User Experiences and Opinions

Game changer – Scott Kelby says:

Just saw the apple keynote live blog. I’m very impressed. You can nit pick it (like people did the first iphone), but it’s a game changer.

Connecting the iPad to the Mac or PC – John Gruber says:

When you connect iPad to your Mac or PC, you get a file system mount point with “shared documents”, for interchange with iPad apps.

Speed – Daniel Eran Dilger writes:

It’s also unbelievably fast and smooth, making even the iPhone 3GS look a little slow. I witnessed the iPad cold boot within about fifteen seconds. However, you don’t need to wait for it to boot because it remains on in standby for days (Jobs said a month on a single charge).

John Gruber adds:

Lastly, there’s the fact that the iPad is using a new CPU designed and made by Apple itself: the Apple A4. This is a huge deal. I got about 20 blessed minutes of time using the iPad demo units Apple had at the event today, and if I had to sum up the device with one word, that word would be “fast”.

Will the iPad be great for self-publishers? – Scott Bourne opines:

If Apple opens up the iBook store to self-publishers, all the photographers who think their book should be published will have a chance to go out there and build an audience and sell a book. Imagine the pictures we might see that wouldn’t be profitable for a big book publishing company to publish, but may be very realistically self-published via the iBook store! Or perhaps we’ll find the next Photoshop guru! Just as podcasts democratized radio, the iBook store could democratize publishing.

Possibilities of using the iPad in an enterprise / corporate / office environment – Here’s nkhm’s “vision”:

Maybe I can try – the vision to be able to hold something in your hand that has a useful screen size which can easily be taken into meetings to make notes, to check email, to connect to a projector, to look up reference material and to have a working day battery life, while being light enough to be carried in your standard briefcase without having to lug around a second case for your laptop all day.

The vision to take a small device into any office and quickly pair with a blue tooth keyboard (and I suspect also a bluetooth enabled printer) to get some simple email typed, if the on screen keyboard isn’t to your taste.

The vision that all of this is costing only $10 more than a kindle DX, and costs less than a blackberry or iPhone on contract, so small companies can make savings and let their employees have cheap cell phones with cheap price plans, further saving costs.

Just the first few thoughts off the top of my head.

Accessories

Keyboard support – From Apple’s iPad design page:

There are lots of great accessories that have been specifically designed for iPad. The Keyboard Dock, for instance, is a dock with a full-size keyboard. There’s also a standalone Dock. And because iPad has built-in Bluetooth 2.1, it’ll work with an Apple Wireless Keyboard, too.

References

Miscellaneous

Download the keynote, “Apple Announces iPad – Magical & Revolutionary Device at an Unbelievable Price” for free at iTunes.

A photo of how Daringfireball.net looks like on the iPad.

It’s a shame the iPad doesn’t have an SD slot.