Poor iPad. It was hyped, it was released, it was bashed… Even the lackluster response to the iPad kept me reading blog after blog. Each one seems to get more and more negative. Even a few Apple fanboy’s made some videos on why you shouldn’t buy the iPad.
Before I offer my solution, I have to give props to Nalts.
Leave it to Nalts, a youtube celebrity, to make the craziest iPad video yet… Not only is he driving with an iPad mask, which seems highly dangerous, but he also used duct tape to attached the mask to his face… I was laughing when I saw the mask, but when I saw the duct tape wrappd around his ears, it was just too funny.
Here’s my solution to this whole problem… Too bad I can’t go back in time and offer this brilliant advice to Steve Jobs and possibly de-rail the epic failure that is the iPad.
Set aside the hype of this device, which was par for any Apple product. The name iPad created an instant joke. Combine that with a sub par device and the hate blogs will go crazy.
All they had to do was name is iPlate… a computer you can eat off of.
That’s it. Simply change the name and you will dominate an entire market that has been stagnate for decades, the plate market. Mr Jobs positioned this device as a device between smartphones and laptops… to replace the netbook market. Unfortunately, it is not a good replacement for netbooks, but it’s a perfect replacement for plates.
Is iPlate a game changer… Hell yes! Restaurants would jump all over this idea. Not only can you eat off the iPlate, but you can surf the web, watch videos, tweet what you are eating. You could even use the iplate to order your food and pay your bill, of course you can’t do it at the same time because it doesn’t multi-task, and for you foodies, you can’t take a picture of your meal because there is no camera.

I’ll just start off by saying, I knew it… As with a lot of other people that just knew this new tablet was going to be a let down, but I didn’t know it was going to reach epic fail proportions. All that set me onto the negative was the rumored $1,000 price tag. What I wasn’t expecting was how this failure makes me love my Android phone so much more.
The iPhone has over 100,000 apps, the android has over 20,000 and the palm has about 1,000 apps in the market. did you know that there are apps for almost every phone out there?