Gizmodo – 8 Things That Suck About the iPad:
No Flash
No Flash is annoying but not a dealbreaker on the iPhone and iPod Touch. On something that’s supposed to be closer to a netbook or laptop? It will leave huge, gaping holes in websites. I hope you don’t care about streaming video! God knows not many casual internet users do. Oh wait, nevermind, they all do.No Multitasking
This is a backbreaker. If this is supposed to be a replacement for netbooks, how can it possibly not have multitasking? Are you saying I can’t listen to Pandora while writing a document? I can’t have my Twitter app open at the same time as my browser? I can’t have AIM open at the same time as my email? Are you kidding me? This alone guarantees that I will not buy this product.A Closed App Ecosystem
The iPad only runs apps from the App Store. The same App Store that is notorious for banning apps for no real reason, such as Google Voice. Sure, netbooks might not have touchscreens, but you can install whatever software you’d like on them. Want to run a different browser on your iPad? Too bad!
If it’s too big to fit in a pocket you might as well buy a small notebook for the same price and have the freedom to run whatever apps you want.
Steve Jobs did some cool stuff but it became obvious a long time ago that he was a massive control freak. If Steve Jobs is OCD boi with 5.1% of the market imagine what an insufferable Nazi he’d be with 51% of the market.
Hint: we’d all be living in a world of overpriced SCSI drives instead of cheap IDE drives, under-performing Motorola processors, no internal expansion slots, and single-button mice instead of mice with five buttons and scroll wheels.
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from 16G to 64G must pay 200$ LOL, 200$ for 48Gb data ? WTF !!!
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and for 3G model another 200$ … 3G and WiFi share hardware and even is another hardware price for 3G chips is 1$ i belive
“Hint: we’d all be living in a world of overpriced SCSI drives instead of cheap IDE drives, under-performing Motorola processors, no internal expansion slots, and single-button mice instead of mice with five buttons and scroll wheels.”
Or, possibly, in a world of game-changing music/video devices and smartphones. Job’s massive ego has served Apple, and consumers, pretty well the past 10 years.
The ipad doesn’t look to be very compelling, and I’m at a loss to figure out how it’s not going to be a very niche product. (How is that keyboard usable at all?) But the ipod, and to a lesser extent, the iphone, looked half-baked too, and after a year or so, Apple figured out brilliant strategies to have them completely take over their markets.
I have no experience with the iPhone, but Melissa’s had an iPod for a couple years and I’m just not that blown away.
It’s pretty. The interface works well. But if you buy songs through iTunes you’re stuck with Apple’s stupid music format. And no third-party batteries (maybe that’s resolved now). The iPod seemed to be a triumph of good looks and marketing over actual innovation.
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It wasn’t the ipod itself, but the ipod + music store. I’m not much of a fan of it either, but Apple did what no one else had been able to do before: make the record industry accept that were no longer completely in control. The process is still far from complete, and it would obviously have happened eventually, but Apple was there first, and has all in all done more good than harm.
And the iphone: before the iphone, consumer cell phones sucked. They don’t suck anymore.
Steve K.: “make the record industry accept that were no longer completely in control.”
How so? By letting them brand every song and video with DRM and then when customer outrage became too high, branding everything with the user’s name and identifying information so than any perceived transgressions could be immediately traced to them?
@Les: The iPod was a triumph of good look and marketing rather than innovation, and is taught as such in marketing classes.