So, it’s all over the news and the TV and, so I have been told, all over the internet. If the clamouring throngs of net denizens is anything to go by, Steve Jobs really dropped the ball on this one.
The iPad, all feminine hygiene product jokes aside, seems like a right royal (and expensive) waste of space. From what I understand, it is essentially a big iPod touch – no multitasking, same lame apps, same mediocre functionality. It’s nice to hear that a few software devs have committed to the platform, but hey, you can’t squeeze blood from a stone.
If you want an in depth analysis as to exactly where and how this slab of shit fails, then feel free to wade through the torrents of nerd rage elsewhere on the net. What bothers me, however, is that some marketing or research tool was actually paid legal tender after raising the possibility of a consumer electronic product that “sits somewhere between a netbook and a smartphone”, which operates solely on touch. I mean, apart from the fact that it doesn’t do anything that the device I’m typing on right now doesn’t do (iPhone), it doesn’t have a keyboard!
Losing the war on usability
Now, I won’t deny that, with a bit of practice and familiarity, the soft keyboard on the iPhone/touch is reasonably adequate, but at no point do I ever pretend it is a viable replacement for a keyboard. I would never be able to use the iPad for serious work or browsing/emails, no matter the OS or capabilities.
Didnt we used to write shit down this way BEFORE the invention of moveable type? Isn’t this sort of technology going BACKWARDS, not forwards?!?
the iPad, circa 1200 BC
Either way, this shit is retarded. Not because it falls short of expectations, but because the whole concept is fundamentally flawed. Stick to Smartphones and Bono commercials and black turtlenecks, and give up already Jobs, kkplzthx.
The initial iPad prototype
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