I didn't think you could use a stylus with a capacitive screen.
If I wore gloves in the winter, I'd be interested, but I haven't had a need to buy a compatible stylus yet.
I get the feeling now that the iPad is coming that capacitive styli are going to get more popular. That size of a screen just screams drawing tablet.
The iPad's screen is finger print resistant. If fingerprints is what you mean by drawing table...
The iPad sucks dick.
no need for such profanity. Any real person and non fanboy would acknowledge while not perfect it doesnt by no means suck. its actually a nice device. with some flaws of course
Yeah, but unfortunately, the few flaws that it has completely cripple the device. You have to note that this is being marketed as a potential computer replacement and it's completely locked down! I would pick up one of these things in a heartbeat if it ran Mac OS X (or better, if it could run Linux or Windows, officially or otherwise), but unfortunately, all it is right now is a big iPod Touch.
I'm sure it will evolve, and future models will have at least some of the things that people wish this one had (e.g. webcam).
In the meantime, I can definitely see the value of having an iPad around the house to read newspapers, magazines and books with, keep up with emails and tweets and surf the web, as well as using some of the many useful iPhone apps. And having a big(ger) screen you could use a stylus directly on rather than having to use a Wacom tablet parked other than where you're looking would be a *huge* improvement for artists.
It's too big to carry around as a phone, and it doesn't have an OS tough enough to run a lot of business applications. But I think the iPad is going to usher in a new type of information appliance that will become more ubiquitous in the years to come.
Unless the ipad is somehow pressure sensitive, there's no way it can replace a drawing tablet.
Man there's an awful lot of hate floating around here. All I meant was that the iPad is a capacitive device. It's going to sell like hotcakes, just like every other Apple device in the last ten years. That's going to create a lot of accessories, like the stylus, that we'll be able to use with our phones.
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