Charlie Rose

fivecard  05/05/2010 04:12 PM Report

Yes, unlike the Kindle, the iPad is in color, it plays videos, and it has a browser, e-mail, apps, and a whole bunch of fancy software.

But at night, when I'm settling in, and I lie down in my bed, I don't want any of those things. I'm already on a computer 10+ hours a day. What I want to do is read a book. The Kindle provides that experience. It's lighter than a physical book. It's more convenient to hold and turn pages with. I can think of a book and have it instantly. I can easily flip back and forth between books. And it's easy on the eyes--there's no LCD screen glaring at me.

Without a doubt, the iPad is an intriguing device, but I for one don't think it's a Kindle killer.

antonio2800  04/07/2010 09:17 PM Report

Infomercial

AnilJoof-Wang  04/05/2010 09:36 PM Report

I am shocked. A 52 minute-infomercial? Rose, shame on you. How about some serious product analysis that focused on its flaws and pros, the prospective revolution it will bring to IT et al?? I cannot believe that Rose actually showed how to USE the iPAD. If you do the same for every new IT device out there then I wouldn't be upset. But you don't. How much did Apple pay you? Further illustrates why I will never give a penny to PBS for any of its shows.

GQtaste  04/05/2010 08:51 PM Report

I too get the feeling that this is another attempt for foolish people by big media et al. for their pocketbooks. Money grabs for poor suckers every day. Remant hit the nail on the head. Why pay for it when you get it for free? Only people who compete w/ the latest - greatest will want to 'consume' this continual debt card.

Robinthehood  04/05/2010 08:16 PM Report

Yes I do think the iPad will take off and set the way for other companies and people to follow, just as the iPhone/iTouch did. There were other smart phones before, but Apple got it right and then some said no one would spend $500+ for it, but millions have. There have been other tablets yes, but Apple's got it close to right and millions will choose it.

For now, David Carr's statement (@50:00 min) about 'leaning back and not forward', will hold true. As soon as the creative minds get to working with new apps. that will quickly change, but Apple will also have to up the hardware in the 2nd/3rd versions as well. That's when I'll jump in, unless there's too much of what REMant stated "fits far too neatly into a universe of pay-per-use or view services". There's a fine balance of happiness between free content and continuously paying & paying the blood sucking providers.

It's the same idea with the cost of cable companies, where the money you give them for internet/TV could buy you a new flat screen every year...or 2 iPads. ^_^

Thanks Charlie, Walt and Dave.

REMant  04/05/2010 01:34 PM Report

I don't know about the device, but the marketing for it HAS been extraordinary. The thing looks useful, but will certainly not replace a PC for ppl who really do things with them, especially not pirates, indeed it looks to me to be a device which fits far too neatly into a universe of pay-per-use or view services. This is not for ppl who actually produce things themselves. I see Pogue has said this already. Good for him. I think no one with a desk PC will want to be messing with his screen. Perhaps eventually, but touchpads haven't so far replaced mice. I think it will replace video players and games for kids in the car backseat, but I'm not really sure adults will want kids to be fooling with theirs. A great many potential users will not be able to afford the wireless time for a considerable period. Why M$ failed I think is because it isn't the device, itself, that is now being sold, but all the services that are now available to be bought for it, and, of course, the power and bandwidth weren't there either. Then, too, it isn't a producer device, which has been M$'s business. If the hardware is not as fast as you'd think, then it means the software is written in a more primary code than most software is nowadays. You can do very complex things with very slow processors, etc, if the software is written in machine language. We haven't because you really need to know how to program to do that, so we've developed more complex but slower meta-languages that more ordinary ppl can learn to use. About the services, which Charlie goes gaga over, it should be remembered that not everyone is a globe-trotting jet-setter. Most of us know our neighborhoods and communities, and don't need restaurant critics, realtors or Google Earth to tell us about them. I also think that while free apps are accepted, the market for proprietary paid-for apps will be a whole lot smaller. You will, I suppose, really know just how popular it is by how many are reported stolen.

walterpcs  04/05/2010 12:13 PM Report

It is ashame, despite Mr. Rose's obvious obsession with Apple products, that this video is not viewable from his website on either my iTouch, or on the iPad portrayed in this full length episode devoted to the iPad. Overall good episode, however.

Charlie_Rose  04/05/2010 11:42 AM Report

Ewww...Charlie! Please- no more of these :60 unpaid endorsements of Apple. Ten or fifteen minutes coverage would have been more than sufficient- but anything beyond that smacks of fawning.

Also- I much prefer to read Mossberg's work than hear him speak. He contradicted himself several times during the conversation, and appeared to almost browbeat David Carr- who seemed to bring a much more balanced review of Apple's nascent product than Mossberg.

LucyK  04/05/2010 11:07 AM Report

In the Steve Jobs clip, Jobs sounds like a televangelist.

Nice to see a useful demonstration of the I-pad before we buy one. Thank you.