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It feels like we're second-class citizens right now
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I'm not even going to finish reading your post.
You do realize that there are people who make less money and are more likely to be harrassed by the police because their skin is a different colour?
You also realize that women get payed less money for doing the same work as a man?
You feel like a second class citizen because you have to wait until november for an OS upgrade on your high-end luxury product?
1. There is nothing about a paid upgrade that dictates a delay in release.
2. The iPod Touch, whose updates cost money, has had upgrades synchronized with the iPhone.
3. Apple publicly stated that they figured out a way to give free updates to non-iPhone devices.
It felt current.
Multitasking and folders are the big ones for me. I like being able to have the radio playing on my iPhone while I perform other tasks, and I can see myself doing this even more often on the iPad. Although, I wish multitasking wouldn't leave all the apps you've opened in the task manager. Steve Jobs announced this feature saying specifically that it wasn't a task manager, and such a thing should be avoided on phones. Yet, in practice, that's basically all it is. Everytime I double click the home button, I end up closing dozens of listed apps that have no multitasking functionality (games and such).
Folders, I actually hate on the iPhone. I thought it would be nice, but I've found it very difficult to categorize apps in the folders and end up moving in and out of multiple folders looking for an app. So, I've given up and gone back to structuring app types on different pages. It's just easier to flick through your home screens than to keep expanding and collapsing folders. On the iPad though, I can see folders being more usable, especially since the larger icon size should allow us to make out the tiny app icons on folders.
Personally it does seem an odd way of doing things and I'm almost tempted to say Apple does not need any competition when it's doing a grand job of competing with itself.
iPad Released.
iPhone released almost right afterwards and it does things the (what was) latest Apple product does not do.
Then we have to wait months to catch back up.
You would of thought that the iPad would of carried all the new things at launch and THEN the new iphone would of come out to catch up
Not to take over.
Unless the iPad was rushed to get out the door as fast as possible, or it's going to have a much higher upgrade than the iPhone has got now
iPad Released.
iPhone released almost right afterwards and it does things the (what was) latest Apple product does not do.
Then we have to wait months to catch back up.
You would of thought that the iPad would of carried all the new things at launch and THEN the new iphone would of come out to catch up
Not to take over.
Unless the iPad was rushed to get out the door as fast as possible, or it's going to have a much higher upgrade than the iPhone has got now
Perhaps you forgot iPad has features not in iPhone when iPad was released.
Can't you not see each product has its own release schedule?
Can't you not see each product has its own release schedule?
I want iOS development to be synchronized across iOS devices. I know, what a crazy and outrageous thing to want, I admit.
I understand your frustration but your expectations are also unrealistic. Apple can't release for multiple devices at the same time specially when there is a massive difference between apps on the iPhone and their counterparts on the iPad. iPad apps aren't just bigger iPhone apps. Expose' for example is expected to make an appearance in 4.0 for iPad.
Also, Apple is a very very small company compared to someone like Microsoft. So just be a little bit patient. Rest assured there are a lot of engineers hard at work to release something you would enjoy using. It will be out when it is ready.
I just really hope we are not going to be disappointed.
Many people (including myself) are hoping that the extra long wait is due to the fact the iPad (being a very different device) will get a LOT more work done on it (now Apple has heard people's frustrations)
Things like the Photo App, being able to save into categories, organise photo's when you are out and about.
To some extent break the need to sync back to a "computer" to do some very basic functions.
I hope we are going to get a lot more due to the much longer wait.
And I do hope Apple are listening to what it's USERS are asking for, and not what a certain person thinks we should have.
Many people (including myself) are hoping that the extra long wait is due to the fact the iPad (being a very different device) will get a LOT more work done on it (now Apple has heard people's frustrations)
Things like the Photo App, being able to save into categories, organise photo's when you are out and about.
To some extent break the need to sync back to a "computer" to do some very basic functions.
I hope we are going to get a lot more due to the much longer wait.
And I do hope Apple are listening to what it's USERS are asking for, and not what a certain person thinks we should have.
It feels like we're second-class citizens right now
You aren't 2nd class citizens, you are illegal aliens.
You aren't 2nd class citizens, you are illegal aliens.
I agree the iPhone 4 is getting way more love the the iPad is getting. Apple is dropping the ball with the iPad. Most people are over the iPhone it not as cool as it once was. We should not have to wait another 2 months to have what the iPhone has. The iPhone gets bumpers for a small problem and we can't even get a damn cleaning cloth and some earphones. We are getting treated like iPod touch users
I think iPhone generates the largest revenue overall in all devices - maybe thats why, of course I could be wrong. I do agree that Apple went all cheap not providing earphones with the iPad; although, it's a different story I wouldn't use them anyways.