That's all nice, except for games. Even old ass games like World of Warcraft run "just ok" on the most powerful MacBook Pros. No comparison to the frame rate of my crappy $500 PC (albeit with $200 video card).
But yeah, it is pretty silly in retrospect that I have a $2000 MacBook pro that doesn't play games very well and a $700 PC that doesn't do anything very well but play games.
Seriously! My work-issued MacBook Pro 13" (Retina) has 128GB SSD drive. I freaked out thinking that was unacceptable. Then I realized it was my work computer which doesn't have any games, videos, pics, or music, and even after adding a 40GB Windows partition, still has more space available than the average worker needs. When the iPad surpasses the MacBook SSDs is when I give in and just consider myself a dinosaur for using my laptop instead of a crappy tablet.
#2 is what pisses me off. All the stupid business tricks they pull...the wouldn't have to if they'd just make good software. Just make good products, dammit, and people will buy it. If you have to build your business model on conning people into thinking they HAVE to use your product instead of making products people WANT to use, you'll end up with the Windows 8 / Surface Hail Mary approach to relevance.
Seriously businesses around the world...just make good products. Quit cutting corners to appease rich old white dudes on your boards. Without customers you are nothing.
Don't get me started on my list of 100 things about Win XP that suck...and that's their BEST version of an OS, so yeah, it's easy to "hate" Microsoft when they have a 30 year history of hating usability.
Or spec out the third party ram on newegg for your MacBook Pro and save yourself a few hundred bucks.
And no, equivalent Windows laptops are not 1/2 price of a MacBook Pro. You need to update your argument. Don't confuse the price of a BMW 325 with that of a Ford Contour. Sure, they have 4-doors and are sedan shaped, and might even have similar engine displacement. There's no way you can convince any free thinking fan of engineering that the Ford (albeit a good car for the money) is anywhere near "equivalent" the BMW. Damn, almost made an entire day without a car analogy.
Digital cameras have had expandable storage since day 1 people seem to manage, despite the possibility for problems e.g. if using an SD card too slow for capturing HD video.
I have a Canon Rebel (about 4-5 years old) and I've never removed the SD card. It might as well have been hard-wired into the camera because the usb cable from my camera to my computer is more convenient than removing the card from the camera.
Now if I were a professional photographer, I'd probably have a couple of high capacity SD cards on hand...or probably not, I'd probably just have a nice MacBook Pro nearby and have all the storage I need without fiddling around with stupid little cards. But then again, if I were a professional photographer, I wouldn't be waxing poetic about my Canon Rebel, either.
And an FM-tuner is cheap too, but even most of you geeks have capitulated that is not a warranted feature in a modern device...most...
If users were educated about how it can be used to expand storage with a simple card instead of being steered toward high margin high storage devices, perhaps it would see more use.
Please. Anytime Apple tries to "educate" users, you slashdot geeks cry foul. And no, it won't see more use because people hate toting around a bunch of stupid little cards for content they can get from their cloud account, downloads in seconds, and is readily available from any of their devices, SD card reader or not.
The lack of an SD card is in line with the majority of non-geek users (like me) who haven't ever used an SD card (well, except in my case, in my digital camera, but it never comes out). That is hardly a "racket", rather a response to demand.
While I generally loathe free-market libertarian over-simplifications, I'll just posit that the price of the iPad is what people are willing to pay for it. If a $300 premium is "seriously lousy" than I expect to see serious lousy sales figures (I don't, because I know there are a lot of people with a lot of money who don't care about $300).
I thought the summary stating that the 128GB is obviously for professionals was way off base. Professionals are smart enough to realize the markup for a 128GB is not worth it and you can do everything just the same with the 16GB version with the minor inconvenience of media management. If anything, the 128GB is targeting the uber-geek or the rich-guy-look-at-my-shiny-iDevice-that-is-better-than-yours-because-it-has-more-memory-but-really-isn't-any-better.
the great unwashed hordes of iTards will continue to buy ANYTHING with an Apple logo on it with no regard for ANYTHING, AT ALL, WHATSOEVER. [rest of rant snipped]
You know, you could say all that without the vitriol. Next time, try "A disturbing number of people buy Apple iTrinkets as a fashion statement" and leave it at that.
Sorry, that's equally as ignorant, just with less virtriol. In fact it's more trollish than vitriol guy's comment.
Screw that guy. That was +1 best use of Neck-beard ever.
And the loudest, most ignorant Apple fans are the newest converts. I was that way too, 25 years ago. Does that make me a 40+ year old hipster since I liked Apple before you ever heard of it?
What is this fixation with physically connecting devices you slashdot users have? There are hundreds of third party products (physical connections and wireless) that let you transfer pictures from your camera to your tablet/phone/computer. You don't have to buy the $19 Apple dongle, and you most definitely don't have to physically connect anything to an iPad to get images from your camera.
Or boycott Google for selling ads as a business model? To each his own. Enjoy your Chromebook. Unlike you, I'm not going to go around telling people what they should like and I'll just keep using this MacBook Pro Retina display at 6x the cost of your Chromebook.
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OOh counter anecdote here! Neither of the two 16GB iPads or iPhones in our house are even half full (and I have two teenagers).
Weird, I didn't realize all my Netflix movies were stored locally on my device...
This still? When will you insecure nerdy types realize that the Apple-as-fashion-accessory comment says more about you than it does the Apple user?
Stylus? Seriously? In other news, the new iPad doesn't have a 3.25" floppy drive.
That's all nice, except for games. Even old ass games like World of Warcraft run "just ok" on the most powerful MacBook Pros. No comparison to the frame rate of my crappy $500 PC (albeit with $200 video card).
But yeah, it is pretty silly in retrospect that I have a $2000 MacBook pro that doesn't play games very well and a $700 PC that doesn't do anything very well but play games.
Seriously! My work-issued MacBook Pro 13" (Retina) has 128GB SSD drive. I freaked out thinking that was unacceptable. Then I realized it was my work computer which doesn't have any games, videos, pics, or music, and even after adding a 40GB Windows partition, still has more space available than the average worker needs. When the iPad surpasses the MacBook SSDs is when I give in and just consider myself a dinosaur for using my laptop instead of a crappy tablet.
#2 is what pisses me off. All the stupid business tricks they pull ...the wouldn't have to if they'd just make good software. Just make good products, dammit, and people will buy it. If you have to build your business model on conning people into thinking they HAVE to use your product instead of making products people WANT to use, you'll end up with the Windows 8 / Surface Hail Mary approach to relevance.
Seriously businesses around the world...just make good products. Quit cutting corners to appease rich old white dudes on your boards. Without customers you are nothing.
Don't get me started on my list of 100 things about Win XP that suck...and that's their BEST version of an OS, so yeah, it's easy to "hate" Microsoft when they have a 30 year history of hating usability.
Or spec out the third party ram on newegg for your MacBook Pro and save yourself a few hundred bucks.
And no, equivalent Windows laptops are not 1/2 price of a MacBook Pro. You need to update your argument. Don't confuse the price of a BMW 325 with that of a Ford Contour. Sure, they have 4-doors and are sedan shaped, and might even have similar engine displacement. There's no way you can convince any free thinking fan of engineering that the Ford (albeit a good car for the money) is anywhere near "equivalent" the BMW. Damn, almost made an entire day without a car analogy.
Digital cameras have had expandable storage since day 1 people seem to manage, despite the possibility for problems e.g. if using an SD card too slow for capturing HD video.
I have a Canon Rebel (about 4-5 years old) and I've never removed the SD card. It might as well have been hard-wired into the camera because the usb cable from my camera to my computer is more convenient than removing the card from the camera.
Now if I were a professional photographer, I'd probably have a couple of high capacity SD cards on hand...or probably not, I'd probably just have a nice MacBook Pro nearby and have all the storage I need without fiddling around with stupid little cards. But then again, if I were a professional photographer, I wouldn't be waxing poetic about my Canon Rebel, either.
This feature costs pennies to add to a device.
And an FM-tuner is cheap too, but even most of you geeks have capitulated that is not a warranted feature in a modern device...most...
If users were educated about how it can be used to expand storage with a simple card instead of being steered toward high margin high storage devices, perhaps it would see more use.
Please. Anytime Apple tries to "educate" users, you slashdot geeks cry foul. And no, it won't see more use because people hate toting around a bunch of stupid little cards for content they can get from their cloud account, downloads in seconds, and is readily available from any of their devices, SD card reader or not.
The lack of an SD card is in line with the majority of non-geek users (like me) who haven't ever used an SD card (well, except in my case, in my digital camera, but it never comes out). That is hardly a "racket", rather a response to demand.
While I generally loathe free-market libertarian over-simplifications, I'll just posit that the price of the iPad is what people are willing to pay for it. If a $300 premium is "seriously lousy" than I expect to see serious lousy sales figures (I don't, because I know there are a lot of people with a lot of money who don't care about $300).
The file concept exists, it's merely masked from the average user. I'm not sure most non-geeks really care.
Criminy you geeks and your love of SD cards. Let it go already.
I thought the summary stating that the 128GB is obviously for professionals was way off base. Professionals are smart enough to realize the markup for a 128GB is not worth it and you can do everything just the same with the 16GB version with the minor inconvenience of media management. If anything, the 128GB is targeting the uber-geek or the rich-guy-look-at-my-shiny-iDevice-that-is-better-than-yours-because-it-has-more-memory-but-really-isn't-any-better.
the great unwashed hordes of iTards will continue to buy ANYTHING with an Apple logo on it with no regard for ANYTHING, AT ALL, WHATSOEVER. [rest of rant snipped]
You know, you could say all that without the vitriol. Next time, try "A disturbing number of people buy Apple iTrinkets as a fashion statement" and leave it at that.
Sorry, that's equally as ignorant, just with less virtriol. In fact it's more trollish than vitriol guy's comment.
As if any developer worth his or her weight doesn't have a home wi-fi connection?
Mac mini Server, of course (with Configurator installed).
If my iPad was designed to do all that stuff, then I'd say you got me. But it wasn't, so you don't.
Quit trying to shoehorn the iPad into functions it wasn't designed to be used for.
This is an old comment of mine but why is it surprising that a device not made for touch typing (tablets and phones) isn't very good at touch typing?
Screw that guy. That was +1 best use of Neck-beard ever.
And the loudest, most ignorant Apple fans are the newest converts. I was that way too, 25 years ago. Does that make me a 40+ year old hipster since I liked Apple before you ever heard of it?
What is this fixation with physically connecting devices you slashdot users have? There are hundreds of third party products (physical connections and wireless) that let you transfer pictures from your camera to your tablet/phone/computer. You don't have to buy the $19 Apple dongle, and you most definitely don't have to physically connect anything to an iPad to get images from your camera.
Correction, most people would like to CONNECT their digital camera to their iPad. You happen to want to "plug" yours in, I prefer to do so wirelessly.
Or boycott Google for selling ads as a business model? To each his own. Enjoy your Chromebook. Unlike you, I'm not going to go around telling people what they should like and I'll just keep using this MacBook Pro Retina display at 6x the cost of your Chromebook.