The Apple iPad: My Thoughts
Jan.27, 2010 in
Gadget
I know, you probably don’t care. But I’m watching the iPad announcement via (Gdgt & Gizmodo), and having the following thoughts:
- No mention of GPS? I suspect it’s there, but they didn’t mention it.
- No mention of 3G or Edge
- No mention of a Camera
- Apps can run “in a box” or “2x pixel”, implying the screen is double-wide and double-tall as the iPhone screen.. Making it something like 960×640 (480×320 doubled). But no mention of running multiple apps at once in a side-by-side or foreground/background usage.
- Not 16×9.. The res would take 720 with space leftover, but not 1080.. Not a big deal..
- Very impressed by the battery life on it.. They claim 10 hours of Video playback, and a full month of Standby.
- iBooks is neat.. corny name, and it looks like they just cut-n-paste Delicious Library & Stanza for the interface..
- ePub compatible.. that’s nice.. Now to see how easy/hard it is to get ePub books from other sources into it.
- iWork for the iPad.. (getting tired of the iNames). Why? Do they really think people are going to be writing documents or building spreadsheets on this thing? Seriously? Maybe a document/presentation viewer, but the full suite? I think that’s a waste of time.
So far, I’m in the “Yea it’s neat, but why?” camp. Really waiting for the price.
