The iPad Underwhelms Me
So, the iPad was announced and launched yesterday, and I was very, very wrong with my predictions of it.
And as a result, I'm a bit...underwhelmed.
The design is the same as the iPhone. We're running off of a design for the last 3 years. I was expecting something even more minimalistic from Apple.
Yeah, it's thin, but it's still not pocket-friendly (unless you wear JNCOs).
It can run all software that the iPhone can run...but in a tiny square in the middle of the screen, or double the pixel size. Which is good in games, terrible at text based applications. The Facebook demo just looked disgusting.
This is not a paradigm shift or anything similar. The people who know about technology are slightly turned off, but they are doing what Apple goes best - go after the people who think they are technology savvy, but are truly just following a crowd. They are not developers or programmers, but are simply know the Apple name, understand that they provide a good user expereince, and that's it.
Why pay $499 for an ebook reader, when you can buy a great one for half that cost, AND you get free 3G (without a contract, as well)? Why pay $499 for a tiny, 16 GB consumter when you can pay $320 for a computer with 250 GB of memory, the ability to MULTITASK (a feature that's been in OSes since the Xerox SPARC), and the ability to run much more than 180k apps (and half of them aren't stupid little "hello world" apps or fart machine apps). Oh, and the $320 device can be customizable, and you can run whatever OS or software you want on it.
Why pay $499 for a music player, when the $320 device can also act as a music player, or you can simply buy an iPod touch for at least 200 less, and get pretty much just a smaller version of the iPad.
The only reason why the iPad should be interesting is the fact it uses Apple's own chip, instead of something Intel or Qualcomm did.
This device is really Apple's folly, something where there are much better and cheaper alternatives out there. And what depresses me is that it will STILL sell like hotcakes.
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Reader Comments (1)
Agreed.
I was kind of hoping Apple would find out a way to blend a laptop-like device and an e-reader. Because reading books on the iPhone or any other computer screen gives normal people headaches and fucks with your eyes. But e-readers are still slow and clunky when it comes to the internet. Fix those contradictions, and I'd be impressed.
Also, they need to get some women to work at Apple, because then they would realize that iPad is uncomfortably menstrual-sounding. Stupid asses.