Ipad- The Battle of Writing Review

OK, if I were to talk about Ipad which even only after 4 days since its unveiling by the legendary Steve Jobs, I would be the last person to do so, because almost everybody would have talked and reviewed and even criticize(albeit rarely) it.

So what am I to talk about anyway? All I can say is that I am late. And in this world where where things fly like the speed of light, you can only balk at the loser you are for this.

All I can say is that smartphones are just overrated, yes I am talking about smartphones instead; who wants to own a small handheld to read emails, surf the net, and prepare a powerpoint presentation? Even updating facebook is just a fad which will end anytime soon; look at how people begin to get frustrated with updating the twitter, even celebrities are quitting twitter, one popular friend I know who used to update his Facebook and Twitter almost every other hour now has gone total MIA. The only thing I can think of using the smartphone is to read the stock price movement of my choice.

Now the solution to the absurdity of a smartphone is Ipad. I love it, it could be my personal journal, and my personal assistant that I can easily scrawl my mind and work a presentation. It's the combination of smartphone and netbook. Having a battery lasting a month is definitely a great attribute coming from it.

Aside from the overusing of the letter "i", stretching the imagination with iPad this time (elicited chuckles among the fantasizing ladies, and some guys) I think the key learning points from here is, do we really need Steve Jobs to get a market going? Haven't we done the Tablet PC long time before?

Or is it circumstantial? That now is the better time to launch a touchscreen gadget of any size than before, that Steve Jobs launch it at the right time, that he's just lucky? Just like James Cameron waiting for the right time to direct Avatar although like what he told us, he's been writing Avatar since the 80's?