Apple iPad - The portable PC plate.
I bet Micro$oft is making their own version of the iPad.
Posted on 01/29/2010 7:15:56 AM PST by myknowledge
It's hard to argue the fact that this week's Apple iPad launch disappointed the tech crowd, and not just because of that inexplicable name. Despite its lovely design, beefier core apps, and new e-book features and store, the iPad is hampered by a well-documented string of missing features: a camera, 16:9 support, Flash support (seriously?), multitasking, SD card slot, HDMI or high-res video output support, USB ports, GPS, and so on. Plus, it's exclusive to the AT&T network (again: seriously?) in this iteration, the pricing scheme is overly complex, and while I'm not sure it's genuinely overpriced, it's nevertheless expensive, and you can't imagine the price going much lower without crashing into the 64GB iPod Touch and making the iPad look a lot like a sucker's buy.
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Apple iPad - The portable PC plate.
I bet Micro$oft is making their own version of the iPad.
Not getting very positive reviews anywhere.
Exactly. Also, you can't multitask on it.
Yeah, it's called the iBrick................
Someone needs to inform the graphic artist responsible for this that the word Terabyte has only ONE “r”.
The i-tampon.
Not to be confused with the Tampod.
BTW why are you showing a fan concept of the iPad with the stylus? The iPad can not use a stylus, another one of its failings.
It has issues, but...
Compare the original iPod Classic to today’s iPod touch. I’m guessing the the iPad is only the beginning and in 3-5 years it (and it’s copycats) will supplant the laptop.
Why put up a picture of a concept drawing after the real thing has been released? There is no ‘iPen’, nor does the iPad look anything like that, and the real dock is portrait mode, not landscape. No attached little kickstand either. I’m sure there will be a wireless keyboard at some point from a 3rd party, but it sure ain’t here now...
I’d almost get one but I’ll wait for the 1600x900 IPS display, more storage, and the iPhone OS 4.0, which is supposed to get true multitasking ability.
Nasa / Intel Quantum core ? Boeing video ? 5000 terabytes ?
Sounds good to me ! I love the specs !
That's right. The killer app for the iPad will be drop dead perfect voice recognition technology, which will render keyboard computing obsolete.
Great name for a blogger.
iPan
To make a iPad that features WiFi so you can surf the network via wireless internet access points; then neglect to support Flash (a main-stay of websites the world over) is mind-numbing to me.
This nearly defeats the entire purpose of having a web browser.
Similar things were said about the iPhone but look at where that is.
Jobs even has a solution planned for multitasking! Wanna listen to Pandora and use iWork at the same time? Buy a second iPad! Problem solved! :p
iPad. Think Redundantly.
When I see a real computer in this form factor, with this kind of display and battery life, I'll probably buy two.
Ummm, yeah ... you can use a stylus. A pressure sensitive pad doesn't care if you use your finger or a stylus. You don't NEED to use a stylus, but if that's you thing, poke away with your plastic stick.
Newton 2.0
Apple won me over with the iPhone. I love my iPhone and I was REALLY looking forward to this thing. I run my life with the iPhone and I had visions of using the iPad as a home companion piece for it.
IMHO, this thing is a failure of epic proportions. In it’s limited state, IF it were under $300, it would be okay, but $500 for a device that actually has LESS features than my phone is pretty awful.
Voice recognition will be cool, but I really would like to see them develop a stylus that works for this. Taking notes in meetings (the idea of 10 people in a meeting, or 300 college students in a lecture, speaking into their computers is a little absurd.) It would also be much easier for drawing and the graphics programs.
All that notwithstanding, as usual I am looking forward to future iterations of Apple technology. The critics are shortsighted.
You would need a special stylus for that type of touchscreen, but they do make one for the iPhone/Ipod Touch, so I’m pretty sure it would work with this.
It does handily beat your iPhone in one respect: screen size.
But yeah, I was going to get one of these, but I think I’ll wait for iPad 2.0 instead.
In the mean time, $550 buys one helluva lot of laptop power.
Um not in the way stylus’s are meant to be used(ie writing). If you just want to use it to move things or tap on it, go ahead, but the screen isn’t made for that and you risk ruining the screen.
True on that, but I’d have to increase the percentage of oversized cargo shorts in my wardrobe to carry the thing around! lol
Yeah, in the meantime, I’ll stick with my netbook, which I love.
Not sure about that - an I phone will not work with anything narrow like a stylus or pen - I’ve tried when I first got my I phone. Seems to only work with a finger, can’t be wearing gloves either.
Sorry, but you are mistaken on that point. http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
No. I am mistaken. It ain’t wireless. (Well not yet.)
Need more coffee.
That’s not wireless from what I’ve seen. It’s a stationary dock that the iPad stays connected to.
Gotta wait for the iPad with wings before there’s a wireless keyboard. :p
Nobody much likes it. But the lines will be forming shortly nonetheless.
I don’t know the cost but a capacitive sylus is available on the interwebs. Though the optional duct tape and string may conflict with the industrial design.
ROFL. Now you've made me put my current bluetooth Apple keyboard at risk from this fresh cup of coffee.
But it is only version 1.0. It will get better.
If you really want a real Mac pad, get a Modbook.
The OS can already multitask. It's UNIX, of course it can. The only question is whether Apple allows multiple user apps to multitask. So far Apple doesn't allow that, mainly out of battery life and performance concerns. Rumor is that around the 4.0 time, Apple will consider the hardware powerful and energy-efficient enough to allow multitasking.
..and no flash, and no decent software, just apps.
Coming from someone that uses some of the best voice recognition technology available on a daily basis:
Voice recognition sucks!
I am using the product in a closed room with a noise cancelling headset. Trying to use voice recognition with a standard mic in an airport or car would be an exercise in frustration.
Cost seems high when compared with functionality. Don’t forget the data plans and accessories to really make this thing usable (USB, SD, keyboard, data transfer).
Exactly.
OTOH, Flash nearly defeats the entire purpose of the WWW. Apple is just being purist. I'm on the fence on this one -- I'd like to see Flash fade away, but then it is still here. For example, I can't get one of these and let my kids use it, since they love their Flash-based kids game sites. I don't know why Jobs didn't just include it, and sandbox it.
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