As I stated earlier, I won’t be buying an iPad this spring. That is still on.
Don’t get me wrong, though. I think the iPad is a majestic piece of hardware and I’m absolutely sure easy-to-use tablets will be, as common as iPods in years to come.
But; I don’t think the iPad is quite done, yet.
When you think about it, the first iPod wasn’t really done either, when it was revealed in 2001. (Compared to where the iPod landed a few generations later.) It was a brilliant upgrade from all other portable MP3 players, of course, but it was still 0,80 inches thick and noisy.
With the iPhone it was different. The second you held it in palm of your hand, you instantly knew you had to have one. It was just perfect.
I didn’t buy the iPod until a few generations in and I think the story will repeat itself, for me, with the iPad.
I bought the iPhone straight away. And I’m still using it today, actually - years after. That’s how good it really was. (Sure it lacks GPS and it’s ridiculously slow on 3.0, but it still does a pretty good job - all things considered.)
UPDATE:
Twitter is full of iPad 2nd gen. rumors today. Some of them are quite interesting:
@iCreateMagazine
iPad shipping with camera? http://twurl.nl/us22oa
@flyosity
My guess: OS 4.0 has multitasking but Apple couldn’t finish in time for iPad debut so they ripped parts out & called it 3.2.
