Haha wow that was great...
Haha wow that was great...
Apple making over priced and under functional products. How is this news again?
/threadOriginally Posted by Inferno
This is actually a great product as far as I'm concerned. While there are some disappointments in the OS, like the lack of multitasking and flash, it's nothing that can't be fixed with OS 4.0 or a jailbreak. Yes, it's a large iPod Touch, but when you take a step back, you begin to realize what that means. The Apps shown in the keynote which you can view on apple.com really show what this thing can do. The New York Times app isn't something that's been done before, the MLB app is pretty amazing and that's something that you can't really enjoy on a hand held. The iWork apps are pretty cool too, i's not dumbed down applications made to run on a touch screen, it's a desktop class app that is DESIGNED for a touchscreen. Once the Devs start rolling out other apps, you'll see what this thing can do. Apple was stupid for showing off the maps app and the upscaled iPhone apps. The only iPhone apps that you'll want to use on this are things such as games. Think of Scrabble on your iPhone, now upscaled on a 10" screen, or a racing game. Running iPod apps on this is a feature, it's not what it's for.
The specs on the other hand... the lack of USB ports is pretty weird, although it does work like a flash drive when plugged into a computer, so you can swap files in and out without iTunes. Even though it just has a 1GHZ processor, that doesn't really mean anything. The OS is designed around low end hardware made for portability, which is one of the advantages Apple has in it's products when compared to Windows and Android. It's like an Xbox, it doesn't need the latest and the greatest to perform well. The lack of webcam is a miss too, but I don't think anyone can consider that a deal breaker for this device. The A4 seems plenty fast from the videos I saw, and it's the reason behind the 10 hour battery life in this thing.
Now for the biggest complain, why the fuck doesn't this thing run a desktop OS. I was pretty bummed about this at first too, but then ask yourself, why do you need a desktop os? This isn't here to replace the laptop, it's not here to replace the desktop, it's not here to replace your phone or iPod. Unlike the iPod and the iPhone, this isn't something that's targeted to replace something in your life. The iPod was one of the best MP3 Players at it's time, it made the walkman and the tiny flash based players look like a joke. the iPhone showed what you could do with touch screens and the internet on a handheld. This thing, on the other hand, is for those of us who need something portable, but easier to work with than a phone and not as large as a laptop. My Macbook Pro is plenty fast and has a great display, along with a 7 hour battery. But I don't bring it to me to school. Why not? It's big, it's heavy, and in school all I ever do is browse the web and edit schoolwork. I have my iPhone, but I don't want to edit my schoolwork on it, and I don't want to use it for the web for extended amounts of time. the iPad is perfect for me. It's small, it's got better battery than any netbook, it can edit my schoolwork, I can do anything online but watch flash videos (which is fine by me, I got the appstore for games and I can put my own media on it at home). On top of that, I can have my textbooks on it, and buy them hopefully cheaper than I would if I bought actual ones. I can play games with my friends and check my email too, and who knows what other apps will bring. None of this requires a full version of OSX. Windows tablets have been using regular old windows for the last 10 years, and they haven't caught on. iPhone OS solves this problem. It's designed to be used with your fingers, it's designed to be simple for the tasks you need it, it's designed to be portable, and it's designed to interact in a way with your home computers so that relocating files is super easy and simple.
Keep watching the iPad, it's going to surprise you.
Kinda like a Lexus?
Well, seeing as Apple has a reputation for catering towards art-folks. It's pretty dumb that they don't include flash support, because I know that a lot of graphic designers and game designers and photographers that rely on flash to display their content on their websites.
As for use in classes, I doubt typing notes on that thing is very practical or anywhere near as fast as a traditional keyboard. Unless you want to lug around the keyboard attachment, it seems like a hassle to type on.
Case fixes the keyboard problem, and it's going to be able to translate handwriting into text in the firmware updates.
From what I've read, there is a number of reasons it doesn't have flash. One of them is the push to HTML5, another is that flash eats up battery, it's sloppily coded and eats up the CPU, and the last is that adobe and apple don't get along, Adobe doesn't like Apple for Final Cut Pro, and Apple doesn't like adobe for a reason I can't remember as of now.
Apple use to be an artsy and favored creative types, Windows can do the artsy stuff just as good now, Apple is really now targets the premium consumer market. I think artists prefer Mac because they are use to it now, and they like the elegant engineering, high quality displays, and it's more bitmap oriented UI than windows. Plus the stability is another plus, I can't tell you how many times my former team members lost content and work time due to some problem with Windows.
They should have partnered with James Cameron for Avatar...
Call it the IMAXiPad.
Naw man, that's what they're gunna name the HD version.
indeed.
No USB? Guess that means you cant plug it into a printer.
oh snap
Last edited by Heathen; February 1st, 2010 at 04:55 PM.
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