**UPDATE** — Apple has just released new information on their NEXT big product set to release a few months after the Apple iPad is released! More details after the story.
So do any of you guys remember the Apple iPad? Yeah, it was that thing unveiled this past Wednesday during the State of the Union address. No, not that random address the President gave, the important address that Steve Jobs gave on the State of the Apple Mobile Union. When Jobs took the cloth off the marvelous machine near the beginning of the event our minds were completely blown! Never before had a tablet-esque computer had such a simple interface, such little memory, or such a lack of multi-task capabilities. Oh, did I also mention that it has the phenomenal ability to run iPhone-resolution apps? To add on to all of this, the video event revealed (perhaps most importantly of all!) that the iPad includes “the most beautiful ruler you’ve ever seen in an application”! (click image to enlarge)
Of course, I gotta give Apple some credit: I dare you to look at the above image and tell me that the iPad’s isn’t innovative. Never before has the world seen anything like this! See how applications appear as small icons which are laid out over multiple screens which you can flip through? Or how there are four main apps at the bottom of the screen? Or even how there is a “Home” button on the device which you can press at any time to exit an application and return to the app-screen? This is crazy stuff we’re dealing with, guys! It’s pretty innovative, and I’m actually truly amazed that no one thought of this exact concept and layout earlier, say in 2007 or something.
**UPDATE**
It appears that Apple’s “magical and revolutionary device,” more commonly known as just “the iPad,” is already going to be yesterday’s news! Constantly stretching the limits of innovation, and always one step ahead, Apple has just released the first information on their next big product set to release a few months after the iPad. It’s called *drum roll, please* the Apple iPad nano! (click image to enlarge)
This Apple product is obviously following in the iPad-tradition of being incredibly ground-breaking and fresh. This small device somehow holds as much memory as the obviously-bigger-and-perhaps-expectedly-capable-of-holding-more-memory iPad. Not only that, but it can also play the same apps and games as the once-again-expectedly-more-capable iPad, which in turn runs the same apps and games as the expectedly-less-powerful iPhone/iPod touch. (click image to enlarge)
I gotta be honest: Apple is having a stunning week. Just as with the iPad before it, nothing can really compare to the iPad nano. Not that some people won’t try. Sadly, there will be the naysayers and Apple-hating quacks out there who will make ridiculous claims such as “the iPad nano isn’t innovative at all, it’s just a smaller iPad.” But, of course, these will likely be the same crazies who made such obviously false claims this Wednesday that: “This is the big Apple tablet computer reveal? The iPad isn’t innovative or new in the least, it’s just a huge iPhone/iPod touch. It doesn’t really bring anything new to the table.” *Sigh* For some people, ignorance truly is bliss…
Happy Trails,
Sam.
