“The iPad was supposed to change the face of computing, to be a completely new form of digital experience. But what Steve Jobs showed us yesterday was in fact little more than a giant iPhone. A giant iPhone that doesn’t even make calls. Many were expecting cameras, kickstands and some crazy new form of text input. The iPad, though, is better defined by what isn’t there,” Charlie Sorrel writes for Wired.
Ten things missing from Apple’s new iPad:
• Adobe Flash: Who needs Flash, anyway? YouTube and Vimeo have both switched to H.264 for video streaming (in Chrome and Safari, at least — Firefox doesn’t support it), and the rest of the world of Flash is painful to use. In fact, we think the lack of Flash in the iPad will be the thing that finally kills Flash itself. If the iPad is as popular as the iPhone and iPod Touch, Flash-capable browsers will eventually be in the minority.
• OLED: It may be more colorful, but it uses more power than an LED backlit screen when all the diodes are lit up… It is also rather dim in comparison, and making an e-reader that you can’t use outdoors would be a stupid move from Apple.
• USB: The iPad is meant to be an easy-to-use appliance, not an all-purpose computer. A USB port would mean installing drivers for printers, scanners and anything else you might hook up. But there is a workaround: the dock connector. Apple has already announced a camera connection kit, a $30 pair of adapters which will let you either plug the camera in direct or plug in an SD card to pull off the photos.
• GPS in the WiFi-only model: The WiFi-only models don’t have GPS, just like the iPod Touch, but the 3G iPads do have AGPS
• Multitasking: It will not matter at all to the target user.
• Keyboard: Nobody really thought the iPad would have a physical keyboard… The fact that Apple actually has made an optional keyboard for it is the biggest surprise (apart from the iPad’s base $500 price).
• Camera: I figure this is a cost-saving measure on Apple’s part. Too bad, though, as it is the only thing that stops me buying an iPad for my parents, whom I talk to on Skype. There seems to be no other reason not to have a webcam in the bezel other than price. We expect to see one in v2.0.
• Verizon: Until Verizon switches to the world-standard GSM SIM card, don’t expect to see an Apple product on its network.
• 16:9 Aspect Ratio: The Apple on the back, and the position of the home button both tell us that the iPad is meant to be used in portrait mode, at least most of the time. And a 16:9 aspect ratio in this orientation would look oddly tall and skinny, like an electronic Marilyn Manson. It’s a compromise, and a good one.
• HDMI: There will be video out, likely through the dock connector, as Jobs said during his presentation that you’ll be able to hook the iPad up to a projector. But no HDMI out? How do you hook it up to your HD monitor? The short answer is that you don’t. Remember, there are two kinds of people who will buy the iPad. One, nerds like you and me, who care about things like HDMI and also already own a computer that can do that. And two, people who are buying this instead of a computer. Those people will probably still have DVD collections, or even VCRs. They don’t even know what HDMI is.
Read the full article as it contains fuller explanations of the ten points than we could excerpt. Check it out here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Baron Von Raske” for the heads up.]
iChat web cam is my only disappointment about this device. Otherwise, it looks amazing!
Sheesh.. it isn’t supposed to solve every problem or be the device for every need. Also, it is a first generation device. I bet many of these complaints will be solved eventually.
Try to find a comparable device for the price…
The iPad will do well (I want one!)
HOW IS BEING A BIGGER IPHONE RESTRICTIVE SOMEBODY TELL ME PLEASE.
I don’t think the camera is cost cutting. It’s very cheap and hardly hits the battery. I think it’s to avoid people trying to iChat over 3G and crashing the networks, thereby sullying their experience of the iPad (as many will attribute failures to connect and block-o-vision to limitations in the device, rather than the carrier). A brief review of the problems caused just by iPhones for AT&T;and O2 (over here in Blightly) would seem to point to that conclusion. Expect a camera to appear when the carriers can handle the bandwidth without disgracing the product.
I am gutted, though, as I was all set to get an iPad for my mum to use on the broadband wireless (so no bandwidth issues and she can’t get on with a mouse), but given that one of its main functions was to be iChatting with her kiddy diaspora, the lack of built-in camera is a bit of a deal breaker currently.
Lack of isight is the biggest drawback for me. The iPad might be fine for millions of people, that’s great. But I will wait for the camera version 2.0.
Now worries, I have a MacBook Pro to keep me busy in the meantime!
I agree with almost all of this article. The thing I disagree with the most is the last comment about “two kinds of people that will buy the iPad.” This is a terribly narrow and simplistic view of Apple’s marketshare. To put the entire world (many of which are potential Apple customers) into only TWO categories is wrong. All types of people will buy this device… and I believe it will be a huge success.
The one thing I do agree with the most is the lack of a camera for video chat is a HUGE negative. I was looking forward to buying one for my grandma and at $15/month having a way for the great grandkids to skype with her. In fact, I just realized that it was most likely an intentional omission because it would overwhelm the already lagging 3G network. When the networks catch up, cameras will soon follow and EVERYONE will buy one.
Would really liked to have seen GPS for the turn by turn nav apps. How great would it be to plug the ipad into my car and have that 10″ screen guide me.
I think that multi-tasking will be introduced with iPhone OS 4.0 The camera really isn’t that big of a deal, you won’t want to use it as a camera and most people don’t video chat.
I’m looking forward to watching the iPad mature. Remember, the first iPhone didn’t have third party apps.
The iPad is a platform. It’s gonna be fun to watch.
Multi-tasking won’t matter to the target user? WTF, am I not the target user? And if so then who is and why wouldn’t they appreciate the chance to run Pandora or an radio app for their favorite talk radio station while browsing the web and checking e-mails? Would this feature go unused if it was offered? I highly doubt it.
I hate shit like that. Whenever Apple leaves something out, it doesn’t matter, the people who want it are all stupid. Then when Apple finally adds it, it’s the greatest thing ever and we’re expected to drop to our knees and thank the heavens that we finally have it. It’s like SteveJack telling us that the iPhone didn’t need to record video, then low and behold Apple has a commercial showing us how amazing it is that the iPhone 3GS records video.
I’m beginning to feel like the Apple fanbase really is a cult.
People are like children…. I waaant my caaaamara
think… It’ll record how many hairs u have up ur nose
Why is multitasking such a big deal? You can’t work on more than 1 app at a time. It saves battery life and let’s the app running run faster if you don’t have multitasking.
Will you be able to share your main iTunes library? (stream) or will you need to sync everything?
Your excuses for the missing features are pure sour grapes and lame.
Well, it’s unanimous- the lack of a front-facing camera is a deal breaker. First adopters will be out there in droves, but I will buy one for my daughter when there’s a camera so we can Skype.
It’s a no brainer. Maybe AT& T can’t handle the load, but there are other carriers around the world who can- no reason to punish them for the faults of one (albeit big) carrier…
@R2: Hey get a grip! You just don’t understand Apples philosophy…. 1. They spent more time extolling the speed of the chip than any other feature, 2. The OS is based on the iPhone OS, 3. The iPhone OS is multitask capable, but disabled for 3rd party apps due to concerns of processing power & a drag on the battery, 4. The next feature highly touted is the amazing efficiency of the new A4 Chip, which no-doubt solves the multitasking debate. So, as they say in TV land…. it’s in there. Apple chose not to announce it just yet for reasons of their own, but they would not build this device without a true multitasking ability…. It’s Apple, just hold on you’ll see.
This IS a first generation Ipad after all. It is possible that these things will be added later. Hell, the Ipod did not have a video or photo camera until the 5th generation.
My biggest complaint is that tethering wasn’t announced. AT&T;needs to make this happen, at least for an iPhone/iPad connection only. I don’t see the need to pay $130 PLUS 15/30 per month, when my iPhone is sitting right there beside my iPad!
I despise Verizon, but I would love them to get on board, if only to kick AT&T;in the butt!
Cereal port for Applejack?
Call me a corny flake, but I am one of those fruit loops that that gets his kix from being special, K?
Cheerio
@R2
I agree.
I will probably buy one of these devices down the road – perhaps v2. But right now it’s not compelling for me, just as the Apple TV is not compelling. For me to buy it it would have to have a camera, multi-tasking and also some form of sharing in the data agreement. Why pay for data on an iPhone and on an iPad ?
Steve himself said it’s intended to fit between the iPhone and a laptop. Well, guess what, at home I have both, and when on the road if I want to do work I’ll have my laptop with me. If not, I’m happy watching movies or reading books on my iPhone. Other folks will have different needs. But I just don’t see this thing selling anywhere near the 75 million of the iPhone and iPod Touch. I see it appealing largely to those who have neither an iPhone or a MacBook. We’ll see…
And why wouldn’t this work for the iPad:
http://www.bt-1.com/
As far as the camera…. BFD!!!! it’s a simple $20.00 add-on device, and their will be a market for these until apple decides to include it integrated into the device.
I think the iPad does what it does very well. The user interface is great, all the apps it uses seem very nice, the weight and pricing are both attractive, the data plan for the 3Gs is a great.
However, I think they missed their mark, mostly due to current technological limitations. So, they were not able to create the novel space that they obviously wanted to create (I disagreed with Jobs when he presented the list of things at which is was better than either the iPhone or a laptop). Of course, like all devices, it will get better, but the iPad is likely to have major advances with nearly every iteration. What they are obviously aiming for will be great, it just hasn’t reached the mark yet.
So, everything they accomplished was done well. That does not mean that certain exclusions were good. In particular, the two below:
USB: the logic on the response is poor – if USB really complicates things too much, why even give the option via a dongle? The reality is that the iPad is not being positioned as a tablet version of a laptop. It is really a larger iPod Touch/iPhone. It is clear that people love the experience of those devices, but it can be limiting. Right now it is not technologically feasible to make an ultraportable that is the computing equivalent – weight, battery life, etc are all problematic for staying in their weight range.
Multitasking: to say it is not a dealbreaker for at least a decent portion of the target audience is a denial of reality. It is a deal breaker for my wife, who both would like one.
While I do not think Apple’s near term goal is to make an iPad that can do everything a laptop can, printing/scanning/uploading from camera, etc, all fit in someway. However, the multitasking is something they are clearly working towards incorporating. I do think it is the right choice to emphasize the factors they are (battery life, weight, etc), but when they can incorporate multitasking into that, the iPad will have a much broader appeal.
For those who keep saying wait for version 2 for webcam. Word of caution to you. Don’t put your hands on this thing. Yes when you get your hands on YOU WILL WANT IT THEN AND NOW.
Just because you say it isn’t important doesn’t make is so. Apple is already at a disadvantage for just being apple. You can’t expect a product with a disadvantage to succeed unless you pull out all the stops, like with the iphone. This is an intermediary that people just wont understand
@BE the same reason that doesn’t work with the iPhone
“And a 16:9 aspect ratio in this orientation would look oddly tall and skinny”
You mean like (ISO 216) international standard sized paper A4 used throughout the world is oddly tall and skinny when compared to fat and squat US Letter used in USA?
16:9 would have been lovely though, I was hoping for a 1280×720 screen. 🙁 Still, won’t stop me buying one.
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@BE
Because you can’t install the driver?
@SkyJedi
I get it. That one doesn’t but…
Someone will make cameras that do work with the iPad – hopefully, wirelessly and not through the dock.
Some will want one integrated in the iPad. Some will not. Choice is good.
I like Pandora, but I’m amazed that whenever multi-tasking is brought up, Pandora is ALWAYS the additional app that they need to run. Christ! The iPhone and iPad already multi-task the iPod music player. Music… the one app you CAN multi-task is the one example always used. Don’t you people OWN any music?
I thought an iChat vid camera would be nice and was disappointed that it wasn’t included. And then I realized that I rarely use the one in my MacBook Pro or iMac. It definitely would be a winner for those on broadband, but I don’t think 3G is up to the task. Maybe Apple will add it when 4G networks get up and running.
Who gives a crap about HDMI output? I do wish they had implemented some type of multitasking. I think it would be more important here than on the iPhone
How long before Mophie or someone else introduces a snap on extended battery/vid camera accessory? With dimensions of the iPad it wouldn’t have to be very thick.
Apart from USB and multitasking (a big one I feel), it looks like a machine that will give the staidness of the status quo a serious push in some very interesting directions (as Apple usually does with its superior products). This will be good for all of us because it means better products (well the only way is up for some of them) from apple’s competitors, and hence from apple itself as it continues setting the standard. I wouldn’t be surprised to see an android based competitor with amazon involved out soonish (amazon and barnes noble must be crapping themselves with the iBookstore doing to books as iTunes did to music distribution- them pair are looking into the abyss I’d say). Kudos to apple though for a fine looking device. It will sell by the truckload!
It’s missing a bottle opener, and it’s not as fast as a Cray-1.
Same old shit from the iPhone launch.
It’s so funny- the critics say there is nothing new or exciting- “just bigger”- they are forgetting- multi-touch, orientation sensors, accelerometers, etc- are all Apple’s IP and innovations. The beauty of this device is the true scope of the way it can be used.
Multi-tasking IS important. Hope it’s coming with 4.0 – probably by the time iPad (iTouch!!) is released. I like to take notes, specially while reading. Be nice to swish from the book I’m taking notes from to put them in Pages, whatever. Other such tasks require multi-tasking – hence the f**king word!!!
Camera, conferencing, kinda important. Probably left out because of power usage. Or, maybe in iTouch 2.
Still, buying if I can find the cash. Oh yeah.
The iPhone is not touted as multitaking either though it runs certain apps in the background while using others…
A pen input option would be useful to artists, especially if it could link to desktops running graphics apps. Half the price of a Wacom Cintiq and you get a free computer too.
Apple recently mentioned pen-input in a patent application so hopefully it will appear in the future.
Ubermac said: “People are like children…. I waaant my caaaamara
think… It’ll record how many hairs u have up ur nose”
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Are you retarded? Nobody sounds like a child here. Have you ever bought a product with specifications in mind? My specification is an isight camera before I buy.
The iPad may fit the needs of millions of people. GREAT! It just doesn’t meet my minimum needs yet. But I am confident it will in the relatively near future.
Now whose really being the child, child?
It would be interesting if when Apple adds the camera and GPS to a future iPad if they would also open up for third party add-on cameras and GPS receivers for the earlier versions.
For me it is a great device and it will do well in the market. Also this is a first generation device. A 1.0. I will get one, but not right away. For me it is missing flash support, camera, and usb. Another thing that was not said was a SD Card Slot that is on all the Macs now. These are the 4 things I am waiting for and I am sure that Apple has already made plans to add some if not all to Version 2.0. We will see next year when 2.0 comes.
He’s WRONG on Assisted GPS:
• GPS: The Wi-Fi-only models don’t have GPS, just like the iPod Touch, but the 3G iPads do have AGPS
Apple specs show:
Assisted GPS (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
Cellular (Wi-Fi + 3G model)
He’s also wrong on video out:
HDMI: There will be video out, likely through the dock connector, as Jobs said during his presentation that you’ll be able to hook the iPad up to a projector. But no HDMI out? How do you hook it up to your HD monitor
You use the same AV connection kit that you hook up to your iPhone. It uses the 30pin connector to Component out, that is RedGreenBlue, which can be hooked up to your HD monitor thru a $10 adapter. I’ve done it with my iPhone. The output specs for the iPad are:
Support for 1024 by 768 pixels with Dock Connector to VGA Adapter; 576p and 480p with Apple Component AV Cable; 576i and 480i with Apple Composite Cable
So, it’s 576p or 480p.
Did you know there is a book out on Steve Job’s presentation skills? Business schools are using his presentation skills as a teaching model. Notice how he starts slow and builds excitement throughout…until Oh, and one final thing.
Think of using planned presentation skills to present the iPad, which is a product line…over four years. Years of annual enhancements and new features to stay a year+ ahead of the competition, who hopelessly chase the Apple product. Make sense? People are already talking about version 2.0!
The big thing that it lacked was something different. What struck me during the keynote was the lack of applause and ‘oooh’s from the audience. It seemed like all the presenters were trying to say that the same features that an iPhone has on a larger screen were somehow something completely different.
They kept saying, “all this without a keyboard or a mouse”, but very little was ‘better’ than a keyboard and a mouse.
I’m anxious to see how easily it is to type on. Because that is what I can’t do easily on the iPhone – type a text document or a response like this on a web page. Some sort of tactile response (key clicks) or something that provided more keyboard like response so I could touch-type (notice in the keynote, Steve is hunting and pecking, staring at the keyboard.)
Of course, I’m still gonna buy one. I don’t need no stinkin’ camera.
Mike F. ,
“Would really liked to have seen GPS …”
Did you read the bullet points?
• GPS: The Wi-Fi-only models don’t have GPS, just like the iPod Touch, but the 3G iPads do have AGPS
OK, about these “ten things” the Pad “needs”. Five of them are just so much talking points. Flash, for example, the iPhone is one of the leaders in phone surfing without it. OLED and HDMI – great stuff, stuff that nobody in “this” market has. Yet. GPS and Verizon? Looking for a way to flesh out your “list of ten”? The Keyboard question … did they miss that part of the presentation?
The Camera would be another non-starter, if there was at least ONE simple USB port. The rest? USB and Multi-tasking are highly desirable. 16:9 might – maybe – have made it pocketable.
Apple has to save a few things for future upgrades — say around Christmas 2010 <HOPEFULLY>
The only multitasking I’d want to do is listen to one of my radio apps while doing something else (reading or Web surfing), but once they get the capability for the iPhone it’ll be there for the iPad as well.
As for the camera, I’m not interested — maybe they’ll come out with a version that has a camera but still have one without for those of us who don’t video chat.
re iPad as a “gamechanger”: I knew iPhone, and you sir are no iPhone.
Camera shamera… I like the iPad as it is, but I’d really like to see true multi-tasking (not the generic close and re-open where you left off multi-tasking), printer support (does not have to USB, can be wifi printing), and more memory… I think 64GB is going to fill up quickly, unless Apple soon announces a cloud-based iTunes system!
Will I be able to listen to music while I use the internet apps (Safari, Mail, etc)? That would be a deal breaker for me.
an adjustable “external” camera is a much better idea.
With a built in camera, you adapt to the iPad. With an adjustable external camera, the iPad position adjust to you.
I watched the Quicktime video of the iPad presentation today. The coolest and most innovative part was the description of the iWork suite modified to run on the iPad with multi-touch controls. This is a taste of the future of computing – Apple is showing the rest of the computer industry how to adapt high end desktop software to work with multi-touch commands, for the next generation of touch-control computers.
Charlie Sorrel: Phased plasma rifle in the 40-watt range?
Steve Jobs: Hey, just what you see pal.
F’d Up
It supports your Bluetooth keyboard.
“iPad also comes with Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, letting you connect to devices like wireless headphones or the Apple Wireless Keyboard.”
And here’s your remote
http://iphoneindia.gyanin.com/2009/12/20/turn-your-iphone-into-a-universal-rf-remote-re-remote-control/
next….
What?! No kitchen sink?! No way I’ll buy one…
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…but I might buy two.
Where does the missing camera go? On top of portait or landscape? Pointing to the ceiling when you’re typing with the iPad on your lap? Sticking out so you can aim it at yourself from the different angles you’ll be holding the iPad during usage? I think the lack of a front camera is better than all potential complaints about broadcasting everything but what you want.
What about that Apple patent for turning display pixels into image capture pixels. The display would then become thousands of cameras. That would have some WOW factor.
i might be showing my age, but the ipad is FASTER than the cray-1, which was an 80 mhz cpu. pretty amazing.
Ay Charlie, your brain still shaped for a netbook/notebook.
Charlie, if you want a crazy form of text input you buy one and try text input with your feet.
Charlie, if iPad could make calls you would have spit “many expected some crazy new form of making calls”.
Charlie, Flash is processor abusive and USB is not intended to make computers easier to use.
Charlie, open up your mind willing to see/understand differently please. Buy an iPad first, use it for a month and only then talk about it.
I will agree that the camera is a big miss. If there was a camera that I could use to iChat with (even if only over WiFi) that would be great. Also would like more space (128GB), but that is just me, I would pay for that extra space. I will probably still buy this thing, but I would like to know a couple things…
Will I be able to make my own books to read on the iPad via Pages?
If I am on the road, is there anyway I can grab a document online via my iPhone and transfer it to the iPad? I don’t want to pay for more 3G plans than I have to, seriously, isn’t my wife and I enough?
As a photographer, I would have liked a card-slot of some kind, but I can live without it, as long as the camera cable works.
I can see the iPad being very useful for expeditions where sorting photos and writing news can be done on the train, in hotels, in the pub, etc. The Eepc was promising, but not as practical as the iPad will be.
But what is this Pandora thing? Some relation to Joanna Southcott’s Box? Best not to open it anyway, whatever it contains.
Alex, there is an SD card adapter and USB cable adapter that will plug into the dock connector.
Counting down to jailbreak…
I’m so tired of hearing “I’ll wait for iPad 2.0 when it has a camera for video chat.”
Listen folks. People don’t actually want video chat! Video chat sounds good in theory, but fails miserably in practice. I know firsthand, I’ve had a front facing camera on my Macbook pro for years, used it for video chat maybe 3 times.
Read this article:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1952314,00.html
No camera a cost-saving measure? I don’t think so. Who wants to hold up a 10″ tablet to take photos? There’s already a product that has a camera, it’s called the iPhone. As well, if there was another camera on the front side for video conferencing, that would drain battery more, and you would have to hold the tablet in front of your face so your buddy doesn’t look up your nose. It’s missing a keyboard? The ultra-thin keyboard has been around for sometime now, and can serve as an accessory to the tablet for people who want to type more heavily. Virtual keyboards are only for light work, not heavy work. I think people’s wish lists are not alway thought through enough from a practical and business standpoint. Think of it from Apple’s point of view. Just like you guys to anticipate a tablet, now you complain about what’s missing. It’s the first generation! Give it a chance. We go through this each time a new product comes out, new and better ones will come down the road. Relax. Between my MacBook Pro and iPhone 3GS, I personally feel the iPad would not fill the gap with features that I don’t already have. Seems to be just a cool factor to purchase at this point. But looks like a cool device for reading, light work, and games!
I hate to say it, but this is not Apple finest hour. This product may be a flop and I don’t plan to buy one at least until they address many of the issues above and more. This product is just to limited and controlled. It should be more like a computer and less like a iPhone/iTouch. Where’s the handwriting recognition?! This is a big mistake!
Ditto to the many criticisms about the lack of camera. I, too, won’t be buying one of these until one is added.
What were they thinking?
Anyone who has worked on product development knows that at some point you have draw a line. The Perfect is enemy of the Good. Apple had its priorities, and without a doubt COST was right at the top. Cost involves more that component costs. It includes design, engineering, software development, etc etc. Have no doubt that Apple will pursue perfection with the iPad, but they’ve met their goals with v1. Apple has $30B to give this product time to mature. Hold off if you want, but don’t be surprised when you start seeing these puppies everywhere you go. And get ready for an avalanche of accessory hardware and new sophisticated apps to make the iPad “just right” for anyone.
Like the other readers, I cannot believe that they didn’t include a camera with iChat. That would have pushed the product over the top for me and made it a “must have” instead of a “must wait” for the camera. Yes, it’s very cool, but it makes you wonder what they hell they’re thinking during the design phase.
A camera on the touchscreen side would be kinda difficult to implement. The iPad can be held in vertical and horizontal positions so when you turn it chances are your hand is going be covering the camera.
Perhaps the web cam could be an accessory you plug in. Just saying.
Im getting fed up with all the ppl talking about what the iPad
(or idevice for that matter) is missing. I feel as if Apple has brilliant strategy.. just like they did with the iphone.. they start with an “under-powered,” revolutionary idevice, People go crazy about it and haters talk about all that the idevice is missing… ( I ask myself.. how do they even know its missing.. did they design or engineer it?.. no) .. 12 months later they refresh the idevice and they add *some* of the features the idevice *was missing*, again haters hate and bitch about features that its still *missing*.. 12 months later they do it again.. everybody is in awe but there are still *missing* features and the cycle goes on until eventually no features are missing and they have to completely overhaul the idevice. In this matter Apple can keep they hype and *freshness* of their idevices and continue to sell them over the years. Its stupid to add all the features you can possibly think of and try to top if off in 12 months adding more features thus overwhelming the “average joe” customer.
On another note.. the iPad might just be the tablet equivalent of a netbook and hopefully in 3 years from now the iSlate will return as a full fledge tablet equivalent of a macbook.. one running a fully touch enabled OS X. thus keeping the cash flow.. flowing Just my thoughts..
oh and another thing… im PRETTY SURE the OS in the iPad is not final since it was mentioned it was buggy, and I have seen a vid or 2 with some glitches here and there… so they might make some surprising last minute changes to the UI.. .. I guess we’ll just have to wait
what kind of fan boy wrote this? multitasking not important? imagine reading a book and an IM come in. Or you are in a middle of some IM and you can’t do anything else?
From what I hear about ATT service in USA, actually this will help Verizon sell MyFi’s so it’s a good thing for Verizon
I think the HDMI issue will be resolve by some kind of dock. If you are connected to a TV, you will want some power connected, and also some sort of remote control
As soon as I read the lame argument about Flash Charlie lost all credibility and the rest of the article did not get any better. The Apple blinders this guy is wearing apparently give him such a bad case of tunnel vision he cant see all those little blue squares which I see every day while surfing the web on my iPhone or iPod Touch which makes them NOT a leader in phone surfing. The absurd assersion that the iPad will kill off Flash has to be a joke. Dream all you want but this less than revolutionary and deffeniatly not magical device is no iPhone and it will not kill off Flash. It is a neat but flawed device that will never have enough people buying it to influence anything. One day Flash will be gone and something better will replace it but unless you have your head firmly burried in the sand as Charlie does that is a long way off as too many sites use it and they are not going to change just because Apple has some problem with it. You Tube and Vimeo (as they say in the movies – Never Heard Of It ) not withstanding. That said I will be buying the base model. Why? because I have over 200 iTunes movies and more than 30 different TV series and it beats watching them on my iPhone 3G S 32GB or iPod Touch 32GB 1st gen. But I will be transferring them using my ASUS Eee PC 1000HA 10 inch netbook and Seagate FreeAgent GO 500GB portable drive as the iPad should have had at least 128GBs available as an option. And I will doing everything else the iPad can’t do using my netbook!
Sorry Apple, but no camera, no sale. Skype is waay too important to drop just to get an iPad.
What a HUGE mistake.
How about being MULTI-USER? That would be a nice thing for each member of a family to check emails or sync contacts separately.
I need a bigger pocket
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‘Where’s the handwriting recognition?’
There’s an app for that!
PS: its called WritePad.
Interesting article as well for balance sake.
Jake
What about multiple users and parental controls?
How can it be used as a shared family device if Mail, Safari, Photos, etc can’t be protected?
Does one member have to check email via webmail? Do children have access to everything on the web?
Any info? Am I missing something?
Earphones
i would have liked to see a real OSX tablet, not an overgrown ipod touch.
I don’t think the average user is going to carry this around and use it like a phone where GPS is a requirement, but I wanted to clear up the confusion.
AGPS does on its own imply also GPS. AGPS was invented to help minimize the lag acquiring a satellite position. Technically speaking, without GPS, whatever is supplying the A part (cell towers, wifi hotspots) is not AGPS but rather location assistants.
I think if GPS was not included, they would not have used the term AGPS, but would have said something like “Location Awareness”
In general, unless you are going on a long car ride or plane trip, the iPad will stay in the house. It won’t be used like a phone, more like a portable DVD player/portable e-reader/portable game machine/etc.
Without a camera this is just a Touch with a big screen. Needs a camera to be useful.
The Macintosh rumor mills have been flooded with thoughts of using a built-in camera that works through the LCD screen for iChatting. If this technology takes off, the larger than iPhone, iPad would be a perfect medium for it’s future release. But, lets see an iPad first and then change it from there.
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