This past saturday, Apple launched their newest product, the iPad. This product is kind of like a larger version of the itouch but much more complex. It has over 3,000 apps available so far. Most of the apps are free but something are available for a low cost.
You can find digital magazines as an app, although most of them are still figuring out payment methods. For example, Men's Health is a free app in which you can review articles but has the ability to buy the whole magazine for a $5 fee per issue.
For music, there is a pandora app in which you can listen to music and read artist informaton but the negative is you can't multi task on the iPad so the user is unable to listen to pandora and do other activities.
There is a Marvel Comics app that has amazing large illustrations and moves you across the screen as if the comic is one continous strip.
Scrabble is available for $10.
For education purposes there is a app called "The Elements: A Visual Exploration" which costs $14 and is the periodic table. There is also Apples iBooks and Amazons Kindle which brings book digitally.
There are so many available applications for this iPad, which gives the user many options on what they want to do with it. I think the iPad looks like alot of fun and I would love to have one but I wouldnt have the time to play around with it.
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303411604575167932497910828.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
Mossberg, Walter. "For the IPad, Apps with Their Own WOW Factor." The Wall Street Journal. Online.
You can find digital magazines as an app, although most of them are still figuring out payment methods. For example, Men's Health is a free app in which you can review articles but has the ability to buy the whole magazine for a $5 fee per issue.
For music, there is a pandora app in which you can listen to music and read artist informaton but the negative is you can't multi task on the iPad so the user is unable to listen to pandora and do other activities.
There is a Marvel Comics app that has amazing large illustrations and moves you across the screen as if the comic is one continous strip.
Scrabble is available for $10.
For education purposes there is a app called "The Elements: A Visual Exploration" which costs $14 and is the periodic table. There is also Apples iBooks and Amazons Kindle which brings book digitally.
There are so many available applications for this iPad, which gives the user many options on what they want to do with it. I think the iPad looks like alot of fun and I would love to have one but I wouldnt have the time to play around with it.
Work Cited:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303411604575167932497910828.html?mod=WSJ_hp_mostpop_read
Mossberg, Walter. "For the IPad, Apps with Their Own WOW Factor." The Wall Street Journal. Online.
I think your right. I own an Apple iTouch and the iPad seems to just be a larger version, I don't know why people are going so crazy over it.
ReplyDeleteWith my iTouch, I can have plenty of apps, many of them free for games and all other sorts of things.
I do see though, how the Apple iPad is using itself to advetise for those companies willing to pay them to make an app. On my iTouch, I get little pop up adds when playing a game or something but not to the point that it's annoying. Advertisements on the iPad already seem annoying to me and I haven't even seen on in person... yet!
I think your right. I own an Apple iTouch and the iPad seems to just be a larger version, I don't know why people are going so crazy over it.
ReplyDeleteWith my iTouch, I can have plenty of apps, many of them free for games and all other sorts of things.
I do see though, how the Apple iPad is using itself to advetise for those companies willing to pay them to make an app. On my iTouch, I get little pop up adds when playing a game or something but not to the point that it's annoying. Advertisements on the iPad already seem annoying to me and I haven't even seen on in person... yet!
I want an ipad!!! I would be so occupied with one all day! I also like how many of the apps are free but in order for advertisers to make some money they have other ways for users to pay, such as subscribing to a magazine for that company. I feel like it would be better than an itouch just because of the fact that they have the ibooks or amazon kindle to read from.
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