iPad - now with wings!

[innerSpaceman]

While I'd like to have one for a cool portable, I'm gonna wait for version 3 or 4, and hope for more functionality.

This clip from Time's review says it all for me:

Originally Posted by Time

If I have a beef with the iPad, it's that while it's a lovely device for consuming content, it doesn't do much to facilitate its creation. The computer is the greatest all-purpose creativity tool since the pen. It put a music studio, a movie studio, a darkroom and a publishing house on everybody's desk. The iPad shifts the empahsis from creating content to merely absorbing and manipulating it. It mutes you, turns you back in to a passive consumer of other people masterpieces. It that sense, it's a step backward.

I have to agree - with the proviso that I don't do much "creating" when I'm out and about - and the iPad is perfect for portability. But I also do very little media consumption while I'm out and about, so my iPhone is perfect and can't be beat - since it fits in my pocket and the iPad does not.

I suppose it would be a great way to watch movies in the bathroom. It's likely nifty for sharing photos at a party or something. Primarily though, I could see it for media on a long journey, or at home - where I already have 3 or 4 perfectly fine media displays - - - in every room except the bathroom. It's not worth $800 for me to fill that niche.


But I would like a portable computer ... and have resisted netbooks and such for being too bulky. So iPad version 3 or 4 might tempt me, depending on how things shake out.