6 responses to “Good iPad review”

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   Phil Brooks January 28th, 2010 at 18:56

   here is a good “bad” review of why the iPad is not so good!

   http://gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad

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   ... January 29th, 2010 at 03:02

   > Phil Brooks
   > January 28th, 2010 at 18:56
   >
   > “here is a good “bad” review of why the iPad is not so good!”
   >
   > http://BLAH BLAH BLAH….

   HERE ARE THE
   THREE PHASES OF
   APPLE PRODUCTS:
   —————

   PHASE ONE: Excited Hype about Apple device not yet confirmed by Apple.

   PHASE TWO: Apple device introduced. Multitudes of Basher-Bloggers post why device is failure.

   PHASE THREE: Apple device begins sales, long lines of customers, record sales, the device is loved by all, envied by those who want it but can’t afford it, and is copied by manufacturers who want to jump on the bandwagon. Basher-Bloggers then have to eat Crow.

   HERE ENDeth THE LESSON.

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   woody January 29th, 2010 at 06:24

   No.mail -

   HA! Sounds like the three phases of almost every well-designed software product. I guess I won’t mention the “7″ word.

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   sanda January 30th, 2010 at 02:34

   Does it have an LED screen? I prefer LCD.
   The review doesn’t help the “newbie” (still, after 2 years online, old person)much. My younger brother suggested that I might like one,but I go back to my question. I like the above comment re “new”. I read a good review of an Advent Roma 2000 on the Independent site, England. It’s got Windows 7 and a 15″ screen,which my eyes need. Any opinions about it? (I don’t know if it’s sold in US.) I just heard a good suggestion by someone re Apple vs Windows: for folks who are learning, how much time do you want to spend learning something different? Apple works different than Windows and I’d probably stick with Windows, which I’m still learning.

5. 

   Greg January 31st, 2010 at 07:48

   PHASE FOUR: Months later, debut a version that actually works as advertised while dropping the price of the original brick leaving millions holding a device that they can’t even flip to break even on Ebay.

   PHASE FIVE: Sell new units to users when the batteries die and aren’t replaceable.

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   Sethness February 5th, 2010 at 13:10

   A touchpad replacement for a laptop is a scheme that has been tried every few years by any number of manufacturers…and it has yet to gain sustaining interest even once.

   The Gizmodo negative review covers at least two killer points:

   1) No Flash. On an iphone, that’s acceptable since surfing on an itty-bitty iphone screen has never been a huge priority– but the iPad is suposed to compete with NETBOOKS, not PHONES. There are a huge range of fun and business websites (Did somebody say “YOuTube”?) in which Flash is mandatory.

   2) Learn from history: IBM trounced Apple by creating the IBM-compatible market. This widening the # of 3rd party manufacturers of software and hardware was critical in turning Apple into a niche machine. Since the iPad is locked in to only using Apple-made apps and a very limited bunch of hardware, it’ll take exactly two seconds for smart shoppers to say “ooh, pretty…but I’ll buy the Windows netbook.”

   3)Price. Well, ok, Gizmodo didn’t mention this one… but heck, we all know that Apple products tend to be about 30% to 100% more expensive (and less functional) than the competing products that appear within a year.

   4) Keyboard. OK, this isn’t a Gizmodo point either; it’s mine. Unless the users are all newbie hunt-and-peck typists, putting the keyboard on the same plane as the screen looks cool in a sci-fi movie, but in real life it’s annoying. Even the close proximity of keyboard and screen in a normal laptop is ergonomically annoying. The lack of keyboard feedback, like the other touchtypist-unfriendly design decisions, dooms this toy to a short worklife followed by a long span as a mantlepiece dustcatcher.