So the Apple ipad is out, now shut up!

Yesterday I watched the release of Apples ipad and now today I’m watching the after math of what it’s caused. Sure the ipad is cool don’t get me wrong I already have the mini edition and it also comes with a phone, but lets be frank people the ipad has not even released yet so please stop speculating on your blogs.

I’m sure the ipad will make a huge splash in the techy world but past that I’m not sure. I can tell you for sure I don’t want one, but I’m sure there are plenty of people that do.

What apple needs to do now is justify this product to the average consumer and I’m not sure they can.

I’ve seen all this hype about it bringing newspapers back from the brink of death; people the newspaper, as we know it is DEAD! What the news industry needs to do now is create an e-paper that is paid for just like a newspaper but is downloaded to the ipad every morning. If Apple can’t sell this to the average consumer then this will not work.

As a techy myself I don’t care about local news and no one else under 25 does ether. This might save the larges papers but the local papers will die off.

Why would a twenty something want to read the local paper when they have Digg, Engadget and so much more to read online for free?

Now if the magazine and comic book industries take advantage of this, they might profit really well but for now lets just wait for this to be released before you advise your clients to move ad dollars back to papers.