Steve Jobs announced his latest most technologically advanced product so far yesterday on January 27, 2010…so what is it??…It’s the iPad!! That’s right, it’s not the iTablet, iTab, or even the iSlate (as rumors thought it was going to be called), it’s the almighty iPad! Wow, really?…Apple couldn’t come up with less lame and embarrassing name? Guess not, so what can it do? According to Steve Jobs, the “iPad offers the best web browsing experience there is…way better than laptops”.
Flash Support
Cool man, but you forgot one thing…Flash support! How are we suppose to experience the web like never before it this over-sized iPhone doesn’t support flash, what if we want to play a flash game like on miniclip or perhaps even watch your favorite TV show on Hulu, for example. So now everytime I go to a site I’m going to have to see an ugly little icon saying that there is no flash support. Yeah I admit that most of the ads on sites are flash and you might say that flash is old school since HTML 5 is making its way, but meanwhile for right now flash should of been supported.
No USB Ports
Hey man, let me hook up my digital camera to see photos?…Wait a minute, theres no usb slot! If this is suppose to be a hybrid between an iPhone and a laptop, what excuse does Apple have for not including a USB slot? I know why, because Apple wants us to buy a seperate adapter so that they can make more money. Same thing goes with an SD card slot. You have to buy a bulky adapter. Gee thanks Apple, now I can’t transfer my files on to my flash drive.
What happened to the camera?
Wouldn’t it be nice of Steve Jobs to include at least a camera on this “tablet pc” so that we can video chat on Skype? This is one of the main features that I was really looking forward on the iPad. I wouldn’t mind paying a few extra bucks for a 5 mega pixel camera.
Can’t Multitask
I don’t get why the iPad has this new “A4” state of the art processor if you can’t have 2 or more apps opened at the same time. Apple is limiting what the iPad is really capable of doing but why? I have no idea. It would be cool if we can have iWorks opened, working on a powerpoint or something, and at the same time be listening to music on Last fm. My cellphone running Google Android can run apps in the background with no problem.
Same Crappy OS
I am pretty sure that everyone was expecting a minified version of the Mac OSX Leopard operating system. It would of been awesome to install your own 3rd party software and even to be able to do some programming. If Steve Jobs wants to say that his latest creation is better than a netbook, then he is completely out of his mind! Yeah I get the point, the iPad is this really thin device with a large screen, but you can not say it kills a netbook. I am dual booting Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Windows 7 on my $300 Acer Aspire One hunk of plastic and even though it has 1GB of ram, it get’s the job done. I am able to video chat, run Photoshop, and even play Counter Strike Source (I get around 10-30 fps).
Storage Space
16GB, 32GB and 64GB ranging from $499 to $829 isn’t enough space. I have over 30GB of music, a ton of movies and not to mention all the apps that I have downloaded and Apple expects me to fit all that on 64GB of space, for a ridiculous amount of money? For $699 I rather myself I real tablet pc.
Bottom Line
We were expecting a real “tablet pc”, not a blown-up iPhone. I seriously don’t see much difference between this and the iPhone except that it’s bigger. I am not saying that it completely sucks, it’s just that it’s missing a lot of the key features that we all hoped for. But don’t worry Apple, there are always rich folks out there wanting to buy new shiny things with an apple logo on it.
