iPad - iPod touch's bigger brother

iPad - iPod touch's bigger brother, originally uploaded by Ben30.

There is a whole blue sky when it comes Apple designed products and it's competitors. Apple leads, others follow. They know how to make seductive devices. I love my iphone, I love my macbook pro, but with the iPod, I'm hesitant.

When I pick up the iPad, I know I'll be instantly seduced by it, but I want to resist. I don't want to be obsessively waiting and wanting this device.

I like producing things, I like tinkering, but I have a finite amount of time to do that. If I'm consuming, then I'm not producing. This is the ultimate consumer device. Owning it will help me passively use up available time purchasing and consuming media, leaving me no time to produce.

The iPad, is a computer completely locked down, everything that comes and goes through this device is controlled by Apple. I want to play, i want to tinker, this isn't the device to enable me to do that. I'd rather own a small macbook. I know the same argument can be said for the iPhone, but I accept that, because with a phone I don't want to tinker, I want it to be reliable and I want it to work.

People say that this is just a large iPhone or iPod touch, there is a noticeable difference though, the iphone can be operated via a single hand, the iPad can not. I love my iPhone, I don't want to start carrying two similar devices. I want my iPhone to expand into the space that this device is trying to fill.

The iPad supports a blue-tooth keyboard, something that the iPhone is currently lacking, I hope they add that with a software update.

Each July Apple announces new iPhones. In terms of market share, Apple considers the iPad as secondary to iPhone. I suspect that come July, iPhone will up it's game. I'm happy to wait. I want my iPhone to be better, I don't want an iPad.