Tech Specs
iPad
Chester Gifford
Issue date: 2/1/10 Section: Features
Despite any personal feelings
garnered toward Mac computers, even the hardest core of PC users must admit that they produce great computers.
Whether they prefer Windows
to OSX is irrelevant.
The actual devices and computers made by Apple are of high quality, and more importantly they seem to be very in tune with what a user wants.
That is, until the iPad came along. For years the Apple tablet has been discussed by salivating Mac users.
It was dismissed twice by Steve Jobs, once for not having
enough battery life and once for not having enough system RAM.
There are quite a few things to be considered when putting an entire computer,
screen, keyboard and mouse into a wafer-thin tablet
format.
Apple found a shortcut, though. They just didn't put all of those things into a tablet.
The iPad is a far cry from the cheapest of laptops or netbooks.
It may have a multi touch interface, but it doesn't have a webcam.
This is a standard feature on many budget
level ($250) netbooks.
The iPad starts at a whopping
$499.
Leaving the webcam out isn't so much an insult as a mystery to faithful Mac users.
The general internet outcry
isn't one of rage but of "why?"
Furthermore, something
sure to be considered one of the biggest blunders in the modern age of Apple is the fact that the iPad doesn't support flash.
Flash is the technology which Hulu, YouTube and basically every internet video
service is based on.
To add insult to injury, the apps that all worked on your iPhone won't necessarily work on your iPad.
Jobs explained in the reveal
of the iPad that MOST apps will work.
This sleight of speech, combined with the fact that third-party app creation won't be supported by iPad, make it appear that no third-party apps from the iPhone will be compatible with the iPad.
This again was a confusing step.
The huge success of the iPhone is based largely on the massive library of apps it supports.
garnered toward Mac computers, even the hardest core of PC users must admit that they produce great computers.
Whether they prefer Windows
to OSX is irrelevant.
The actual devices and computers made by Apple are of high quality, and more importantly they seem to be very in tune with what a user wants.
That is, until the iPad came along. For years the Apple tablet has been discussed by salivating Mac users.
It was dismissed twice by Steve Jobs, once for not having
enough battery life and once for not having enough system RAM.
There are quite a few things to be considered when putting an entire computer,
screen, keyboard and mouse into a wafer-thin tablet
format.
Apple found a shortcut, though. They just didn't put all of those things into a tablet.
The iPad is a far cry from the cheapest of laptops or netbooks.
It may have a multi touch interface, but it doesn't have a webcam.
This is a standard feature on many budget
level ($250) netbooks.
The iPad starts at a whopping
$499.
Leaving the webcam out isn't so much an insult as a mystery to faithful Mac users.
The general internet outcry
isn't one of rage but of "why?"
Furthermore, something
sure to be considered one of the biggest blunders in the modern age of Apple is the fact that the iPad doesn't support flash.
Flash is the technology which Hulu, YouTube and basically every internet video
service is based on.
To add insult to injury, the apps that all worked on your iPhone won't necessarily work on your iPad.
Jobs explained in the reveal
of the iPad that MOST apps will work.
This sleight of speech, combined with the fact that third-party app creation won't be supported by iPad, make it appear that no third-party apps from the iPhone will be compatible with the iPad.
This again was a confusing step.
The huge success of the iPhone is based largely on the massive library of apps it supports.
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Samuel Warren
posted 2/02/10 @ 1:03 PM CST
"This sleight of speech, combined with the fact that third-party app creation won't be supported by iPad, make it appear that no third-party apps from the iPhone will be compatible with the iPad. (Continued…)
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