6 Killer Apps For iPad
Sure, Apple’s iPad isn’t even out yet, but with the recent announcement that you’ll be able to pre-order your iPad in the US at the end of this week and it’ll be available on April 3rd, this seems like as good a time as any to point out a few apps (and their genres) that are going to make the iPad itself a killer app (app as in appliance). There’s a lot of speculation at this point about whether or not the iPad is going to be a success, but at this point, it almost seems like an absolutely lock thanks to the App Store at iTunes. While the iBookstore and App Store are going to be big reasons why the iPad cleans up in the e-reader market (never mind it’s a lot more than an e-reader), it’s important not to overlook one company that knows the device better than anyone else and also understands how people do work: Apple So, without further ado, let’s start the list of things you’ll be wanting for your Apple iPad.
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Penguin Reinventing Books Via iPad
This is something that, as a writer, has been on my mind for quite some time now. While Amazon’s Kindle is definitely a quality device, and as a book reader, very good, it does little more than actually present the equivalent of the print copy of a book. Yes, I’m well aware that you can buy books/magazines/blog content on the device, and I’m also well aware that it has a web browser on it, but let’s be honest: as cool as the Kindle is, it doesn’t have the horsepower or the display to do real multimedia content. The iPad, however, does. And Penguin, one of the big publishers, is looking to take advantage of that.
Microsoft Courier Tablet PC – Courier vs. Apple Tablet?
If you haven’t seen Microsoft’s Courier, the “secret” tablet they’ve been working on, then let’s start this by showing the video that’s been going around that has a mock-up of what it may look like to use the device:
Is the iPod Touch/iPhone the New Netbook?
If you caught the Apple “It’s Only Rock and Roll” event this week then you may have seen the following picture.
Photo courtesy Engadget
If you paid attention to what Phil Schiller was saying while he was on the stage, he was basically implying that the iPod Touch (and I think more so, the iPhone) is Apple’s answer to the netbook market. Sure, he didn’t come right out and say just that, but if you remember that Apple has said in the past that they have no interest in getting into the “nascent” netbook market, then this kind of makes sense as being their answer to it. The funny thing is that the answer has been there in front of us for over two years now.
So, this brings us to the question: is the iPod Touch/iPhone the new netbook?