What is iPad?
Source: apple.com
iPad is a tablet computer designed by Apple Incorporation, it mixed between iTouch and notebook/laptop because iPad is touch screen and have iTouch functional as well. iPad was announced in January 2010 by Apple’s CEO, Steve Jobs. Its starting price is $499 for 16GB and $599 for 32GB. iPad is a new form of multimodality which have more than one mode. Those modes are synchronized and may incorporate between moving images, music or sound and written language which are produced on paper or electronic screen (Walsh 2006). According to Arisel 2010, iPad is good combination of the most ordinary tasks and it is very suitable for young generation regarding to digital entertainment because iPad can play movies, music, photos, and observe the changes in social networks, read eBooks, and other million applications, games.
iPad has an application to read the books online which similar to other device called eBooks. The users just download the application and there are a lot of choices of books that offered.
For the users who have big fingers, iPad is suitable because the keypad is larger than iPhone and iTouch and it will make us type the mail easily.
iTunes is music player for Apple product. This iTunes has the exactly same fuction with all Apple products.
The user of iPad can also enjoy this application called Google map which has similar function with GPS.
iPad is suitable for businessman and businesswoman too, because iPad has application to make graphs or charts.
iPad has browser named Safary that allow the users to access and browsing any website.
With larger screen, watching movie is more convenient and we can bring it everywhere we want.
According to Mark Glasser (2010), iPad is expensive compare to other devices because other devices can do everything that iPad does, but it is cheaper than laptops/notebooks because iPad have feature similar with laptops so it depends on the consumers perspective and expectations. In screening sides, iPad’s screen is bigger than iTouch that is more convenient for users to read newspaper or watching movie and even playing games but it is quite heavy maybe because of the battery. There is a complaint from one user, Elaginn, he said that iPad has bigger size with very low memory which is 32 GB and without additional external memory, he is not satisfied with the memory because iPad has already used 2GB for operation system, 10GB for required software and he feels that the remaining 20GB is not enough for playing games, music, movies, etc.
References
Arisel, 2010, 'Apple iPad: Advantages and Disadvantages’, HubPages, viewed 7 June 2010.
http://hubpages.com/hub/Apple-iPad-Advantages-and-disadvantages
Elaginn, 2010, ‘Advantages and Disadvantages of iPad’, viewed at 7 June 2010.
http://quazen.com/shopping/consumer-electronics/advantages-and-disadvantages-of-ipad/
Glaser, M 2010, Glaser and Son Review the iPad’, Media Shift, viewed at 7 June 2010.
http://www.pbs.org/mediashift/2010/04/glaser-son-review-the-ipad098.html
Walsh, M 2006, ‘Textual Shift: Examining the Reading Process with Print, Visual and Multimodal Texts’, Australian Journal of Language and Literacy, vol. 29, no.1, p.24-37.
(Unisa Electronic Library)
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