I’ve seen a few posts chiding Apple fanboys (and fangirls) for buying an iPad before it’s actually been released and before you can play with one in stores. They’re even calling us idiots.
Well, here are 3 reasons you can (and maybe should) buy an iPad without being able to touch one. And not feel like an idiot.
1. Build Quality Can Be Assumed To Be Excellent
Apple has always built premium products. One of the reasons that items are more expensive than the entry-level products available from other companies is that Apple doesn’t mess with inferior components or design. The build construction for the iPad is a combination of the new, unibody aluminum MacBook Pros and an iPod Touch. That means that the iPad will be a very durable machine with a premium “feel” about it.
2. How You Interact With The iPad Is Known
One of the coolest things is to see someone use an iPhone for the first time. It’s instinctive. The flicking and swiping come naturally. It’s going to be the same with the iPad. Because it uses the iPhone OS (or a version of it), anyone who knows how to use an iPhone will instantly know how to use the iPad. From all of the videos and first-hand reports, the iPad is “faster” than the iPhone in its responsiveness.
3. The Best Part of the iPad Is Already Successful
The best part of the iPad is going to be the development of 3rd-party applications. The App Store has been a clear success (if a little difficult to navigate) for both developers as well as the iPhone. The good news is that all of the apps you’ve purchased will run on the iPad at the size of the iPhone, but many of them will scale up well to the iPad’s screen size.
More importantly, developers who never thought about getting into iPhone OS game are reconsidering with the release of the iPad. Here, I’m thinking about Omnigroup, who will be developing iPad versions of all of their main products (OmniFocus, OmniGraffle, etc.).
And that’s the real advantage of the iPad. It can become, as a tool, whatever the developer wants it to be. I’ve seen a document mark-up program, some awesome games, and a number of other programs that are phenomenal. And that’s just the developers that have started since January.
Posted by Victor J. Medina