The iPad App Store is open! Here are the best of the apps so far-the ones you'll actually want … (Read about apps from other news outlets in our roundup here.) Gizmodo's Essential iPad Apps
There's great stuff on the device from day one: Netflix streaming, free episodes of Lost, a greatly improved version of the popular iPhone game Flight Control, an MLB baseball videogame, BBC News and, yes, the New York Times and Wall Street Journal. The apps are already awesome: Check out Gizmodo's roundup of the essential iPad apps. The entire reception came to a momentary amid a mob ooh-ing and ahhh-ing over a the mobile device and jostling for a demo - a mob that included the bride. And we can hardly blame them: Valleywag still remembers being upstaged by the iPhone at his own wedding, which happened to take place on the device's 2007 launch date. Just watch this video of two New York Times reporters and their loaner unit ostensibly about the future of media, the segment quickly degenerates into a thinly-veiled of tug of war over the iPad prototyped, the two involved journalists reduced to jealous fanboys. Can you really afford not to buy one? (Probably not.)įirst-adopter cachet: Whether the iPad ends up changing the world or not, there's no denying it's a damn sexy physical object. By that standard the $500 iPad is practically free.
Just check out this amazing chart at the UK website VoucherCodes: The first portable Mac cost $11,000 in 2010 currency, the first Newtom over $1,000 and the first PowerBook laptop over $3,600. But it's one of the cheapest Apple product launches ever, if you adjust for inflation. And there's not point in getting too brainy when it comes to Apple products, since both foes and fans alike end up judging them as much with their emotions as with their intellect.īecause $500 is cheap: Sure, $500 could buy you dinner at Jean George, 10 meals in slightly less posh restaurants, 20 drinking sessions at your local pub or the better part of a month's unemployment benefits. Otherwise you'll be right back where you started: mentally flummoxed. If you must read both the pros and cons of the iPad, at least try and forget either the good or the bad. If you're truly on the fence about buying an iPad, though, it's best to read just one of the below lists, which we've helpfully segregated from one another. If all the noise around today's iPad debut leaves you baffled, fear not: We've oscillated between giddy excitement and jaded cynicism ourselves, and can offer this handy list of reasons to embrace - or diss - the Apple tablet computer.