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 ...
“Which is what some people want.”
Most people won’t spend $800 for yet another device unless it replaces one of the existing ones.
It won't Vacuum my living room.
It won't wash the dishes.
It won't peel potatoes.
It won't Sweep the dust bunnies out from under the bed.
It won't make the beds
It won't mow my lawn.
It won't walk the dog.
It won't re-grout the bathroom.
Last I heard, it wasn’t Apple that was anti-flash/Adobe. It was Adobe being thick-headed. But what are details - either way, flash stuff doesn’t work on iPhone/iPad which annoys me.
I still love my iPhone, but at this time, don’t see a good reason for fork over cash for an iPad. I am in much bigger need of a new MacBook and/or iMac. My G5 dual 1.8 is starting to get long in the tooth. Really noticed when doing some video editing this past week. Rendering was a drag. The iBook G4 that I am typing this on, though slightly younger than the PowerMac at home, is even longer in the tooth...
Thanks ctdonath2.
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