Is it time to call the Apple iPad iFail?
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.
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.
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.
A couple of those points are just false.
No keyboard except the dock connector keyboard. The iPad can use bluetooth keyboards.
Can’t print. If I can use an app from HP to print to a wifi printer with my iPhone, there’s no reason why they won’t make an app to print from the iPad.
Still doesn’t help justify it for me, but there are plenty of real reasons to complain about.
As tablets go it’s a great product. The problem is with the fact that it’s a tablet.
For the majority of uses, for versatility, for easy of viewing and just general ease of use, a clamshell design like a netbook is much better. I’m typing this on a laptop (on my lap) - I can adjust the viewing angle of the screen to any angle I desire and it will stay there by itself. both my hands are free to type on a real keyboard, the screen doesn’t have any annoying smudges.... Once people start using it all these shortcomings will hit home and sales will peter out. At which point Apple will come out with a “cool” netbook - maybe a smaller MacBook Air with both a real keyboard and touch screen? Maybe a clamshell that separates? $400? That would be a winner.
So the problem is not with the iPad per se, but with the tablet format.
I think if they made the screen on the iphone/ipod touch just a bit bigger, higher res, and faster processor in it, it would totally do away with the tablets.
I have an iPhone and it pretty much serves the purpose of a tablet. Wish Safari reformatted text for auto line wrap to make the smaller text easier to read (Android does and Opera mini is supposed to as well). And like I said, if the screen was a bit bigger (there’s room even in the current iPhone size) I would never look at a tablet.
A thirteenth dozen reason to not buy an iPad.
Reason #13 - Apple succumbed to Obama's boycott attempts to silence Glenn Beck.
iWeary of unimaginative marketing hype that prefixes an “i” or an “e” to every product. iThis and eThat is really stale. Attaching a prefix does not turn a pigs ear into iSilkPurse.
I got $1000 from my employer to buy tech. I don’t need a new computer and planned on purchasing a few odds and ends until someone suggested an iPad. I’ve been reading about it since it came out and think it’s not quite what I want.
On one hand, I work in an environment in which all the cool kids have all the new technology and I don’t want to be seen as the old fogey. : )
On the other hand, I dislike Apple and have no problem no purchasing this thing.
On the third hand, maybe a Kindle?
Any thoughts? Kindle? iPad? Just get what I was planning to get and forget about the big toys? I have to use the money within the month, so I can’t wait until iPad 2.0.