Last Wednesday’s keynote announced the Apple iPad, and it produced a colossal wave of feedback in the digital (and even analog) worlds.
The Minnov8 gang dedicated their whole weekly podcast to this new gadget, and the reaction there was largely positive. I believe it was Phil Wilson who suggested that, even if version one of the IPad lacks certain much-wanted features, the device still stands to be a game-changer over the next several years.
In the geek gadget community, reaction leaned negative. Engadget and Gizmodo focused on what the iPad doesn’t have and doesn’t do. Still, I noticed that the gadget hound sites, which were blasting insults full-force on Wednesday and Thursday, are quickly walking back, making certain that search results going forward show summaries that are more wait-and-see than the earlier point-and-laugh. Why are they doing this? Look no further than a brief, Slashdot review from 2001 of the iPod, in which Apple’s then-new mp3 player was dismissed as “lame.” Ooh. That stings.
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