“I’ll be honest, when the iPad was first announced back in January of 2010 I was one of the people who passed it off as being “a big iPod touch” and I decided I didn’t need nor want one,” Sahil Arora writes for RunAroundTech.
MacDailyNews Take: Tsk, tsk, tsk.
“After the launch of the device I started to see more and more evidence of why it is actually so useful but still I wasn’t convinced I need one,” Arora writes. “Fast forward to 2011 when the iPad 2 was announced. At that point I finally was ready to admit that it’s a great capable device and it’s definitely something I should get.”
Arora writes, “as soon as I started using it I was simply put, shocked… If you’re one of those people who is passing on an iPad because you think it’s just a bigger iPod touch or iPhone, don’t. It’s so much more than just that.”
Read more in the full article here.
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Why I’ll be buying an Apple iPad – along with millions of others – January 27, 2010
I agree till iPad 2 the device seemed more like a toy but with a dual core processor, I changed my tune real quick. Too bad title 1 does not see it my way, even the iSchool sounds silly till the iPad 2 took over. iPod touches are not really the best choice for primary aged kiddos (its too small).
I am waiting for the cloud to take the place of expensive office software like google docs so all my write-ups are in the cloud.
He’s absolutely right. I got one two days ago (finally) and it’s a STUNNING piece of hardware. My iPod touch never leaves my side and now you can take my iPad from my cold, dead hands. I knew what the iPad was capable of but I’m blown away at how incredibly useful it’s already been.
My advice to anyone who’s hesitating is, get it now. I’d definitely recommend the 3G version—the facility of Internet access anywhere and the GPS make it invaluable.
I’m a happy camper!
=:~)
Got iPad first generation at work and now have iPad 2 …. Passed iPad down to grandkids and will do same until they all have one ( wife and I are both passing down so two at a time( and by the time we get to fourth generation we will start agin …..
At $700 or so a pop for ours the value we get at our business is tremendous …..Sold a $116,000 using the photo layout, Customer was so impressed with the iPad he bought one and discovered navigation charts – he flys single engine plane on weekend and loves he got rid of 50 lbs of weight and the constant hassle of new printed charts – iPad was a real game changer for him and flying ….
Queued for two hours and bought the maxed out 3G 64GB iPad on Friday, 28 May 2010 from the Apple Store in Sydney Australia.
Within two weeks I had won work using Keynote on my iPad. And it continues to win work for me…
Been waiting for it since 1996…
Too bad it is closed… no USB ports to export iTunes music on CD or to copy from an external drive.
iOS 5 will change that …..
I agree. Time to move to those other tablets that support disk burning.
Oh wait…
Don’t worry about that. Windows 8 tablets will support everything including Blu-Ray burning, virtualization, server functions. You name it, the Windows 8 tablet will do it. So what if it weighs 3 lbs. and gets four hours battery life? Wintards will be so happy that a Windows 8 tablet is capable of doing 10X what an iPad can do. Exactly like all the other Windows tablets could do everything a desktop computer could.
Remember when the iPad first came out? The skeptics said that the iPad couldn’t do anything and consumers would hate it. Fortunately, consumers aren’t the knuckleheads and jackasses that know-it-all tech pundits are.
If you need to do that stuff, get the right tool. Get a laptop computer. If I need to make toast, I don’t complain that my iphone doesn’t do that, I buy a toaster.
LOL! unfortunately there are ppl who complain when the iproducts toast no bread!
The iPad is supposed to complement the Mac. It’s not meant to replace the Mac. There is a wide variety of things you can do with it but if burning CDs from iTunes is your primary objective then the Mac is a better tool.
I think Steve Jobs got it right by saying that good design isn’t about saying yes, it’s about saying no. I for one am extremely impressed by the iPad’s lack of ports as it allows it to maintain its sleek outline. For edge use cases you’ll just have to use a different tool. That’s just the way it is.
Yeah, the iPad SUCKS! No USB ports, no floppy drive, no parallel ports … migod, how does anyone get anything DONE on these things?!
OTOH, I am absolutely drooling over the prospect of the Microsoft Windows 8, 17 lb., “Slablet”, that will have an ethernet port, a CD burner, and a battery life of 9 minutes!
Damn, beat me to it.
Good. Go buy something else.
Why burn disks? Dropbox and Evernote are much better and supported by most apps.
Why would you be exporting music from an iPad anyway, anymore than you’d be exporting from an iPod, except in extreme circumstances, like losing music from your desktop HDD. It’s not ‘closed’, either, you can copy files to and from an SD card using a card reader that plugs into the dock port. I’ve got one for my iPhone that I use to copy photos from my DSLR to then post onto Flickr or Facebook, without having to drag my laptop out.
What’s a CD?
Too bad you’re an idiot. Wait, is idiot a clinical term or is it an insult? When did “closed” become a non-sense insult you could throw at people without ever being expected to make the actual argument in its defense– like I am not expected to show how you’re medically an idiot?
PS- even the first generation iPad could copy from an external drive. SD cards are the modern external drive for portable systems and Apple sells a connection kit.
Yawn. Another “I was incredibly biased and closed-minded” but for some reason, despite the fact that I “never wanted one” (then why the heck did you get one?), I got one and now – on this particular subject – I am less biased and closed-minded. Yawn.
Wow, a double yawn: I’m impressed.
He should take a nap.
Le yawn
From the article:
I finally got my iPad 2 from my parents as my 18th birthday/graduation gift…
Wait, wait, wait… So when you posted your original thoughts on the iPad, you were a minor? A zit-popping, living-with-Mom teenager?!?
Remind me again why anyone should have given a flying f**k what you thought?
——RM
Yes, because no one under the age of 18 has ever contributed anything noteworthy to society.
Lines at Twilight movies? Musty smelling, greasy faced angst?
You’re intension was to make a joke right? You weren’t actually sticking up for twerpy pre-humans, were you?
Weren’t we all musty smelling and greasy faced once? How quickly some of us forget.
For some of us it’s more a matter of how long ago, not how quickly. At any rate, we get over it when we become adults. Or at least some of us do…. too many others stay teenagers in adult bodies.
There’s a reason they say youth is wasted on the young.
He also said (in the bio) that his first gadget was a Walkman cassette player in 1998. What?? That’s around 10 years after CDs! What kind of a joke is this to post this infant as some sort of tech-savvy commentator? MDN needs to be more selective it seems.
Whoa, somebody sure hates their teenage years.
Well said.
Mozart composed his first symphony at age 6!
=:~)
Yeah. Michelangelo couldn’t have created David any earlier than he did. He at least waited until he was an old man of 25 to create David!
Hmm, let’s see maybe because I have a job and I’ve always taken care of my OWN finances, I have a job and I pay for my own car payments. I’ve been an apple fan since the beginning and I just didn’t think I needed it at the time.
Like I said in the beginning…the people that don’t want or can’t imagine why you would need one are the people that lack imagination.
I remember you saying that in the beginning. I cared deeply what you had to say then and am glad you reminded us now of what you had to say then.
My dad Maxwell of me buying an iPad late last year (yeah I held out)
When I ordered both mine and my moms iPad 2.. He laughed again that we would spend that much money.
Then I wiped my old iPad 1 and let him use it when my iPad 2 got here.
A week later he bought the old iPad 1 from me. Lol
Granted 95% of his use is craigslist and about 4 games… If he’s inside, the iPad is with him.
My sister came over, not knowing he bought it yet, it shocked her that he was not only carrying it around… But using it without needing help.
If you know my dad, he’s not tech savvy.
What about your dad, Bob?
lol.
The above is what happens when you type this up on your iPhone while waiting for your Chinese takeout. And starving…
Should read “Laughed at me” I guess when you miss a space… you get “Maxwell of” lol
Another case of auto correct he’ll. 😉
Come on a USB port means open, not a build in CD and extra weight, I was told thar iOS was to replace OS I doubt this with a closed architecture, this is why some of us will keep a laptop, a camers and an iPod touch rather than a iPad
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and iCloud removes all need.
you dont get it, so why bother..
Your second post on this thread with the same uninformed information. Why? I think iphoneevny has you pegged. (As we all do.)
Or, you could be a ZT® impersonator, in which case you will have to get much better?
PS. Where it ZT®?
So do you also look at motorcycles when you’re in the market for a four door sedan!? And then whine about it only having two wheels and how it can’t carry many groceries.
You know, Apple isn’t stopping any developer from creating software that could allow you to connect a CD burner to the iPad and burn music to it. Just that no one has done it yet. Why? Probably because it’s not practical on this type of device!
When you don’t have one, you do not know
what you are missing …Grab one NOW!
I should have added even Apple put an acc. for other camera on the iPad….
My dad got an iPad1 when they came out because the Kindle doesnt have backlighting which he needed for late night reading. In went to the Mac store with him and he offered me one as a gift and I turned it down thinking I’d never use it. Couple months later I needed a new laptop but since I was doing most of my heavy creative work on my Mac Pro i wondered if i could I get by with just an iPad and save a bundle too and bought a 32GB WiFi. I was waiting for the Verizon iPhone so I was out of the app loop totally. Well… Within a day i was blown away with the iPad and was having fun like I used to when I first got into computing with a Mac SE and hardly slept, went to all kinds of user’s groups and became a total Macaholic! So fun those early days? Getting an iPad was totally reminiscent of those times. I even wrote a couple full marketing plans with Pages. Now I have an iPhone and interestingly having come into the iDevice thing a bit backwards, I’m loving my iPhone and find I’m using my iPad less. But if youre laptop needs are light, you might not need it and find that an iPad (and iphone) is all you really need.
Good remark, but when I buy music on iTunes I expect to be able to make the copy on the support I want, this is why I stick to the laptop.
I haven’t bought much music lately but know what you mean. When I do buy though, i do it on my mac Pro, but buy all my books on my iDevices. Can you even buy or read books on your computer? When I transfer my purchases on to my mac Pro I should learn where they get archived and see if thet are readible there.
As Far as I know, the Books in iBooks can only be read on your iDevices.
Apple really should introduce an iBooks for the Mac.
Granted 99% of my “books” are PDF files.. so i Can. the few actual iBooks i do have, i only read on my iPad anyway. But if i had a mac app to do so… i probably would.
What are these CD’s of which you speak?
So. Trans to comp and burn. Really. You r too much. A tablet that is thin and light will not have ports and optical drives. These r for people that can afford to have a computer and a tablet. And I bet that is not u
“Arora writes, “as soon as I started using it I was simply put, shocked… If you’re one of those people who is passing on an iPad because you think it’s just a bigger iPod touch or iPhone, don’t. It’s so much more than just that.””
I realize he has to write a story, and fill columns, etc, but this is equivalent to saying, “If you’re the kind of person that puts his pants on backwards, and brushes his teeth with motor oil”… I mean..no one is that stupid, stop using this played out strawman argument.
As a stockholder, I applaud anyone coming into the game.
As someone who was mocked for believing in the promise of iPad BEFORE I owned one, I think these Johnny Come Latelys are a joke.
I’m still one that doesn’t see it as different from my iPhone. You all sound much more productive than me. I check email. I surf the web. I play angry birds. That is it! My iPhone does that. If I need something bigger, I’m getting an Air (drool).
It’s cool, I don’t see the “need” other than to be “cool”
I have an iPhone AND an iPad. Know why?
Cause I’m cool………..
Let’s face it. The iPad is just one more way Apple is evilly trying to rule the world. It doesn’t have a keyboard. It only has one button – what is with Apple and one button? It doesn’t run Classic applications. If Microsoft built a tablet, you can bet I’d be able to run my All Night Motorcycle Repair and Tropical Fish Store POS program on it.
The iPad 2? What’s it got? Cameras. Oh yeah. The next Ansel Adams will be using a floor tile.
Tard Troll.
TardTroll sez: “If Microsoft built a tablet…”
Microsoft DID build a tablet, over 10 YEARS AGO. They still sell it. The fact that you haven’t got a clue about its existence demonstrates just how useful and popular it is.
Silly TardTroll.
My die-hard PC-lover sister in law just got an iPad2 for her and her mother. Hell truly has freezeth over.
I copied over a movie for her, showed how to play from the iPad to the TC via the AppleTV, connected to my iTunes home share and streamed a movie over to it.
The converts are coming from all directions now. Some to the Mac, a lot to the iPhone and many to the iPad.
Apple is win-win all the way. My sister in law will probably get something else from Apple soon. Maybe the iPhone. As she said to me, I will need to teach her how to use the evil Apple products. She may hate the idea but in the end the quality and style won.
Praise be Jobs
I seriously don’t get this ‘big iPod Touch’ argument. It IS a big iPod Touch, with kewl stuff added! I LIKE the big iPod Touch! THAT’S one of the things that makes it GREAT! I strongly suggest, if you’ve got the $$$, go and GET the big iPod Touch! It’s incredibly preferable to the little eensy iPod Touch, except it doesn’t fit in your pocket. What’s to argue about?
I bought one for my dad who is absolutely clueless when it comes to using a computer. Got him an iMac a couple of years ago and though he loves it, he has never gotten the whole computer worldview or its metaphors so he has to call me for everything. What for you or me might be intuitive is simply a dead end or roadblock for him. E.g., I just discovered with horror that all the emails I’d be sending him with URL links to webpages were pointless – he had no idea you could click on a link and have something happen. Anyway, I got him an iPad 2 for Father’s Day, hoping that it would make it easy for him to enjoy using the computer without all the hassles of mouse, keyboard, commands, etc. He basically reads news, plays games, does email, and takes photos. I told him he would love it and he was excited to get it.
Fast forward: 2 weeks later and he still can’t set up an Apple Store ID. So he can’t download any apps. He can’t get Facetime working. And I’m not there to help him (he lives in another state). This was the whole point of getting an iPad and now he’s just stuck again. I’m disappointed too. I know Apple tries to make it easy, but I do blame Apple a bit. I’ve been through Apple’s own webpages on how to set up an Apple ID and the steps do NOT match what shows up on his iPad as he walks through them with me on the phone. And Facetime not working is beyond me. I’ve given up and that was one of the main reasons I got him the iPad, so we could facetime each other. Very disappointed that the user experience is this hard because he seems to be the very kind of person Apple should be helping with this kind of product.
And your reason for not taking advantage of the free support Apple provide buyers of their product immediately after purchase is?
Call the support line. After all, you paid for it in the cost of the product.
Cuz first time I ever heard about this. Nothing in the box about that. Thanks for the tip.
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