I just love my iPad, but I'm a total sucker for the latest apple products! :) Now that they've made everything accessible I think that there will be those of us who want the latest apple stuff, just like our sighted peers who are also apple fanatics. :) Does anyone really "need" an iPad? perhaps not, but it's certainly a neat tool, and I am enjoying several features that it offers encluding iBooks and word processing with iWork. Olivia On Apr 6, 2010, at 8:32 PM, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> It does seem like a fine deal. > But, what can you now do with an ipad that you could not do with any other > apple tool you already own? That is for those who own many. > Not being provocative, just wondering. > When I consider investing in a new technical tool it is because there is > something I wish to accomplish that I cannot presently with any tool I have. > Hence the question. > Karen > > On Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Scott Howell wrote: > >> And do you have evidence that Apple will "rape" you at the App Counter? I >> think offering the iWork suite for the iPad at $10 per app is a very fair >> price. I am not sure what developers will charge for their apps exactly, but >> I gather the prices will not be substantially different than what is charged >> for iPhone/iPod Touch apps. I think you have to put into perspective the >> cost of the apps for the iPad vs the cost of an app for a typical >> laptop/netbook/desktop machine. If all the apps for example offered on the >> iPad were of the same type you get on the iPhone now, but instead of $.99 >> or $1.99 the same app cost $25 or $30, then you would have made a very valid >> argument. >> Does this make sense? >> >> On Apr 6, 2010, at 3:58 PM, Cody wrote: >> >>> I enver said it was over priced. what I did say was even though the iPad is >>> inexpensive at $499, they plan to rape you at the app counter, so you'll >>> suffer the prices for the apps >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
