Today I played a little with one we got for work purposes) .Well, it looks characteristically slick. It's light. It seems to have a lot of screen real estate. It is also horrendously inconvenient for reading because its mirror-like screen reflects all the light sources behind you. So unless you sit in a dark corner good luck with any semblance of eye comfort.
They did not introduce any hardware innovation for navigation either, everything seems to be virtual. You have to touch the screen all the time even to scroll pages. Moreover, they use a UI so peculiar I could not even find a file browser (later I was told they do not have one) or any means of zooming a PDF document. Being an Apple product, I guess it will also have problems with downloading mp3s and ebooks by standard (e.g. USB-drive style) means.
Judging from how impractical the device is it will be a major sales success.
They did not introduce any hardware innovation for navigation either, everything seems to be virtual. You have to touch the screen all the time even to scroll pages. Moreover, they use a UI so peculiar I could not even find a file browser (later I was told they do not have one) or any means of zooming a PDF document. Being an Apple product, I guess it will also have problems with downloading mp3s and ebooks by standard (e.g. USB-drive style) means.
Judging from how impractical the device is it will be a major sales success.
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