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!
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:
- No Multi-tasking – just can’t digest this fact (come on Apple, are we in 1990 yet?)
- No built-in Camera - I can’t imagine a tablet with no camera
- Stupid Adapters for every freaking thing – what’s the definition of the word “compatibility”?
- Same Touch Keyword as iPhone – I 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)
- 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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Comments
It has a USB port, so supporting Flash MEMORY cards(Compact
Flash, MMC,SD, SDHC, etc) is a software problem, and may
be addressed in an upgrade. I think you’re
confusing Flash Memory and Adobe Flash, which is for delivering Rich Content over the Web. This is an often-
mentioned issue.
Still, First Adopters are sure to feel pain as these
problems, and others, are addressed in future versions.
I heard that the OLED displays are not yet available in
this size. When they are, that would mean a dramatic
increase in runtime with the current battery.
Sooo… I did not buy one and I have been accused of being an apple fanboy… I am planning to get one but am waiting for the second generation… That being said. Here we are the monday post launch… 700,000 of them sold… that means Apple had a $420,000,000 weekend and sold OUT in every store by sunday night but 3. Nationally… Still feel the same? I think you made some good points but plainly everyone else did not agree with you.
Are you kidding me? Have you seen or used one? No. Definitely not. If you don’t get addicted to it after using it for like five minutes, I’ll eat rats.
I was hoping the iPad would be better too. I really just wanted a mac computer tablet that didn’t weigh as much as Axiotron’s Modbook. I need to portably run mac software and a macbook pro isn’t always convenient. Oh well, maybe Apple knows something I don’t. Maybe not. =)