On the IPad website there is a video/trailer/movie/media thing, which presents the IPad in all its high technological glory. I’m not a big fan of videos about things I don’t have, I hate them, I feel like they’re mocking me and yes I really should grow up.  I have watched trailers for computer games and wonder should I go out start shooting things to see if it’s any good in real life. I watched movie trailers and wondered should I go on some adventure being chased by bad guys with patches on their eyes while driving a flash sports car. Now I wonder whether the IPad video will get me wondering or not.

The beginning of the IPad video reminds me of something I heard when I was training to be an actor, a director once said, don’t tell me show me. In this case we have various apple people in nice clothes saying that the IPad will be innovative and cool, while all I get to see of the IPad is it spinning and even then that got me clawing at the screen. They also say it will change the things we do every day, you mean I don’t have to go to work on a train or bus anymore? They then begin the good stuff describing the IPad itself.

The first thing the vice-president of design mentions is that there will be no pointing device, NO POINTY THING! Is that legal, how am I supposed to do anything on it then, telepathy?  As a man I love having things to use and play with (no laughing please). The video begins describing the apps and I literally want to start to drool but that would go onto my keyboard and wouldn’t be much fun. The descriptions are not vivid but then again it is a video so he doesn’t need to be avid, seeing a faceless model playing around with the interface is great and really makes me want to be the faceless model in the IPad video. The apps are shown one by one Ibooks, movies, news, the internet like an endless stream of stuff that I’ll love to play around with when it comes out.

A man comes onto the screen and begins describing the technical side of the IPad and saying lots of words that are not very long but I barely understand my DVD player and I am not going to start learning new words like IPS or SDK until I have too. The descriptions eventually got me to thinking this man knows what he’s talking about. His descriptions of what the IPad does are both vivid and very well supported by more faceless models playing around with the IPad and watching a dog watching a surfboard? Faceless models please get a life!

Eventually they get to the really important stuff, price. If I can’t afford I am not buying it unless I remortgage my home or rob a bank. Apparently it will be affordable and for that I am grateful and so is my bank manager. The video is a good thing to watch if you want to know about the IPad and yes I have broken my computer screen because of it.

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