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iPhat?

iPad is

  • nothing to me

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  • nothing to anyone

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  • something to wait and see about

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  • something I need

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I don't really see what's so great about it really. It's just a slim apple laptop with a touch-screen which is worse if you drop it as it's got nothing protecting it. Also the price is really expensive for what it is and what it seems to do.
I'll probably wait for further generations of it to see where it's heading before I make a final decision, although at the moment I don't see anything that great about it.
 
I can see where Gazza is coming from really, iPod touches and iPhones are easy because the whole keyboard is within both thumbs' reach, whereas you'd need to put this down somewhere, and knowing the sensitivity of the keyboards you could easily slip over to a letter next to the one you intended to hit before you release your thumb/finger with the potential 'wobble', and it always keys in the letter which was last touched before released. I guess its probably one of them things you'd acclimatize to though.
 
This will develop into a good product, look at the iPod when that came out it was nothing more than another mp3, but because of its rapid development it grew into the best selling Apple product ever, everyone pretty much has or had a iPod.


The iPad will catch on, it can be used in a lot of ways and useful to buisness, I could imagine these being the next way for people to collect survey's on the street/shops/museums, making it more simplistic and efficient. But thats how I can see it being used in years to come after some development.

I wans't a big fan of the iPhone at first, thought it was just Apple cashing in on a market, but after seeing loads in action and the development I decided to get one, same as the iPod. So maybe in a few years I could see myself having an iPad, maybe for a electronic portfolio with my photographs on them.
 
Yeah, the large on-screen keyboard is a funny one. I actually find the keyboard in landscape mode on the iPod Touch more difficult to use than in portrait mode, which is weird as it's a lot smaller in portrait mode.

I can't imagine the iPad's keyboard to be usable with both hands and multiple fingers, like a real keyboard, because I'm pretty sure that touch-typists can only touch type when the keyboard gives good feedback, which touchscreen wouldn't do.

I also don't think it's intended for use on a flat surface like a table, the position of the screen just isn't right. You either put it on your lap with a leg crossed to give you the angle (like Jobs was during the presentation), or you hold it with one arm and type with the other (like using a clipboard and a pen). Either way, the "wobble" factor stops being an issue.
 
Haha, I love how the few people defending it are the MASSIVE Apple fanboys who just sit up their arse all day.

I'd ONLY get one if it was bundled free with an iPhone. Maybe. But that won't happen. Apple doing a decent deal? Don't make me laugh.

It'll be a dumb iFad.
 
Although people know my views on Apple, I will post little and do little to 'offend and be an ignorant bastard'...

1) The tablet idea is a 1990s idea that hasn't been picked up well enough. It's good Apple have picked this idea up, though with PDAs becoming more popular and accessible, do we really need the middle step between Laptop and handheld device? Not really.

2) It is just a giant iPhone...but without the phone.

3) The battery life is only 10 hours. I know that in future models this will increase, but what with Apple's quite poor battery history, you should expect to lose 20% minimum capacity per year at moderate use. Not quite good enough at the moment, but plenty of room for improvement.

4) Can you really see people getting this out in public? No. At work or business meetings, yes, but most certainly not in public.

I can safely say I won't be getting one, unless somehow my life depends on it. Yet and other product that Apple has picked up on and refined and rebranded instead of coming up with an original idea...The only notable thing I can think that Apple created that was notable (in fact, very notable) was the creation of the first PC...then they made Mac's...

Ah well. There are my views. Agree or disagree, please respect this is my opinion. I don't want an Apple fanboy on my back like you all seem to do....
 
And how can you do that if you are on the street :)

Martyn I agree with you about the keyboard I just use the standard one as I did not like it in landscape.

The iPad is being taken the piss of all over the place even on Mac forums. In its current form no one can see a real use for it or what it does that current available hardware does not do.
 
Right...


1) The tablet idea is a 1990s idea that hasn't been picked up well enough. It's good Apple have picked this idea up, though with PDAs becoming more popular and accessible, do we really need the middle step between Laptop and handheld device? Not really.
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Depends who your target audience is.
Plus these have been the next 'big' thing for the last year or so now, Microsoft got a head on this and they've had products out for a while now.

2) It is just a giant iPhone...but without the phone.
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It's styled in a similar way to the iPhone as its a tried and trusted design format, so why not use it again? Plus its not a phone, hence why its called an iPad.

3) The battery life is only 10 hours. I know that in future models this will increase, but what with Apple's quite poor battery history, you should expect to lose 20% minimum capacity per year at moderate use. Not quite good enough at the moment, but plenty of room for improvement.
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10 hours is quite good for a device such as this, depends how much you whore the thing. I drain my battery of my iPhone because I often go on Facebook, Twitter, and listen to music, usually using 3G so that drains battery. Same with iPods if your a twitchy finger teenager who changes the track all the time then your going to drain the batter quickly.
But if your casually taking your time with the product it will last ten hours, say if your reading a book, but if your at home surely it would be on charge.

4) Can you really see people getting this out in public? No. At work or business meetings, yes, but most certainly not in public.
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I can see myself being approached by someone in a shop or a attraction to take part in a survey, as this would be a nice big screen and would save people having to fill out forms, just touch screen how they think the day went. My on and off work uses a small tablet PC to conduct their survey's rather than use a paper one, it saves them money on printing and they can collect hundreds of them in a single day taking around 5 minutes maximum.
 
ciallkennett said:
Ah well. There are my views. Agree or disagree, please respect this is my opinion. I don't want an Apple fanboy on my back like you all seem to do....
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:lol:

But I see what you've said Dave. *cough* Fanboy *cough*

;)

EDIT: I forgot to mention that it sounds like a woman's toiletry essential ;)
 
I'm glad there are sensible people in this topic. One thing that bugs me, people are saying in this topic that it has no USB port. So how the feck do you transfer files etc?

In my opinion it is just another crap product that looks shiny and makes apple fanboys go "oh look something new and shiny, I need" :roll:

Dave mentions that people use tablet PCs for questionnaires to try and make the iPad sound like a good idea for exactly the same reason. Umm, think about it. Why would companies spend £600 odd on an apple product when they can already get PC tablets which do exactly what they want already for about 1/4 of the price (I'm not sure how much they are, I'm guessing around £200-300 mark). Sounds like a silly argument.

Also the only people who commute into work who would buy and use these are people with too much money. I see loads of people using blackberrys, ebook readers (slowly becoming a big thing over here), laptops, notebooks and iPhones. So if people are already using products that do exactly what the iPad does (probably better too), why would they fork out £600 out on something else?

I don't understand why Apple think it's really special. Windows recently announced their latest tablet PC with HP and it apparently does everything you would need it do (I haven't exactly read up on it yet) so what makes the iPad so special?


Have I missed something or is this product just really useless and crap?
 
3) The battery life is only 10 hours. I know that in future models this will increase, but what with Apple's quite poor battery history, you should expect to lose 20% minimum capacity per year at moderate use. Not quite good enough at the moment, but plenty of room for improvement.
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Thats the biggest pile of SH.T EVER!!!!!
 
^ I can help him with that...

My 5 year old iBook still have 84% of it's original capacity left...
 
These sort of things are nothing to me.

I'm unlikely to ever buy one and, to be honest, Apple's dominance over this market is starting to bug me slightly. Nothing else ever seems to get a look in.

Oh well, I guess they're no point complaining. However much I don't want to own one, I bet it's one of the most satisfying things to use.
 
I guess, I was just wondering if you'd actually igve a reason for what Cial said instead of you just fanboying out as usual to apple products.
 
Is it appropriate to bring up this?
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BnLbv6QYcA[/youtube]

They're about the same. Shame only one of them never will hit the shelves.
 
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