As they do with the iPhone, which (unsubsidized) is in that ballpark too, with the difference that you can use the iPhone to talk to people.
The iPad starts to open the door to creating; it evidently has a file system (at least a folder) that can be accessed when it is docked, so things you type or draw can be moved to a more conventional environment without using iTunes. It has provisions for a physical keyboard, which means long form writing becomes possible.
There is a microphone, although nothing I've found so far confirms that the headphone socket is the usual 4 conductor earbud/microphone/control button affair that everything else uses these days.
But yes, it doesn't seem designed for creation. For example, in my own field, so far, no programs have appeared in the iPhone (and hence iPad) app store that allow a programmer to write scripts or programs and run them on the devices themselves. I can only assume that some have been written, but were rejected by the committee that approves things for the App Store.
On the other hand, this is a version 1.0. The iPod Touch didn't officially get sound recording capability before version 2.0. It will be interesting to see if OS revisions make the earlier pocket sized iDevices compatible with the keyboard.
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Date: 2010-01-29 05:08 pm (UTC)The iPad starts to open the door to creating; it evidently has a file system (at least a folder) that can be accessed when it is docked, so things you type or draw can be moved to a more conventional environment without using iTunes. It has provisions for a physical keyboard, which means long form writing becomes possible.
There is a microphone, although nothing I've found so far confirms that the headphone socket is the usual 4 conductor earbud/microphone/control button affair that everything else uses these days.
But yes, it doesn't seem designed for creation. For example, in my own field, so far, no programs have appeared in the iPhone (and hence iPad) app store that allow a programmer to write scripts or programs and run them on the devices themselves. I can only assume that some have been written, but were rejected by the committee that approves things for the App Store.
On the other hand, this is a version 1.0. The iPod Touch didn't officially get sound recording capability before version 2.0. It will be interesting to see if OS revisions make the earlier pocket sized iDevices compatible with the keyboard.