… and without a CD/DVD player.
… and that only runs iPhone applications, not full versions of any of the most common productivity or entertainment software.
… and that doesn’t have USB ports.
… and that doesn’t have a webcam.
… and that requires me to haul along an additional kit if I want to connect with memory cards or a digital camera or an external keyboard using an odd, proprietary 30-pin connector.
… and can’t view image files as attachments unless they’re .jpg, .gif or .tiff format. Sorry, .png, .bmp, .psd, and dozens of other image formats.
… and does not appear to support the ubiquitous Flash applications that are all over the web.
I can pay $500 for a laptop that has all these features that the Apple iPad lacks, a laptop that runs thousands more programs, connects me more fully to Flash-driven cloud functions on the web, and has hundreds more gigabytes worth of storage than the $500 iPad’s meager 16G.
But the Apple iPad has a logo of a piece of fruit with a bite taken out of it, and all the cool people are buying it.
Does that about cover it?
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i’m sure all the features you want will be incorporated into i Pad II, soon to be unveiled at a Best Buy near you. and it will have that cool logo prominently displayed.
seriously though, i still think the i pod is the coolest way to organize and keep my personal music collection. i have over six thousand songs and four hundred sixty-nine albums from my own CD collection loaded onto my i pod. 16.7 days worth of continuous music in a device less bulky than a pack of cards. now, if i could figure out how to down-load (up-load?) the two-thousand-some record albums in my library onto i tunes and then to my i pod, i’d really be happy. i’ve only used 39 of the 120 GB capacity.
I am now oat aan aaple sotore trying out the iPad, and as you can tell, although the keyboard is better hhan ion the iPhone, it remains an infuriatingly rotten device for actually writing on. Seems a device for looking at stuff other people.create The wrosr. Worst aspect of the Internet. Passive and soppy. Sloppy, that is.
Wow, it’s been 6 months since ipad failed to raise the bar for the netbook market.