Apple iPad – The Flop 2010 Tablet

Greetings from Siddharth Rao’s Blog! I thought of starting the New Year’s first post with a technical review on the most anticipated tablet PC – the Apple iPad!

Apple iPad - Beauty with insufficient qualities :-)

On January 27th, 2010 - Steve Jobs unveiled Apples latest product, the iPad. Apple’s mission with the iPad was to “fill the gap” in between smart phones and laptops. However, the main question still remains to be answered, is there a need for a device to bridge the gap in between the two technologies? I personally don’t think so – anyway, from what it appears as of now, the iPad certainly has some issues. Here are the five top issues that most bloggers are talking about:

  1. No Multi-tasking – just can’t digest this fact (come on Apple, are we in 1990 yet?)
  2. No built-in Camera - I can’t imagine a tablet with no camera
  3. Stupid Adapters for every freaking thing – what’s the definition of the word “compatibility”?
  4. Same Touch Keyword as iPhoneI feel there is a need to further innovate the touch screen keypads and iPad just gives a bigger version of what we already had with the iPhone (not impressive at all)
  5. No Flash Media Support – Apple continues to make devices which are not compatible with any flash memory (GrrRR..)!

The bottom line - iPad is still in its infancy! I’m sure we will see better versions of this tablet which will cover the above core deficiencies, but for now – this is what we have and this is what we get. So I’m not buying this damn thing for $500!

On a side note, I’ve been extremely busy with a lot of things on my plate, in the last two months. That is why I could not do any blog posts. I should have a slightly better schedule from February onward – so I can make some more posts.

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