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When I first got my iPhone, I had to charge the battery daily for a month because I just couldn't get over it. Now it lasts days and I use it more like a phone
by dpcan 16y ago
When I first got my iPhone, I had to charge the battery daily for a month because I just couldn't get over it.
Now it lasts days and I use it more like a phone and a casual gaming device while I'm bored.
Bloggers should no better. It's too early to make statements about the impact of the iPad on computing. Let's see where we are in 6 months.
I'm not saying it will go one way or the other, but I imagine the hype will double with the 3G, then in a year we'll start seeing true reviews of how the iPad is used. I'm personally holding out for 3G.
EDIT: Somehow I missed that 3G is available, so I give it 6 months :)
- ben1040 16y agoThis experience about mimics mine with the iPad. The first two weeks or so I couldn't put it down, and now it's just kind of something that I have on my coffee table. I still find it very useful - I can now just "hand a web page" to my wife, it's great for having around in the living room for random web surfing on the couch, and yes, reading the news or doing a crossword while having a beer on my back patio. I still can't type properly on the thing to save my life. I didn't realize just how awkward it is. I need to set it on a flat surface and type on it like a regular keyboard, and if I'm going to do that I'd prefer a laptop.
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoSame for the kindle. At first it's this completely super-cool thing and you wonder how you could live your life without it. Then it just becomes a piece of stuff that you have to carry around because it does a couple of things better than all the other stuff you already carry around.
- jodrellblank 16y agohttp://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/pix/cartoons/techno-bill.gif http://www.hackvan.com/pub/stig/pix/cartoons/techno-bill.gif Same for many things - books are completely super-cool until you've read them and they just sit on a bookshelf most of the time.
- blhack 16y agoJust want to say that my experience with my kindle is very much unlike this. The only thing that keeps me buying dead-tree books right now is the ability to bike over to Barnes and Noble and browse them, and my ability to keep a couple under the seat in my Jeep without fear of them being stolen. At first, I liked it, but it still just felt like an MP3 player for books...the first time I really "got it" was when I was walking my dog one morning. I usually bring a bag with my that has a couple of tools in it (mountain bike habits die hard, I guess), as well as my kindle. I decided to stop near the lake and let my dog rest a bit. My friend had recently recommend that I read "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep", and I was considering riding up to the store and buying it when I realized that I already had it...in my bag, all I had to do was pay for it. I booted the kindle, opened the kindle store, and was reading the book all in less than a minute. This is absolutely amazing to me because unlike my phone, or my laptop, or whatever other device I have that can read text, the kindle really really does feel like reading a book. It doesn't hurt by eyeballs, it doesn't get warm and feel strange in my hand, and the battery lasts for almost a month without charging. Nothing about my kindle feels like it's getting in my way...this is pretty much exactly the opposite of my experience with every piece of apple product I have ever used (save for the early ipods...can you still sync them with amarok and gtkpod?).
- Encosia 16y agoWould you willingly give up your iPhone for whatever you used before though? The neat factor definitely wears off these things, but their game-changing utility remains.