[Osiris]

I really like the last paragraph:

"I promised a verdict, so here it is. With the caveat that it's after one day and I reserve the right to change it at any time: Today's iPad, the one that I just bought, is just a demo of something that could be very nice and useful at some point in the future. Today it's something to play with, not something to use. That's the kind way to say it. The direct way: It's a toy. "

That seems spot on to me. I think it'll take a few hardware and OS revisions to really make this kind of product shine.

I'm curious to see how it'll be used in business settings, it seems like it could have a lot of potential for businesses to run internal apps on, but how could they install them?

[KC8ZKF]

The "Enterprise" developer program includes in-house deployment capabilities.

[umjames]

I really wish Apple didn't require a 500-employee headcount and a D&B number to be an enterprise customer. They should relax the constraints so that small businesses can start making internal apps.

[aristus]

That would become a backdoor app economy. If any little company could install apps on their employee's phones, I'd start making apps to sell them without the 30% cut to Apple.

[ojbyrne]

Most notable omission is a camera. Skype video is the killer app for this machine.

[bmalicoat]

Andy Ihnatko mentioned something about this the other day. Since the device is orientation-less (for the most part), Apple could make an iSight that plugged into the dock connector and you just held it upside-down. They probably won't, but it is possible.

[mos1]

people keep saying this, and i keep thinking it'll be shot from a truly horrible angle and will be really unflattering.

[ojbyrne]

If you're talking to a close friend or family member (that's the use case), it doesn't matter.

[grinich]

And a wobbly image. I'd like to see some good image stabilization using face-tracking.

[celoyd]

Apple’s photo software already has face recognition and its video software already has good image stabilization. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were spin-offs of work towards precisely this.

[electromagnetic]

Bad angle, really? This is freaking Apple we're talking about if Jobs can't resolve something as simple as a camera angle (hello dozen phones that came out last year with a swivel mounted camera to directly resolve this problem) then he should resign as an incompetent fool. He managed to bring Apple back from the brink and revolutionize the industry, if he can't resolve a camera angle issue he's a complete fraud with more luck than Jesus crossed with that air stewardess who fell from flight altitude crossed with the bastard child of Anakin Skywalker and Yoda.

I'm sorry, bad camera angle is the biggest piece of piss poor excuse I've ever heard. I'd honestly be more appeased if Apple simply said "sorry, things got missed out that we wanted to implement, shit happens - that's life".