| Akvod said: I have an iPhone and I like it a lot, but if I was going to make an iPad, I would design it for: 1) School. IDK if it has any office application, but if it doesn't at least have Word, then fuck that. Notepad is cool, but I will prefer an actual .Doc program 2) Net. From what you said about the iPad and VGChartz, it seems like it still uses the same Safari version. That's a big no, no for me. It HAS to have flash, it HAS to look and feel as close to the PC version of Safari. 3) Multitasking, and ease of transitioning from one program, to the next. I should easily be able to switch from Word, to Safari, and back to Word very quickly. I should be able to transition from iPod to any other app instantenously, without having to go out, restarting the other app, etc.
IDK, I would buy the iPad if it was cheaper, because I think that the ease of use really has value. I don't want to carry around a laptop, and start it up, wait for the OS to load up, etc. I think that there is where the true value of the iPad (if my assumptions and guesses are correct) lie, it's just faster to use and more portable, the corner stones of laptops/netbooks themselves. |
1) Pages on the iPad will read and write word docs very well. It's 10 bucks.
2) Flash is one of those where it's hard to know who's telling the truth. Apple says the reason it's not on there, is for two reasons. One is it's buggy, and the other is it kills the battery. You can watch movies solid on the iPad for 10+ hours. Apple claims Flash kills it in an hour and a half. They also say of all the reasons for OSX on there desktops to crash, over 50% of them are due to flash. Others claim the reason there is no flash on the iPhone/iPad, is because Apple does not want Flash eating into there sales of software.
It's hard to know what one of those is true. If I had to guess, it's more because Steve Jobs hates things that don't work well, and Flash on a touch device just doesn't work well. Not because flash can't work well, but because 99% of all content in flash was never written with a touch interface in mind. A lot of stuff in flash requires you to hover the mouse over something, and you just can't really do that in a touch interface. Everything you do on the iPhone/iPad you do in a consistant way. Putting flash on it would change that.
2.1 ) Safari is good, but Apple not letting 3rd party browsers on there device is just shit. They need to open that up, or make Safari work a lot better.
3) I think multitasking is coming to the OS in 4.0. We will know Thursday.
And give it a 6 months or so. It will come down in price.
