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We were charged a certain absence on the blog lately. I can not really say the opposite, and I shall explain later. But context or not, could not fail to react to us as the iPad, because good.

The iPad, the iPad, the iPad. How to tell? How to translate this feeling that has come to me for the keynote and the rise of superlatives in the mouth of Steve Jobs? I think the word that best sums up the feeling, “mouairf. Something like that. Not fascinated, not completely disappointed either. A feeling of “good but not top.

It is largely the fault of Apple, which – in my opinion – has been taken by surprise by the magnitude of buzz due to its strategy of silence. The marketing of the rumor, it is, it avoids the PR and advertising fee. But when it turns to hysteria is cons-productive. Clearly, the evening of January 27, the world was waiting for Steve Jobs announced that nothing less than a kind of permanent revolution, a Reinventing IT, Mobility and the notion of keyboard. Inevitably, when instead it was a big iPod Touch, it did fall a bit.

Immediately, however, has not escaped the instant transition from love to hatred that characterizes the violent passions. The object of veneration has become object of loathing. The same people who promised that Apple would have us reach a new stage in human evolution began to compile lists of endless gaps and why this thing would never work, not a chance, ultimately to serve the cutting board, and again, will damage the aluminum wire cutters, etc..

We also found it funny the same images iPad-bashing than those already used for the iPhone:

The worst is that after having found that I was disappointed, I thought the same thing. A pause. Before you think about it, two seconds. And in fact, beyond the obvious, I know why this thing disappoints me: no geek for a penny. And that is probably why he can walk.

Why IPAD does not seduce the geeks
As it stands, no question of my big fat geek means, buy an iPad, although this is less expensive than pre. Why? Well, for many reasons.

- Best browsing experience ever? Steve, you’re kidding. Already, because the Internet is a tool work as well as entertainment, which occupies a large part of my life. And when I go on the Internet, I need a Firefox with a dozen add-ons for tweeter, marking Bookmark, or kill the pubs have my aggregator. So many things that Safari does not.

Then, because I mainly watch movies and series streaming, then Flash, and that the iPad not read Flash. And then because I can not stand not being able to have something else running at the same time as my browser and my music, and that the iPad is not multitasking. And I do not even speak to download (it’s bad).

In short, the “power user” connected to the Internet 18 hours a day and whose sociability through Facebook, Twitter and four or five other networks more or less social, the iPad is bof.

Better than the Wii: there you really arm muscles. The thing also applies to the gamer: While the iPhone is a real mobile gaming platform, you can almost compare to a DS. At best, since he is really in a pocket. But, as explained very well Mr Lam, I do not see myself shaking in every sense a widget too heavy and large as a big book. Especially at this price, I can pay an XBox.

- The iPad reinvents the writer’s cramp. To convict, the newspaper, the scribbler, the blogger, same. It was also enough to say that flies above: the touchscreen keyboard, even with both hands, it sucks, uncomfortable, just go to a good email address from time to time. And having to lug a physical keyboard combo + $ 60 charger for use Bouzin effectively makes him instantly lose 80% of its value as an object moving. As for having to type flat, first it is not possible more than 15 minutes without having back pain, other back profile of the object does not allow it to be stable once established. The adaptation of iWork is admittedly rather beautiful, but she makes a little gadget: frankly, when you have a presentation or table to make the best of you still sit on a desk facing a real keyboard and a big screen with a mouse in hand.

The iGhetto Blaster and e-reader makes astigmatic. Oh, I forgot the music. Because there is nothing to do. I’m not going to lug a backpack to listen to songs, even less if I have an iPhone. And if it’s my home, I have a Mac, thank you. For books, there is personal, but I never saw the benefit of an e-reader. Or at least a situation where I prefer a good old book paper. And then again it has been said everywhere, if the Kindle is innovative because it operates with an electronic ink that prevents the backlight. And that’s what makes backlight that has trouble reading the screen. So the iPad is a reader of magazines before an e-reader. And I’m a geek, I read virtually no press on paper, I go to sites such magazines and it suits me.

- Also open and scalable than the USSR. Last thing, which makes the object completely a-geekesque: it is closed, locked, limited. See a movie? Either you buy it on iTunes at 10 €, or you spend 30 minutes to convert your DivX (acquired honestly, clearly, for example Ripanti yourself duly bought a DVD) into a readable format.

We will reply that the application will address these gaps, we found great program, new features. Certainly. Apple will allow those already, which might limit. We’ll also tell me that the iPad will be jailbroken, you will be able to run other things. True, but if I hack, I take a netbook with Linux, it works as well (and it seems that above, we can run multiple programs …)

In summary, then, unless a serious fix in terms of operating system and device, the iPad not interested at this time. I do not see the point.

It is where science fiction in there?

A test never fails: When I saw the video presentation of the iPhone, I almost got chills and I immediately thought “Ok, I want”. The iPhone was the ultimate geek subject, the “persoc” science fiction, capable of almost everything, without the assistance of another trick that his fingers on a screen.

Unable to see databloc StarWars capable of toting large amounts of data and process them easily: 64 gigas unfortunate, not really enough to make a storage medium. And this is not the e-reader like magic “Daily Prophet” Harry Potter with moving images too big, too heavy, too rigid.

In short, to put it simply, the iPad does not make me dream and nothing like that, kid, I imagined having such technology in 2010. And when I saw the video presentation, I did not say “I do” but rather “it is not possible, he misses a trick, they have not said everything.”

Besides, it’s fun to see that some refer to this hypothesis: the tablet is out too early and incomplete pending a major update. I confess to believing medium. Oh, there will be an iPad 2 with a camera and some duties forgotten, but the product will remain broadly unchanged.

And this may be where we were all planted. The revolution promised by Steve is perhaps not in the camera, but in practice it leads. Or gives up to date.

Apple invented the device for old people

Well, yes. Take my mom. Since last summer, on the advice of his two children become macophiles, she began to Mac and she is very satisfied: no windows appear asking for weird stuff, no fuss no device compatible, or blue screens.

My mom, she goes on the Internet twice a week for hours watching a movie or train, and it was enough. It has bought an iPhone after seeing mine and she is very happy, even if it has never set foot on the App Store: it’s pretty easy to use and can even display a map when it lost drive. What else to ask?

Well my mom, I am sure that if I showed him the tablet, that it will be fine. It’s simple to use with large buttons, one wants to write or read an email mail is pressed, we want the music is pressed on music, etc.. My mom does not watch Divx, she also knows what it is exactly, she does not blog, Facebook profile or it does not play video games. It has a computer because she has no choice professionally, but if he proposed a machine that does what his computer easier and not too expensive, that it would go equally well.

So if the shelf meets an audience, I think it will probably not one found on Twitter or blogs on high-tech, but rather that of “casual”, with enough sub for s’ give this thing without asking anything but the features it has. I can crash, Apple has been lying a lot of other predictions before. We’ll see.

There is still another question, more troubling, that raises the shelf. Is that of standardization. The return of the closed system owner. The iPhone was already a revival of coercion: it works only if you install iTunes and have forwarded his credit card number. This has advantages: the App Store is an ecosystem alive because apps are paying (usually) are living and studios, but mostly because everything goes through Apple, which guarantees a certain quality, the price of a completely arbitrary. The Shelf extends this principle, by gathering all the content offering from Apple, music, podcasts, movies and games, and increases with electronic books and magazines.

To sell iPhone, iPad or tomorrow, we must pass by the SDK Apple, accept the law of Apple’s restrictions on content or usability. And the possibility of being censored without recourse. Outside the App Store, not iTunes, not hello. Apple, rare cases of success in selling paid content via Internet, with its shelf pushes this logic to the maximum and distributor located in a monopolistic market captive devices.

If one equates the return distribution of paid content (which delighted the press, of course) with increasing attempts to control the web, One ends up wondering if in some years it does not recount with nostalgia to our children how we saw the beginnings of the Internet, where it was almost what we wanted and everything was free and open.