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What's Not To Like About New iPad?
Hugh Pickens writes "With 3 million sold over the last week what's not to like about the new iPad? Michelle Maltais at the LA Times does a good job of putting together a compendium of gripes about the new device, justified or otherwise. Most people thought that Siri on the new iPad was a gimme; instead it has a scaled back version — dictation. 'If you want Siri, buy an iPhone. Plain and simple.' The new iPad is a little heavier than the iPad 2, thanks to the better graphics processor and more powerful battery. At one-tenth of a pound heavier that really doesn't sound like much, but it can start to matter if you hold your iPad in one hand for long periods or have any kind of repetitive stress injury. Apps designed for Retina display can be up to five times bigger and it's not just a problem for owners of the new iPad. Legacy owners of the original and iPad 2 who have these apps get to feel the pain too, since updates aren't device specific." The list continues, below.
"The hot-selling device can reach up to 116 degrees during intensive use, according to a test by the Consumer Reports. PCWorld tested 43 tablets and found that the third-gen iPad takes the longest — almost six hours — to fully recharge its battery. You'll love the blistering speed of the 4G iPad, you won't love blowing through your monthly data allotment in just 24 hours if you use streaming video. A number of customers have been complaining on the Apple Support page about a weaker Wi-Fi connection that in some cases will hold a connection for only a few minutes. And last, whatever you do, don't drop the new iPad. From waist height, the damage to the third-gen iPad is fairly extensive. 'Only a small portion of the screen survived.'"
We make drama where there is none.
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Of course, the next yet-to-be announced version of Android, running on the next yet-to-be announced tablet, will solve all of these problems.
Isn't that how it works?
At one-tenth of a pound heavier that really doesn't sound like much, but it can start to matter if you hold your iPad in one hand for long periods or have any kind of repetitive stress injury.
I'm shocked at how physically inept modern people are becoming. The gnashing of teeth over ounces when it comes to gadgets is truly shocking to me. How does one become so incapacitated that an ounce or two is really worth mentioning?
I don't respond to AC's.
+1 troll point for using a buzz word. Do you even know what fragmentation is?
The best part about the new iPad is that the previous versions have gotten cheaper. So if you really want a iPad 2, you can pickup a refurb from Apple for as low as $350 (or $400 new) which makes it more competitive with some of the Android tablets out there.
Note: I am not a tablet user.
I know there is a windows tool to get rid of it.
I have one, the charge times are quite slow. To be honest, too slow. Don't get me wrong, you can live with it, but it does also matter in some situations. And on top of that if you decide to just use your buddies' iPhone charger instead of the included one, you could charge it all through the work day and only pick up 25% charge or something. With the iPad 2, the iPhone charger was an acceptable back-up plan to the stock charger in a pinch. Unless your battery was almost completely dead the iPad 2 would charge completely off an iPhone charger overnight.
The weight isn't really any different, the reason it's so uncomfortable to hold for long periods is the same as any other iPad, there's simply no good way to hold it without blocking or touching the screen.
The drop situation is the same for all iPads, even if you drop tested an older one and got different results, you just got lucky on the old one. The screen is a huge expanse of glass on any iPad, you have to be careful.
WiFi has been the same on the iPad 3 as the 2. I even used mine side by side with a 2 for a bit and the results were the same.
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It strikes me that this is just par for the course for most Apple releases.
iPhone 3GS, iPad 1 -- both of mine had wifi problems until software updates came out.
iPhone 4 -- antennagate -- appeared totally fine by the time I got my 4 in March of 2011.
iPhone 4s -- batterygate -- greatly improved in 5.01 and mostly fixed by 5.1.
Overall, it seems like there's about 6 months after a device's release that Apple releases a serious of fixes to fix or mitigate some deficiency and that by that time the device is largely as good as it will get.
I just wish they would add bluetooth profiles to the iPad for microphone headsets and mice, although the latter I only want with RDP apps, although I think it might be handy if you were using a full-screen editor, too.
It kind of makes me wonder why no one has made a BT mouse adapter that plugs into the microphone port or the dock connector. With an open SDK, vendors who wanted mouse capabilities could add support for the hardware.
It doesn't even matter if it runs on iOS, Android or whatever. My brother actually bought into the hype and got himself a Galaxy Tab but had to sell it after about 3 months because he wasn't using it for anything other than occasional web browsing. The 'cool' factor wears off very quickly. Netbooks were better. At least those were still 'real' computers.
That's funny. My iPad 1 takes a fucking year to charge.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
I know it has bugs in the LTE connection. It's conked out before, and I even had the WiFi connection disappear after I turned LTE off (to save power). Going to airplane mode and back fixed all the problems, at least for now.
Also, the bars in LTE mode don't make much sense, or at least aren't what you're used to. With 5 bars I get 30mbps down, with 1 I get 24mpbs down. We've been trained from 3G that 1 bar is a lot slower than 5, so they should rescale the bars so that when you are at half speed or less you get 1 bar.
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Apple's pricetag, Apple's walled guarden, Apple fanboys, Apple's arbitrary rules, Apple's $100 pricetag to make apps for your own private use...
That's not a troll post.
I like the hardware of the iPad, but by virtue of being an iPad it runs an OS that forcibly puts you on the outside of its security model, trusting only the platform vendor.
So yeah, I don't like it because it's an iPad. I'd also dislike it if it were crippled in the way that ASUS and Motorola lock down their tablet bootloaders and force you to surrender your warranty before you can do as you wish.
Taking a long time to charge means that it must have a really big freaking battery. Apple says you can get 10 hours of use out of the thing. That's pretty good considering how fast the processor, and how good the resolution on that screen is. It take 2 hours to charge my cell phone, and it probably doesn't even have 1/10 the amount of battery as the iPad.
Anthropic principle: We see the universe the way it is because if it were different we would not be here to see it.
I'm sorry.
... justify to everyone else that the new product is actually worse than the previous iteration. (I own an iPad 2 so this works for me!)
Don't you sleep?
That's when my iPad's charge. I lay down at 12, 1, or 2AM, plug it in, pass out, and when I wake up it's charged and if it took an hour or six to charge I give no fucks. It's charged.
As a rock-in-roll Physicist once said, No matter where you go, there you are.
But I only read the promotional material for the articles.
They used the exact same super easy to break digitizer glass.
They really need to go back to the 2X thicker ipad 1 glass. The ipad 2 is incredibly delicate due to the much thinner glass. In fact you can feel it flex while using the ipad 2.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
My iPad 1 takes a fucking year to charge.
Is this one of those biblical things where a day is a year?
It is so rare that I buy any device (or even furniture, for that matter) which is perfect that I'm surprised when I buy something, anything, which I have absolutely no "Had they...", or "They should have..." comments. I read the article before it was posted here. It's just another bit of "journalism" to fill some space. As I look around my home, there are few things I can not come up with some complaint about, no matter how small. I bought an iPad 2 but read about the "next" iPad a day later and the prediction of a better display. So - I called Apple and cancelled the order. It was too late. BUT - They paid for return shipping and refunded my money. When this iPad came out I pre-ordered. So many of my friends with an iPad liked them so much I was pretty convinced I'd like it and I do. The stuff in the article is what it is. You can't please everyone all of the time. Me? No problems. WiFi - Works fine. Charges up fine. It does everything I *expect* it to do, and does it well. It may not be *perfect*, but there are few things in my life which I have bought that were *perfect*, and being in my 60's that's saying something.
It's made by Apple, and has iOS on it. Are people not allowed to dislike these things for the aesthetic reasons, while other people like it for aesthetic reasons?
"but thats a non-issue for most mac fans so ill leave it be."
It's proven to be a non issue to everyone. I know fo iphone 2's that are still in service with the origional battery. I have a 3G here that I am prepping for sale that STILL has full battery life after 3.5 years.
I can understand coming from crap phones like Nokia and Motorola that have batteries that need to be replaced yearly (I went through 3 batteries on my Razr, and 2 Batteries on my Nokia E62.)
But honestly, battery tech on the apple devices and some of the android phones are a lot better than the garbage batteries we all were used to from the past.
Replaceable battery is a non issue on ANY phone unless the phone was made to crap standards with junk battery packs.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
I bought a ipad 2 just a few days ago. Nothing on the ipad 3 could justify the higher price point to me. Plus I was able to get a like new one used from a guy on craigs list trying to raise money for the new ipad. $250.00 for a 32 gig not 3g was a fair price, and a lot cheaper than a ipad3 that has marginal improvements.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.
It's got a 43Wh battery, that's nearly twice the capacity of the iPad 2, and about 1.5 times the capacity of the 11" MacBook Air.
I'm not interested in a computer that can't compile. I deal with it on my iPhone because it's a phone ( but it's really a computer that's faster than my 10yo box), but I'm not going to buy a Mac and a $99 development license just to make a simple RPG assistant (I've been making them with JavaScript as a result; at least they didn't strip all programs that can interpret code).
I would go with Motorola Xoom, which I have. I think Motorola might have another one out too by now. Key thing (Google bought Motorola Mobility), I had the Xoom since release and its 4.0 update was exquisite. I've been using it every day since release and I love it. I would look into Motorola first before going somewhere else well because Google bought em.
I was about to say that the "user experience" has been fragmented across the different types of iPads until I realized that true Apple fans will have destroyed their old iPads (and any others they find) before buying new iPads.
IThe weight isn't really any different, the reason it's so uncomfortable to hold for long periods is the same as any other iPad, there's simply no good way to hold it without blocking or touching the screen.
hold it.... you know... by the back.. in your palm.... just saying...
its a two handed device.
and 1/2 the power the battery my laptop has and it operates for 8 hours on a charge and takes 2 hours to fully charge while using it.
Don't you sleep? That's when my iPad's charge. I lay down at 12, 1, or 2AM, plug it in, pass out, and when I wake up it's charged and if it took an hour or six to charge I give no fucks. It's charged.
But that won't work for me - I like to play Infinity Blade II while I sleep.
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For me the fragmentation comes down to whether it has a camera or not. As an owner of a original iPad, I was more and more disappointed at apps that didn't include me: many photography apps, and some games just wouldn't work. GTA3 wouldn't work without crashing before I even finished the first mission.
This will only get worse as people who are developing apps aim their performance goals at the newer devices. It's similar to when you try to put a new windows on your old machine - sure, it "works" but it is slower because you're still running on old hardware.
Restrictions are prohibited. Be well, get better.
40M+ iPad 2 buyers disagree with you.
...and 40M+ iPad 2 buyers are wrong in my opinion.
For me, spending money on an iPad is a waste of money - I have no real need for it. I'd like to have one, but when I think of it, it's just a gadget - an uncessary purchase.
Or think of it this way: the iPad is just another glizty gadget for people to waste their hard earned money in this consumer oriented economy.
And people wonder our savings rate is so low.
The other day, I talked a young woman out of buying an iPhone - I think. I asked her, "Why do you really need it." She just wanted a smart phone, especailly an iPhone because it's a fashion accessory.
Gone the wrist watch; enter the smart phone.
P.S. My wife and I are living on less than $60K/year, got a mortage and we're banking $1K/month - after retirement contributions. And we don't spend money on crap like the this.
Just saying.
"Taking a long time to charge means that it must have a really big freaking battery."
What it really means is that Apple has hit the limit for the amount of current they can put through their proprietary connector. They've already exceeded the spec for what's allowed through the USB end of their cables. A lithium based battery should be able to be fully charged within 2 hours, absent such external constraints.
"National Security is the chief cause of national insecurity." - Celine's First Law
The lack of Siri seems a bit annoying. Perhaps many people wouldn't use those features on it anyways, but it just rubs me the wrong way when manufacturers remove functionality they already have and could easily have included in order to segment the market or make sure people buy one of everything. For that matter removing features from cheaper models is somewhat reasonable, but the iPad is a premium product with a premium price.
Doesn't deserve the downvotes.
Android is a nightmare for (game) developers. So many wildly varying specs, some missing major features (no FPU, no multi-touch!)
iOS has been a lot nicer, with only 3 screen resolutions to support, and all devices with FPUs, multi-touch, and PowerVR GPUs. But the new iPad is a big change, with it's huge resolution, making universal apps less practical.
and 1/2 the power the battery my laptop has and it operates for 8 hours on a charge and takes 2 hours to fully charge while using it.
Using a 3 pound 'brick'.
Physics, folks. It runs your life.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
Doesn't deserve the downvotes. Android is a nightmare for (game) developers. So many wildly varying specs, some missing major features (no FPU, no multi-touch!)
Compared to Windows it's a dream come true.
There is a sales term called the (Adam) Osborne effect. Based in the era of "luggage" computer where a CRY screen, twin floppy Fisk drives and a transformer could fit into something as small as a suitcase, Adam Osborne proudly announced at one new product exhibition that the next model that they were going to be selling in there months time was going to have even more features. The end result was that no-one was interested in buying or developing for the current model.
Vintage computer adverts: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads
When a developer targets an iPod touch, do you really think they're going to target the version 1 one which has less than 0.1% market share now? Or... Do you think they're going to target the 2 most recent generations, which covers every person who's bought one in the last 2 years? Effectively, to target iOS, you need to target an 800MHz ARM cortex A8, a PowerVR SGX 535, 512MB of RAM, and both 320x480pt and 1024x768pt. Once you've got that covered, you've got 97% of all users covered, and probably 99.9% of all users who are willing to pay for an app.
My iPad 1 takes a fucking year to charge.
Is this one of those biblical things where a day is a year?
If we go "by the book", hours could seem like days.
Dark Reflection
And you think it a good idea that manufacturers build devices that can safely be utilized by a small fraction of potential customers?
Go to your local WalMart. Look around you. Do you want to trust those folks with anything more complicated than a slip of paper?
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
When I'm holding it vertically, like in bed, I can't just palm it. I have to use two hands to hold it.
And if I use two hands to hold it, do I just use my third hand to tap the screen to use it?
This all could be solved with a small ridge or dent on the back, so there is a smaller feature I can span to grip it one handed. The same principle as a handle, just more integrated.
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Obviously, any app can be cracked manually, with enough time invested into it, but is there any mechanism that can be used to at least reliably defeat any automated tools that crack them?
I know that more effort should be spent on making a good app than on trying to prevent piracy, but if it's something relatively simple to code, and easy enough to obfuscate that automated tools wouldn't find and bypass it, that would probably be good enough, IMO.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
Apps designed for Retina display can be up to five times bigger
FWIW you can easily run Linux on a Mac Pro... been doing it since '08; it's an awesome Linux machine. It's actually better because you can use MD RAID-5 support on those four HDs, something you can't do on Mac OS X without a $1K raid card that they want you to buy.
Hey look, it's another all or nothing absolutist.
Ah yes, the old "these people are idiots, therefore everyone must be treated as such" fallacy.
Incorrect –note, pt, not px. Apps target 320x480pt, even on retina displays, it just happens 1pt == 2px, all you need to is provide images with the same name but @2x appended, and your app will work out of the box. Similarly, with the iPad, add @2x images (which probably exist already due to iPhone), continue to do all your UI work at 1024x768 points, and everything is hunky dory :)
The weight isn't really any different, the reason it's so uncomfortable to hold for long periods is the same as any other iPad, there's simply no good way to hold it without blocking or touching the screen.
Sounds like you need a case to put the iPad in or a work surface to place the unit on.
The case could also contain some cushioning/some small amount of protection against accidental drops
Doesn't deserve the downvotes.
Android is a nightmare for (game) developers. So many wildly varying specs, some missing major features (no FPU, no multi-touch!)
iOS has been a lot nicer, with only 3 screen resolutions to support, and all devices with FPUs, multi-touch, and PowerVR GPUs. But the new iPad is a big change, with it's huge resolution, making universal apps less practical.
True !
There are a few statistics in the wild that explain the situation further.
Chitika Labs iPad stats
Marco.org iOS stats
Chitika Insights Android Stats
Till now, the devs only had to worry about iDevice + iOS-Version. Now, they also have to worry about iDevice-Version + iOS-Version. The market fragmentation argument claimed by Apple as a benefit against Android has just started getting nullified.
As Apple starts penetrating further into price-sensitive and high volume markets like India where there is no concept of contract lock-in, fragmentation may become more prominent. People tend to hold on to "working" devices for longer and device upgrades are not as frequent. There is no operator subsidy to encourage a device upgrade.
So, in summary, yes. Fragmentation "may" hit Apple and it cant be written off as only some Android specific problem now.
Not a word about Flash? That was the big complaint about iPad 1 & 2.
Hacks like iSwifter can be temporary workarounds, but c'mon the entire premium porn industry hangs in the balance.
This is slashdot, of course not. Pick a side and demonize the other side.
Is the absurd amounts of craven worship it gets in the press. At Business Insider there's maybe a half dozen articles A DAY extolling the divine greatness which is the iPad.
Some developers restrict apps that can be downloaded and installed on the target device ie the store did not let me install a directional app because my iPAD lacked the gyroscope of iPAD2.
The same restrictiveness should apply to games as well, else one is dependent upon customer reviews.
The drop thing is particularly egregious in this article. TFA cites Square Trade, who dropped iPads in various orientations and gave qualitative descriptions.
Their conclusion?
So what? Once the screen is shattered, you're getting a new one either way; the magnitude of the shattering doesn't particularly matter. If you take it in to an Apple store, they're just going to clone the contents to a replacement; if you take it to an independent repair shop, they're still just going to replace the screen. It's not like there's much in there that'll get damaged from hitting the ground.
And the thing is, falling face down is an absolute worst-case scenario for the iPad; I've already dropped my iPad 3 from about chest height, and it survived without a scratch after landing on its corner and sliding under the stove. (tip: don't hold your iPad while cooking until they come up with better covers and cases; the Apple Smart Case will pop off when you least expect it).
Inadequate charging current seems to be all the rage for portable devices these days. My last two smartphones have been unable to charge while in hotspot mode with the screen on. "Why would you have the screen on?", people ask. Because, "Screw you. I want it on.", I reply. With the screen off, my last phone would take 8+ hours to top off from around 40% while in hotspot mode. For about a year, I was using a Clear Spot (4G hotspot with a battery) and it would regularly run the battery completely dead while plugged into the wall. I used it for a month in Vegas as my primary connection and I had to turn it off for about 4 hours every few days so the battery could recharge.
I think it's crazy that these portable devices are delivered with power systems that can't keep up with the drain of heavy use even when they're connected to what is, for all practical purposes, an unlimited source of power. If the device uses 10 watts running full-tilt, give us a power supply that puts out 20 watts so the battery can be charged at a decent clip while the device is being used. If that means a bulky charger, so be it. Offer a "slim" charger for people who need something smaller and don't mind waiting a year and a day for a charge. Even packaging the slow charger and selling the fast charger as a premium item would be a step up from what's happening now. It's been a long time since an 8+ hour recharge time was acceptable.
And a more powerful charger doesn't need to be a "brick". The 19 volt 40 watt charger for my laptop is about the size of a big pack of gum, weights a few ounces, and can plug in either vertically or horizontally.
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Well, you asked.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
I think the problem is people think of the iPads in terms of being a computer. And it is, but not a general purpose computer. I don't complain that I can't install anything I want on my DVD player or coffee maker. To me an iPad is a (3rd, or even 4th) device for casual media consumption. It's great for what it is. For a lot of people it's the price tag, so here's an easy test. If someone GAVE you an iPad, would you use it? If you would, then the problem isn't that the device is bad, or limited, just that it isn't a good value, to you, at a particular price point.
Foxconn has lower suicide rates than the rest of China.
Apple's products overwhelmingly try to lock you into their marketplace and keep you out of the innards of their devices.
Many lower end Android tablets can be converted to a main stream Linux distribution (with a little work).
I killed da wabbit -Elmer Fudd
Work surface?
I'm reading books in bed.
What kind of work surface solution do you have for this?
Come on, stop trying to look for ways this is my fault. Apple could have made the device easier to hold and really should do so. They could put a small ridge on back so I don't have to put a much larger case on it just so I can hold it.
They figured out the slippery seed-shaped iPhone 3 was a bad idea eventually and went to something you can hold properly. Maybe they'll figure out with the iPad at some point too.
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In that case, I think I have one of those. It's called a tire pressure gauge.
Since we are talking about ipad3 here I want to ask: is it possible to configure ipad3 to have internet connection via bluetooth tethered to some phone (not iphone) just a phone with bluetooth?
I have nokia 3120c and it works great with my http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pandora_(console) to provide internet connection over bluetooth. Configuration was painless, just few clicks on pandora and entering a code (to allow bluetooth connection) on the phone. To start internet connection on pandora I only click the network icon on bottom panel and select "enable", pandora then connects via bluetooth to my nokia 3120c, and internet just works. I was amazed the first time I saw it. Now I'm spoiled because this is so crazy comfortable.
Would nokia 3120c work with ipad3 to provide internet connection via bluetooth?
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It's impossible to tell the action of gravity near a planet's surface from upward acceleration of one's frame of reference. So in practice, "zero gravity" means "zero net accelerating force within a frame of reference", and this is the case inside a vehicle in freefall, be it the interior of an orbiting space station or the interior of a Vomit Comet aircraft in a parabola.
"Taking a long time to charge means that it must have a really big freaking battery."
What it really means is that Apple has hit the limit for the amount of current they can put through their proprietary connector. They've already exceeded the spec for what's allowed through the USB end of their cables. A lithium based battery should be able to be fully charged within 2 hours, absent such external constraints.
Sure. No matter the capacity of the battery, it should be able to be fully charged within 2 hours.
So, whether it's a cellphone, an iPad, or a Chevy Volt, it should be able to be charged in 2 hours.
Citation, please.
It's an Apple product.
The lack of Siri seems a bit annoying. Perhaps many people wouldn't use those features on it anyways, but it just rubs me the wrong way when manufacturers remove functionality they already have and could easily have included in order to segment the market or make sure people buy one of everything. For that matter removing features from cheaper models is somewhat reasonable, but the iPad is a premium product with a premium price.
And Siri is a free software service with less-than-infinite processing power and bandwidth.
Think about it. How many times do you REALLY need the kinds of questions answered that Siri is designed for while sitting stationary with your iPad?
"Find me the closest [fill in the blank]" makes a LOT more sense on a device that fits in your pocket. Similarly, "Check my appointments" also makes more sense "on the go", than on something that is usually not used while driving/walking.
And oh, BTW, the iPad is actually pretty much price-equivalent with the iPhone 4s. You're just forgetting that iPhones are usually purchased on a "subsidized" basis, whereas iPads are not.
Work surface?
I'm reading books in bed.
What kind of work surface solution do you have for this?
Come on, stop trying to look for ways this is my fault. Apple could have made the device easier to hold and really should do so. They could put a small ridge on back so I don't have to put a much larger case on it just so I can hold it.
They figured out the slippery seed-shaped iPhone 3 was a bad idea eventually and went to something you can hold properly. Maybe they'll figure out with the iPad at some point too.
How in the FUCK could Apple make the iPad "easier to hold" in ALL orientations?
Get a fucking CASE. When I read/browse with my iPad in bed, if I lay on my side, I disable the auto-rotate feature, and the case turns into a "chevron", which nicely holds the iPad. When I read/browse on my back, then my case already is designed to hold the iPad at several angles. Again, not a problem.
Having said that, I would like to get one of those cylindrical bean-bag "pillows" for using the iPad while sitting in a chair, because my case doesn't seem to have a goo angle for that use.
1) What has that got to do with the discussion about fragmentation.
2) Generally image compression is rather better on larger images, so 5 times bigger is the absolute maximum possible.
3) Most of the @2x resources will already be included for iPhone, so 5 times bigger is extremely unlikely.
4) Who cares if it's 5 times bigger anyway? They've increased the over the air download limit by 5 fold anyway.
They can't lock to a certain device, only to certain features being available/not.
but the rest of us know that Apple is over-priced, under-specced and your toys are made by exploiting children in sweatshops
Now that's just not true. Apple does not exploit children in sweatshops!
Apple products are made by enslaved fetuses.
Yes, it's true. Apple manufactures in China because of the large available number of unwanted female fetuses. Chinese parents want a boy to carry on the family name, but because of the one-child policy it's an iffy proposition. So Apple collects unwanted female fetuses and enslaves them. Fetal fingers are very small and can do very fine precision work. And fetuses never complain about working conditions or ask for time off.
So please stop saying that Apple exploits children. It's just not true.
Exploited children are too expensive. Enslaved fetuses are the key to Apple's superior supply chain.
Apple is paranoid that you'll using it for something they didn't specifically intend.
Which oddly didn't make it into the article's list of gripes, but continues to be the single biggest reason I refuse to buy one.
I want to be able to use my devices for whatever the fuck I want. I connect my phone as a USB device and copy files to/from it. I install software from websites. I visits sites that use Flash even.
Steve Jobs made a lot of money but he's dead now. Why is his monopolistic anti-competitiveness continuing to cripple Apple devices?
I loathe people who refer to it as "iPad", and not as "an iPad" or "the iPad".
It's a machine, not a person. Do you anthropomorphise your kettle?
It's an Apple-ism. Started with "Welcome to Macintosh".
I believe it emphasizes the fact that you are entering another "world".
And since it is their product, they are free to refer to it however they please. It won't affect their bottom line one little bit whether you, you and your friends and family, or in fact you and everyone you know, purchases or doesn't purchase their products based on something as petty as a part of speech.
Don't you have better things to worry about? I know I do.
crap phones like Nokia
Their software's been an issue for years but the hardware's solid. I've only had one Nokia die on me (phone or battery) and that's the one that got submerged in chocolate trifle.
I'd explain more, but what happens in the bedroom...
We appear to be dealing with a difference of definition, so let's resolve it now. I define weight is mass times one's acceleration relative to some frame of reference. How do you define weight?
Sure. No matter the capacity of the battery, it should be able to be fully charged within 2 hours. So, whether it's a cellphone, an iPad, or a Chevy Volt, it should be able to be charged in 2 hours.
Think so actually, assuming you can get enough power to it. Higher capacity lithium ion batteries can generally handle higher charging currents too. The Chevy Volt is apparently constrained by the amount of power the charging outlets it uses can supply but the website claims it takes 4 hours to charge it from a 240 volt outlet.
Not cheap, but Asus Transformer Prime.
Comes with better battery life than any iPad, comes with better connectivity than any iPad, comes with better input options than any iPad and comes with a more open OS than any iPad.
On the flipside, GPS reception is crippled by the metal case, the screen resolution can't compete with the new iPad and Asus can't make them fast enough for you to actually find one in stock anywhere. Swings & roundabouts..
I like the hardware of the iPad, but by virtue of being an iPad it runs an OS that forcibly puts you on the outside of its security model, trusting only the platform vendor.
A security model that happens to be working about 100,000 times better than the OS that puts the user in charge of security.
Your misplaced zealotry is showing. Proof's in the pudding, dood.
Now watch as someone completely ignores the logic and substance of this post, and instead makes a snarky remark based solely upon my username...
Mine works great. No complaints here. I see a lot of complaints from people that clearly don't have one. Your opinions have been noted and will be given the consideration merited. That is all.
your gravity fails and negativity don't pull you through
It also has young, gainfully employed, physically and mentally healthy employee population. Suicide rate among those should be zero. The fact that some of these people commit suicide, especially at work and in such a public way as jumping out of windows or high factory floors, speaks volumes. Apple apologists make me sick.
I'd bet part of the confusion is people charging via the USB port on their computer vs a wall charger.
USB ports on a computer are limited to 500mA, wall chargers are typically around 1000mA, though some I've seen go up to 2000mA.
So, someone who is saying "gee this takes forever" is likely the person who is charging via their PC.
The capacity I have seen listed for the iPad3 is 14000mAh. If you were to do a dead battery to fully charged via PC only, it could take almost 28 hours. (though batteries charging rates are not linear)
But at least on Windows (before Windows 8 tablets, at least) you're guaranteed to have a physical keyboard, which means the player can locate the movement buttons by feel without having to look away from the action. An iOS or Android device's touch screen is just flat.
Ah yes, the old "these people are idiots, therefore everyone must be treated as such" fallacy.
With some 9,000 privilege escalations on Android, the Proof is in the pudding. And Apple's much-maligned "Walled Garden" (where the "walls" are so far away as to be virtually out-of-sight) and Developer Registration Program are exactly the reasons cited as to why you can't even find a number for iOS Malware.
And since you consider yourself to not be an idiot; surely you realize that you can trivially jailbreak your iOS device (thanks in part to the fact that Apple really doesn't work too hard to prevent that), and enjoy the same illusion-of-freedom that you ascribe to Android.
the problem isn't that the device is bad, or limited, just that it isn't a good value, to you, at a particular price point.
You're right: $99 per year isn't the right price point for me.
Steve Jobs made a lot of money but he's dead now. Why is his monopolistic anti-competitiveness continuing to cripple Apple devices?
I think Apple feels that in order to provide a high quality user experience, they need to have as much control over their products as possible, in order to avoid unintended adverse consequences.
Whether or not that is the best strategy or not is something we'll see over the next few years, as the closed/controlled iPad model competes against the open/uncontrolled Android model.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
It doesn't cost $99 a year to own and use a wifi iPad.
Since we have had no problems in the past with it, no we do not.
No Siri cuz you can't guarantee a network connection. iPhone, you can, or at least, you can come a lot closer. iPad 3 32gb with wifi only; nope.
Vintage computer games and RPG books available. Email me if you're interested.
Of course if it has a faster mobile connection you'll eat through your data limit faster. What the hell were people expecting?
The biggest issue is the inability for Safari or any iOS browser to wrap text. Reading websites on a 10" screen can get tiresome on the eyes, especially if your eyesight isn't that great. I don't know why Apple hasn't seen fit to include the ability to wrap text in Safari. It's the main reason I stay away from Apple products and force myself to use Android tablets and smartphones. Without text reflow reading on a mobile device is guaranteed to give you eyestraight.
I don't need one. I'd rather spend my money on something I need more. Food, mortgage payments, fuel, books .....
"The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes" - Winston Churchill
Display, Processor, Chips, Battery, ...But hey, It has an Apple logo!
Actually, Apple has been desperately (and it look like, successfully) trying to become non-dependent upon the technology-thieves at Samsung for a couple of years now. The latest iPad is actually stands as a testament as to the lengths that Apple has gone to cut Samsung completely out of their supply chain.
Display: Designed by Apple. iFixit said it was "probably Samsung". No surprises there. Apple has used Samsung "glass" for years. However, leaked information makes it seem more likely that Apple has turned to Sharp for the iPad 3 Retina display.
SoC (what you quaintly and incorrectly called the "Processor") : Designed by Apple, manufactured in Texas by Apple-owned Fab house, Intrinsity. In fact, Apple's Intrinsity is already the second-largest mobile SoC manufacturer, and ison track to pass Intel as the world's largest mobile chip fab.
Chips: Some are Apple-designed. Most are commodity. I think the iFixit teardown (See steps #15, 17 and 19) identified a number of manufacturers; Apple, TI, Broadcom, Fairchild, Qualcomm, Avago,Toshiba, Triquint, Skyworks... Hmmm. Let's see. What manufacturer's name is MISSING...?
Battery: Apple designed. No one else's battery comes close to size/capacity combination. Manufactured by Simplo Technology, with Dynapak International Technology as Apple's up-and-coming "preferred" source.
But don't let facts disturb your delusions...
a DRM'd POS w/no SDHC or USB? yep, that's not to like
I should know better than to feed the Troll; but that's patently ridiculous. You can have SDHC and USB on your iPad with any number of Apple and third-party accessories. So what if it isn't built-in. Doesn't make it unavailable.
It makes more sense for all of us to jump of the sinking ship [of Adobe Flash].
In this analogy, what do lifeboats represent?
Some games solve [the completely flat touch screen on an iPhone or iPad] by (eg - Age of Zombies) making the left and right controls appear wherever you place your thumbs
So the movement gesture is done by placing the left thumb at a "neutral" position and then rolling it in a direction rather than sliding. I can see how this would work, but I can foresee problems in platformers and other games where the player is expected to hold a direction for a long time, and not having an iPhone or iPad with which to test it myself, I can't see how the games end up solving them. (My current Android device is an Archos 43 that doesn't support multitouch.) And what about the other thumb? How would it work with more than one button, such as a jump and fire button, or punch and kick, or punch and magic? Or are practical on-screen gamepads limited to one button like an Atari game?
And obviously it doesn't really apply to the massively popular puzzle games that are hugely successful (eg - Cut the Rope, Draw Something!, etc).
There are two different kinds of block puzzle games: those that work by manipulating objects already in the field (e.g. Bejeweled), and those that work by guiding objects into a field (e.g. Tetris). I tried Tetris on a relative's iPhone and could never get nearly as fast as I routinely do on a DS, though Klax might work with downward and upward flick actions. So are falling block games worthless? And even in games with touch, there's the problem of seeing around the finger, though I admit that's more of a problem with the iPhone, where the finger is larger relative to the display.
It does if you want to run applications from outside the App Store without breaking the DMCA once the jailbreak exemption expires.
A colleague of mine installed something on his iPad 1 the other day. It came up with the message Unauthorized application or some such. WTF? He installed it, so therefore it is authorized. Stupid Apple control freaks. That's why I own a Galaxy S2. The iPhone might be better, but Apple can fuck off telling me what I can put on there and having the damn cheek to charge 100GBP more for an extra 16GB of storage instead of giving their users an SD card slot like nearly every other manufacturer.
That's why they left Safari off it too.
Oh, an Apple White Knight.
Which says NOTHING, not one goddamn thing, in defense of completely locking users out of their own devices with no flexibility.
They're right there for anyone who looks.
Which is meaningless in my context, and only points out that Google needs to enforce greater controls on their store.
I don't care for having to fight, or give money to, a vendor that seeks to control my actions. Not to mention one that would leverage Federal laws to shut down such jailbreaking if not for a serendipitous decision by the Library of Congress.
Thankfully I didn't say a goddamn thing about Android. Go stuff words in other people's mouths, please. I don't care for zealots who see other platforms as the enemy and characterize any slights against their preferred platform as support for the platform they hate.
I want to be able to use my devices for whatever the fuck I want.
You only think you do. Do you visit Flash sites with your toaster? Do you connect a USB device to your DVD player? An iPad is an appliance that does a lot of things.
I was surprised that they kept the 10W charger.
The battery is massive (compared to the iPad 2), and almost half the size of an actual Macbook - and those use much more powerful chargers.
I have to assume that the charging circuitry is simply not rated for the much higher current.
Right now you can, yes - the current Mac Pro is extremely long in the tooth and overpriced for what it is (and using server CPUs really pushes the price up).
Assuming they do update it when the Sandy Bridge Xeons are available in much higher volume (around now) then it'll get more competitive (but still cost more).
It does have some very well thought out features in hardware design though (although again, I'm sure it's not the only screw-less case out there, for example).
Bought an HP tablet for $99 and put Android on it, does everything the iPad can do. Still kind of a useless device.
Not everything - it couldn't turn a profit for its manufacturer.
Also, the fact that it had Android on it probably had something to do with it. (Not a critique of Android directly, just that the TouchPad was not made with it in mind)
Which says NOTHING, not one goddamn thing, in defense of completely locking users out of their own devices with no flexibility.
Sure it does. You're just being deliberately obtuse. Hell, even you argue for "more control" by Google later in your post!
And I wouldn't call half-a-million apps "no flexibility". What exactly are you talking about, anyway?
Which is meaningless in my context, and only points out that Google needs to enforce greater controls on their store.
But wait! Isn't that the exact thing you were bitching about? Make up my mind, willya?!?
I don't care for having to fight, or give money to, a vendor that seeks to control my actions.
But, but... You just argued for more controls!!! So, which is it? Oh, I know! Google Good; Apple Bad. NOW I get it!
Thankfully I didn't say a goddamn thing about Android. Go stuff words in other people's mouths, please. I don't care for zealots who see other platforms as the enemy and characterize any slights against their preferred platform as support for the platform they hate.
Um, who is it that is responsible for Android? Google! So, if you weren't talking about Apple v. Android in your original post (and by reference to Google, definitely in your Reply), then what were you talking about? So you see; I "stuffed" nothing into your mouth. You're just a fucking LIAR (and a pretty stupid one at that)!!!
And if you weren't casting Apple and iOS as "the enemy", and by inference at the very least, characterizing any slights against [your] preferrred platform...(blah blah) then I ask you what exactly what were you trying to convey???
Caught ya!
You're thinking of it as a general purpose computer. The iPad is great for what it is. You don't like it because it isn't want you WANT it to be. If you use it how it's intended it's still a great device for reading and casual web browsing, among other things.
So what computers or other devices do you buy? Have you investigated their supply chains?
Personally I have tried it all, being the IT man here I am expected to make recommendations. I also make all the purchasing decisions for 300 users.
If you want to do work get a laptop. The Thinkpad X120e is excellent. If you go to meetings (no real computer type work) and are a consumer, get an iPad. If you need to do work get a Windows7 computer like the X120e. I don't see a fit for a droid tablet yet. I have the Samsung Galaxy S2 and the HTC Evo 4G. The Evo is better, but larger. Also have to carry a spare battery for the Evo. Currently I carry the Galaxy S2. I use the iPad for flying, as in weekend warrior pilot, and at home as a consumer. I use the X120e for work at home and business. I use the Galaxy S2 as a phone and multi media device for music, video, and still camera.
Compared to Windows as of 15 years ago, maybe. The Windows APIs the last few years have been mature enough that while diverse hardware testing can still improve the user experience, it's gotten substantially less necessary for game developers. That just isn't the case for Android games.
I think he was casting Apple and iOS as turd-like. Things that one finds repulsive in some way are not necessarily 'the enemy.' You spend waaaay too much time being a White Knight defending Princess Jobs, dude.
A security model that happens to be working about 100,000 times better than the OS that puts the user in charge of security.
Do you have a cite for that, or can you show your work? Because it sure sounds like you pulled the number 100,000 out of your ass. In substantial logic classes, you have to show your work, or you get a failing grade.
And.... it's very telling that you accuse somebody else of misplaced zealotry. We know how well placed YOUR zealotry is. Uh-huh. Yeah. You're boring and predictable, guy.
If you use it how it's intended it's still a great device for reading and casual web browsing, among other things.
And you're right: a device strictly for reading isn't a good value to me at that price point.
Yes. We know that as soon as a new model is introduced, the old Apple gear becomes instantly shitty and only a fool would continue to use it.
What are you even here on Slashdot for? Regurgitating bullet points from Apple brochures isn't very interesting to the rest of us.
Except that the gravitational field near a planet's surface is spherical while the equivalent field generated by constant acceleration is uniform.
And the limit of spherical as area decreases is uniform.
just that your example should either consider the action of gravity sufficiently far from the planet's surface
I was under the impression that for most objects considered to be in a "zero gravity" freefall, tidal forces were negligible.
Pretty much every major site has switched to html5 for video.
That's understandable for video, in the sense of compressed sequences of bitmap images. But what have sites switched to for vector animation? Canvas still doesn't work on Internet Explorer for Windows XP.
I don't ever run into any sites that require flash anymore.
How did you happen to never run into Homestar Runner or Weebl's Stuff or Newgrounds?
It isn't strictly for reading. Personally I use it to browse the web, email/calendering, read books, take notes at meetings, facebook/twitter, watch videos, sketch out ideas (Notes Plus is amazing), zipping through RSS feeds, facetime with family and gaming. I've also attended a number of WebEx and GoToMeeting webinars on it. The new version of WebEx on the iPad is amazing.
I was like most "tech people", I never knew what I needed an iPad for until I got one. I already had a laptop and a multiple desktops and I didn't "get it". But they gave me one at work and next thing I knew it was my favorite gadget.
I think he was casting Apple and iOS as turd-like. Things that one finds repulsive in some way are not necessarily 'the enemy.' You spend waaaay too much time being a White Knight defending Princess Jobs, dude.
I'm not defending Jobs. I'm merely pointing out when people are liars, and damned liars. Is Apple perfect? Hell no! Nothing and nobody is perfect. For example, I would dearly love it if the iPad had a microUSB connector and SDHC slot at one end, and an IR Transceiver at the other (for "universal remote" applications).
But, it still doesn't change the fact that I think that the iPad is, overall, still an amazing product, and the best-in-breed tablet device.
Different hardware is still different hardware, even if it's just an annual refresh and the number of variations are relatively minor. You still have to consider that you may not be able to sell to the entire market or you might have to make a less ambitious product.
Fully exploit the potential of an iPad3, make an iPad1 crumble.
A Pirate and a Puritan look the same on a balance sheet.
It's not perfect for all people. Who woulda thunk it?
Vote monkeys into Congress. They are cheaper and more trustworthy.
I can accept your opinion, but still can't say I agree with it myself.
I don't think "paranoia" factors in. That's just more Apple bashing. The fact is, Apple sells their products as part of an entire "user experience" you're supposed to get from them. That's one of the reasons you don't ever see Macs for sale at the local Wal-Mart or "Joe's Computer Shop" down the street in a strip mall. Apple is concerned with the sales experience you receive meeting certain minimum standards of theirs. Even the "unboxing" experience is thought out in advance, so you feel as though your new purchase is something important, valuable and "high end" in nature. As you use their products, they want them to work in the manner they designed too. If you call for technical support, the person on the other end of the line needs to know your product has certain menu options and runs everything a certain way - or else they can't give you the type of "step by step" support answers you might expect.
It's legitimate to disregard all of this as "meaningless" to you, or even to say in your opinion, it's not how a computer product should be sold. But it's part of the formula Apple has for their products - and it's a very successful one.
I'm technical enough so I never need to call Apple's help line ... and sure, there are times I wanted to do something with a product of theirs that's way outside the scope of what THEY intended for it. But usually, I can do that if I so desire (such as jailbreaking an iPhone or iPad) and all is good. 90% of the time though, I actually LIKE what they've done with a given product, and I'm fine with using it within those parameters they built it with. Apple is, by and large, pretty good with that stuff, IMO -- so I keep coming back to them.
rasterizing the vectors and bloating the data by a factor of ten
I'm pretty sure all of those old Homestar Runner videos are available on youtube via html5
The conversion process to put Flash cartoons on YouTube bloats the data by a factor of ten, which means you can't watch as many per month and stay under your cap.
How much time do you spend playing flash games? I don't really know how well flash games designed to be used with a mouse really translate to an iPad's touch based interface anyway.
Any game that relies only on click, not on mouseover, would translate perfectly.
You can of course just use your computer or laptop when you want to play flash games, I certainly don't think an iPad replaces a general purpose computer.
It'll have to once laptop makers stop making laptops that are small enough. Dell already discontinued its line of 10" laptops.
problem solved.
You can write an Android app that requires an external hardware input device, be it a keyboard or a joystick - Google won't stop you.
for you--you should stick with that.
"So a 'mouse' for an iOS device would cause a mouse pointer to emerge on the screen."
Priceless.
Holding even a small weight for hours on end gets tiring. A small increase in the weight can make a big difference in comfort over the long term.
(a) heat (battery temperature & rate of rise increases with charging current, there's limited heat transfer/dissipation in a small aluminium chassis, and LiPol batteries aren't known for their immunity to thermal runaway), and
(b) 10W = 5V x 2A, which is already 30% over the rating of the USB Type A connector (1.5A).
What part of "a well regulated militia" do you not understand?
why don't you provide a link to the headline you mention.. is it this one?
http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/14/2870374/new-ipad-apps-larger-size-retina-display
"The applications developed by Apple have been upgraded to support the Retina Display. For example Keynote was previously only 115MB but its latest version is 327MB. Numbers is up from 109MB to 283MB, Pages moves from 95MB to 269MB, and iMovie from 70MB to 404MB." (Translated from Vietnamese)"
iMovie is the only one that went up over 5x.. and that's because they added a new feature called Trailers. there's built in themes with animations and music so most of that increase is the stored audio/video assets.. it was NOT a straight retina bump - else it wouldn't have been demo'd in the ipad keynote. you can't compare the current and previous version because they're not (feature wise) the same app. garageband also got bigger.. from 600MB to almost a 1GB I think.. but that's because they added string instruments and the ability to "jam" with other people and record all 4 tracks in the app. those string loops are big.
here's the info about Trailers for the desktop version of iMovie - all the same features are in the iOS version.
http://www.apple.com/ilife/imovie/#movie-trailers-section
the pertinent copy from the appstore
Create movie trailers
Choose from nine new trailers with immersive graphics and original scores by some of the world’s top film composers*
*Trailers are available on iPhone 4 or later and iPad 2 or later. (probably because of RAM constraints)
the "CMX-HD" format that Comixology and Marvel are using now caused a noticeable increase in file size.. but of all the titles I have, they average increase is about 3x.. and the ones I have (pre-HD) were around 20-25MB, now they're 75MB.
3x may seem like a lot, but look at the difference. (photo by Andy Ihnatko)
https://twitter.com/#!/Ihnatko/status/180865456389885954/photo/1
(note the paperclip in the foreground)
Perhaps he means the issue with it breaking when dropped from waist height? Maybe fragments of it go all over the floor?
Steve Jobs made a lot of money but he's dead now. Why is his monopolistic anti-competitiveness continuing to cripple Apple devices?
You're really asking why apple, having made insane amounts of money by designing desirable products and being anti-competitive, isn't immediately changing course after one guy dies?
Don't care. I don't use Apple. Android does what I want the way I want. If Apple's iOS did it, I'd buy it. The end.
This sig no verb.
You can play while charging.
But it does charge significantly slower then.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
I The fact is, Apple sells their products as part of an entire "user experience" you're supposed to get from them. That's one of the reasons you don't ever see Macs for sale at the local Wal-Mart or "Joe's Computer Shop" down the street in a strip mall.
My local Walmart sells iPads and iPods.
This ad space for rent.
Why? I don't really have much use for an SD card, beyond running homebrew on my Wii.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
What?
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
So your game list is pretty much only:
I don't know of any DX11 specific games. Every other game I can think of provides DX9 support too. Like World of Warcraft, which really doesn't look better in DX11.
Does MSN messenger even work? I thought that was replaced with Windows Live Messenger years back.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Can we get /. editors to rename his account to Captain Macs4All Obvious?
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
I don't see anything about his comment that indicates he's thinking of it as a general purpose computer. Looks more like distress about Digital Rights Management technologies to me.
The voucher on my desk is great for what it is.
To be fair, he isn't the only one with this opinion. Also, how is customer wants not applicable to a device intended for customers?
You can do a great bunch of things with the iPad and you just made it sound lame. Good going.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
In my experience, most iOS users don't even know what iOS or Android is.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Who'll buy a $62 joystick to carry around just to play one video game?
Corking quote from TFA: "The Verge noted that these apps can be up to *five times bigger*. A dramatic example of an app getting fatter is Tweetbot, which grew from under *10 MB to 25 MB* in its Retina-ready update."
Glad to see the LA Times thinks the best illustration of "5 times fatter" is "2.5 times fatter"
When you tell people things they really should know anyways causes them to react funny.
Just like Romney and the Etch-A-Sketch incident. This is how elections work. The candidate shifts solidly into their parities position during the primaries, then they shift into a more moderate stance during the general election. It happens, but if someone tell you that they are going to do that then you feel all pissed off about it.
For technology sales when you have a new product ready for a release you will need to do the following.
1. Drop the price of your current model. If they know something new is coming out at near the same price. You better drop the price of your current model to keep sales running. While a portion of the people are going to wait for the new version, others are waiting for the price drop.
2. Offer a free/greatly reduced upgrade plan, this is for software such as Microsoft Vista systems with Windows 7 coupons, when Windows 7 release was soon to come out... That way people would buy PC until 7 came out.
3. Don't release your timeline until the product is nearly done, where you are not risking a major loss, buy you get to build buzz for the new version.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
At one-tenth of a pound heavier that really doesn't sound like much, but it can start to matter if you hold your iPad in one hand for long periods or have any kind of repetitive stress injury.
IPad3 != jerk off friendly. See this is the important information they don't seem to tell you in the shops.
manufactured in Texas by Apple-owned Fab house, Intrinsity
Intrinsity (back when it existed independent of Apple) was a fabless manufacturer that contracted out to other foundries (including and especially Samsung) to manufacture their chips. Samsung just upgraded its Austin plant for A#-series chip production; Intrinsity never had an Austin plant and Apple hasn't built one.
Rumor has it (ugh...) that Apple was trying to shift assembly to TSMC, but they didn't have the quality/yield.
That's funny. My iPad 1 takes a fucking year to charge.
As we're on slashdot, I imagine a year's worth of fucking would be about five minutes.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
I'm sure their thinking went kinda like this:
1. Hmm, Adobe's mobile flash plugin sucks. We can't count on them to do it right. The desktop plugin just happens to be the leading cause of crashes and beachballs while browsing using Safari on OS X. Hmm.
2. So we should probably develop our own plugin. But hey, why develop a runtime from scratch that we're not going to be making any content for?!
3. So maybe we should be making content for it (and maybe also tools)? Meh, why would we help anyone make content that can run on other, worse yet, competing, platforms?
4. Screw that. We can invest all of that effort into making our own tech better. Our market doesn't seem to mind.
A successful API design takes a mixture of software design and pedagogy.
Steve Jobs made a lot of money but he's dead now. Why is his monopolistic anti-competitiveness continuing to cripple Apple devices?
Taking a wild guess, the monopolistic anti-competitiveness has made them shed loads of money in the past, and is projected to make them shed loads more in the future.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it
That's one of the reasons you don't ever see Macs for sale at the local Wal-Mart
Walmart has been selling Apples for years now.
What political party do you join when you don't like Bible-thumpers *or* hippies?
Not true at all. Apple says you don't need an SD card slot.
QED.
How about the $400 Galaxy Tab 10.1 (lighter, bigger screen and nicer to use IMHO than iPad v. any)?
That's the same price as the iPad 2 now, only the iPad 2 is lighter, has a better screen, and 1000x the applications built specifically for a tablet...
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Yes, they do ... but not Macs, as I said above.
They're not as concerned with your sales experience with a new iOS device or classic iPod. Those are more of "self contained" devices where most of your questions about usage come AFTER you get it home and unbox it.
Walmart does NOT sell Mac Pro towers, iMacs, Mac Minis, Macbook Airs, Macbooks or Macbook Pros -- to the best of my knowledge.
You're engaging in a lot of rhetorical flourishes but you aren't actually telling anyone anything meaningful.
That's because everyone already knows, or can use google.
But just in case you were serious:
* Better battery life (over two hours longer playing video).
* Faster recharge times (by an hour).
* 100x more applications built specifically for the iPad to take greater advantage of the larger space instead of blindly scaling up a handful of UI elements.
I mean, the application thing along pretty much nails it if you meant to buy a tablet for anything real as opposed to just having a toy for the sake of it.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I have a 3G here that I am prepping for sale that STILL has full battery life after 3.5 years.
No, you don't. Ye cannae change the laws of physics.
I want to be able to use my devices for whatever the fuck I want. I connect my phone as a USB device and copy files to/from it
There are multiple applications (at least for the Mac) that do just that. They open your iOS device filesystem, and you can easily copy in/out.
You can pretty much do anything you want with it as is, if you really want to get crazy jailbreak it.
Why is his monopolistic anti-competitiveness continuing to cripple Apple devices?
It's not.
Your perception that it is cripples your own use of the best possible gadgets for portable computing.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
I have one, the charge times are quite slow. To be honest, too slow.
Try to use a charger or a powered USB port that is rated for "fast" iPad charging -- These chargers/ports supply 1.5-2.0A rather than the USB minimum which is typically 500mA for a powered port but can be as low as 100mA per port on an unpowered hub. That said, simple math will tell you the new iPad takes a long time to charge. The device has a 42Wh battery and charges at 5V which requires 8.4Ah @ 5V to fully recharge. On a 500mA connection, that takes 16.8 hours and on a 100mA connection it takes a whopping 84 hours.
However, on a 2A connection (iPad rated), it takes only 4.2 hours. It's also worth noting that the iPad continues to charge for up to 1hr after it says it's 100% charged so real charging time is actually a little longer than what you might think.
The weight isn't really any different, the reason it's so uncomfortable to hold for long periods is the same as any other iPad, there's simply no good way to hold it without blocking or touching the screen.
FWIW, the iPad is much easier to hold than the smaller Kindle Fire. I have both and the Kindle Fire has such a thin boundary that thumb touches always accidentally register when trying to hold the device.
It's simple. Instead of having to include a 1024 image on it's own, i need to include a 2048 image as well. The original image in addition to one four times it's size = an app 5 times the size.
No field replaceable units (batteries, or case parts).
What else, -- cost.
Leslie Satenstein Montreal Quebec Canada
There's always the PlayBook, a fantastic OS, solid hardware, and a brilliant user interface.
Aside from a limited selection of apps, it's fantastic. The over-all user experience is undoubtedly better than the iPad.
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yeah, it's called "fdisk".
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It's what they left when they started using Apple.
Hint: Not everyone who uses Apple was born into it.
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We're counting the things the company is managing, not what they've made in the last decade.
Even if that's the case, you're off by quite a few. Remember, they made eMacs, iMacs, Powerbooks, ibooks, and 2 AppleTVs.
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Maybe they should invent some keyboard.. some typing device.. that uses radio waves to somehow transfer keystrokes.. hmmm... and perhaps the radio waves could be shared with other devices as well... when oh when will this tech come...
(/sarcasm)
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It's not working right, then.
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Let's leave the produce department out of this.
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So play longer.
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Maybe I'm confused, when did the poster mention anything about fragmentation issues?
You're confused –read the subject and the first line again.
and HDR would be... ?
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You need new friends.
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Time machine is for desktops... wtf is your problem?
Get with the program.
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High dynamic range . the feature exists on the iPhone 4. The device takes 3 pics in a row at different exposures, in order to improve the dark and bright areas (takes the long exp for dark, and the brights get the short one).
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Mostly because most of the wind went out of their sails once an Intel processor (for desktop/laptop) and a Unix-based OS went onto Apple products.
Now it's just trivialities.
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Funny enough, none of those people are people I would give a designation of 'friend' either. Now, back to the topic at hand...
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Odd, my Macbook pro wasn't overpriced for what it was... unless you're comparing it in abstract terms with other products.
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Actually, from what I've just read, when doing a CPU intensive task it may not charge at all.
Write boring code, not shiny code!
The minimum charge juice needed, for iPad 2 at least, seems to be 0,5 A though; my MacBook Pro when running Windows 7 only delivers 400 mA to the iPad 2 (Windows apparently reserves 100 mA for "something"), and the iPad 2 when connected says "not charging". Does charge the iPhone 4S though...
Wait, so you want something on your iPad where you can lay it out in the SUN and recharge it?
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A good OS gets out of the way. An iOS user does not need to know as much about their device as an Android user. "Hum, nice game, does my device have one of the supported graphics chips? Do I have enough memory or do I have too many 'will not install to SD card' apps? Is it a trojan?"...
I visited the marketplace website and I see this message "This app is compatible with your 3 Samsung Nexus S."
Have you even used an Android phone?
Is this like "Is this website going to automatically jailbreak my phone and install something malicious?"
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
Why does it need to "be hacked"? My iPad 2 works fine without "hacking". Runs board games by the dozens, lets me paint and compose music, read magazines and comics, browse the web... lots of things. But no, I do not have a fucking command line shell to the underlying OS, I guess that is your pipe dream?
You bought a dead product in a fire sale and somehow you think that is the normal price for a tablet? It's useless precisely because there are hundreds of apps that do not have any equivalent on the "twenty process killers to save your battery" Android.
Plus, Android is based on Linux (with a few extras "borrowed" from the Java world) so you are running COMMUNISM. :)
No, it's not. Their design decision is to have internal Flash memory, and it's perfectly usable with that. You sync stuff in and out using iTunes (another design decision).
I mean how many Android users ever use multiple SD cards? Just because something is different does not mean it's wrong.
the marketplace website
That is one channel. Are the others the same? Otherwise the Marketplace is like the App Store and will tell you whether the app is compatible with your device or not. And who did the testing? The app developer? And you still need to check that you have enough memory.
Adobe gave up on mobile flash (because it sucks), maybe it is time for you to give it up too.
This is key. They never claim it is actually more likely to shatter.
Look at it this way. I had Flash installed on my 600Mhz PC, my 900Mhz PC, my 1.2GHz PC.. Why wouldn't I have it installed on my dual-core 1.5GHz computer?
Just because it's mobile doesn't make it crap.
(Admittedly, being Flash does make it crap, but tell that to the 80 million websites that use it)
The other app stores I have encountered tend to be preinstalled on devices, those are from the particular vendors of those devices, so it would be unlikely in my opinion that they would list software that does not work on their own hardware. I have yet to try the 'alternative' markets for all phones for Android though because the Google marketplace pretty much covers all the applications anyway.
Probably, with all the VMs provided in the development kit for the different software platforms, not hard to test either.
If my phone didn't have enough memory, that model wouldn't be acceptable as an installation target, so, no, that wouldn't mean I have to check how much memory my phone model has.
Change is certain; progress is not obligatory.
That's because I'm not comparing the Macbook Pro *at all*. I'm talking about the Mac Pro.
If you are lugging that around as a portable I hope you have a few future hernia operations scheduled.
I don't have any monthly data cap
What carrier, what country? In my country, satellite and cellular ISPs have roughly 5 GB/mo caps. Even wired home ISPs such as Comcast have a monthly data cap. And if you're outside of 3G coverage and your device has fallen back to EDGE, you will probably not have enough bandwidth to maintain an AVC stream, but an SWF can still successfully preload at that speed.
Any game that requires dragging won't work.
The choice of Flash or HTML is orthogonal to the choice of pointing device. Here's how it could work, whether in Flash or in HTML: A script on the page marks the interior of an element as clickable and not scrollable. Touching the surface fires a mouse over event, an immediate mouse down event, a series of mouse moved events while the finger continues to move, and a mouse up event.
No one is going to stop making laptops.
I said "stop making laptops that are small enough", or in other words, "stop making laptops that fit in a bag designed for a laptop with a 10 inch screen".
You're describing a Bluetooth keyboard or Bluetooth joystick. But in that case, it's not when the tech will become available at all as much as when the tech will become affordable as an impulse buy in the same way that a game on the App Store is an impulse buy. A $62 gamepad currently is not.
OR, someone who doesn't want to shell out two grand for a computer that will run iTunes just for the privilege of being able to spend $500 on an iPad, when I can just plug a USB cable into my phone and Linux box. It's exactly the same functionality as plugging in a flashdrive, and yet I'm the one who gets downvoted?
MSIE: The world's most standards-complaint web browser.
The truth is ALWAYS boring and predictable, because it can't be changed, like LIES can.
But isn't it kinda telling that he never replied?
Apple (neé Intrinsity) designs, Samsung manufactures:
(from your electronista link)
Like anyone can even know that
That's very interesting. My emulators aren't game emulators, or at least, not per se -- they're machine emulators. For example, one is an emulation of a 1970's era 6809 system with disk operating system and so on. Only one of the companies involved was still in business at the time I wrote the emulator, and I do have permission from them to include their software. It has everything from assemblers to c compilers to basic to forth to whatever you can think of from that era, pretty much.
Still, it's a big pushup, for a small potential audience, to go thru with a chance Apple will say "no." And it isn't like I don't have other things on my plate, either.
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.
You didn't say anything interesting to rebut or defend the notion that Apple products become instantly obsolete as soon as the new version comes out.
Just boring meta-noise.