Pffft (Or the sound of the iPad launch)
Ξ January 28th, 2010 | → 0 Comments | ∇ Life, Review, iPod |
My oh my, I wish I could have been at the post-launch party of the iPad. It must have been like attending a wedding reception where the bride has been jilted at the altar; “You look absolutely lovely darling. So where are you going on your hon ……. ah …… ummmm …… errrr ….. more tea vicar?”
In fact, Stevo’s speech must have been just as good. I imagine it to have been a little like the opening scene of The Party – with Peter Sellers.
After all the hype and speculation, Apple have launched ……….. a big iPod Touch. Absolutely inspired! No multi-tasking, no video-conferencing, no 3G (unless you pay extra), no physical keyboard (unless you pay extra). All that, and a hefty price-tag for a staggering 16Gig of storage. It’s got a ten-inch screen – which doesn’t fold. So, if you’d like to try the experience of an iPad and only spend twenty quid doing it, visit your local home store, buy a twelve-inch mirror, chuck it in your back-pack and see how long it lasts.
Even the normally vociferous fan-bois are strangely mute – and that must be saying something.
Maybe I was being naive, but I was looking forward to a true road-warrior piece of kit. All I can do on my Touch, with web-cam chatting, multi-tasking, 3G/Wifi – always connected and proper MS Office integration. I could have lived without the keyboard, and I would have gladly paid the Apple premium for the product. I mean, how hard can it be?
We’ve had the Nokia N97 (close, but no cigar), the Nokia N900 (a “computer” with some phone functionality), Sony Ericsson’s latest attempts (piss-poor OS and battery life). Someone, somewhere out there must be able to produce this “Netbook killer”.
We got our youngest a Netbook for Christmas; OK, it’s got Windows XP home on it at the moment, but it multi-tasks, runs flash in the browser (and any other plugin you’d like), has Office 2007, integrated web-cam, key board that even my lumbering fingers can use, folds in half to protect it when not in use, has a five-hour battery life and only cost two-hundred quid.
There’s a football (soccer to you Americans) chant, the second line of which is “and you know you are”, and this – sadly – applies to Stevo here. Yes, I know that Apple have a reputation of launching a hobbled product and then “upgrading” it a year later to what it should have been in the first place (iPhone. I’m looking at you), but even the most die-hard fan-boi would struggle to justify this one. With previous products, when whipped out in public we derided them but secretly yearned for one. With this baby though, it will just be “Oh. You’re one of the dicks who lobbed out for a big iPod Touch”.
This could go on – and is all over the internet – but I have to go. I’ve got some fan-bois to bait.
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