When you use words like “over-hyped” to describe real enthusiasm that results in major sales, it’s clear you aren’t using that word appropriately.

IEnumerable (1 week ago)
That’s precisely my point. The iPhone has the Apple “magic” that could not be easily copied. The iPad on the other hand does not; hence the underwhelming response. Competitors will have had sufficient time playing with multi-touch displays and related OSes like Android to rapidly catch up.

thehighconcept (1 week ago)
Please explain how that makes any sense at all. The iPhone has some subset of technology that is magical that the iPad doesn’t have?

It’s the other way around. The sophistication of the iPhone has yet to be matched by Android. The iPad add increased sophistication in apps and in related features. Google’s response is another OS that’s not compatible with Android, and Android.

“Multitouch” and hardware are easy. Creating a good platform with a great UI is not, as Android demonstrates.

IEnumerable (1 week ago)
The iPhone introduced a new OS, the app store, a stylus free UI, and a large screen with no clutter. No one had heard of capacitive touch prior to that. That’s how Apple can over-deliver and amaze.

I’m not saying the iPad does not have these, I’m just saying that it does not introduce anything above current technology that would amaze an audience in the expected Apple way.

This has nothing to do with iPhone vs Android. I was merely pointing out how some ppl are under-whelmed with the iPad.

gdigiart (1 week ago)
the ipad is aliright. they should create a new operating system that’s completely designed hybrid.. some thing that’s different from the full os but at the same time completely different from the Iphone. And have a pressure sensitive pen for it.a model more for the business pro of creative arts. Still have the ipad… But also have an ipad pro. Like the laptops. Good video.

iy42 (1 week ago)
That sounds like a product that Apple will never make. What you’ve listed here is an interesting product that goes against everything Apple does. A stylus? From removing buttons on the iPod to the Magic Mouse Apple has been all about creating UI’s completely based on direct touch. And why a completely different UI to the iPhone? If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. As they said at the end of the keynote, the coolest thing about the iPad is that you already know how to use it.

painr0×0r (1 week ago)
Haha, right to the point! Good one, “over-hyped”, very funny.

trainwrecka (1 week ago)
Your videos are already looking 10 million times better, and it’s still just the first week! Another fantastic job on the content as well.

inftytb (2 weeks ago)
Steve Jobs offered to put Mac OS X on the XO laptop? Never heard that story. Is ther some reading about this somewhere?

Hypothesard (2 weeks ago)
@inftytb as noted in the wiki page of the “OLPC XO-1″
the srouce is the article ()search the two folowing quotes in google
“The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality” and “Online Wall Street Journal”
(then search the first occurence of “Steve Jobs” in the page)

Hypothesard (2 weeks ago)
@Hypothesard err
Google the following keywords and you’re set (with quotes)

“The $100 Laptop Moves Closer to Reality”
“Wall Street Journal”

Hypothesard (2 weeks ago)
the quote from that article is :

“Steve Jobs, Apple Computer Inc.’s chief executive, offered to provide free copies of the company’s operating system, OS X, for the machine, according to Seymour Papert, a professor emeritus at MIT who is one of the initiative’s founders. “We declined because it’s not open source,” says Dr. Papert, noting the designers want an operating system that can be tinkered with. An Apple spokesman declined to comment.”

appleseedas (2 weeks ago)
People should expect more from themselves in the first place

Rysk0ne (1 week ago)
“People should expect more from themselves in the first place.”
What does that have to do with this? We’re not taking to a therapist.

appleseedas (1 week ago)
You should. You need that. You must. Go now.

Rysk0ne (1 week ago)
Learn proper grammar.

appleseedas (1 week ago)
Learn proper trolling.

Rysk0ne (1 week ago)
Okay. Sorry for offending an apple fanboy like yourself. I wasn’t my intentions. Haha stupid hippie. “People should expect more from themselves”

appleseedas (1 week ago)
You can’t touch this. Be sorry for your lame trolling skills. Better to be hippie I guess than someone who goes “you stupid” over some YouTube video and comment. Cheers!

Rysk0ne (6 days ago)
Okay, troll. If you say so.
“can’t touch this”. How lame can you get?

appleseedas (6 days ago)
Can’t beat you. Learn me more about your superior art of trolling and lameness. Please keep teaching me.
You are the best!

Rysk0ne (2 weeks ago)
People expect more from apple.

Hypothesard (2 weeks ago)
@Rysk0ne It’s more generic than that :
Whatever happend (good, bad, better, worst), People are never satisfied.
When It’s raining they want sunshine, whenthe sun shine, It’s too hot, etc.

Rysk0ne (1 week ago)
No because when the 3gs came out it wasn’t critiqued the same way.

Hypothesard (1 week ago)
@Rysk0ne Oh jee :
No Front facing camera
No 5MPix camera
No 720p playback
No haptic feedback
no SD/Micro-SD slot
no LED Flash (the Light)
+ still no Flash
+Multitasking
+++ all what was objected in the previous 2 iterations

And still as you said It, It was the 3rd version, and people still didn’t figured out that Apple go at his own pace.

But i should have been more precise about the fact that indeed It was about *Some People* and not the totality of *People* :P

What is it they say about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts? Hmmm…they must have been thinking of the iPad, when they came up with that one. I also like the concept of ‘critical mass’, when thinking of what is going to make the iPad great…for lots and lots and lots of people. When you come up with a interface like ‘touch’, and you marry it to a powerful, yet power-stingy processor like the A4 and an LCD screen that’s vibrant and viewable from any angle, and you develop a type of manufacturing process that optimizes usable space & rigidity and mix in some impressive battery life…at a package price that mere mortals can afford, you end up with something that no one else has, and everyone is going to want.