I feel it be my duty to join the discussion (or online whining, if you don’t want to sugar coat the truth) about the iPad and what it is.  When I read tech blogs, websites and articles all I see from techies is what it can’t do.  Well how about what it can do and what it’s really meant for.  Listen up geeks and techies: the iPad isn’t really meant for you.

Everyone is bitching about what the iPad can’t do, how it’s only another fad gadget and that it won’t last because it doesn’t do all these great things.  I got four words for you people: SHUT YOUR PIE HOLE.  Apple’s intended audience for the iPad isn’t the IT department or code monkeys, although I’ll admit that’s pretty much unavoidable (they want to play with it of course!).  No, the intended audience for the iPad is the average Joe and every Tom, Dick and Harry that’s not into technology.  The iPad is the first anti-geek gadget (except for the iPhone, which could be in the same category).

The iPad is a basic way to consume content in today’s world.  Newspapers are dying, physical books are starting to see the light at the end of the tunnel.  My grandma should be the one purchasing an iPad to consume her papers, her magazines, her books, her news, her email, her video, her everything.  The iPad is not a complicated device.  There are no extensions, no files, no folders, no software to install via CD-ROM.  NONE OF THAT TECHIE STUFF THAT’S FOREIGN TO THESE PEOPLE.  When you turn the iPad on, you have your books, content and apps delivered to you via the Wal-Mart of software, the App Store.  The basics are there, the ease of use is there, the technology is less scary.

So I say again: GEEKS OF THE WORLD!  The iPad is not for you.  It’s for your mother, your grandparents, your kids, and the Amish.

In conclusion, as the great Moss Puppet says: SHUT UP.

Courtesy of Mosspuppet.com

This line of videos has been featured on the Secret Diary of Steve Jobs for awhile now, but I feel it is my duty to continue to spread the love brought on by others. So here it is, hopefully a new regular item on Jabloggy, I give you, Walt Mossberg, The Only Techology Journalist in the World, in puppet style!

iSlate Review (before it was officially launched):

Courtesy of Mosspuppet.com

Two words sum up this post: HELL YEAH.

Earlier this week I received an email from Google regarding my Google Apps account (as I’m sure all of you Apps users did) and it delivered some of the best and geekiest news ever to be uttered by a large company: Google will be phasing out support for Internet Explorer 6 in their products over the course of 2010.

Now those of you who aren’t as geeky and techy are probably like, “WTF dude?  Who really freakin’ cares?!”  Well, those geeks and techies driving innovation and pushing for the future of our planet care!  With the world finally dropping support for this POS we are successfully able to roll out better, brighter and faster technology to our websites, making the web a better place for all and the devices that you are now using to access it, including that sexy new iPad.

So to all the Microsofts of the world, I have one thing to say: Pick up your shit and get the hell outta here!  Don’t like the door hit you on the way out.  Some of us are trying to bring the future to society, and your crappy ass products are slowin’ us down!

Is it a feminine product?

Is it a cool, hip, stylish apartment unit?

Is it a chair cushion with USB technology?

Is it a notebook with Firewire?  (and by notebook I mean an actual paper notebook from the 90’s, not a laptop; hilarious blast from the past, I know!)

Guess what?!  It’s none of those things!  It’s a giant iPhone that you need bigger pants to put it in!  Honestly, I see its potential in niche markets (home theater control center, security center, smart home dashboard, competitor to the Amazon Kindle, etc.) but as a general web browsing computer with which to make spreadsheets and slideshow presentations?!  Aww, snap!  Oh no he didn’t!

I guess this is the first Apple product I’m a little skeptical about, but I suppose we’ll see if Jobs and the bloodhound gang can do it again, eh?

I’ve probably been the quietest Apple geek with a blog about today’s new product announcement. Guess we’ll see what happens eh?