Exactly 24 hours ago I received my iPad, from an anonymous courier, at Amsterdam Airport. I have been working with it non-stop ever since.
And I love it.
I love it so much that I left my MacBook pro at home today and am only using my iPad to do work. Yes, I’m writing this post in the WordPress iPad app on my iPad.
But the iPad isn’t all roses and sunshine. There are some bugs, strange effects, missing features and annoyances. I’m not even taking about no Flash or USB ports. We already knew those were missing. This is all new and fresh shit.
For all ya haters out there here is my “top 10 things that suck on the iPad”.
1: You can’t hover
Sounds obvious but is kinda annoying on a lot of websites. One example: on twitter.com the retweet and reply buttons aren’t visible unless you hover over the tweet, which isn’t possible with a touchscreen.
2: Lots of HTML rendering issues
A lot of websites don’t render well. Not just small ones but big ones too. On the right is a screenshot from the Facebook widget on this blog. It is a mess. There are just lots of little interface issues on different websites.
3: There is no ‘up’ or ‘down’
That means you often have it upside down. What I mean is that sometimes you want to press the Home button and it is gone, then you find out you are actually holding the damn thing upside down and the home button is now on top. Same goes for the volume buttons. You end up feeling all around the iPad with your fingers looking for them. I’m sure I will get used to it in time but for now it is annoying.
4: Apps are re-arranging themselves
In landscape mode the iPad shows 5 Apps and in the other view you get 4 in a row. Can be confusing (“Where the hell did that App go that was top right here. Aha, one row down on the left”.
5: No International support?
The iPad works fine in Europe except that you can’t access the iPhone App store unless you have a US iTunes account. For the iPhone I understand that as it is combined with a mobile operator contract so they want to restrict it to countries. But why the iPad? It is perfectly logical that people will buy them and take them all over the world. Music and movies have lots of copyright issues but Apps should just work anywhere. Why the hell can’t I buy Numbers, Pages and Keynote in Europe?
6: No stereo sound?
There are two speakers but they are located next to each other on the bottom (or top? See #3 ) of the iPad. They sound a lot better, and louder, than you would imagine but it isn’t stereo. Why not? Why didn’t Apple place those speakers on two sides to at least get us the impression of stereo sound?
7: No Settings for iWork’s Apps?
There are no settings for Pages, Keynote and Numbers. Weird, because they do have each have a dedicated Settings panel in System Settings. But all you will find there are the version number and credits. I can imagine a lot of little settings I would like to adjust. They are just not there.
8: Wi-Fi is buggy and unpredictable
This is a major issue for me: Wi-Fi doesn’t work as well as on my iPhone and MacBook pro. I couldn’t connect in my 3 favorite bars. In one it didn’t see the Wi-Fi signal at all and on the other one it hang on the login procedure. In the third bar it connected to Wi-Fi just fine but couldn’t receive any data. It works fine on my home and office Apple Airport access points. If I can’t show off in my favorite bars and impress the ladies than what the hell did I get it for?
9: iPhone Apps don’t rotate
iPhone apps don’t rotate to landscape view. Why not? Would be a lot easier to view them that way. Now if the App itself supports rotating then it does rotate within the iPad screen. But you can’t hold the iPad in landscape mode and see the iPhone straight up. Would be nice to have a setting for that some day. Or just a single button that says “Rotate App”.
10: No ‘No-Flash’ indication
Instead of displaying a missing flash icon the iPad just ignores Flash applets altogether. That means you are often not aware that stuff isn’t loading and are staring at a page in disbelief until you realize “Ah, there was supposed to be Flash here”. Sometimes the space where the Flash embed was supposed to be collapses and sometimes there is just a big white square in the middle of your layout. It is confusing and annoying.
Bonus point: People stare at you
This one is as much a problem as an opportunity of course. I was in a popular bar, reached in my bag and pulled out the iPad.it It felt as if the room went silent for 3 seconds, and then we heard the whispers; “iPad, iPad, iPad!”. For the first 6 months don’t expect to sit anywhere in public with your iPad without people approaching you to talk about it and wanting to touch it.
Conclusion
The iPad still rocks. It is an amazing device and for $499 you would be crazy not to get one (if you can afford it). The issues described here will undoubtedly get fixed over time and while annoying are no deal breaker. Did you find any other annoyances, bugs or missing features?
UPDATED: here are 20 more things that suck on the iPad. Via @Danischouten
Very confusing conclusion. As an European (Finnish) customer I simply can't understand what's all the fuzz about that device. Only that it's Apple. And I highly doubt that all of those “issues” will be fixed any time soon. iPhone rocks, iPad sucks.
Well, these are actually the things that made me think twice about buying an iPad. But i think Apple should do something about it.
Think how annoying those “hover” pop-ups are for people using special input devices. If websites drop this kind of behaviour for the iPad then computer users with accesibility needs will also benefit. Same as for clean alt content for Flash elements; if the iPad pushes designers and developers to sort out their non-inclusive methods then all for the better.
In reference to #5, remember that the iPad is going to be a cellular device, as well. Granted, it won't have a phone built in, but it will be tied to specific carriers.
You could make the same argument about the app store when saying that the iPod Touch isn't tied to any carriers, but, since it uses the iPhone's app store, it has to play by its rules. Similarly, I would expect that the wifi iPad will have to play by the 3G iPad's rules.
as regards the bonus point – try to pull out your cock as well, people will stop whispering “iPad, iPad, iPad” ;-)
Most of these 'issues' can be fixed with some updates, the rest just will take some getting used to I think. Or maybe I just want one really bad :-P
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That's it… I'm waiting for the next iPad and or the HP slate (and save myself $100 too)…
Actually you can hover. The “hover action” will fire on an iPhone/iPad if you tap on the space that has the action assigned to it once. It's not completely intuitive, but it should work. For example, on Twitter.com, tap a tweet and you should see the options for @reply and retweet then.
With respect to items 3 and 4, the rotation of the device (which is really annoying at first) can be locked using the switch on the side of the iPad, just above the volume controls. I found that switch to be totally necessary, especially if you set the iPad down on your lap, as the accelerometer that controls the rotation is apparently way to sensitive to changes in the level of my legs (i.e., it rotates this way and that, all the time).
What? …no stereo? …in 2010? no USB? …in 2010? no camera? …in 2010? And Steve Jobs calls adobe “lazy”? …please!!
Impressive that you've already tried the iPad in your three favorite bars just 24 hours after receiving it :)
Despite all these downfalls, the Ipad still ROCKS!
Lou
http://www.anon-resources.at.tc
You are free to rotate the device to any orientation. Once it's on its side you stereo speakers wouldn't be stereo anymore anyway. In some cases it would still be stereo, but reversed. Mono sound is a much better solution if you're not wearing headphones.
Items 1, 2, and 10 aren't problems with the iPad per say (well obviously you can't hover since that's a touchscreen technical problem, but the hiding items until hover isn't).
It's a lack of implementation on the web developers position, and not of Apple's doing. It just means web designers really need to start thinking in terms of touch interfaces and how the interactivity will work with a finger, instead of only a mouse point all the time.
there is absolutely nothing about a touch screen technology that makes hovering impossible. It is simply the underlying event handling program design that determines how touching the screen and finger movement is handled. Writers (who know nothing about application programming) need to stop propagating this bit of ignorance.
Leave the iPad… notebook are more useful.
What lamers. Lame Apple zealots, Steve could defecate in a bag and you idiot saps would buy it. I've seen it and used it, crap. Crap OS, crap expensive apps, not open, jailbreaking still a problem. I'd rather have a kindle for reading quite frankly despite the lack of color its easier to read in most lighting. Crap.
you are ignorant. have you even explored alternatives outside of apple?
apple is the new evil microsoft. bless all you fanboy for catapulting us back to web stone age. well done. morons
I have a notebook, a netbook and an ipad. All 3 have their uses. The notebook is sort of a desktoip replcement for me. I do al of my heavy lifting work on it. The netbook is what I use when I have programming or writing to go on the go, such as on a train. However for my everyday commute, which is an hour in each direction, where I mostly want to read or watch a movie (consuming rather than creating), the iPad is turning out to be the far more convenient alternative.
I guess I have just have to wait to have the product in my hands, because all I am seeing are omissions and problems that would have doomed any other technological product launched nowadays. Instead “the Ipad still rocks”.
You have some really silly ones like the Europe thing. When it is released in Europe those issues will be solved.
You missed the real big one. No Guest mode. This is a device that yearns to be shared. Apple should want as many people as possible to hold one of these things in their hands, but I don't want them holding my email accounts and passwords in their hands.
Yeah its all the fault of web developers. We would not want to offend the messiah Steve Jobs. The ipad does not have features $200 netbooks have. Why am I gonna pay $300 xtra to do less? Thats a question please can someone answer me
“What lamers. Lame Apple zealots, Steve could defecate in a bag and you idiot saps would buy it. I've seen it and used it, crap. Crap OS, crap expensive apps, not open, jailbreaking still a problem. I'd rather have a kindle for reading quite frankly despite the lack of color its easier to read in most lighting. Crap.”
If you only knew how stupid you made yourself out to be with that post I think you would stop talking for a day. Crap OS. The scaled down version of OS X is crap, you're an idiot. Expensive apps, you mean just like how the iphone started before the prices came down. Is someone forcing you to buy apps? Didn't see the free ones? Are you really so dumb? Jailbreaking is still an issue? What, you didn't see the video on day one or you don't understand why they would delay releasing it so that Apple doesn't have a chance to patch it? Seriously, let me know when you have the slightest little bit of a clue as to what you are talking about. Oh by the way, your post screams of jealousy….mommy wouldn't buy you one would she. SORRRRRRRRYYYYY
to look totally cool,
or as the author of the article says it:
“This one is as much a problem as an opportunity of course. I was in a popular bar, reached in my bag and pulled out the iPad.it It felt as if the room went silent for 3 seconds, and then we heard the whispers; “iPad, iPad, iPad!”. For the first 6 months don’t expect to sit anywhere in public with your iPad without people approaching you to talk about it and wanting to touch it.”
thanks to the glorious iPad he actually got people's attention in a popular bar, something he would never have accomplished without that sweet, sweet ipad
Thats because people keep mistaking the Ipad as a laptop or computer. It should have been called the Ipod Touch Plus to avoid this kind of confusion when people find it lacks many of the basic features they are use to.
What about all the sites that use a mouseover tag (for anti spambot defence, etc) , Im guessing since there is no pointer it will not work correctly on these site either.
This list also could have said USB ports, non-replaceable battery, overpriced.
try the web based iPad simulator
http://www.allofcraigs.com/p/ipad-preview.html
for those frustrated with facebook on iPad, i found how to share your links via facebook while browsing the web on safari, on iPad: http://howipad.com/2010/04/01/how-do-i-share-li…
LOL dude!
Andy, developers have nothing to do with it, it all comes down to would you like to spend the extra $ or not to adjust it for iPad or who know what in the world else might access your site. Personally I think adjusting for iPod is a waste of money at this point, there are too few of them and mostly in the US. Their future is still very uncertain.
what kind of loser would bring an iPad to a bar?
I want a built in camera ! Hello Isight!
the orientation point proves that you need to learn more about something before you post wrong information. the screen auto-adjusts to keep the screen up right, so you can use the device anyway you want. if you want it to stay, there is a little switch on the side by the volume, to lock its orientation. maybe you should learn to use your device for more than one day. and no im not an apple fan boy. the ipad sucks other than as a media player, eBook reader and maybe a few simple games. otherwise just get an ipod touch. you wanna just surf the web? get a $250 netbook and call it a day.
You can add: Very difficult or near impossible right now to get JavaScript bookmarklets into the Safari Bookmarks Bar. Since there is no drag & drop of links, or “copy link”/”add to bookmarks” options in the current “right click simulator” menu, only “Open”.
@zee suggested trying to catch them all on desktop Safari, then sync to iPad. Someone who has one should test this, I was merely playing with one at BestBuy.
at this point i say spend the few extra and get a macbook
http://www.freegadgets-laptops.com
at this point i say spend the few extra and get a macbook
http://www.freegadgets-laptops.com
Most of these issues will probably be resolved with the 4.0 firmware that is about to be released. None of these issues seem to be hardware related.
About that first one…I don't own an iPad, but on my iPhone i never use Twitter from the desktop page. I use apps like Tweetie. Tweetie is also on iPad i think…
They weren't talking about the iPad.. they were talking about the douchebag that pulled out his iPad at a bar.
i hope we get it in Europe soon..
1. It is a touch screen device, all these have this problem, not just the pad.
Get used to it, it is not really an issue at all.
Twitter – get one of the very cool apps out there for this, way better then trying to use the site. Tweetdeck – brilliant!
2. It uses safari which is webkits, a number of sites even big ones are not properly created to work in all browsers as they should. This is a designer/developer build issue and these effects happen on browsers on PC and Mac too and/or different issues.
This is not a unique iPad issue.
3. This is a real odd issue to moan about to be honest.
4. Again, odd your being confused here. You shouldn't be.
5. Ipad for the EU and and other contry it is on the way but the way it links to your itunes store is dependent on your itunes account, not the device.
You have the option to change the region in itunes store though (at the bottom) but you pay the currency difference rate based on your account OR not allowed to buy items. Varies from country as people have reported. (Most likely legal reasons and very likely down to the Music and Movie companies more then apple)
When they launch the 3G version it will adopt the same principles as the phone.
6. Read this:
http://www.theipadguide.com/content/did-apple-f…
7. Do not know about this to reply here.
8. True – First versions always have issues, why early adopters on things like this are a bit daft in my view.
9. Screen size
10. You get the install flash icon showing you it not there. Not all flash objects have messages etc that you do not have it set up. This is for the person to add the parameter etc.
The issues are how the flash has been embedded and set up, not the pad. Its a browser, take off flash in firefox or IE and see similar behavior.
People stare at you?
Your holding the first true Star trek techie future tab thing that does cool stuff and is actually very thin and very bright!
Its the future and people will stare at you
It is the first of a number really cool tablets coming out and really showing what the future holds right now.
Its very cool in that regard.
A stupid list of suck things you cover here lets face it.
There are far worse annoying issues with this device then the things you cover such as lack of multitasking, connectivity, not true widescreen and so on.
Early adopters for the iPad have a very cool thing but they been silly. Version 2 or 3 will be amazing and there are other tablets which will be much better coming out very soon.
Never used a netbook eh? I bought one for development, used it for a couple of days while commuting, and haven't touched it since. And forget writing. I find typing on my phone just as fast.
the ipad sucks,
get a nokia n900… you will love it.
#10 “My iPad Review: Cool doesn’t mean Necessity” Lessons learned from previous must-have items which cost too much http://tinyurl.com/yga6p2u
Just copy the code, create any random bookmark, then go back into bookmarks, edit the one you just created by pasting the code in and renaming the bookmark. Convoluted, yes, but faster than syncing.
OK, how do you copy the code? If I recall there was no right-click-like option to copy the link location, only “open”. And trying to copy the text didn't seem to give an option to copy the link location either, of course there could be some sort of trick?
Or do you mean from the HTML source? I didn't even check to see whether Safari on iPad has an option for “View Source”, maybe that could work. If you meant another way, please let me know.
you have to be brain dead to get one of those things with so many bad things. I can get a laptop with better capability than that thing for $499. stop being apple fanboys and accept that they can't win them all. sure their products are good looking, but in the end do they perform like you want them to? I think not all of them do. just go and get a $300 toshiba and stop fapping to the apple
I am an apple user and have been for years, but I don't get why you would use an iPad. Steve Jobs is a marketing genius, he can make people buy things that serve no purpose.
Real reasons the iPad sucks:
1) Multiple Processes: Am I crazy, or is it insanity to have a “PC” that can only run one program at a time. What is 1930?
2) Steve Jobs Intro: He acted like he was giving out the news that we'd cured cancer, and then he just squatted down, squeezed hard, and shat out the messiest piece of crap I've ever seen. Then he acted like it was a privileged for us to be allowed to smell it.
3) iPhone: I have an iPhone, it's the only apple product I could ever see owning. I user it because it's the only smart phone with a full browser, and and INCREDIBLE UI. That being said, I hate my iPhone. I hate how I can't plug it in as a hard drive. I hate that it doesn't support multiple processes, I hate adding music via the worst media management application known to man. I hate how every tiny crappy company in the world gives you drag n drop music for your media player, except apple (and Microsoft, they suck too). I hate that my camera doesn't have a flash. I hate that there is no flash memory to expand my iPhones storage to a theoretical limitless amount. I hate that it's battery cannot come out. I hate that the App store doesn't have try before you buy. I hate a thousand things more about my iPhone. My biggest frustration is that all of those problems are SOOOOOOO easy to solve, and so cheap. It would cost us nothing more to have those features. It's Steve jobs and his anal “my way or the highway” view on his little reality. And the most sick part of it all – you apple fans. You eat it up. You can't wait for Jobs to take a giant shit in your mouth, and then to praise him on a well balanced diet. You can't wait for the next iSuck product to waste your time and money on – it made 150M because they have that many suckers. They're all Liberal hippies too. Show me a free thinker that loves the iPad, and I'll give you a million morons who just want to carry Job's baby.
4), 5), 6) In the post above.
The point is, if you love the iPad, it's because your a sucker. Anyone here gives me some redeeming qualities to match the bad, and I'll send them a gift card to apple.
Here is my favorite part, how everyone justifies it. They all say “I don't want multiple processes! I don't want flash on my camera! I dont' want stereo sound! We just don't want those things, they are pointless.” Give me a break, your fooling yourself.
The device isn't anything but Steve jobs digested Persian salad, delivered straight to your face for 700 bucks.
eerrm , iphone isnt the only smartphone with a full browser infact its half a browser because it has no flash , any phones before the iphone came out had full browsers aswell :)
If a thousand people say “It's not a PC” I'll hunt you down and force you to use a PC for the rest of time. I know it's a tablet.
you can do hover by flicking really really lightly on the (small) button.
i noticed that on my iPod touch when i visited a page of mine that has hover button effects..
but that's a bit frustrating :-p
i wish they would implement the long press as hover/mouseover or something for touch screens…
You just have to lock de rotation! There's a button for that! Do not buy the firts version of an Apple product, that's the conclusion!
Sorry, it's “the rotation”! I'm a french Canadian and sometimes I write de as a the! Oups sorry guys! :P But i'm still good in english, i'm from Quebec, not from France…
It needs support for a mouse. I'm already sick of poking the back arrow and links in the browser. I like it but I find myself going to my main PC already.
ur conclusion makes NO SENSE. the only “update” apple has ever done to anything is just releasing the next generation and charging you even more than you already shelled out. . .I'm sure you must have had all 10 versions of the iphone so far. Have fun buying all 20 versions of the ipad, it doesn't even have flash. . . Congrats though, on your purchase of a big ipod touch. Usually people think “imagine if this were small enough i could take it everywhere and go jogging with it.” This is the first time i've seen a company say, “lets take a very good product, make it huge, and resell it to the mindless minions.”, and they actually made a great profit. ipad if officially the mark of the lemming. Oh, subscript, ipad is 3.2 and they immediately after the ipads release, announced the release of iphone with operating system 4.0. You're already outdated. 8^D
“Exactly 24 hours ago I received my iPad…I couldn’t connect in my 3 favorite bars.”
Atleast 3 bars in 24 hours? Zounds!
If they had called it the iPod Touch Plus, then the Microsoft fanboys and Apple haters would have complained that it doesn't fit in their pocket. The thing about it is, this is very likely an indication of jealousy. They don't have an viable alternative to show off yet, and when something does finally show up, they will hear from the Apple fanboys how those alternatives are just copying Apple or are playing catchup.
It doesn't matter anyway. Time will tell if apple has done it again. At the very least, they've already succeeded at bringing a degree of attention to the concept of a slate/tablet market that Microsoft failed to accomplish for many years.
There already ARE alternatives. There’s a TON of tablets out there that actually have REAL operating systems, ran by Windows (And hacked to use Linux) and the Android OS. Also, Windows is coming out with the Courier, which has a dual split screen.
The Courier project was canceled.
This is one of the best points that I've seen so far. I have to agree with you completely, since I too dont't like the fact that anyone checking out my iPad can launch my correspondence applications. And there have been a lot of people checking it out lately, though I'm sure that is only temporary, as some of them are now interested in getting one if their own, and in turn will increase the number of people who have one to check out.
Wow, you really are mindless aren't you. Apple has a history or releasing new features with their updates. And the version 4 os will be simple download from iTunes, which will be installed onto the current iPad, so, I don't see how they are outdated. Additionally, there have only been 4 versions of the iPhone.
Moreover, was the iPad ever intended to fit in someone's pocket? It's far more than an iPod Touch, especially considering that the applications for this thing are superior to their iPhone/iPod Touch counterparts.
I'm not sure if you were trying to be sarcastic, trolling, or if you are just simply retarded. Keep rehashing the Apple Hater sentiments. We'll see in a year or so if this thing is a success.
if you still can say IPad rocks, only rocks are those filling your head
ooh clever. Did it take you all night to come up with that one?
#11 They put in a worthless ARM processor that belongs on a phone. If they opted for an ATOM processor, then it could've run a full blown operating system and not just be an overgrown phone. I would have personally taken 4 hrs less battery life in exchange, or have a slightly less thing tablet.
Something tells me there will be another generation of iPhones that will benefit from the research and use the same or new and better ARM (or custom designed A4, I'm sorry) processors that will be funded by people who buy iPads. I think they had to figure out a way to pay for their foolish purchase of a semiconducter company. What better than some loyal Apple consumers that will buy anything?
THEN the coolest part is the future generation is going to be “better” they're going to use an ATOM processor, watch. They'll down play it as “well, ATOM processors got better on battery usage and speed and they weren't ready for the iPad before, but now they are. We still use our A4 processors which are better than ever, they're in our brand new iPhone!!!” …… “So would you like to buy a new iPhone AND a new iPad today sir? Great!”
That's same song and dance that they have pulled for years. I don't know how consumers fall for it year after year. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind using an Apple product. I think they do a good job but it's the way they over price things and how they could do better with products but don't until future generations intentionally so they can harvest even more money from consumers. It's robbery. That's why I don't like Apple…But, if you give me one, sure, I'll use it. I love gadgets.
People the Ipad was not developed for the gaming or business community! If you need a quad four processor get a desktop! If they only would have installed a V8 in the “SMART” car! (it makes no sense) The Ipad accomplishes its mission, microsoft and the rest of corporate computing company’s do the same thing “upgrade”. The AMD athlon runs to hot in laptops which over heats when to many apps are running. I just tossed an HP with that piece of shit processor! Apple just has the knowledge and “nuts” to develop great looking and industry leading products. Lets talk about “greed” bill gates! If you put out a shitty OS “vista” everyone will be begging to change “windows 7! FUNNY!
One thing that I find really annoying is that I don't have an iPad.
Sorry for $499 plus accessories its not a good deal. For $499 I can buy a 15.6″ laptop with a Intel Core i3.
Your paying too much for such a handicapped pretty piece of hardware. For $499 everything thing should just work and from what it sounds like Apple cut some corners to make their usually profit margins.
It just sucks to be a early adoptor. I suspect the next generation iPad will have much of what user wanted in this one.
The apps on my IPAD destroyed the toshiba netbook I have and its not cool having a miniature laptop! Also its a TOY not a TOOL!
are you crazy its a big piece of shit. i have an iphone 3gS. I hate that every site i go to doesnt work because they ALL USE FLASH IN SOME WAY. What kind of browser experience is that? Its pointless. Buy a 200 dollar net book instead. oh ya no camera… what good is an ipad that you cant use skype on to talk on video or google talk video. JUNK JUNK JUNK. This will be the beginning of the end for APPLE. I smell 1989 all over again. The rise and fall and rise and fall of apple by steve jobs. you can buy it on itunes and read it on your 800 dollar ipad. I think I'll wait for HP with MS or any of the Android or Chromium OS tablets that will render flash for a true internet browsing experience. Anyone with an IPhone who uses it to surf the web would never buy this junk box because they have definitely tried to surf the web without flash. JUNK JUNK JUNK….. DIE IPAD DIE…
Clown!
Crazy not to get one? That's absurd.
My $500 netbook flat out destroys an iPad. Well, except for that part where I want people to stare at me aspect that people buy the iPad for and take it to crowded public places.
You said it all
Reminds me of the movie MULTIPLICITY with Michael Keaton. After his clones cloned themselves, the byproduct was a retard.
The iPad is an oversized iPod Touch. It's not orginal nor impressive. Quite frankly, it is a pitiful attempt by Apple to repackage an existing product. Apple has lost its edge if this is the kind of innovation they are now fostering in their universe.
There is a large gap between what many HOPE the iPad will do and what it actually CAN do. Tablet PCs have been on the market for many years and promised many of the same things. The limiting factor has been (and most likely will continue to be) software.
I've listed another 10 reasons the current iPad will not be significantly deployed in healthcare if you have the time.
Thank you Boris.
I am thinking about getting a new laptop to replace my old one. Ipad got my attention, it looks so great and seems to do alot of good things too. But I need a real OS where I can install my p2p software,online movie player and music player. Ipad doesn't allow me to do any of that. I think I will hold back abit and see what other choices are there.
It a big version of the iphone that you cant make a call on.
Buy a real computer and quit paying apple to restrict your creativity.
Look at that thing, Oh it looks nice but it is completely useless as a business computer or one you would run say Maya or 3dsMax on.
And the keyboard……………….. how can you touch type on something you cant feel the keys on??
No USB inputs? WTF?
It sucks… nuff said
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one bad thing about all apple products is that you are locked to use itune and iphoto fo everything, when you shoot some photos and you can't pop the SD into the ipad to view the photos, you must go through mac or pc then itune spend hours copying it to the mac first then another 1 hour to the ipad.
aother bad thing about all apple product is that they are good when new, after the warrenty and applecare expired it will be very expensive to fix even small problems
I have a problem with my Ipad that I received outside the US sealed in box. The Volume button only works to increase volume. Lowering the Volume is not possible with mine. Is it a software issue?
What kind of person has absolutley no personality or redeeming qualities and thusly needs to pull out an iPad in a bar to “impress the ladies”? Is it a requirement that one must be a virgin to worship at the temple of Steve Jobs?
Erm. PC's can be Tablets.
You can find some cool ipad wallpapers here if you are interested: http://www.ipadthemesworld.com
The ipad sucks. My girlfriend dripped cum all over it and the screen got really sticky and unusable.
Seriously. Don't watch porn while fucking your girlfriend.
Well, thought I’ll buy one today, and give up my Mac Notebook. Too bad, so sad, I am not spending anymore on worthless CRAP, that I just read up there…One program at a time??? GET A LIFE. And, the price is obstinately absurd! You think people are going to afford this kind of stuff in a bad economy??? Give up computers for this??? I don’t think so. I went to the mall yesterday, and this guy explained “Oh yeah, this will definitely replace PC. PUH, I don’t think so. They just want my freaking money, uh uh sir…You failed. Ipad Failed…Seriously. Stay with PC, or Mac.
Okay well first of all, i need to settle a few things. To all those who think an iPad is a smaller computer, it’s not, so of course your not gonna get more than one program at a time! And for you people who thinks it’s just an enlarged iPod Touch or iPhone, then you are wrong too, it’s not gonna fit in your pocket, it’s not an iPod, that’s why they didn’t call it ‘iPod’. DUHHH. It’s not an iPod, it’s not a computer, it’s in the middle of those two. It’s not original, i know that, Apple knows that, they wouldn’t of designed it to look just like an iPod Touch/iPhone if they wanted it to be original, or one of a kind. There are some faults, but there are some upsides that the iPad has that makes up for the faults, which makes it an amazing thing to buy. $499? Those who are questoning the price, a single phone from Apple costs more than $300, then a phone plan, so how can you be surprised about something that is from Apple and is so much more than an iPod costing a few bucks more than an iPhone.
I had to do that /\ quickly yesterday so it isn’t too good, but i’ll explain more about what i was saying now that i’m free:
Again, it’s neither a smalled computer, or an enlarged iPod Touch/iPhone. Too many people are thinking that it is one of them, so they are comparing it to them, and making it look terrible! It is neither, it is in between, only better. The people who think it’s a smaller computer, read this; You think it’s a smaller computer, so you complain that it doesn’t have multitasking, that it doesn’t have flash, yahdayahdayahda, it’s not a computer, so it’s not going to have any of those things. Now to the people who think it’s an enlarged iPod Touch/iPhone, read this; It may look like an enlarged iPod Touch, but it completely isn’t! You complain that it’s too heavy, it doesn’t fit in your pocket, the boarder around the touch screen is too large, it’s not an enlarged iPod Touch/iPhone, you have to realized that! It’s its’ own product in itself, it may look like another on the outside (and partly the inside) but it’s completely different, and you know it. The reason it has such a large boarder around the touch screen, is so that when you are holding the iPad, you arn’t hitting the touch screen, so it won’t do anything to whatever you are doing on your iPad! And it is large, not too large that you can’t carry it around, but of course your not gonna be able to fit it in your pocket, it’s not an iPod! Get it? Now for the price, some say it’s expensive, some say it’s a little cheaper then they imagined it would be. It’s not expensive, the starting price is $499, which i think is good, for a 16gb Apple product that i will use often, there are iPods that cost almost as much as that, and it’s wayyyy more than an iPod as i have already explained.
So if your gonna moan and groan about the iPad, just don’t get one and shut up about it, but the iPad isn’t all bad, it’s amazing, well i think so anyway. It has some amazing factors to it aswell, isn’t that why Apple released it? Yes of course they are going to make changes to it in the future, but for a first product of the iPad, i think it’s pretty great.
With the new iWork applications, and a default note applications I would imagine, you can create docs. A media card slot would partially invalidate the incremental memory upgrade business model, which is a form of price discrimination that maximizes Apple’s profits. There is nothing revolutionary or magic about blowing up an ipod touch.
I’ve read all of these comments, and nobody seemed to mention the fact of the rest of apple’s crappy tactics(well awesome for them crappy for you) which is that after shelling out 500+ for your pretty paper weight, is that you still have to pay to do anything outside of what came in the box. ‘Course then apple does love their boxes….
And to Maxine. I have a Palm Treo 750 and an HTC Blue Angel. I can multitask with two phones from 2003. The iPad is a bigger iTouch. Just because it’s bigger means nothing. Same OS that will be outdated soon, same layout(from what I’ve seen) same horrible oleophobic screen that you have to clean after every use( BTW apple yanked screen protectors- great idea!!) if you want something that you can actually use to do all of the things that people typically use stuff like this for here’s a tip. Take that 500$ that’s burning away grab a netbook, a coffee, go outside(can’t do that with an iPad) and surf away. For that, you get coffee, fresh air, and a device with an actual filing system(yes everybody BUT Ipod/Phone/Touch/Pad have) 1 gig ish of RAM and at least 160 gigs of ROM. While this will be dismissed as Apple smashing, (ohh Apple sauce!!!) I’m just getting at the point of, from a technical aspect, I don’t see anything new from 10 or so years ago.
Sorry but I disagree- the iPad is overpriced, limited and not as good as a tablet PC or netbook.
My $500 Acer Ferrari Netbook has 4Gb of RAM, 260Gb hard drive, is only 2 pounds and light and can run circles around the gaypad
Im sorry but the Ipad isnt worth the $$$. And the guy who wrote this is a retard.
This list sucks. It amounts to subtle trolling for the iPad. I mean that in the sense that, by coming up with a list of 10 relatively minor problems, it gives the false impression that there aren’t much more significant issues that need to be fixed. In fact, as any user of the iPad will attest to, there are. Come on, these are obvious:
1) Lack of USB / Firewire support
2) Lack of a camera of any sort (let alone a proper front-facing camera)
3) Failure to implement flash, again. (Sorry, no one is buying the HTML5 argument. Maybe in 3 years. As of 2010, if you don’t have flash, you have a half-baked browsing experience. Lack of hulu alone is a deal killer)
4) No killer apps. The iPad has the potential to be much more than an overgrown iphone, but the suite of apps that Apple is bundling with current iPads isn’t going to enable it to be anything but that. Besides resolution improvements, there is very little difference between what apps are available for the iPhone and what apps are available for the iPad. Yes, we get it: bigger screen. But, at least currently, there’s no real point to the bigger screen.
At a minimum, these four things need to be fixed for the iPad to achieve some form of mass market status. And a drop in the 3G price wouldn’t hurt either. I anticipate that they will be addressed in the iPad 2. (Other than, maybe, the Flash implementation).
Why the aggro? Ok, so it’s not a laptop and it’s not a phone, so it’s a new thing which we’re simply going to use in a new way maybe that doesn’t currently exist?
It sounds like people are excited by the ipad because they get that it’s offering potential to be something different and fun. A new lifestyle toy?
If so, you won’t get it until you get it.
Sounds fair enough to me. Get one, enjoy and explore. Or don’t get one. :o)
Wait, you can’t multitask on this POS. WTF. I have the blackberry Storm 2, and that thing multi-tasks like there is no tomorrow. Music while browsing the internet and talking to friends all at the same time, plus more. And what is more sad is the fact that my Phone has 1. Better coverage 2. better battery life 3. better OS 4. faster 3g 5. touch screen keyboard worth typing on 6. oh and it’s a phone. What more could you want.
It’s Quite sad that the all mighty iPad just got showed up by a blackberry. And my phones CPU is only 400 Mhz slower then the ipad, which is an underclocked speed. Stock speed of the iPad is 1Ghz, stock speed of my Phones CPU is 800Mhz downclocked to 650Mhz. WOW FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Well…i live in Brazil and here if you take an iPad (or any similar device) for a walk on public places you are bound to be robbed.
Since the main feature of the iPad seems to be making people look at you in public places, I guess it won’t be of any use in here.
Flash problem will never be fixed.
these people are retarded
im not an apple fanboy but im definitely going to give my 2cents purely because you people dont get it
1) do some research before you give it shizz – multi tasking is coming out on iOS4 (which is completely free) along with a whole bunch of other features and perhaps you could look at the apple site and learn these things http://www.apple.com
2) its not a laptop, to the dude who said that you cant run 3ds max or maya on it….most laptops cant run high end 3d modeling programs and even if they could they are to hard to use it with unless you want to buy a bunch of extra stuff
3) ive browsed the web on one and it was fine didnt run into any problems and all the decent, major video hosting services are starting to use the html5 h.246 codec which runs on the iPad and all other apple products
4) try browsing the web without flash for a bit then see what happens without flash…you dont miss much – yeah i’d like apple to start using flash but its not a deal breaker for me
5) as a blogger there are sites i need to grab content from and the iPad doesnt make it hard at all + there are heaps of apps for all the major blogging platforms
i recommend going to a store and spending half an hour playing with an iPad and im sure you’ll enjoy yourself
also
quit calling it a laptop
Its still a useless pile of sheez. for one, its really a blown up ipod or iphone. You cant do nothing on it so much than play games and browse the web, Its all about browsing. Its amazing to touch yes, but it stops there.
Have you ever been in an area whereas there is no wifi? ipad will fail you-nowadays, we have this ‘USB plug in modems’ which you can use just in case there is no wifi hotspot. I bet ipad doesnt support one, after all, its not your so called computer nor is it a laptop. How convenient could it be…
Limited hardrive space, wow how I wish I could bring an ipad with my files on it-but no there is no way you could put files on it. Ok, there is always a wireless way to do it via a server! but no you need wifi again!
I guess the ipad isnt for me!
well buddy…theres a 3g model in case you’ve been living under a rock
also
yeah it has no USB ports unless you use the dock USB converter which comes in the box so you can use a wireless modem but once again i dont see why you wouldnt buy a 3g one and go on one of the pretty decent data plans going around
you can bring your files on it, true there isnt any office applications that run on it as a program but there are plenty of apps worth the money if your going to be typing out documents
and limited hard drive space? if you need so much space get the 64gb iPad and that way you’ll be quite alright storage wise
and judging by the language your using im assuming that you havnt put much research into it and that your just going by what you hear around the water cooler so perhaps you should put some research in, go use one and then make an educated opinion on the matter
1. 3g isn’t that great, it rarely works around here
2. 64g is nothing :| I hate how Apple thinks that even 32g is a lot, but 32g is also nothing.
depends on the 3g carrier your with telstra is good for it but i hear optus is a bit sub bar
64gb is plenty for what your doing which is mostly using apps or browsing the web
Anyone one who is saying bad things about the ipad is right. but… the only problem is that they’re comparing it to netbooks and eReaders and tablet PCs. is what they dont understand is that the ipad was not designed to be any of these products. it was designed to be a new category of device between a laptop and a smartphone. to most people, its a netbook but apple didnt believe so. so they created a device that an average computer user would enjoy. its not for anyone who pirates apps music, movies and tv shows… although jail breaking opens some interesting possibilities.
anyway, the debate on what an iPad is categorized as will probably never end. but i think it’s a mixture a dash of PSP, a sprinkle of kindle, a pinch of portable DVD player, a shake of netbook and a great big handful of everything else you want… but, that’s just my opinion and most of the haters are right too; if they have there research done right. ;)
Multitasking is coming iOS4, the future is here!!! WTF!!! I have multitasking phone for 5 years now and Apple is making 1 now? a little late don’t you think?
If you watch Jobs’ keynote on the 1st iPhone, they were making fun of the other phone OS with crap running in the background. Apple think people are stupid and can only use 1 application at a time so they made single app OS.
On another note: if you have a smart phone and a laptop, where the hell does the Ipad fit in? what can i use the ipad for? Well, I can definitely use the level app to do construction and use the Ipad to hammer the nails in.
to zklone
1 – multi tasking as a general rule is unstable, i know they’re implementing it now but that doesnt mean it is a good thing
many of the problems with computers is that multiple processes running in the background mean that it is easy for malware to run itself in the background where an app means that all programs running are visible and your phone/pad will run in a stable manner
2 – maybe the iPad isnt for you and thats up to you whether or not you want to spend the money on it, but if you do choose to get it you have to consider that there is no warm up time and for quick browsing that is pretty great + the screen is bigger than your phone therefore you can actually experience the site rather than trying to read something in tiny print
perhaps you should have a look at the roughly drafted blog and youtube channel because im sure you’ll learn a lot about the iPad and myths about it
also, i think you should have a look at an iPad in a store and not just dismiss it straight away because you dont want to be proven wrong.
So you are telling me that my blackberry is unstable? and my Pentium 2 web server running for 15 year is unstable? and the iphone/pad never crash? and what made you think i haven’t been to a store to look at an ipad? Dont get me wrong, I think that Macs are great systems, I got a Mac Pro for work and a notebook for home. And ipods are best music player out there. But the ipad with iOS3 is pretty just a piece of crap.
If do pick 1 up, I’ll be sure to install Linux on it so the usage is worth the $500.
BTW with 64GB is more then enough, but without usb kinda sucks. Im sure someone will come up a storage device using the bottom pins, people just have to pay more.
And please Steve, don’t make fun of something then go an build 1 later on.
think of other mobile devices this way
you want to update your idevice to ios4
what do you do?
plug your device into itunes and it all works from there
because of one developer there is no trouble here and everyone updates easily
with other mobile platforms mainly android there are so many different phones that require updating and the amount of phones means that all the screens will be different sizes and ratios therefore the UI might look completely different on different phones
this creates problems for both app developers and the os developers
Apple restricts itself in options but delivers very well on what they promise
theres no point in promising to deliver something (eg flash) then deliver it poorly and result in angry consumers where they could leave it out and people wont mind as much
The Ipad to me is just a clone of the ipodtouch the screen gets marked up all the apps suck an apple sucks o an the browsers anyoneing as hell
Haig, your a clown
Jdogg is right. It’s a fricken toy. I bought the 64 and with all the accessories (which are useless) I spent $1174. I must. be out of my mind.
I bought the $89 connector so i can use a projector, but then found out too late that the only thing that can be projected is you tube or an iTune video or movie. Toy). I was hoping to use the iPad to access my Saas healthcare software. It looks great on Safari and I was almost impressed, until I found out that the only aps that will allow a “right-click” (two finger tap) is iTunes or YouTube. WTF? It’s a toy! The most expensive toy I have ever purchased.
#9 it depens
#4 they don’t
#1 you can zoom!!!
4
Yeah they do.
Heh mam the ipad is awesome so fuck you
#11 No translate dictionary in ibooks
My iPad sucks even more I got it at best buy and it glitches a lot and now the photos app turns off my iPad it sucks
about your dislike number 7, a good reason is that the full iWork applications cost $79.99. the iWork for iPad is $30.00 all together, so of course there are features going to be missing. and realize, it’s better than having nothing.