I bought my iPad the day it came out, excited at the idea of tablet computing. But over the last month or so I've used my iPad less and less favouring instead my Macbook Pro. The reason for this is it's complete lack of useful productivity tools (ie word processing).
I bought Pages and Numbers but have found them to be pointless as the documents don't sync with my Mac (admittedly I have iWork 08 - I don't want to buy 09 cos it's surely soon to be updated again). I find myself now creating all documents on my Mac and taking that to meetings etc. whilst my highly portable iPad stays at home.
I'm also concerned that, when the iPad updates to ios4, it'll become slow, crashy and frustrating to use like my iPhone has.
To those who understand and follow Apple, do you think Apple will ever make the iPad into a truly useful 'computer' or should I continue and sell it whilst it's worth something and wait a few years. I strongly believe in tablet computing and jumped on the band wagon to support it, but the iPad is too crippled to make it useful.
I bought Pages and Numbers but have found them to be pointless as the documents don't sync with my Mac (admittedly I have iWork 08 - I don't want to buy 09 cos it's surely soon to be updated again). I find myself now creating all documents on my Mac and taking that to meetings etc. whilst my highly portable iPad stays at home.
I'm also concerned that, when the iPad updates to ios4, it'll become slow, crashy and frustrating to use like my iPhone has.
To those who understand and follow Apple, do you think Apple will ever make the iPad into a truly useful 'computer' or should I continue and sell it whilst it's worth something and wait a few years. I strongly believe in tablet computing and jumped on the band wagon to support it, but the iPad is too crippled to make it useful.