Remember when the iPad was first introduced by Apple? Remember what people said about the thing? That it was really just an oversized iPod touch? That sort of thinking seems to be a driving force behind the creation of iHome’s iA100. The thing really looks like a standard iHome iPod/iPhone alarm clock dock, only with a really, really big iPod/iPhone on top.
When the first round of iPod alarm clock docks first hit, I had a lot of visions in my head of sleepy people destroying their precious Apple gadgets as they felt around for the snooze button. Those images have, more or less, been compounded by the above shot of an iPad sitting on the thing.
We first wrote about the iA100 back in January, and it looks like iHome is finally getting ready to ship. I guess now we’ll finally see just how well Apple’s craftsmanship holds up under the stress of sleepy hands.
I should say that I have, in the past, used an iHome alarm clock dock with my iPod and didn’t have any major issues–though, for the record, I’m not a big fan of the Snooze button. And, as mentioned above, it wasn’t an iPad.
Have you ever scratched, shattered, dinged up, or otherwise damaged an iPod or iPhone with an alarm clock speaker dock? Let us know in the comments below.
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