Is it time to call the Apple iPad iFail?
Posted on 04/07/2010 9:07:53 PM PDT by myknowledge
Is it time to call the Apple iPad iFail?
My daughter has a cellphone that is smaller and better than that.
Whole new product - whole new category. Article makes silly comparisons to notebook computers. Get your hands on an iPad and you will understand. If anything, Apple has under-hyped it.
Yikes 12 reasons the product looks neat but really sucks imo.
It is always better to wait until the upgraded versions are released - the initial versions typically have lots of bugs.
That’s the rule of thumb for any of the latest Apple or Microsoft products.
I’d hold off on that.
The author is ignorant of marketing, and what Apple is trying to do. The iPad is not a “portable computer” in the sense the author is wishing it was. It was not designed to be a device for creating content, it is a device for beautifully displaying content created by others. In short, it’s an attempt to create a new category of portable computing device, which is as different a thing as the iPod was in it’s time. It’s an attempt to create a “new market disruption” by providing a means to do something that isn’t being done well or effectively today, or one that requires people to go to a certain place to do it. It’s not a general purpose do-it-all machine, but if Apple has it figured right, it could push the media revolution into high gear and provide another new revenue stream much like what Amazon has with the Kindle.
iThink so
13. Under Øbamanomics, there’s no budget for a $500+ gizmo that’s best selling point is that it’s KEWL. This from a Mac advocate who’s owned 7 since my first Mac Plus in ‘85.
This is the 3rd or fourth article slamming the iPad. Sounds to me like the iPad is an iWa$te.
Original apple products often have a lot of clunky addon adapter stuff to them. This one is no different.
The next version or the one after that will be the one to go for, unless they mess up the battery on the future iPads.
Yep. But it also applies to other products - such as a new concept automobile, especially since there are so many components that are controlled by computer these days.
Seems to me most who have bought it so far, bought it to satisfy their craving for iCandy
Not sure why one needs a dozen reasons to not buy an iCrap whatever.
Wait, this is a case where the free-market will decide.
I've played with the iPad.. I found it to be very much like the iPhone, a nicely created platform to show off a set of technology traits, and that's about it.
A friend who of course ordered the iPad the second orders were accepted got hers on the first day of release, and that evening played Scrabble with it with her friends, each using their iPhones to hold the little letters on, while the iPad was the Scrabble board...
Thankfully, the fanboy toy has done the one drastic thing that has been long missing from the mainstream tablet market - finally set a reasonable baseline price. Shocking for an Apple product, and it gives a clue how huge of margins tablet makers have been skating on, but finally manufactures will need to look at making production pieces in the sub $400 range, and for that, I raise my glass to Apple and say, ‘Great job!’ Yep, while the iPad cult joins the Newton host, we wait for others to develop and market tablets that will actually be useful.
You do not understand. Steve Jobs did not give you a USB port because you do not need one. This is not a democracy.
That’s just wrong on so many levels.
>>That’s just wrong on so many levels.<<
I aim to please... :) ;)
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