Quick Thoughts on Apple’s New iPad

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1. Beautiful hardware, as always.
2. GUI looks awkward. To have the same icon sizes as the iPhone but on a much bigger screen just looks proportionately wrong. Maybe this takes getting used to.
3. Why are 3G models an extra $130? That makes no sense to me… a 3G chip costs a few bucks at most. It’s also not like that price tag INCLUDES the cost of the 3G data plan, which has to be paid for on top. Way to bilk the non-educated consumer class.
4. Magazines? Newspapers? (NOT just NYT) There’s a lot more to the print world that Apple could come to dominate besides just plain ol’ books
5. What’s the point of the more powerful custom built A4 processor without multi tasking? It is just wasteful and downright silly being able to ONLY run a Facebook app in the middle by itself. Being billed as a multimedia machine, it’d be nice to play music in the background or something while reading an ebook. Too many scenarios.
6. STILL no flash support? It was stupid of Jobs to demo time.com and disappoint everyone by showing flash still wasn’t supported.
7. Google Reader (and RSS readers in general) on the iPad has the potential to be great. I envision an endless scrolling magazine style layout for all your feeds. That, a cup of hot green tea with a dash of honey, and a warm bed sound pretty much perfect.
8. iPad over a netbook anyday though. Here’s to hoping this is the death knell of the netbook, which I absolutely abhor. (I give it points for being more hackable than the iPad though)

Thoughts?