Jan 27 2010
New From Apple: The iDisapointment
I haven’t used a piece of Apple hardware since I was a child and the local school had Apple IIe computers. I’ve yet to shell out cash for an iPod, iPhone, or any of their computers. I was holding out some hope that Apple’s tablet would be something that would make me run out to buy.
As news trickled in this afternoon, my heart sank in disappointment. The iPad is merely a supersized iPod Touch with the iPhone OS.
I saw some of the video demos and everything looked sharp. It was very responsive, but one of the glaring issues I saw was the fact that you couldn’t do much with it. There’s no multitasking. It immediately reminded me of Windows netbooks which restrict you on the number of programs you can run at once.
I had hoped the iPad was going to be a full-fledged laptop, shoved into a tablet form, but the functionality just doesn’t appear to be there and I therefore will remain Apple-free on the hardware side of thing. The only Apple on my PC is iTunes.
Yeah, and it has a stupid name, too. iPad and iPod are too similar, it will cause confusion. Why not iTab? That sounds more fitting.
Also, I saw that it has no USB ports or flash card slots. What the hell?
As I’ve seen mentioned around after this was announced, the HP Slate is much more impressive. It’s just too bad that they can’t get it released sooner.