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iPad Progress Report
Now that the 300,000 early adopters have had a few days to play and work with their iPads, we're moving beyond the "first impressions" articles (but here's a video of a 2-1/2-year-old's first encounter with the device). The detailed reviews aren't out yet. The largest source of early complaints is a complex of problems with Wi-Fi reception. Apple has posted a technical support note implicitly acknowledging the problems and suggesting some work-arounds — specifically, changing SSIDs or encryption methods on base stations that offer both 2.4-GHz and 5.8-GHz signals. Finally, here's a detailed look at the gratuitous pain Apple imposes on those desiring to get iWork files transferred from and to the iPad.
> How exactly is this a problem? Just buy an apple airport wireless extender and problem solved.
The ipad is inferior.
He is expected by the cult to buy yet some other doo-dad as a kludgey work around to make up for the fact that the ipad is inferior.
Yes: pisspoor wifi reception is a genuine reason to knock a product.
Having cart full of kludgeware workaround wigdets is not terribly mobile or convenient.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
QA: The wireless capabilities seem to be crippled to the point where its only about as useful as a wired device. But we don't have a standard ethernet adapter.
Jobs: Hmmm. Could this be a problem?
Muffled Yell from the window: ITS NOT A BUG ITS A FEATURE!
Jobs: Ballmer is peering in through our windows again. Someone go tell him to get on that Windows 7 SP 2 or it'll never sell.
The warranty? You mean the multi-day wait at the "Genius Bar" or the automatic refusal to cover warranty parts because you accidentally used the product for work?
But hey man, Garage Band clinics are free!
This proves it, the anticipated user IQ is right around that of a 30month old child.
See, actually, I do want a device and not yet another computer. Why?
It doesn't matter why you think you want what Apple's selling -- we know what the real reason is (fanboism/you're a sheeple/you like shiny things/Apple's marketing).
It's certainly not because you've done any kind of actual analysis of your wants/needs and how the iPad might actually meet them. I know, because I've done a careful detailed analysis based on my totally objective criteria for a tablet-like product, and the iPad comes up short every time. Just like all Apple products do if you're smart enough to see things like I do.
Sriously, what is the iPad, anyway? Sure, it might be a better e-reader than a laptop or a small mobile device, but it doesn't have e-Ink, so it can't be used as an e-reader. Sure, it might be able to watch video, but it doesn't have a fullsize screen and if your going to have a screen smaller than a laptop you might as well watch it on your open Android phone. Sure, it might have apps for working with documents, but it doesn't have a keyboard or you have to use a bluetooth keyboard or something so it looses to any netbook or laptop for cryin out loud. And of course your limited to just whatever you can find on the App store, and who knows what that is this week what with Apple changing what apps are allowed.
The only people this would appeal to are those who want something like an e-reader but don't care about e-ink and want it to do media and light computing stuff too. I don't know about you but I already have a laptop, a Nook, and a smartphone for that, I don't want to carry around another device that just does all of that.
The iPad is clearly for stupid people, and the only way we're going to save them from themselves, is if we stand up to the hordes of fanbois that threaten to drown out us clear-headed thinkers here on slashdot and speak the truth t o power clearly.
Tweet, tweet.
(the native Apple developers couldn't code their way out of a cardboard box when it comes to a multi-user multitasking OS- they spent millions proving that in the 90's)
BZZZT! Wrong!
/. And BTW, did you know about the other big names that failed on the way to OS X?
It was more like the scope of the project (Pink, Taligent, Copland, Gershwin, Rhapsody) kept growing and being re-defined. But I'm sure that is a concept that is completely foreign to most devs. that read
Here's some info on that.
So, I guess Apple, IBM, Sun, HP and Microsoft ALL suck at multi-user programming, right?
Doesn't matter. You obviously weren't in Apple's target market, anyway.
You fanbois really do *NOT* give up, do you?
Why can you just simply not accept that a lot of people simply do *NOT* want to part with so much money for such a device? We're not all drones that simply buy stuff purely because we believe it's being targetted at us...
Gentoo Linux - another day, another USE flag.