Apple's January 27, 2010 Media Event Discussion Thread (1 Viewer)

[Nelson Au]

Excellent, the Painter app is a good sign of other art apps that will come for the iPad. Sorry Ron, I do design for a living and I draw and sketch electronically now, so if this can work like the Modbook and Wacom digitizer tablets does, then it could be another reason for me to try one!

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Hey, I'll take that as a recommendation from the
experts. My apologies for the initial response.

 

[Sam Posten]

Apple just ate Kindle, welcome iBooks! Wow it looks like Delicious Library

 

[Nelson Au]

I'm no expert, I don't have an iPhone(!) (Hard to believe and I'm a super Mac guy!) so I have very little direct experience with that app, though I've tried it on iPhones that my friends have. But if it looks to work as good as the examples being shown, I'm a little excited that it could be a useful tool.

 

[DaveF]

Bookreader stuff.

Show me full-color magazine subscriptions that I can share with my wife across multiple devices and I'm interested.

 

[Sam Posten]

Woah they are launching with iWork for iPad, they are serious about content creation not just consumption!

 

[DavidJ]

Originally Posted by Sam Posten

Apple just ate Kindle, welcome iBooks! Wow it looks like Delicious Library

Yes, it does.

 

[DaveF]

But, how about iWork? There’s iWork for the iPad.

Boo-ya! I'm killing on my predictions!

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Amazing that this could be used for word processing
and keynote presentations.

I suppose the keypad can be used as well as one on
a regular laptop.

 

[Sam Posten]

I'm not sold on virtual landscape keyboard. I'm betting with iWork they are going to press for multitouch use but also allow bluetooth connectivity.

 

[Nelson Au]

Okay, how much?

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Nelson, probably another hour before we find out.

These demos usually go on forever.

(Only kidding about the hour, tho)

 

[Ronald Epstein]

$30 fo iWork complete is a nice price.

 

[Nelson Au]

For sure, Ron!

 

[Sam Posten]

$9.99 each for the iWork trio, not bad compared to full versions...

 

[Sam Posten]

3G told ya!!!!

 

[Ronald Epstein]

Hopefully Steve is going to sum all this up now.

(and will there be iPhone news?)

 

[Sam Posten]

WOW $15 a month for 250MB or $29 a month for unlimited 3G DONT BUY the 250 lol

 

[Ronald Epstein]

$15 per month for 250MB data or $30 for unlimited 3G data.

Not especially bad.

 

[Ronald Epstein]

...and no contract.

WAY TO GO!