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Apple reveals latest gadget: the iPad
27/01/2010 1:16:07 PM
CTV.ca News Staff
Apple unveiled its iPad Wednesday, the company’s hottest new gadget <span style="font-weight: bold">that it describes as a cross between a laptop and a smartphone</span>.
The company was hosting an invitation-only event in San Francisco that began at 1 p.m. ET to launch its new innovations for 2010.
Prior to the announcement, speculation had been rampant about what new products the company would try and foist on an already tech-saturated market.
That was until a book publishing CEO let it slip Tuesday that his company had been working with Apple on a tablet to be based on the iPhone operating system.
The blogosphere had been in agreement that the tablet would likely allow users to play music and video games, read books and watch movies. But others speculated it would also have professional applications and could serve, for example, <span style="font-weight: bold">as a place for health-care professionals to store patient records or as a teaching aid in the classroom. </span>
“It’s just been hysterical. The hype on this is greater than any Apple product, any gadget that’s ever been released before,” CTV tech expert Kris Abel told Canada AM Wednesday morning in an interview from San Francisco. “Everybody’s got their own little theories. Is it going to be a revolution in computing? Is it going to be a revolution in education or health?”
When Apple launched its iPod in 2001, it revolutionized the way people listen to music, and its iPhone launch in 2007 similarly changed the cellphone industry.
While a tablet from Apple will likely focus on web surfing, music and video games, it may also give Amazon.com’s electronic book reader, Kindle, a run for its money.
Wednesday’s unveiling, shrouded in so much secrecy, will reveal how well the company has stayed in touch with what its customers want, says BNN’s Michael Kane.
“I was talking to a technical analyst who said that this was the biggest debut of a tablet since Moses came down from the mountain with two tablets, and that’s without a touch screen,” Kane told Canada AM. “So this is a major unveiling for Apple.”
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27/01/2010 1:16:07 PM
CTV.ca News Staff
Apple unveiled its iPad Wednesday, the company’s hottest new gadget <span style="font-weight: bold">that it describes as a cross between a laptop and a smartphone</span>.
The company was hosting an invitation-only event in San Francisco that began at 1 p.m. ET to launch its new innovations for 2010.
Prior to the announcement, speculation had been rampant about what new products the company would try and foist on an already tech-saturated market.
That was until a book publishing CEO let it slip Tuesday that his company had been working with Apple on a tablet to be based on the iPhone operating system.
The blogosphere had been in agreement that the tablet would likely allow users to play music and video games, read books and watch movies. But others speculated it would also have professional applications and could serve, for example, <span style="font-weight: bold">as a place for health-care professionals to store patient records or as a teaching aid in the classroom. </span>
“It’s just been hysterical. The hype on this is greater than any Apple product, any gadget that’s ever been released before,” CTV tech expert Kris Abel told Canada AM Wednesday morning in an interview from San Francisco. “Everybody’s got their own little theories. Is it going to be a revolution in computing? Is it going to be a revolution in education or health?”
When Apple launched its iPod in 2001, it revolutionized the way people listen to music, and its iPhone launch in 2007 similarly changed the cellphone industry.
While a tablet from Apple will likely focus on web surfing, music and video games, it may also give Amazon.com’s electronic book reader, Kindle, a run for its money.
Wednesday’s unveiling, shrouded in so much secrecy, will reveal how well the company has stayed in touch with what its customers want, says BNN’s Michael Kane.
“I was talking to a technical analyst who said that this was the biggest debut of a tablet since Moses came down from the mountain with two tablets, and that’s without a touch screen,” Kane told Canada AM. “So this is a major unveiling for Apple.”
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