I read everything there is to read, every review. Engineers versus iFreaks, developers versus fashion icons and after all the debate my girlfriend had the answer.
I dont like a company that treats its clients like they are a bunch of stupid kids (even if they are) telling them stories about an amazing device that promises to take them to nirvana and keep them there as long as they cough up the money.
It's been called the iPhone on steroids, the kindle killer and a VERY expensive pictureframe. What it is, is a gadget trying to fill a gap that does not exist: between an appPhone and a laptop. Taking aside the iPhone, most appPhones multitask AND have a camera; and all laptops multitask and some have cameras. So the gap between an appPhone and a laptop cannot be filled by a 64Gb toy that doesn't multitask OR have a camera. That gap has been already filled by the netbook.
And as for an e-reader: Both sony's reader and the kindle work with e-ink which is as harmful to the eyes as a paper book. This thing has an LCD screen backlit by LEDs, making it super bright and thus, painful to read.
It baffles me how these iKids will devour every piece of half-baked iGarbage that always comes five years late and then keep buying patches and updates for their flawed and incomplete devices.
Yes, it is gorgeous, yes it is funny and clever but so is a swiss coockoo clock and just as useful, since they cannot possibly expect you to work your iTunes, iWorks, iMovies, iBooks and iPictures with 64 gigs (assuming you get the largest US$699 64 gig version)
Like i said earlier, last night my girlfriend came to the perfect conclusion to what this nippy, arrogant, pretentious device is: It is the perfect gift: We all want one, but no one in their right mind will cough up US$699 for it, and we all would LOOOOVE to receive one. So thank you Sophie for finally putting my mind at ease.
Notice how i never mentioned the device's silly name, since it became the last nail on its coffin.
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