The Surprising iPad
January 28th, 2010 by alacyIt looks like a big iPod Touch (no phone) the big iPhone version will be out later.
I was surprised at some of the choices Apple made:
- No camera so no video chat.
- No flash, it is suppose to be an easy way to access the internet and it doesn’t support flash?
- No USB port, it has no camera and then no way to get photos from a camera, oh wait a minute there is an adapter to give it a USB port. That is almost as bad, it takes an adapter to connect USB devices?
- Only 64GB, and no way to add memory cards, even basic netbooks come with 160GB
- No user swapable battery.
- All applications have to come from the Apple App store.
- It doesn’t multitask, it has a big powerfull CPU and it can’t multitask?
- No HDMI out, you get a cool video on it (that doesn’t require flash) and you can’t show it on your TV?
- The version which supports cellular access will be unlocked, but it will only have a GSM radio which in this country is used by AT&T and T-Mobile. The only thing is that their 3G data networks are on different frequencies. The iPad only supports AT&T’s 3G frequency. If you use it on T-Mobile you will be stuck at 2G speeds.
The market has been telling everyone that smaller is better, you don’t need a desktop, a laptop is better. You don’t need a laptop, a netbook is better. You don’t need a netbook, a smart phone like the iPhone is better. Now Apple says we were wrong, you don’t want a iPhone, the iPad is better?
~alacy