iPad - a comparison with previous technologies

The recent launching of Apple’s iPad has created quite a buzz around the tablet, not necessarily thanks to a range array of useful high-tech features implemented in it, but rather to a complete lack of innovations. Furthermore, Apple seems to have failed to deliver what most people expected, as evidentiated by the rhetorical comparison.

Assessing the capabilites of a tablet launched in the first quarter of 2010 in relation with those of a bare stone might seem like a bad joke; while the cavemen did not have much of a choice regarding connectivity characteristics or designs in trend, Steve Jobs most certainly disposed of the means necessary to create what would have most likely turned into an electronic best-seller of this year.

Instead, Apple turned out to be quite undecided as far as the iPad is concerned. For it cannot be qualified as a true ebook reader (more so with the rife competition in this particular area) since it does not have E-ink technology (electronic ink, the key to modern e-book readers), nor as competitive tablet in its own right, mainly due to its lack of USB connectivity and inability to multi-task.

Joking aside, the launching of a product as incomplete as the iPad only for showing off at the Consumer Electronics Show is an error on the part of Apple and only time will tell if it shall prove as costly as it is widely believed.