The Pelican’s Perch

Did everyone get a good look at Apple’s new IPad?  It’s fancy sure, and should be amazing for watching HD movies on, but really?  A giant IPod Touch?  It should all depend on the apps that are released whether this does become a revolutionary device and replace laptops, but in my opinion, and apparantely most tech-savvy people’s opinions, it won’t be revolutionary, and definitely won’t replace laptops.  No multi-tasking means you can jump from one program to the next like on a laptop, which is pretty ridiculous.  Huffington Post put it best, “Want to listen to Pandora while you edit your photos?  No such luck.”  No support for flash means no way to watch Hulu or even go to flash based sites like ESPN.  There’s no camera, but you can just pull out your Iphone when you need to take a picture I guess.

Playing CD’s and DVD’s?  No cd or dvd drive, so that’s a big no.  From what I’ve gathered, and I’m no one to talk to about technology by the way, so take all my rambling with a grain of salt, it seems they’ll need to change and add a lot before the Ipad makes any serious waves like the Iphone did.  Of course, Apple is undoubtedly targeting the average consumer who could care less about all the missing laptop features and want to be seen with the next coolest Apple device.  In this case an Ipod Touch the size of your head.

Perch Verdict:
I think I’ll save my $500 until they come out with pants with really, really big pockets.  Anyone sense a JNCO comeback?

Frantic Steve Jobs Stays Up All Night Designing Apple Tablet

(Original article here)
CUPERTINO, CA—Claiming that he completely forgot about the much-hyped electronic device until the last minute, a frantic Steve Jobs reportedly stayed up all night Tuesday in a desperate effort to design Apple’s new tablet computer. “Come on, Steve, just think—think, dammit—you’re running out of time,” the exhausted CEO said as he glued nine separate iPhones to the back of a plastic cafeteria tray. “Okay, yeah, this will work. This will definitely work. Just need to write ‘tablet’ on this little strip of masking tape here and I’m golden. Oh, come on, you piece of shit! Just stick already!” Middle-of-the-night sources reported that Jobs then began work on double-spacing his Keynote presentation and increasing the font size to make it appear longer