This comment strongly suggests you have not spent any real time using an iPad. (5 mins in the shop or holding someone else's does not count)
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This comment strongly suggests you have not spent any real time using an iPad. (5 mins in the shop or holding someone else's does not count)
I don't think you have to be a hater just because you don't like the idea of the iPad. This whole hating thing should stop. It's childish and pointless. There are people with different views and opinions and sometimes, just because their opinion differs, they have no hate against you or your opinion.
So just to be clear - I think the iPad sucks crap. But I don't hate it. I hate the idea that this would make me a hater.
So just to be clear - I think the iPad sucks crap. But I don't hate it. I hate the idea that this would make me a hater.
I don't think notebooks can do anything an iPad can't. Once jailbroken the impossible becomes possible. Other than webcam abilities for obvious reasons. Correct me if I'm wrong! Find me something and I will see if it can be done on an iPad! I'm quite confident in the ipad lol so come on haters here's your chance to shut up an iPad lover lol i don't think I have to go through the insanely long list of things my ipad can do that your computer can't
Congrats OP on your iPad. I LOVE mine!
I was not excited about them when they first came out but got one for development purposes. At first, I was going to get only the base model since it was just for development, but figured I may as well get the full version since I travel a lot and that maybe I would use it more then I thought I would...
...And use it I do! I use this thing daily and take it everywhere with me. Its easily one of the best devices I've ever bought. I can't imagine not having it now that I've had it since release
I was not excited about them when they first came out but got one for development purposes. At first, I was going to get only the base model since it was just for development, but figured I may as well get the full version since I travel a lot and that maybe I would use it more then I thought I would...
...And use it I do! I use this thing daily and take it everywhere with me. Its easily one of the best devices I've ever bought. I can't imagine not having it now that I've had it since release
I spent 9 hrs reading a novel in the nook app on my ipad. I love it but it annoys me that they make just good enough. Like why couldnt they give it a gig of ram. You can buy a $250 net book with a 2 gig. There is no excuse.
When something runs perfectly frictionless as is..... Why add more ram? The reason other devices have huge amounts of ram is because it takes most of that ram just to run the device on idle. Apple utilizes it's devices and the ram it has is more than what it needs!
Typical buyer... Assumes bigger numbers means better quality lol
Not to diss you or anything heavy2healthy it's a common mistake and if the iPad needed any more ram well I'm sure it would have it. Just because you have the biggest muscles doesn't make you the best fighter
thats apologetic nonsense. The ipad doesnt have enough memory. Also why did you feel the need to revive a thread that was dead since april?
bought mine at launch. sold it a few weeks later. 3 or 4 months later started to want one again as apps designed specifically for it grew and old ones were improved.
NOvember and 4.2 only makes me want one more.
....but I think I will be able to hold out for ipad 2 now. IT's most likely less than 6 months out and the low amount of memory in the current one bugs. Probably means a future update will run slow or be missing a feature or two.
NOvember and 4.2 only makes me want one more.
....but I think I will be able to hold out for ipad 2 now. IT's most likely less than 6 months out and the low amount of memory in the current one bugs. Probably means a future update will run slow or be missing a feature or two.
Multitasking. Streaming Pandora while surfing on a rather large webpage is enough to kill the pandora app. Don't try to multitask 3 because it wont work
Hehe just thought Id point that out.
I too used to say "iPad" is really a stupid idea by Apple ever when they first announced it. I didn't pay much attention to it. After they released the product, one of my friend's wife got it from her work(they handed out to every employee, I was jealous at that point). Anyway, He brought it to work one day and showed me. I said fineeeee... I will play with it. Few hours of using/playing it, I said this is really a nice mobile device. Before I knew what hit me, I got the iPad 64GB 3G+WiFi on a VERY first day it became available. I still love it....
I too used to say "iPad" is really a stupid idea by Apple ever when they first announced it. I didn't pay much attention to it. After they released the product, one of my friend's wife got it from her work(they handed out to every employee, I was jealous at that point). Anyway, He brought it to work one day and showed me. I said fineeeee... I will play with it. Few hours of using/playing it, I said this is really a nice mobile device. Before I knew what hit me, I got the iPad 64GB 3G+WiFi on a VERY first day it became available. I still love it....
iPad is to people who love electronics, like crack is to crackheads lol yay iPad!
Ok, first off, I assume you're basing that off your experience by jailbreaking your iPad?
If so, realize that doing the JB isn't quite the same as how 4.2 will do multitasking. JB is trying to keep the ENTIRE Pandora app up and running, where as the 4.x "multitasking" will only keep the little part actually streaming the music going in the background.
Second, my understanding is that they figured out something that was causing Safari to use way more RAM that it needed to in 4.2, and it's being/been fixed for the 4.2 release. That should help a bunch as well...
As always though, we won't know till we get 4.2 released and get to try it for ourselves.
Honestly, though, I haven't seen much need for more than the 256MB built into the iPad... It's worked just fine for me.
Loving mine.
"It's just a bigger iPod" Yeah, say that when watching a movie. It's more responsive than my phone. I can read an e-book more easily. It holds a longer charge than my phone (battery life is OUTSTANDING). Not many apps for it? Leverage an iPhone app until development for the iPad ramps up. Need to send a small paragraph via e-mail? Whip out the iPad and leave the iPhone where it is. Need to access a spreadsheet and do some minor edits...much easier on the iPad.
I've yet to determine any REAL cons. It's more difficult to use (especially gaming) when lying in bed, yeah, but a book is, also. Wifi range appears less than my iPhone...had them both out today and the phone had better signals than what the iPad saw; iPhone saw more WAPs also. Those are definitely not deal-breakers, though.
"It's just a bigger iPod" Yeah, say that when watching a movie. It's more responsive than my phone. I can read an e-book more easily. It holds a longer charge than my phone (battery life is OUTSTANDING). Not many apps for it? Leverage an iPhone app until development for the iPad ramps up. Need to send a small paragraph via e-mail? Whip out the iPad and leave the iPhone where it is. Need to access a spreadsheet and do some minor edits...much easier on the iPad.
I've yet to determine any REAL cons. It's more difficult to use (especially gaming) when lying in bed, yeah, but a book is, also. Wifi range appears less than my iPhone...had them both out today and the phone had better signals than what the iPad saw; iPhone saw more WAPs also. Those are definitely not deal-breakers, though.
"the last time there was this much excitement over some tablets the commandments where written on them"
Yes I own an iPad and spend hours on it everyday
Many of you, whether in favor or against, havent really experienced all the ipad can be. Don't forget that the iPad can be jailbroken! First of all, for everyone that doesnt know jailbreaking allows you to customize your device as well as get apps that arent available in apples app store. Second, to all the haters who believe that jailbreaking a device will somehow screw it up or give it a virus... You are stupid and will never experience the true potential of your device. Sure, some people blame thier fried device on jailbreaking but some times you buy a lemon lol. Jailbreaking seems like a good scapegoat but theres is no evidence that it has wrecked any devices... Last months Mac Life magizines top article was "10 reasons why you SHOULD jailbreak your device". Do the research... Jailbreaking is as safe as ever and sure it does void the warranty but if you restore your device apple cannot tell that it was at one time jailbroken therefore warranty is still valid. My 1st generation iPod touch (ya my first generation touch still works) has been jailbroken for years and my ipad has been jailbroken since the day i bought it. Ok now that we've cleared that up let us hear about the wonderful qualities of jailbreaking. As for running multi apps and having folders for apps, for apple, these features pre-date the iPad and I was able to have both functions the day I bought it which was the end of may. Including many other small features (like a dock that drops from the top of screen when I hold the sleep button for a bit that allows me to change brightness or switch from wifi to 3G ect... and a selection of my favorite 4 apps without having to leave the app I'm running) the thing that I hear the most is no flash on the iPad! This is a myth! I've had adobe flash on my iPad for almost a month now. Now it's not perfect as some things still won't work but hey, 80% of flash is better than none!
I've heard people complaining about how limited the ipads connections are (USB ect.) well I have iTunes on my iPad, as in I no longer need to hook my iPad up to a computer in order to transfer files, thanks to being jailbroken. I connect to my home computer or any computer with ease and transfer files back and forth. Pffft who needs USB if everything is wireless?
I can't remember who it was but some smartphone is able to send out a wifi signal to other nearby devices... Yes lol you guessed it! Been doing it on my 3G iPad for quite some time now.
Another myth about ipads is that AT&T got sole coverage. Any sim card from an iphone can be cut (yes cut lol with scissors) down to a smaller size to fit in the iPad which is already set up to work as a cell phone.
Another myth is that jailbreaking is illegal. No it's not lol you cannot get in any legal trouble for jailbreaking your device. Now what I'm about to tell you on the other hand is probably quite illegal, I would estimate I have about $2000-$2500 worth of apps that I got for free. How you ask? Once jailbroken you can download a program called installous which let's you download apps from the app store for free
That's enough about jailbreaking. Let's look at some of the games I have on my iPad: madden NFL '11, splinter cell, EA skate, need for speed, grand theft auto: chinatown, avitar, call of duty WaW nazi zombies, iron man 2, prince of Persia, FIFA soccer'11, resident evil 4 just to name a few. And these aren't cheap iPhone games either.... All these are iPad apps! Some games even have online multiplayer and for me, Since I got my iPad all my ps3 has done is collect dust. As for music... Wow lol I have a few friends that are dj's and their is literally nothing they can do that I can't...the only difference, my iPad cost $800 and thier DJing equipment cost well over $5000. I could go on and on about the many music apps I have but just trust me....there is no competition.
As for the weight, when I first held it I was amazed at how light it actually was! Compared to a laptop (which at the time was the only thing comparable) it is very light. Now the new tablets may be lighter but at what expense to durability? I'm ruff with my iPad and I don't mean like how some people are ruff with their laptops, I mean how kids are ruff with... Well everything lol. If I drop my iPad (which I do fairly often) I'm not worried it's gunna break or get cracked. That's the amazing thing about apple... They build things for real life situations. Another tablet may be $200 cheaper but if it breaks when I sit on it or my kid decides to throw it down the stairs I'm screwed! Obviously Not everyone has kids that throw their devices down the stairs lol it's just an example of the strength and durability. It's back shell is metal unlike the competition... Plastic, really???? Now who knows maybe it's super durable plastic I dunno i haven't tried any other tablets yet so I'm not gunna hate.
As for the glare... For $60 you can buy the invsa-sheild (not sure on spelling) which eliminates all glare and protects the screen from ANY scratches.
As for performance... I have over 5500 songs and 20G's of video on top of my 192 apps (someofwhich are 500-800Mb each) and my iPad still runs 100% smoothly and everytime I click something it is instantaneous. Most people do not understand frictionless operating largely because it's never been available on this level. I hope all these new tablets are everything they say they are, i hope they are as user friendly as ipads, I hope they get apps that are comparable to ipads because frankly iDoubt that any of these new products will be half of what the first generation iPad is now... Let alone the new one coming out very soon.
Lol I still find that funny 'more RAM' hahahahaha. Have you ever used an iPad? Or even an apple product? They don't need insane amounts of ram to run perfectly, in fact I think they should lower their ram just so they aren't embarrassing the competition. Haha kidding of course... Apple is right where it wants to be. Right now apple is a monopoly in the tablet game, when (or if) another company comes out with a device that threatens the ipad then apple can just lower the price! You think for some reason that apple will stand by and let these other companies beat them at there own game? Even if you hate apple you must respect what they are doing. The iPhone/touch/pad is by far (my opinion obviously) the coolest leap forward in technology for our generation. Computers and cell phones were good ideas but were never perfect... They were always flawed in big ways... Never have more people flocked to a single model of phone than the iPhone. FACT: more iPhones were sold in the world in 2009 than any other companies ENTIRE line up.... Which means.... iPhones outsold EVERY samsung phone world wide combined.... Every Nokia phone world wide combined.... You can hate it or love it but numbers don't lie...
Maybe I'm biased to ipads cuz I own one... Almost everything that I've written has been fact not opinion about the iPad I own and use everyday... Please, someone, from experience using the device they are defending and claiming will 'kill the ipad', top that with another a tablet. I think we've reached a point in time where if you must wait for things to load, during a full days operating, for more than a combined time of 1 minute , it's garbage and miles behind apple. If you ever waited for a webpage to download or have seen that stupid hour glass or things similar too it.... Your living in the past! waiting is soooo 20th century lol. iPad to my knowledge is the only truly frictionless multi-touchscreen 3G HD with built in speakers and a 10 hour battery on the market... I don't think apple set the bar with iPad either, the second best tablet will set the bar where as apple will sit on it's throne (as usual) not paying attention to what garbage the 'competition' releases. I could give my grandmother, who thinks voicemail is rocket science, an iPad and she could figure it out. Take other devices, with their 200 page instruction booklets and completely useless interface and compare it to an apple device... My iPad came with a one page card that points out the volume, home, and sleep button... That's the apple instruction booklet, and to tell you the truth I think it's more than anyone needs
I dare anyone to find something their laptop/smartphone/tablet can do that my iPad is incapable of doing. Obviously aside from its lack of camera ability, although if its really important you take pictures with your ipad then you can buy a cord that connects to your iphone and projects the camera to your ipad, i havent tried any of the ipad photo editting apps (yes lol many do exsist already) but just from looking at them and reading reviews it isnt hard to believe that the ipad photo software will rival the software professionals use. So far every thread I've read (and I've read a few) lists all the things the iPad "can't" do and so far ive done them all with ease. Remember, all jailbreaking an iPad does is over ride all those many many many restrictions apple put on thier devices. It let's you be free to do whatever you want to do WITHOUT comprimising security.
I would take a bullet for my iPad and have never had this kind of love towards an electronic device, But if another company releases a tablet far superior to the ipad then I will no doubt buy it! I'm not biased to apple... I just know a good thing when I see it. And I hope you all enjoy your 'tablets' as much as I will my iPad. The only thing I'm worried about when it comes to my iPad is that I'll die of old age before being able to FULLY experience everything the iPad has to offer.
Sent from my iPad
You wrote to much!!!!! I didn't read it all!
iPad!
Agreed!
I am so surprised that so many people liked it though. That's OK. Each to their own.
You are correct, and I realize that ios4 multitasking will be less taxing, but even upon reboot my ipad only starts with a max of 138 megs. The lack of memory is not always an issue, but occasionally it does rear its ugly head.