Apple Launches iPad.

You know it’s bad when the salesman has to visualize his product for you. He sat on a couch and demonstrated right? Wow, so let’s recap:

iPad runs almost all of the over 140,000 apps on the App Store, including apps already purchased for your iPhone® or iPod touch®.

The iTunes® Store gives you access to the world’s most popular online music, TV and movie store with a catalog of over 11 million songs, over 50,000 TV episodes and over 8,000 films including over 2,000 in stunning high definition video.

Apple also announced the new iBooks app for iPad, which includes Apple’s new iBookstore, the best way to browse, buy and read books on a mobile device. The iBookstore will feature books from major and independent publishers.

It’s the specially made CPU processor worries me. Having a incredible deadline and momentous pressure to do what no one else has done spells consumer disaster, imho. Don’t get me wrong, 1 GHZ speed has become the standard for low power mobile devices and the iPad falls right in place with that. Bigger than a netbook but smaller than a laptop. I get it Steve, I really do.

But (… wait for it) can I squeeze it into my non-consumer life? I don’t pay for much and the iPad is made for purchasing things. Applications, games, music, videos and now ebooks/papers. Everything I need is free but not available for this new fangled device: Youtube.com? Nope, no flash support. Hulu.com? Nope, no flash support!  My son’s visits to cartoon network? No! No Flash support!!!

How about my girls’ visits to Disney‘s Tinkerbell site … Oh I get it.

If I have to buy an app to substitute for what I can do freely on the internet, I don’t want it. Who would? Do I like capacitive Multi-Touch screens? Of Course! But what’s the use if I’m broke and can’t afford the software I can get at no charge if open sourced or ad supported? Can I jailbreak the iPad?

I would have to be an idiot to buy a computer that only does one thing at a time. This is 2010 right? Windows 3.1 handled that nearly 20 years ago. Why would I want to purchase a device that doesn’t multitask? No wonder the battery can last almost ten hours, it either surfs the net or plays music, not both.

As if that were not enough of a punch to the gut, we have to deal with AT&T, again?

What do we have to do to get away from these blind mice leading us into dark holes of bad reception? One person asked me why can they use their 3Gs iPhone underground at train stations but not in their home or where they need to make a call? Guess they aren’t getting this device because if they prepped all of their work on this device only for it to fizzle come presentation.

…ouch.