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Apple's touchscreen iPad tablet computer will go on sale on 3 April in the US, but no specific date – beyond "late April" – has been given for its release in the UK and other international locations.

The company declined to set either the selling price for its models abroad, or to name any of the mobile network companies that will be providing connectivity for the more expensive iPad systems, which have 3G data sims built in.

US customers will be able to pre-order the iPad, which Steve Jobs described as a "magical and revolutionary product", from Friday 12 March, either online or in Apple's retail stores.

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The Guardian

So, will anyone actually be buying one of these?

I'm very tempted, but I might wait until the 2nd gen version so all the niggles are sorted.

As a designer, who hates apple's business policies, I am more interested in Microsoft's Courier

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/micr ... es-and-de/

Since that device isn't necessarily going to exist, that might be a dumb thing to say

edit: *wipes egg from face*

Interesting and though prevoking article ...

Why iPad is the 'Children's Toy of the Year'

Have you ever seen a 4-year-old play with an iPhone? It's actually kind of shocking. Kids take to the iPhone's multi-touch user interface like they do trucks or dolls. They instinctively know that the iPhone is a toy, and they nag, cajole and harass their parents into letting them play with it.

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Computerworld

DVB Cornwall wrote:Interesting and though prevoking article ...

Why iPad is the 'Children's Toy of the Year'

Have you ever seen a 4-year-old play with an iPhone? It's actually kind of shocking. Kids take to the iPhone's multi-touch user interface like they do trucks or dolls. They instinctively know that the iPhone is a toy, and they nag, cajole and harass their parents into letting them play with it.

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Computerworld

I find it neither interesting nor thought provoking. Children (not kids) have been fascinated with adult hardware (if you'll pardon the expression) for donkeys years. In my case it was my dad's hi-fi and keyboards, which set me on the route I am now. It stands to reason that children adapt to the touch interface quicker because they've not had several previous generations of mobile phones to occlude their natural learning process. This Mike Elgan (whoever he is) is writing a fairly polemicist-styled article (notice how there are no arguments to the contrary to whatever point he's making) for a nondescript computer website. I think he's doing a classic DailyMail - looking at a tiny number of examples and deciding it represents the majority. I, as an adult, barely get to have a go on an iPhone when someone has one in my company. To decide because of a few YouTube videos that every parent across planet Earth is letting their child have unfettered play with it is, well, daft.

martindtanderson wrote:As a designer, who hates apple's business policies, I am more interested in Microsoft's Courier

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/micr ... es-and-de/

As a designer, are you upset to hear that they're not going to ever make the courier?

Sput wrote:

martindtanderson wrote:As a designer, who hates apple's business policies, I am more interested in Microsoft's Courier

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/05/micr ... es-and-de/

As a designer, are you upset to hear that they're not going to ever make the courier?

Don't get me started, this news has pissed me off!

Please do get started. After all, this is a discussion forum!

Jovis wrote:Please do get started. After all, this is a discussion forum!

Courier was going to be my dream tablet device. A digital sketchbook, with nice ways of aggregating content from camera, and the web, with sketches and designs, all in a book sized device.

The UI for the iPad is shite...
Apple is an evil company...
No pen or handwriting input with the iPad...

This could have been a great revolutionising product, and now its just abandoned, and its probably all linked into HP dropping their tablet device, and buying Palm and their WebOS.