My thoughts so far...
1. It's fugly as ****. That enormous bezel is so not-apple it's shocking that they released it this way. It makes the device look like it was released in the early 90s. I know you need a little room for thumbs...but we're not all 450 lbs.
2. It's just a huge eff'ing iphone. Seriously? WTF have these kdisbeen working on for so long? They didn't even take the time to allow us to put more icons on the screen at once! Does this just look like the silliest thing in the world? I might as well rob an apple store and take that 4 foot iphone mockup they have. The UI blows....it was great for a cellphone, but not for a table. ESPECIALLY when you consider what it SHOULD LOOK LIKE: Video.
3. No camera. Not a backbreaker, but why not stick a 10mp camera and hd video recorder in here? Would be awesome to have a front facing camera for an ichat or skype app on the road. But that would require a reliable network to support the data strain, which brings me to #5.
4. Still on AT&T. Both ATT and apple have talked about the enormous strains the iphone has put on att's network. So now they're adding a data only device? Classic.
5. iPad name. Worst. Name. Ever.
6. No multitasking. I can't do two things at once...seriously? I can't listen to pandora and browse the web, read a book, or type a document? More proof that apple's focus is always on image over functionality. It makes no sense and they don't give a **** that customers have wanted it for years now.
7. No flash. Again. I'd assume apple's meetings go something like this: Steve: "Does it have a browser that pinches and zooms so that it looks cool?", Apple: "yes", Steve: "Okay, then skip the functionality part. We're going for window appeal...again. Now cut the budget there and use the rest of the money on extravagant stores and colorful t-shirts for our high school staff."
8. Keyboard. What crap. It's a laptop keyboard. It's completely unintuitive and unoriginal for what the ipad SHOULD'VE been designed for. There should be a keyboard that you can use while holding the ipad like a book and use your thumbs to type...it should be like arced letters on each side of the bottom part of the screen where your thumbs overlay...was that that hard to think of? I'm not alone in my thinking here...
So seriously think about it. The iPad is truly nothing more than an iPhone that's been stretched to 10" and stripped of its camera and phone call ability. There is no originality here that we didn't see years ago in the iPhone 1g.
Nowww....with all that said, will I buy one? Hell yes. Probably going to pickup the 32gb 3g/wifi version since you KNOW they are coming out with an ipad2 in a year and I can only hope that they'll address some of the issues....but then again, probably not. I want one simply for the fact that it'll be great to have something that compact to do email and internet around the house and on the go.
/insert flames below
1. It's fugly as ****. That enormous bezel is so not-apple it's shocking that they released it this way. It makes the device look like it was released in the early 90s. I know you need a little room for thumbs...but we're not all 450 lbs.
2. It's just a huge eff'ing iphone. Seriously? WTF have these kdisbeen working on for so long? They didn't even take the time to allow us to put more icons on the screen at once! Does this just look like the silliest thing in the world? I might as well rob an apple store and take that 4 foot iphone mockup they have. The UI blows....it was great for a cellphone, but not for a table. ESPECIALLY when you consider what it SHOULD LOOK LIKE: Video.
3. No camera. Not a backbreaker, but why not stick a 10mp camera and hd video recorder in here? Would be awesome to have a front facing camera for an ichat or skype app on the road. But that would require a reliable network to support the data strain, which brings me to #5.
4. Still on AT&T. Both ATT and apple have talked about the enormous strains the iphone has put on att's network. So now they're adding a data only device? Classic.
5. iPad name. Worst. Name. Ever.
6. No multitasking. I can't do two things at once...seriously? I can't listen to pandora and browse the web, read a book, or type a document? More proof that apple's focus is always on image over functionality. It makes no sense and they don't give a **** that customers have wanted it for years now.
7. No flash. Again. I'd assume apple's meetings go something like this: Steve: "Does it have a browser that pinches and zooms so that it looks cool?", Apple: "yes", Steve: "Okay, then skip the functionality part. We're going for window appeal...again. Now cut the budget there and use the rest of the money on extravagant stores and colorful t-shirts for our high school staff."
8. Keyboard. What crap. It's a laptop keyboard. It's completely unintuitive and unoriginal for what the ipad SHOULD'VE been designed for. There should be a keyboard that you can use while holding the ipad like a book and use your thumbs to type...it should be like arced letters on each side of the bottom part of the screen where your thumbs overlay...was that that hard to think of? I'm not alone in my thinking here...
So seriously think about it. The iPad is truly nothing more than an iPhone that's been stretched to 10" and stripped of its camera and phone call ability. There is no originality here that we didn't see years ago in the iPhone 1g.
Nowww....with all that said, will I buy one? Hell yes. Probably going to pickup the 32gb 3g/wifi version since you KNOW they are coming out with an ipad2 in a year and I can only hope that they'll address some of the issues....but then again, probably not. I want one simply for the fact that it'll be great to have something that compact to do email and internet around the house and on the go.
/insert flames below
to make money.
