iPad Shortcomings Ping!
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Posted on 04/05/2010 1:11:49 PM PDT by Touch Not the Cat
It's Awkward You can't carry it on your hip like a phone, so it presents the same portability issues as any laptop - you'll need a case of some sort to protect it and carry the power cable.
It's heavy To be sure, at 1.5 pounds and with all this functionality, the iPad is an impressive feat of engineering. But it's simply not light enough
It's slippery We might ignore the awkward size and weight, but the iPad is also slippery, and its aluminum back is ever-so-slightly slightly concave.
The screen has too much glare The iPad has the same glossy screen as Apple's Macbook Pro laptops and iMac desktops. Unless you're reading in a very dim room, the glare will be noticeable and can be distracting.
Forget reading in the sun If you thought to take your iPad along for an outing in Central Park or at the beach, forget about it.
Fingerprints are annoying
It does not multitask The iPad runs the same operating system as the iPhone, and as a result has all of the iPhone's limitations.
The browser is limited The iPad also uses the same limited Safari browser that's found on the iPhone
The virtual keyboard stinks
There's no USB port
iPhone-only apps look horrible Apple boasts that many of the 150,000 apps already available on the iPhone will also work on the iPad
The price is just too high
$499 is just the beginning, a low-memory model that will fill up too quickly for anyone with a big music library and/or an appetite for video.
It doesn't replace anything
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
And it won’t even hold up to a baseball bat...
man, don’t you know its verbotten to tell anything resembling facts when it comes to apple.
everything must be positive
If you have a Blackberry/iPhone and a lap top, why do you need an iPad other to look like the first propeller head in San Jose to have one.
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More things wrong:
It does not deflect anti tank rounds
It can’t travel faster than light
It is inedible
I think this guy is a whiner.
I was amazed that the author says it doesn’t replace anything. Well duh. Nothing else has ever been around like it, it actually replaced a few of my devices.
It replaced my calculator, kindle book reader, a small video player (with my 3G wireless access point), and supplants the need to use my navigation system.
I am responding to this post on my iPad. Yes it has shortcomings but so does Obama and look how many people voted for him. Basically it’s like an iPodntouch on steroids but a whole lot more too. I would hate to be a text book publisher or any one else producing dead tree publications. This device is a game killer for them. Great for the vision impaired too. It’s a truly revolutionary product!
After the 3rd generation of the iPad comes out, I will take a look at them. Till then, I’m very satisfied with my Pixi, Macbook & Mac Mini—just upgraded HD & went to 4 gigs of ram in the mini. Love it :)
I have to agree with you. I had a chance to spend 5 hours playing with a friend’s new iPad on Saturday. As someone who was not going to purchase an iPad, I have to say I was very impressed with what the iPad could do. I may have to reconsider purchasing one, when the 3g version hits the streets.
For many basic tasks, the iPad could easily replace lugging around a laptop. And... the battery life is very impressive.
I absolutely adore mine! I have the cheapest one, and am in total bliss when using it.
The biggest surprise to me is how fast I can type. I am not a touch typis, more of a fast hunt and pecker with two fingers on my left hand, and index on my right, and I can zoom along as fast as on a regular keyboard.
Couldn’t do it right out of the box, but one day of practice, and I am getting good.
Love the apps for it! Love reading my books and dealing with my email, love the sound for my audible books, love being able to check my favorite forum, and be able to actually read the posts.
Love the slide show feature in photos, and being able to play a song for the album.
Love how fast it is, how easy to carry (I clutch it to my chest like a little notebook, or hug it under my arm, ditto. And, I love the case Apple has designed for it.
I am a happy customer. No regrets.
It’s pretty cool until you need to look at anything created with Flash. When the heck is Apple going to get its head out of it’s orifice and start working with Adobe to get Flash on their devices!!! It’s funny, being the company that produced the 1984 commercial about breaking free from the thought police.. Now Apple IS the thought police.. “You can only use our apps”.. I guess it’s been a few years since 1984..
Reading this on my iPad and loving it!
It can’t dance worth a damn.
It won’t survive an Iranian EMP strike.
It can’t teleport.
It didn’t get the author laid.
This time next year...the ‘then’ iPad will be hotter than hell - bet on it!
Tested one today at Best Buy. Cooler than I thought. Only tricky thing was the keyboard. You can’t let your fingers touch anything - you hold them up hovering with wrist support... Not too ergonomic. However, I got the hang of it. Didn’t buy because my wife wants a Notebook instead. She who must obeyed. But, quite cool...
To me, the iPad already looks like an 8-track tape recorder or a VHS player — already obsolete, tacky and anachronistic.
When are people going to move to HTML5?
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