Porn at higher resolution than an iphone, whats not to like
It's just a bit big to take into the shitter
Rubbish ooOOoo I take my 15" laptop.
Not quite what I was expecting Maverick, those bikes are more functional than fashion victim (with the possible exception of the Fisher if you are less than 2m10).
Read my post about ALWAYS buying items for function over fashion... Always have, always will... The Rig was cheap, so I thought I'd try it, and to be fair I quite like it, so it is staying! For me the iPhone was a functional revolution too. To others it's an expensive phone, or worse, a paperweight!
I echo CountZero's thoughts on iTunes too by the way... Good bit of music management software, and no, I've never paid a penny to the iTunes store... And like he says, you have to question those who are saying Apple dictate how things should be done... They have a VERY SMALL percentage of the personal computer market, approximately 6%... Microsoft have over 90% market share! Read from that what you will...
Porn at higher resolution than an iphone, whats not to like
LMAO
You gonna get an i**** then can I assume? 😉
Now when they bringing out a 1080HD version? Just read the specs, and even though it's a 10" screen, pretty unimpressed it's only a 1024x768 resolution...
Will i**** come with an iwipe?
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[url= http://gizmodo.com/ ]"My god, am I underwhelmed by the iPad. This is as inessential a product as I've ever seen"[/url]
I don't get the tiny Flash options - 64 Gb - I have well over 1Tb of films and video - so how is the iPad going to enhance my experience - make me choose a tiny selection and delete the rest?
Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnn.
CountZero, try this; connect your iPod to the computer and transfer the songs from it to the computer.
Apple don't want you to do that.
I can connect my android phone and my Creative Zen and transfer the music i want between the two without any fannying about.
Apple are good, but they ain't all that.
..and as I said, my phone does what this new thing does, albeit on a smaller screen, and it goes in my pocket, and does Flash...
[i]My god, am I underwhelmed by the iPad. This is as inessential a product as I've ever seen, but beyond that, it has some absolutely backbreaking failures that will make me judge anyone who buys one. Updated
Big, Ugly Bezel
Have you seen the bezel on this thing?! It's huge! I know you don't want to accidentally input a command when your thumb is holding it, but come on.
No Multitasking
This is a backbreaker. If this is supposed to be a replacement for netbooks, how can it possibly not have multitasking? Are you saying I can't listen to Pandora while writing a document? I can't have my Twitter app open at the same time as my browser? I can't have AIM open at the same time as my email? Are you kidding me? This alone guarantees that I will not buy this product.
No Cameras
No front facing camera is one thing. But no back facing camera either? Why the hell not? I can't imagine what the downside was for including at least one camera. Could this thing not handle video iChat?
Touch Keyboard
So much for Apple revolutionizing tablet inputs; this is the same big, ugly touchscreen keyboard we've seen on other tablets, and unless you're lying on the couch with your knees propping it up, it'll be awkward to use.
No HDMI/HD Video Out
Want to watch those nice HD videos you downloaded from iTunes on your TV? Too damned bad! If you were truly loyal, you'd just buy an AppleTV already.
The Name iPad
Get ready for Maxi pad jokes, and lots of 'em!
No Flash
No Flash is annoying but not a dealbreaker on the iPhone and iPod Touch. On something that's supposed to be closer to a netbook or laptop? It will leave huge, gaping holes in websites. I hope you don't care about streaming video! God knows not many casual internet users do. Oh wait, nevermind, they all do.
Adapters, Adapters, Adapters
So much for those smooth lines. If you want to plug anything into this, such as a digital camera, you need all sorts of ugly adapters. You need an adapter for USB for god's sake.
Update: Why stop at 8? Here are more things we are discovering that suck about the iPad.
It's Not Widescreen
Widescreen movies look lousy on this thing thanks to its 4:3 screen, according to Blam, who checked out some of Star Trek on one. It's like owning a 4:3 TV all over again![/i]
Just for balance like....
Apple don't want you to do that.
To be fair the reason for that is exactly the same reason why you cannot, or are not supposed to, stick a DVD into your computer and copy it to your harddrive. It is to protect intellectual property. The fact that there are a million and one programs out there to allow you to copy from iPod to a computer does seem to be glaringly missing from your post.
The only reason why creative etc allow you to copy from their devices is they have nothing to protect.
Just saying.
Am I the only one thinking it's just not something that special or mind blowing. And yes I do like Apple products.
I don't get the tiny Flash options - 64 Gb
It's 0.5" thick, tell me how you're gonna fit a large HDD in there?
64GB will be more than enough for most who will use it anyhow...
I want to see Dom Joly with one...[b]"HELLO!!"[/b]
Am I the only one thinking it's just not something that special or mind blowing. And yes I do like Apple products.
As a owner of a macbook pro, iphone and ipod nano i agree. The only thing i can see it being good for is a ereader for books/mags etc. Thing is for the price and the bulk i will just keep buying books and newspapers. It is a bit of a weird one. I would have preferred a cheaper macbook air type device.
If it has a user replaceable battery and full compatibility with Windows applications like WMP11, i'd buy one, but this will never happen.
Apple will continue to vigourously lock their customers to iTunes etc and all other OS/applications will be shut out.
Anti-competiton law suit would sort Apple out, but i guess they would easily find the money to pay a top law firm to defend them and also launch a propoganda campaign.
Shame!
Doesn't actually bother me because there a loads of tablets/slates on the way. The netbbok is evolving into this form factor and there is new chip and display technology that will give 10 hrs of battery life between charges. These tablets will be way cheaper than Apple's offerings and will be compatible with anything worth bothering with. My money will probably be on a Samsung when they ship.
i wouldn't buy it but it looks pretty good.
The video here shows what it can do pretty nicely:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/?sr=hotnews.rss
Basically it's like having a netbook for browsing the web, playing games, listening to music, watching films in bed 😉 etc but without the cumbersome keyboard. Looks really nice to browse photos on too.
i'm a huge apple fan and long time user (20years) but I can't see a place for the ipad in my life!
[i]To be fair the reason for that is exactly the same reason why you cannot, or are not supposed to, stick a DVD into your computer and copy it to your harddrive. It is to protect intellectual property. The fact that there are a million and one programs out there to allow you to copy from iPod to a computer does seem to be glaringly missing from your post.
The only reason why creative etc allow you to copy from their devices is they have nothing to protect.
Just saying. [/i]
But you can copy on to an iPod from a computer but not off it?
Yet you can't download directly on to an iPod....
And the 'intellectual property' on my iPod or Zen or Walkman is **** all to do with Apple.
Nope, sorry it's Apple arsing about.
But you can copy on to an iPod from a computer but not off it? [b]its quite simple, download all your music to the computer, then you don't need to do it back the other way[/b]
Yet you can't download directly on to an iPod.... [b]you can from itunes with a touch or iphone[/b]
And the 'intellectual property' on my iPod or Zen or Walkman is **** all to do with Apple. [b]eh?[/b]
Nope, sorry it's Apple arsing about. [b]I think your making a fuss about nothing, can't say i've ever felt restricted having an ipod and the software beats any of the non ipod mp3 players i used to have[/b]
Only thing I would have preferred is flash support which could still come, they keep talking about it for the iphone.
ps when will singletrack be available as an iPad magazine, I might just subscribe again when that happens.
The letterspacing on the logo is ****ing useless. I have no more too add.
And the fanboys are like fish in a barrel...
i think multi-tasking, flash support etc will come in iphone/ipad 4.0 OS.
and hopefully proper bluetooth support, particulary Serial Port Profile because then I can assign software engineers to it, build some really cool app for my work and justify buying a load of them....
OK "rs", If you have two iPods, you can't sync them both with the same machine unless you go through some convoluted process via the iStore. Why?? It's your music that you paid for on the computer, why shouldn't you be able to copy all or part of it as often as you like?
Apple's thinking assumes you are illegally sharing music with others. It kicks off by distrusting it's customers. No other media player manufacturer operates this policy.
I remember that it wasn't so long ago that all iStore music downloads were DRM protected. How arrogant!
I was considering an iPod Touch for my daughter and have in fact used one of these. They are impressive devices, however to get one with any decent amount of memory costs double the price of a 8Gb unit. There is no 16GB, how convenient! £300 for a media player with no mobile calling capability? And three years later it won't hold a charge anymore.
Apple corporation really sucks!
CountZero -
Tried looking at the restrictions that MS impose on the Zune?
The only restrictions on my Zune (I didn't buy it, it was a freebie) are geographic (as in, I can't use the marketplace). I can even copy music OFF my Zune onto any PC or your PC if we're so inclined.
errr, yes you can. i've got a nano, a shuffle and an iphone syncing up to my itunes. different set of playlists for each one.
oh, and my music library sat on a NAS that anything else on my network can access. it really isnt rocket science.
spongebob you must be doing something wrong 😳
Erm... Yeah I've got mine and the missus iPhones both syncing to the same tunes on the same iTunes. What's the issue?
its tough when fact gets in the way....
Now that i come to think of it, its not just multiple iPods, I can also transfer songs from itunes to my nokia 5800 using the official nokia software (granted not the DRM ones bought on itunes but those are few and far between and there prob is a way around it) 😀
Anti-competiton law suit would sort Apple out, but i guess they would easily find the money to pay a top law firm to defend them and also launch a propoganda campaign.
What exactly would an anti competition suit try to achieve? Telling apple that they can't dictate what operating system is used on the machines that they themselves produce? Why not apply that logic to say Nokia after all you should be able run any phone OS you want. Or how about Sony those guys who force you to use their own operating systems on their games consoles (the PS3 having only just been hacked after 3 years on the market) so that you can't play xbox games on them, the swines.
If software developers want to write software for mac then they are free to do so, hell even Microsoft has version of Office for Mac.
iPad seems like the ideal solution for a non-work machine. I use the same MBP for my work and for leisure, that gets kind of wearing when it's hard to separate the two areas of my life. Now the iPad allows me to do this without spending a whole heap of cash or putting up with some piece of plastic crap that is incompatible with the rest of my gadgets without a lot of fiddling.
Good to see some devils-advocate being played here, but a lot of it seems anti-Apple rather than con-iPad. If you don't like something, don't buy it.
Now, I'm off to play with the new iPad SDK.
crikey:
And the fanboys are like fish in a barrel...
Oh, i get it now!
1. Make argument
2. Have inaccuracies in argument pointed out.
3. Pretend it was all a fishing expedition rather than engage in fact based discussion.
Genius.
Sorry.
iGenius!
I-haterz
As you can see by looking back, I've said I like some Apple products, but it is entertaining to see the almost knee jerk responses when I dare to suggest that some bits of apple software are not that great. Whatever...
anyone else think ipad sounds like a funky sanitary towel?
I like it, don't love it till it gets multitasking and some sort of instant messaging - i guess I can get the yahoo or beejive as I have on my iPhone - but still. I'd also like a camera really, I think they didn't do that for the same stupid reason they dont have a front camera on the iPhone ie data usage of mobile carriers.
Can see it replacing my laptop for when I go away and dont have much of a reason for a full featured, highly specced computer. A book, some surfing, emails maybe a movie is all I need most of the times I travel and it would be perfect! Especially with the connection for cameras -wish it just did have an SD card slot really but oh well so I can empty my memory cards and view the pictures I took on a more substantial screen.
Well personally I find the HMI of my iPod Touch much more user friendly than the poor piece of interface on my Dell Inspiron. The Keyboard is very clunky and the trackpad annoys me quite a lot.
I'm not a total techno freak so don't follow these things that closely. I was only thinking watching something on my Touch the other day that I wish someone would make a big screen version.
I'm ambivalent about Apple, I do think some of their prices are purely cos they get away with charging that much, and not necessarily a reflection of cost to manufacture. But then what is.
I will be very interested in seeing how much this costs, can't see it being much shy of £1k so I'm unlikley to ever buy one. But my Touch experience is such that if I could afford one I'd buy one.
I will be very interested in seeing how much this costs, can't see it being much shy of £1k so I'm unlikley to ever buy one. But my Touch experience is such that if I could afford one I'd buy one.
Starting from $500, knock yourself out 🙂
I remember that it wasn't so long ago that all iStore music downloads were DRM protected. How arrogant!
Arrogant of whom? As has been pointed out countless times, the DRM was at the demand of the music companies. Apple gained nothing from it but a headache.
i wonder how many IT geek forums have crashed through increased traffic since 6pm yesterday, it's bad enough on this 'mountainbike' forum 🙂
Crikey:
Not about sticking to the man, more about not falling for the hype
Who is the bigger victim - the guy who buys the best phone just because it's trendy, or the guy who buys a crap phone because the best one is trendy?
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Spot on DrJ.
I got an iPhone simply because I tried a mate's and thought it was a great piece of kit. I tried Blackberry and other smartphones in the past, but had been pretty nonplussed. iPhone was the first one where it all came together properly.
"Fashion" just didn't feature in the decision at all, but I'm still told I'm a fashion victim and that I should use something unfashionable so everyone knows how disinterested, cool and fashionable I am 🙄