Thoughts on the iPad

[talktooloose]

Having watched the ads for the iPad, I realize that I don't want it the way Apple envisions it. Most of the content I get from the web, I get free. The iPad ads promises access to THREE STORES! for buying content.

If it's just such a doorway to commerce, I'm not interested.

That being said, I'm pretty sure the hands on approach represents the future of computer use and I'm enormously excited watching the machine at work.

Today it occurred to me that I could potentially (given the right app) be able to use an iPad to read the gigabytes of .cbr and .cbz files I have. I don't read these because I hate reading comic books on a computer. I'm pretty sure I would love it on an iPad, though.

So, we'll wait and see... I own a LOT of comic book content in those formats, and so the iPad might indeed bring me a lot of enjoyment...

Comments

[lux-apollo.livejournal.com]

That is a good use, yes.

I saw the announcement and thought to myself 'More better-than-Star Trek-tech that I can't afford. Oh well...'

[talktooloose.livejournal.com]

It's extremely worrying that I'm even thinking about it. Good god. Still... all those CBRs and I just don't read them because I hate reading comics like that.

It's the hands-on rescaling that blows my mind the most.