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5 Reasons Tablets Suck, and You Won't Buy One
Crazzaper writes "When the iPad was announced, a lot of people who didn't care about tablets came out to bash Apple's new device. These same people said 'I would have bought it if it had a full OS,' but in reality full OS tablets existed before the iPad rumors even started. This article gives an interesting perspective on why this happened, and argues that there's five big reasons why more powerful tablets exists but no one cares."
linux devs innovative? Since when? Most linux apps I use are just copies of established apps. Very, very little innovation from my perspective.
By now you'd think people would stop repeating the same old errors with regard to the iPhone OS as used by the iPad/iPhone/Touch.
No multitasking in the iPhone OS. Even cell phone OSes can do that.
Plenty of multitasking. Just limited forms for third party apps. But apps can be multi-threaded.
No way to easily develop complex applications for it
This is, to put it simply, bullshit. The iPhone tools and libraries are very mature and feature rich. Between CoreData, and Interface Builder you can develop complex applications very quickly. And with a little more effort, you can make them less complex again while supporting the same features which should be your goal. I've worked on quite a few applications that had a large range of scope, with multiple internal databases and a ton of server calls to fetch data.
The platform is closed: executables have to be signed, can't share or download software from third parties.
Unless you jailbreak.
The folks at Apple are total dicks about what applications they accept/refuse.
Actually they have very clear guidelines. I've never had any app denied store access after fixing any bugs the Apple testers found.
The folks at Apple can deactivate or tamper apps you have already purchaed, and tamper with your device's settings/experience at any time they feel like it.
(a) They can but they don't, (b) as a user of the device I say - thank god they can do that!
App approval process It's not a simple "Is this program safe?", or has the developer tested it for stability check. They demand apps meet a long list of criteria that are difficult to meet...
Back to bullshit. The criteria in fact are super simple to meet, since all you have to do is not use undocumented API's (that are inherently harder to find anyway) or make an application that falls into a category they will not approve. This is not rocket science.
All the whiners like you that lay down so many reasons it's so hard to get into the app store always ignore the fact there are far north of 100k applications at this point. If anything was as difficult as people like you claimed it was, there wouldn't be 150 applications, much less 150,000.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Neither push notifications nor the built in iPhone clock allow alarms to be set to buzz mode regardless of the setting of the silent mode switch.
Come on. You said you were browsing so a silent alarm (no sound or vibration) would work just fine. You started by talking about multi-tasking but now you are down to scraping for details about if a sound plays or if it vibrates instead. What does that have to do with multitasking? Zero, it's more of an SDK ability since obviously the device itself can play sounds OR vibrate.
But the way the iPhone works with notifications that have sound is that the phone plays the sound - or if the silence switch is on, it vibrates!!!! So a notification based alarm could vibrate, if you wished...
But thanks for playing.
My pleasure, since like the house in Vegas I always win. If you would refrain from your sarcasm I would cease taunting you so.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley