Anti iPad screed Ping!
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Posted on 01/28/2010 2:50:35 PM PST by Constitutionalist Conservative
No kidding.
In future versions they will add some great new input abilities. But that should have been one of the fundamental features right from the start.
The iPad as it exists now will sell like hot cakes and be snapped up by all those who simply MUST have the latest and greatest.
Revenue from those sales will fund the future iterations of the product, with more bells and whistles.
Those new versions will be snapped up by by all those who simply MUST have the latest and greatest AND those who've been waiting for the right feature set.
A well written analysis of the product but he's dead wrong on one point;
The iPad will not be the biggest disappointment in allof human history. That title is irrevocably held by Barack Obama.
The iPad will sell like a mother******. Even I want one and I'm no Apple fanboi....far from it.
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Tim Challies has been a Mac basher for a long time... so I don't see how you can call him a "loyal Apple fanatic." He did write a semi-contrite "ipology" a year ago when he bought a Macbook and found out that he was wrong... but still bashed Apple users...
Flash is processor intensive and a battery hungry... wastes energy and doesn't support the H.264 standard that is rapidly supplanting video on the web.
Mail does not do Exchange (iPhone and iPod Touch do)
Who said it doesn't? Exchange is part of the iPhone OS... which is on the iPad. I don't know for sure, but I suspect that is FUD.
Not for me... that dis-honor goes to the American electorate who elected him...
Underpowered???? At 1.86Ghz or 2.13Ghz and 2GB RAM it's hardly "underpowered."
That brings up a question... Will Apple block a Kindle app for the iPad? Amazon’s prices are cheaper than the prices Apple indicates they will be charging in their bookstore.
Flash does support h.264. Starting with Flash 9.
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No. Don't think so.
Good question. You never know, with Apple. But they'd be foolish to do this. Having access to Amazon ebooks will help sell a lot of iPads, and Apple still is, after all, primarily a hardware company.
The iPad will force an adjustment in ebook creation, though. ebooks are likely to start looking more like blogs, with embedded web links, videos etc...
The maket yawned as AAPL went down 7%. I predict a middling success for the iPad. Not a must have so many buyers will wait for the full featured iPad 2.0 or 3.0. They will copy the author here
In the PC world I see features being rolled out quicker due to the recession thus heightened competition. Such as Blue Ray burners being available cheaper and quicker than in normal times.
Apple’s cynical stalling on a full featured iPad will backfire in a consumer revolt/boycott. By the law of averages the Cupertino Gangstas are headed for a FAIL and this is it
Not everyone uses SD cards. More slots = more size/weight/cost/complexity. You want an SD slot, get the adapter.
I don’t think I’ll be an early adopter, this time. I type a lot on the web, so was hoping for a good keyboard interface. And since I will need to sync with a phone, I wish there were a USB input.I’ve also got 1 1/2 more years on my contract with Sprint, with a card modem and unlimited data - I’d like the option to try the IPad out with it.
They are kidding about the 64 GB storage limit, aren’t they?
it should already have more storage capacity.
64GB isn't enough for ... what, exactly? It's meant to be tethered to a full-bore computer at times, with what you need loaded on - not your entire collection, most of which you don't use. It also is meant for "cloud computing" use: need something, get it via WiFi/3G.
no compelling input abilities
Page-sized multi-touch. That's what it does. No, really, that's what it does. It's not for other abilities. Want other abilities, get a device designed for those.
do you really want to bring an external keyboard to class? Or to a meeting?
Then this isn't the product you're looking for.
no phone abilities
3G + Skype = phone. It's 2010; let's get past that "phone" model already (I'm heading there ASAP).
Why Apple didn’t position it as a reading device baffles me.
iBooks. And, hello, it's a lot more than just a reading device; given the choice of a $300 kindle or a $500 do-a-lot-more iPad, many will buy the latter.
they chose to make a giant iPod Touch
Exactly what I wanted.
Apple should have targeted it squarely at one audience.
They're creating the audience. Unlike every other tablet maker who saw the niche as "Windows notebook minus keyboard", they see what the iPhone did in creating a whole new multi-million-customer market.
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I'll grant the complaint of no user-facing camera. This thing has "videophone" written all over it (likewise every other phone with a camera today - but no, we don't get that yet from anyone).
On the whole: the author bought into all the hype, hysteria, rhetoric and projectionism. This product is great; it is what it should be, no more & no less.
Yep, I agree exactly.
I’m a Mac fan and user from way back, and I’m disappointed there’s no Flash, no multi-tasking and no camera.
I also was hoping it’d run OSX so I can load my own apps, not the ones that Apple wants me to use, and nothing more...which means no Photoshop, Dreamweaver, InDesign, Illustrator, etc.
Darnit, they didn’t want to position it as a media reader/web surfer and give us a camera and multi-tasking, but also didn’t want to position it as a touch-capable netbook done the right way.
Too big to carry while working out, no camera for video chat, no multi-tasking so I can’t surf the net while reading my email.
Yeah..I’m disappointed.
Ed
Yeah...Dem lurker; yep....that’s me.
Now where the hell did YOU come from?
Wow.......ya know, I hadn’t even caught the fact that this little beast doesn’t run OSX. What a joke.......
Ping to ya :)
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