When Dan brought the iPad into work the other day, I sighed a little. After watching Steve showcase their new product on the news a little while ago I was skeptical that it was anything more than an in between device, they haven’t had enough time to design something new so they’ll take the iPod (or iPhone in this case) and “customise” it a little (much like Microsoft with their promise to release a new OS every 3 years).

After giving it a little test run this morning, I must say it does feel a lot like an over sized iPhone. But this isn’t necessarily a bad thing, while it will never replace a desktop (or even a notebook pc for that matter) after using it for a while I came to realise, it was never intended to. While I don’t think it will be anywhere near as successful as the iPhones (apps and the likes are what made the iPhone work so well and they were mobile) some people might find some features very useful.

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No time for a full review but I’ve had the iPad for 1 day now (courtesy of 1saleaday.com.au – thanks guys) so I thought I’d post some quick observations in case I never get to do a full review.

The good things

• The screen is incredible. Websites (especially the Apple site) look really good.The iPad is small but using full websites as opposed to cut down iPhone aps is not an issue because of the quality of the screen.
• I downloaded Kindle and started reading a book on Marketing this morning at the cafe. I can see it being really useful for this – particularly when Apple releases the iBook store in Aus but till then Kindle seems really good (I just downloaded a free trial of the book).

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