1. Slow is as slow is. — Unless the UI is completely redone for touch.
2. “The iPad does not run common office productivity tools,” — iWork, completely redone for touch
3. No camera on an iPad. — This is a bad one, OTOH it’s good for places that don’t allow cameras.
4. No multitasking allowed on the iPad. — What they mean is you can’t let something crunch in the background while you’re doing something in the foreground. You can still effectively (as far as the user knows) run multiple apps and switch between them.
5. No Flash on iPad. — I’ll give them that one. I don’t like flash either, but it’s there.
6. No USB out of the box. — Bluetooth, and the dock connector contains USB
7. Money talks. — And yet we’ve found that people will pay extra for good engineering and design.
8. Speaking of money, there is no money in the company budget to pay for iPads. — Depends on your company.
9. Not supporting iPad will be the enterprise norm. — Probably not, because Apple doesn’t really chase the enterprise much. But I can already see many great enterprise uses for this thing.
10. Tablets have never caught on. — That’s the point of the iPad, to catch on where they never have before by not just making a notebook without a keyboard.
Actually, the processor/graphics on the iPad, is very fast compared to other tablets... and the complaint seems to come from someone who has never, ever had his hands on one.
2. “The iPad does not run common office productivity tools,” — iWork, completely redone for touch
And able to read and write Office files... 3. No camera on an iPad. — This is a bad one, OTOH it’s good for places that don’t allow cameras.
Which the vast majority of enterprise businesses do not. I also expect to see a third-party add on camera available soon for those that want one, with a flexible head that will clip and point where you want it to, connecting either by bluetooth or through the dock connector. If i had the expertise, i'd be designing it right now. 5. No Flash on iPad. — I’ll give them that one. I don’t like flash either, but it’s there.
Nope, no Flash... but then the idiot goes on to say there will be no Web video at all... ignoring every other web video format that is supported... excellently.
8. Speaking of money, there is no money in the company budget to pay for iPads.
Yeah, and before there were viable smart phones, there was no money in company budgets for smart phones either.