You have to understand us poor aussies can't really use them as eReaders, we don't even have iBookstore. The other thing is the Tax our wonderful govt puts on the product, we were assured going back 10 years ago that GST was the only tax products would suffer now everything has a sub-category Tax associated with it.
What i would of liked "personally" if the iPad was made for me would be that it would had a camera that works with skype, a bigger screen res, flash, upgradable storage space and a usb slot. Mate, I would of paid $1,500 for something all that.
Everything else in the market supports most of these things, why does Apple refuse to do so? and why do Apple lovers get upset when people say how frustrating it is? really, its freaking annoying, Apple has great tools but they are so limited and its a killer. I don't believe it has anything to do with them "delivering a better product" its utter nonsense IMHO. Its them trying to milk more money for later releases of their product and its not something I really want to be part of.
If you look at the mobile computing market if you spend $500 you get a certain level product, at $1000 you get another, at $1500 another $2000 another and $2500 yet another. Each of them with fairly clear price point advantages, like accelerometers on hdd and 5 in 1 slots, etc.
The iPad its just a few extra gigs and 3g capability, it kind of is petty if you think about it.
These guys are not the cheapest by any means either. Eitherway, like i said, iPad's value, 1/2 the price of whats advertised they would of had my money.
And why is it that every single waste of space who repeats this line (as if it were their own actual opinion), has the writing skills of a turnip? My current conspiracy theory is that Apple pays these people to write inane tripe on random sites to trick the rest of us into buying iPads so we don't look like morons.
Yeah, your a fucking arts major with your elite grammar skills too, yeah?
I just stated an opinion, if don't like it don't read it. It was the 1st time i used an iPad and I wanted to share how much my experience sucked. So calm the fuck down and get over it but i do get a rise out of putting you little Apple fanboys on the edge of your seats.
Hey, the same can be said about people who so passionately "love" Apple. How can people love a brand so much that they deliberately attack anyone who has even the slightest negative connotation against them? Hell, I was going to buy one found out it was shit so I didn't.
"Ohhhh poor baby someone said an Apple product wasn't good enough for them".. Boo Hoo...
I suggest taking a laxative and taking off the turtle neck sweater. I think its restricting the blood flow to your brain and your ass is so tight farts cant even escape.
The first time I used one I found that since all websites use the 1024x768 resolution as a base standard the iPad just made websites look poor. Since 1024x768 (or 990px to include scroll bars) its the minimum of what everyone programs for website borders get eaten and stuff just looks like its been "crammed in".
It would be been so much better if they had it in a higher res and allowed you to zoom like the iPhone/iPod does if the site wasn't legible. Rather, most websites viewed on it struggle to look good because the iPad defaults to the websites bare minimum resolution standard.
For something new and latest, its a bit of a let down. You can argue this point technically all you want, but practically the argument fails.
I went into JB-HI on Friday with the aim to purchase one of these babies. I tell you the top line iPad costs just over $1,000 and is simply not worth it.
The crappy res (nearly a decade out of date), poor website rendering (javascript struggles), the constant blank spaces navigating websites (cause of no flash), and the lack of camera just made the whole experience redundant. Its just a big iPod touch with less features.
IMHO if it was half the price, I would of purchased it for what it was but for its current price and feature list, its just not a smart buy.
I've said the iPad's shit and all you got is sales figures... you do what lawyers and politicians do in your arguments and that is deflect the conversation from the points made.
Lets put this in perspective, Brittany Spears outsells Mozart at present. Does that make Brittany better? or is it cause Brittany had more TV airtime to sell her products?
Listen, your an iSheep! you buy into the news and have no self opinion. Grab your iPad and download Justin Bieber.... Wait have you even got an iPad?
No, obviously, so how the fuck would you even have a clue if they are good or not!
Yeah, I'm happy to buy it as a coincidence, but it's certainly an interesting one as it could lead to lot of different perspectives.
Is it Apple muscle flexing or was it something in the pipeline for a while? Is it going to go be a detriment whilst an investigation is going on? letting smaller players in meanwhile leaving the bigger players on the road side (showing even more anti-competitive behavior)
Either way, it will make interesting news in coming weeks.
Dood, seriously lay of the crack, the iPad has sold well but it hasn't sold as well as you lead on. The Wii kicks the shit out of iPhone sales alone (somewhere in the vicinity of 20million units) to compare iGadgets too something like consoles is senseless. Like i said, stop being Apple's PR officer (because really you as a person don't get any benefit out of selling Apple) and look at the simple facts.
Listen again, I wanted one, I went in to buy one on the premise it would help me do my job better and make my surfing easier, it does neither so i didn't buy it.
With all the hype it would be so great to have one of these devices next time i showed up at a meeting as clients and colleagues would of been "wow an iPad" but it physically wont do the job i want it too do so i was forced not to buy one.
The only single reason why you'd buy one is to get that "wow its an iPad" response, other than that its a waste of money, not 2 Apple fans, but thousands of Apple fans say the same thing. It does LESS then the iPod touch, except for the bigger screen, this is not only tech knowledge but i asked my 60year old mother who had an iPod touch, she said isn't it just a bigger iPod touch? i said yes, but with less features... she agrees its stupid they did that. That's someone who hates windows with a passion and is a complete and utter Apple convert.
If the iPad was a better product and wasn't restricted by Job's wanker like approach to product development, I would of bought 2 of the things one for me and one for my older brother for his birthday in a couple of week's. Cause its shit and useless and "shiny" it lost my sale, it's getting this critique from every where i turn.
Moving on, your not getting it are you? it doesn't penetrate the cranium? The upfront sales of a product means dick, it always has it always will. Its a new product and only gadget nuts are buying them now.
Its the sales over the long term that mean anything, because thats when it becomes generally accepted. I don't believe the iPad has a chance as does a lot of other people. There are quite a few Apple fans that agree on this point, heck i read a comment by a Apple lover who has the company logo tattooed on his body say "I took my iPad back!"
When the iPod / iPhone came out everyone loved it, apple and non-apple people couldn't really fault it. iPad shows far too much weakness and we are looking at nearly 50 competition tablets in the next 3 - 6 months (that are half the price), look what droid did to iPhone? same thing but worse will happen to the iPad.
Dood, listen its okay keep playing Apples sales person (though these sales figures are passed on the media which means they are absolutely doctored in the favor of whichever company is buying the most adspace). But you wont sell me on the iPad, i tried it, it failed... it continues to fail...
Jobs has the FTC on his ass now and is backing down his communistic ways. Your concept that Apple only puts out the very best is a load of popycock!
Hey, they made the iPad without a speaker or camera, they then went off and made the next generation iPhone with a whole pile of features that blow the iPad out of the water. Again if Apple cared on giving the customer the very best the iPad would of shared in these advantages. Fact it, Apple milks the market like a cow and you sheeps lap it up.
On another note, Google Chrome and Safari (iPad / iPhone / iPod / iMac) make up about 6 - 8% each of the browsing world. The rest is Firefox and IE, tell me something... If Mac really sold as well as you said, that figure would be significantly different wouldnt it? or maybe people dont surf using iPod / iPhone because flash isnt available therefore the iPad will be useless like I said. So which one is it? you tell me... Apple is a good seller and their products but dont make good web browsing tools, or Apple's sales figures are bogus and they are not as big as they let on?
This is the 1st week iPad has been in Australia, that's right its sitting at the bottom of the page. The XBox gets more adspace then them.
The only business that give a rats about the iPad is the phone companies trying to sell pre-paid 3g data, other than that its not really taken the world by storm - because its a redundant product.
If they put simcards in iPod touches the phone companies would sell them too... oh wait.. that's right that's an iPhone.
iPad / iPod... when's the pink edition going to come out twice the price?
IMHO this opens them up to a new dimension here one that is Apple has so far away from competing in. Apple still needs to get their book publishers under control.
Read my sig mate, it sums up Apple in nutshell, they get on the news and everyone knows about them. Meanwhile the rest of the market uses traditional forms of marketing to get their message out and gets to their targets audiences.
I have a tough time trusting the news when it comes to half the crap they put out there, i certainly don't trust them when it comes to whats the "best" technology out there.
They _just_ released the iPad here in Australia, usually, we have the same "blitz" marketing approach with Apple products here as they do in the states, you know people lining up on the street, sleeping out the front of Apple stores to buy things. That sort of thing.
The iPad came out, nobody here cared, it hit the news in the morning but no big sales blitz, it was rather piss poor for Apple standards TBH.
I went in with the company credit card ready to buy one of these "brand new" things but had a go of it first and I ended up walking away laughing. There are comments on news posts of "Apple fans" yes "Apple fans" pissed off at the restrictions too, citing they want to take the thing back to the store.
It wont "die" because the fan base is there to support it but it wont "overcome" whats out there, nor will it be able to compete with the hurricane or streak when they come out.
Nah, Safari makes up about the same market share as Chrome which is about 6 - 8% (each) either way. Firefox and MSIE still own the browser world.
The issue is the future of the ad space for mobile devices and the growth of this market is supposed to double in the next 2 - 3 years from $600mil to $1.2bil.
Okay take a step back here... Firstly, these things price the same as a low end laptop which is my point, stop dancing around the obvious. Second they are just iPod touches *big edition* besides there is nothing different other then the fact it does less then an iPod touch.
Yes i'm surprised at the res and yes no flash is irritating. If your not up with the times in the computer world and you keep getting push notifications that flash doesn't work and piles of white patches you'd think the thing is broken. I wanted one for my living room as a portable computer as you said seriously with all the hype i expected a 10x better product, its a pile of shit and Apple created it.
When the existing Apple fan base stop from purchasing it, the regular Joe wont bother with it and it will hopefully die like it's destined too. You have to consider it took nearly 3 years to procure the success of the iPhone the iPad wont make it that long.
Just a hypercritical... Say the iPad wasn't made my Apple for a second. It was made by someone else, you'd walk in look at it and if you owned an iPhone/iPod touch you'd laugh under your breath and say, sheesh my iPhone does all of this why would i blow $1,000 on it (forget the lower cost ones if i buy something i buy it properly not the further crippled smaller edition).
The fact this has been raised so quickly intrigues me somewhat, its not like this was an ongoing issue and the FTC is taking it under advisement, they've gone straight to an investigation. *YAY*
*Kisses the App Store Goodbye* Good riddance to bad rubbish...
P.S I know I'm being pretty preemptive but I'm preying Apple gets it's noses bitten off and goes back to the drawing board on the iPad, the worlds most redundant product to ever surface in the history of IT!
As for the iPad, you must be aware that it is selling like crazy, right? I'm not saying your opinion is invalid, just that to say Apple isn't doing their best flies in the face of the fact that the iPad has cracked a market that PC makers have been trying at for over a decade. It's unclear what you think Apple could have done better, but it is clear that they've done better than anyone else, by a long shot.
Of course they are selling like crazy, when you market something with so much hype people want to buy it. Someone like me it's a no brainier, I would of bought one and caught a tax break on it, easy, as my job is in IT. After I used one I felt the iPad is so far from "current", IMHO it's a massive step backward, nearly 5 - 6 years.
Apple preaches that they are standard / compliant and easy. What? not supporting flash which just about 90% of any commercial websites use is considered standard? I could tolerate it on my iPhone because you cant really surf with it but on the iPad it just pisses you off. You keep getting swfobject notifications and attempts to download flash and big white patches on websites not being able to see certain content. Right there the iPad became a waste of time for me, also any normal person who will surf using the iPad is going to jump up and down like crazy scratching their head trying to understand why the iPad doesn't render bits of websites. They'd think the damn thing is broken and take it back.
They support a max res of 1024x768 what are we in 2001? We moved past this old school res years ago, anything that is current and is based on this res is terrible. Make the screen bigger PLEASE.
But it gets worse, the price tag is about $800 for that price i can get a full featured laptop for that price, if the iPad was $200 okay, I'd cop the above hags but for its price it's ridiculous, people who are buying them are certainly not doing it because they approach the sales person at a department store and ask "I have $1000 what is the best value for my money?" you'd have to be mad to push the iPad as being value for money.
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I completely agree with you.
You have to understand us poor aussies can't really use them as eReaders, we don't even have iBookstore. The other thing is the Tax our wonderful govt puts on the product, we were assured going back 10 years ago that GST was the only tax products would suffer now everything has a sub-category Tax associated with it.
What i would of liked "personally" if the iPad was made for me would be that it would had a camera that works with skype, a bigger screen res, flash, upgradable storage space and a usb slot. Mate, I would of paid $1,500 for something all that.
Everything else in the market supports most of these things, why does Apple refuse to do so? and why do Apple lovers get upset when people say how frustrating it is? really, its freaking annoying, Apple has great tools but they are so limited and its a killer. I don't believe it has anything to do with them "delivering a better product" its utter nonsense IMHO. Its them trying to milk more money for later releases of their product and its not something I really want to be part of.
If you look at the mobile computing market if you spend $500 you get a certain level product, at $1000 you get another, at $1500 another $2000 another and $2500 yet another. Each of them with fairly clear price point advantages, like accelerometers on hdd and 5 in 1 slots, etc.
The iPad its just a few extra gigs and 3g capability, it kind of is petty if you think about it.
Here is the same product in australia -
http://www.onlinecomputer.com.au/product_info.php?products_id=3195&osCsid=94d9cee4e4c06d8fd24db4e016eceb38
These guys are not the cheapest by any means either. Eitherway, like i said, iPad's value, 1/2 the price of whats advertised they would of had my money.
And why is it that every single waste of space who repeats this line (as if it were their own actual opinion), has the writing skills of a turnip? My current conspiracy theory is that Apple pays these people to write inane tripe on random sites to trick the rest of us into buying iPads so we don't look like morons.
Yeah, your a fucking arts major with your elite grammar skills too, yeah?
I just stated an opinion, if don't like it don't read it. It was the 1st time i used an iPad and I wanted to share how much my experience sucked. So calm the fuck down and get over it but i do get a rise out of putting you little Apple fanboys on the edge of your seats.
Hey, the same can be said about people who so passionately "love" Apple. How can people love a brand so much that they deliberately attack anyone who has even the slightest negative connotation against them? Hell, I was going to buy one found out it was shit so I didn't.
"Ohhhh poor baby someone said an Apple product wasn't good enough for them" .. Boo Hoo...
I suggest taking a laxative and taking off the turtle neck sweater. I think its restricting the blood flow to your brain and your ass is so tight farts cant even escape.
Yay!! Microsoft!!
Yeah but Safari only makes up 6 - 8% of the market.
Obviously Apple isn't significant enough in the eyes of cyber-criminals to really care about writing exploits for Apple just yet.
Your Comment ...
http://www.amazon.com/ASUS-Eee-PC-1005PE-Seashell/dp/B00322PYZO/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=electronics&qid=1276424549&sr=8-1
My comment ...
IMHO if it was half the price, I would of purchased it for what it was but for its current price and feature list, its just not a smart buy.
Well gee thanks for reinforcing my point further! :)
The first time I used one I found that since all websites use the 1024x768 resolution as a base standard the iPad just made websites look poor. Since 1024x768 (or 990px to include scroll bars) its the minimum of what everyone programs for website borders get eaten and stuff just looks like its been "crammed in".
It would be been so much better if they had it in a higher res and allowed you to zoom like the iPhone/iPod does if the site wasn't legible. Rather, most websites viewed on it struggle to look good because the iPad defaults to the websites bare minimum resolution standard.
For something new and latest, its a bit of a let down. You can argue this point technically all you want, but practically the argument fails.
Kind of like all the hype vs the real thing ...
That's not a tablet! This is a tablet!
http://nozama.typepad.com/.a/6a00e54ed05fc288330128771bd234970c-800wi
I went into JB-HI on Friday with the aim to purchase one of these babies. I tell you the top line iPad costs just over $1,000 and is simply not worth it.
The crappy res (nearly a decade out of date), poor website rendering (javascript struggles), the constant blank spaces navigating websites (cause of no flash), and the lack of camera just made the whole experience redundant. Its just a big iPod touch with less features.
IMHO if it was half the price, I would of purchased it for what it was but for its current price and feature list, its just not a smart buy.
http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38566-five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia
Err again you still have nothing!
I've said the iPad's shit and all you got is sales figures ... you do what lawyers and politicians do in your arguments and that is deflect the conversation from the points made.
Lets put this in perspective, Brittany Spears outsells Mozart at present. Does that make Brittany better? or is it cause Brittany had more TV airtime to sell her products?
Listen, your an iSheep! you buy into the news and have no self opinion. Grab your iPad and download Justin Bieber .... Wait have you even got an iPad?
No, obviously, so how the fuck would you even have a clue if they are good or not!
Yeah, I'm happy to buy it as a coincidence, but it's certainly an interesting one as it could lead to lot of different perspectives.
Is it Apple muscle flexing or was it something in the pipeline for a while? Is it going to go be a detriment whilst an investigation is going on? letting smaller players in meanwhile leaving the bigger players on the road side (showing even more anti-competitive behavior)
Either way, it will make interesting news in coming weeks.
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1599659/wall-street-journal-admits-ipad-sales-disappointing
http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=6709
http://www.thetechherald.com/article.php/201014/5463/First-day-iPad-sales-fall-short-of-revised-expectations
http://www.totaltele.com/view.aspx?ID=454448
keep reading ...
http://www.smartcompany.com.au/information-technology/20100604-the-ipad-can-t-match-the-laptop-yet-but-when-it-can-the-world-will-change-kohler.html
http://www.zdnet.com.au/why-the-apple-ipad-will-fail-in-australia-339302686.htm
http://www.itwire.com/it-industry-news/strategy/38566-five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia
http://delimiter.com.au/2010/04/27/five-reasons-the-ipad-will-fail-in-australia/
http://www.marketingmag.com.au/news/view/ipad-over-hyped-2165
Day 1) Google get's pissed at iAd's and calls their buddies at the FTC
Day 2) FTC officially launches an investigation
Day 3) Apple reduces the restrictions on iPhone development ...
Gee, we are not talking weeks here were talking the span of a few days. You tell me ...
Dood, seriously lay of the crack, the iPad has sold well but it hasn't sold as well as you lead on. The Wii kicks the shit out of iPhone sales alone (somewhere in the vicinity of 20million units) to compare iGadgets too something like consoles is senseless. Like i said, stop being Apple's PR officer (because really you as a person don't get any benefit out of selling Apple) and look at the simple facts.
Listen again, I wanted one, I went in to buy one on the premise it would help me do my job better and make my surfing easier, it does neither so i didn't buy it.
With all the hype it would be so great to have one of these devices next time i showed up at a meeting as clients and colleagues would of been "wow an iPad" but it physically wont do the job i want it too do so i was forced not to buy one.
The only single reason why you'd buy one is to get that "wow its an iPad" response, other than that its a waste of money, not 2 Apple fans, but thousands of Apple fans say the same thing. It does LESS then the iPod touch, except for the bigger screen, this is not only tech knowledge but i asked my 60year old mother who had an iPod touch, she said isn't it just a bigger iPod touch? i said yes, but with less features ... she agrees its stupid they did that. That's someone who hates windows with a passion and is a complete and utter Apple convert.
If the iPad was a better product and wasn't restricted by Job's wanker like approach to product development, I would of bought 2 of the things one for me and one for my older brother for his birthday in a couple of week's. Cause its shit and useless and "shiny" it lost my sale, it's getting this critique from every where i turn.
All I can say is ... timing people ... timing. Maybe it's just a co-incidence but its a sure good one.
Though I would see this as a bad move cause in the courts its just another piece of ammo Google's lawyers can use.
"They changed this just as the investigation began, what are they hiding?" sort of thing.
You just aren't that important.
Spoken like a true mac user hey ...
Moving on, your not getting it are you? it doesn't penetrate the cranium? The upfront sales of a product means dick, it always has it always will. Its a new product and only gadget nuts are buying them now.
Its the sales over the long term that mean anything, because thats when it becomes generally accepted. I don't believe the iPad has a chance as does a lot of other people. There are quite a few Apple fans that agree on this point, heck i read a comment by a Apple lover who has the company logo tattooed on his body say "I took my iPad back!"
When the iPod / iPhone came out everyone loved it, apple and non-apple people couldn't really fault it. iPad shows far too much weakness and we are looking at nearly 50 competition tablets in the next 3 - 6 months (that are half the price), look what droid did to iPhone? same thing but worse will happen to the iPad.
FTC is on Job's ass ... now he's scared .... there joined the dots for ya.
Dood, listen its okay keep playing Apples sales person (though these sales figures are passed on the media which means they are absolutely doctored in the favor of whichever company is buying the most adspace). But you wont sell me on the iPad, i tried it, it failed ... it continues to fail ...
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/10/06/12/0750258/Apple-Eases-Restrictions-On-iPhone-Developers
Jobs has the FTC on his ass now and is backing down his communistic ways. Your concept that Apple only puts out the very best is a load of popycock!
Hey, they made the iPad without a speaker or camera, they then went off and made the next generation iPhone with a whole pile of features that blow the iPad out of the water. Again if Apple cared on giving the customer the very best the iPad would of shared in these advantages. Fact it, Apple milks the market like a cow and you sheeps lap it up.
On another note, Google Chrome and Safari (iPad / iPhone / iPod / iMac) make up about 6 - 8% each of the browsing world. The rest is Firefox and IE, tell me something ... If Mac really sold as well as you said, that figure would be significantly different wouldnt it? or maybe people dont surf using iPod / iPhone because flash isnt available therefore the iPad will be useless like I said. So which one is it? you tell me ... Apple is a good seller and their products but dont make good web browsing tools, or Apple's sales figures are bogus and they are not as big as they let on?
This should let the air out of your tyres about about the iPad and its "success" ...
Harvey Norman is perhaps one of the biggest home goods providers in Australia ...
http://www.harveynorman.com.au/
This is the 1st week iPad has been in Australia, that's right its sitting at the bottom of the page. The XBox gets more adspace then them.
The only business that give a rats about the iPad is the phone companies trying to sell pre-paid 3g data, other than that its not really taken the world by storm - because its a redundant product.
If they put simcards in iPod touches the phone companies would sell them too ... oh wait .. that's right that's an iPhone.
iPad / iPod ... when's the pink edition going to come out twice the price?
Dude! WTF do you think the KINDLE is!? Which has been out for ages - and on avg gets better reviews then that iPad.
You do realize that the iPad has fairly big uphill battle taking on Amazon as they only have 1 of like 7 publishers that Amazon has on side.
Amazon has recently released this ...
http://mashable.com/2010/05/19/amazoncrossing/
IMHO this opens them up to a new dimension here one that is Apple has so far away from competing in. Apple still needs to get their book publishers under control.
Current tablets ..
http://www.crunchgear.com/2010/04/02/seven-more-ipad-alternatives/
Up and coming tablets
http://mashable.com/2010/01/27/9-upcoming-tablet-alternatives-to-the-apple-ipad/
Read my sig mate, it sums up Apple in nutshell, they get on the news and everyone knows about them. Meanwhile the rest of the market uses traditional forms of marketing to get their message out and gets to their targets audiences.
I have a tough time trusting the news when it comes to half the crap they put out there, i certainly don't trust them when it comes to whats the "best" technology out there.
Okay maybe i should i explain something to you.
I live in Australia ...
http://www.apple.com/au/pr/library/2010/05/07ipad.html
They _just_ released the iPad here in Australia, usually, we have the same "blitz" marketing approach with Apple products here as they do in the states, you know people lining up on the street, sleeping out the front of Apple stores to buy things. That sort of thing.
The iPad came out, nobody here cared, it hit the news in the morning but no big sales blitz, it was rather piss poor for Apple standards TBH.
I went in with the company credit card ready to buy one of these "brand new" things but had a go of it first and I ended up walking away laughing. There are comments on news posts of "Apple fans" yes "Apple fans" pissed off at the restrictions too, citing they want to take the thing back to the store.
It wont "die" because the fan base is there to support it but it wont "overcome" whats out there, nor will it be able to compete with the hurricane or streak when they come out.
Nah, Safari makes up about the same market share as Chrome which is about 6 - 8% (each) either way. Firefox and MSIE still own the browser world.
The issue is the future of the ad space for mobile devices and the growth of this market is supposed to double in the next 2 - 3 years from $600mil to $1.2bil.
Okay take a step back here ... Firstly, these things price the same as a low end laptop which is my point, stop dancing around the obvious. Second they are just iPod touches *big edition* besides there is nothing different other then the fact it does less then an iPod touch.
Yes i'm surprised at the res and yes no flash is irritating. If your not up with the times in the computer world and you keep getting push notifications that flash doesn't work and piles of white patches you'd think the thing is broken. I wanted one for my living room as a portable computer as you said seriously with all the hype i expected a 10x better product, its a pile of shit and Apple created it.
When the existing Apple fan base stop from purchasing it, the regular Joe wont bother with it and it will hopefully die like it's destined too. You have to consider it took nearly 3 years to procure the success of the iPhone the iPad wont make it that long.
Just a hypercritical ... Say the iPad wasn't made my Apple for a second. It was made by someone else, you'd walk in look at it and if you owned an iPhone/iPod touch you'd laugh under your breath and say, sheesh my iPhone does all of this why would i blow $1,000 on it (forget the lower cost ones if i buy something i buy it properly not the further crippled smaller edition).
You know what! You need more mod points!
The fact this has been raised so quickly intrigues me somewhat, its not like this was an ongoing issue and the FTC is taking it under advisement, they've gone straight to an investigation. *YAY*
*Kisses the App Store Goodbye* Good riddance to bad rubbish ...
P.S I know I'm being pretty preemptive but I'm preying Apple gets it's noses bitten off and goes back to the drawing board on the iPad, the worlds most redundant product to ever surface in the history of IT!
As for the iPad, you must be aware that it is selling like crazy, right? I'm not saying your opinion is invalid, just that to say Apple isn't doing their best flies in the face of the fact that the iPad has cracked a market that PC makers have been trying at for over a decade. It's unclear what you think Apple could have done better, but it is clear that they've done better than anyone else, by a long shot.
Of course they are selling like crazy, when you market something with so much hype people want to buy it. Someone like me it's a no brainier, I would of bought one and caught a tax break on it, easy, as my job is in IT. After I used one I felt the iPad is so far from "current", IMHO it's a massive step backward, nearly 5 - 6 years.
Apple preaches that they are standard / compliant and easy. What? not supporting flash which just about 90% of any commercial websites use is considered standard? I could tolerate it on my iPhone because you cant really surf with it but on the iPad it just pisses you off. You keep getting swfobject notifications and attempts to download flash and big white patches on websites not being able to see certain content. Right there the iPad became a waste of time for me, also any normal person who will surf using the iPad is going to jump up and down like crazy scratching their head trying to understand why the iPad doesn't render bits of websites. They'd think the damn thing is broken and take it back.
They support a max res of 1024x768 what are we in 2001? We moved past this old school res years ago, anything that is current and is based on this res is terrible. Make the screen bigger PLEASE.
But it gets worse, the price tag is about $800 for that price i can get a full featured laptop for that price, if the iPad was $200 okay, I'd cop the above hags but for its price it's ridiculous, people who are buying them are certainly not doing it because they approach the sales person at a department store and ask "I have $1000 what is the best value for my money?" you'd have to be mad to push the iPad as being value for money.