Brian Thorn writes:

unless you're just dying for multi-touch, why bother with the iPad?

A screen I am actually able to read? And icons/buttons that don't alias
to something else because I don't have fingers the size of a three year
olds? Yeah and I know all about the iPod/iPhone magnifier, if I could
only see it and not press somthing else when I try to select it.

I was initially interested in this, but the Gen I article has
some serious limitations that make me want to wait for Gen 2. Like,
4:3 instead of true 16:9, and no web cam, only as a doc option.
USB as a doc/cable option I can live with.

Is this thing going to handle handwriting to text like the Palm Pilot
tried to do? Or just go with a qwerty keyboard on screen? I hear Apple
will have a mini-keyboard as a doc option available either at first sale
or shortly thereafter. A stylus would be a nice accessory, but Apple
doesn't like to add stuff that can be lost appearently. Guess I'll
have to settle with using a Qtip or maybe the stylus from an old Palm....

But to get back to Pat's original observation, it'd be cool to video
edit the BBC interview segment from 2001 to play as a stand alone
video on the iPad while eating a microwave TV dinner made for people
with no teeth. You suppose this was thought through in the movie?
I mean do you think they actually made everything like paste in case
the carousel failed and they had to eat in zero-G? But there was an
open container of coffee (or some black liquid) as well. Was it just
a case of English cuisine as catered to the Shepperton Studios?

That's real incentive to keep me on the ground...

Dave 'mash w/o the bangers'