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ipad anyone?
Blanka:
--- Quote from: Gorotsuki on January 27, 2010, 08:04:00 pm ---Hmmm.
I considered myself
a real gadget guy,
but this thing, and
these cell phones just
don't excite me at all.
--- End quote ---
Don't worry you're not. The biggest problem with this thing is that it's almost the perfect hardware, with crippled software. With a Phone (locked by providers) you can accept crap like no file manager and 1 channel to buy applications. But this is actually a computer with serious working capabilities. So if there is NO FILEMANAGER, NO MULTITASKING, NO USB drive support, NO RAM/SD EXTENSION, NO FILE SHARING, this product wil stay a gimmick for the dumbest of dumbest. It's the perfect OLD people device. You're not OLD. The iPAD is for the OLD.
GaryMcT:
I would have been more excited if it were a macbook scaled down to a tablet rather than an ipod touch scaled up to a tablet. I'm not likely to buy one of these. Some (potential) problems:
1) Adobe Flash may not work
2) Very limited storage compared to a laptop
3) No multitasking (besides the builtin apps like on the iPhone)
4) No global lock on the rotate. That irritates me with my iPhone.
5) Would like to be able to teather to my existing iPhone instead of paying another AT&T fee to connect.
6) I'm concerned about the software model being like iPhone rather than MacBook. I want to be able to freely compile stuff and run it on there without going through Apple or being a dev.
There are other problems that I've had with Apple stuff like the iPhone not doing wireless sync, not wanting to ever be connected to more than one machine ever, etc. Mind you, I have a MacBook and and iPhone and I really like them, but it is still irritating.
mpm32:
--- Quote ---If you can fit a camera into the iPhone, you can fit one into the iPad.
--- End quote ---
If they can fit a camera into the nano, they can fit one in anything.
Just got my wife a nano and I don't get how they put a camera into that tiny thing.
BobA:
It has a camera adapter. It has many adapters. Just another way for Apple to make more $.
It is short on memory but apparently it can share a part of a disk with a PC or Mac. No details on this yet and no info on what adapter you have to buy to do this.
Ed_McCarron:
Apple doesn't want you to have one device to do multiple things. Want to do video chat? Buy an iMac. Want to read stuff? Use the iPad.
Its to consume media, not create it.
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