1. iPad: A Tablet
Computer

2. The iPad is touch screen tablet computer
meant for consumers who want to carry
with them their movies, TV shows,
music, games and reading material when
they are on the move or around the
house.
This device designed and marketed by
Apple, intend for Internet browsing,
media consumption, gaming and light
content creation.

3. Unlike other tablets, this gadget allows
you to use your fingertips for input
instead of a stylus and bridges the gap
between a smartphone and a laptop.
Similar to iPod Touch and iPhone, the
iPad runs the iPhone OS and uses a
multitouch LCD for user interactions.

4. Apart from running iPad specific
applications, it also runs applications
written for the iphone and iPad touch as
well as ebook readers.
Using WiFi or Wireless WAN you can
browse the Internet, load and stream
media and install software in the iPad.

5. But is Apple’s iPad the real “third device”
that fills the gap between a smartphone
and laptop. Steve Jobs, the CEO of
Apple, argued it; such a gadget would
need to be better than a laptop or a
smartphone at email, videos, music,
photos, games and ebooks to justify its
presence.
It found that the cheap iPad is better at
these things, but the device is bigger and
fundamentally, much improvement was
not there.

6. When the iPad launched, it was
innovative enough and familiar for people
to accept it. Apple marketed this
perfectly crafted device to guide people
into a new media way of life and wean
them away from old media ways, which
still work and is cost wise more
attractive.
 If you are a paper lover, it will entice
you by installing your reading library in
the device, so that you can carry your
reading materials like your music.

7. As a gadget, iPad operates very fast. The
browser pages open instantly with
command. Swipes transition happens
exactly when they should.
Compared to the iPhone, this device does
things on a grand scale and unlocks
immediately to present you with icons to
get to your destination in a snap.

8. Migrating from the iPhone to the iPad is
seamless.
Though all these things were as
expected, for the iPad to be the future of
media, it will have to be a friendly
reading device and it will take some time
to get a feel for that.

9. The other determining factor is the cost
of the media itself. We know what
movies, TV shows, books and music cost;
but we do not know what the newspaper
and magazine publishers will be
assuming the market will bear.
As a first periodical on the iPad, TIME
magazine is asking USD 5.00, same as
the newsstand price, without offering a
subscription.

10. The Wall Street Journal is charging USD
18.00 a month more than the paper and
for the current bundle of newspaper and
digital offerings.
It is expected that ebooks should be
cheaper than their printed counterparts.
Therefore, it is difficult to say whether it
can be a sustainable model.
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