I love Apple products. I really do love them. I will not buy any other phone after buying the iPhone. I love my iPhone. I think it is so much more advanced than any other phone in the market. Every time another company comes out with the iPhone killer I laugh at all the people who agree. I laugh even harder when their so-called iPhone killer fail.
So it came as no surprise to me when Apple touted the Apple iPad as “our most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device”. It was supposed to blow my Aunt Connie’s socks off. I waited all morning for Steve Jobs to show us the next really great big thing from Apple.
As he started going through all the features I thought to myself, “Am I the only one who does not see NO VIDEO CAMERA. Well that my friends was just the beginning. I will say it here: THE NETBOOK BLOWS THIS AWAY. Yes the Apple iPad has many new revolutionary features never before seen, but the fact that they are missing some key components makes it a bit of a disappointment.
Listed below are the reasons the Apple iPad is such a bad Apple:
1. No external or internal ports – USB, HDMI or iEEE connection. You can’t even connect it to a television. So you get a dock connector and headphone jack, wooohooo.. Without these ports, there is no way it is the ultimate device for moving your files around.
2. Adapters – Ok so you need to use the iPad dock with the ancient 30 pin connector and all the extra connection kits just to connect your camera or video camera. What happened to external ports right on the device itself. I simply do not want to carry all this extra stuff with me. Why?
3. No Adobe Flash – In today’s web 2.0 world, Adobe Flash is used in many web sites and other applications. So why would the geeks at Apple not include the capacity to watch anything in Flash. How can it be the best web experience if it does not include flash? I just do not get their thinking.
4. What’s with AT&T – Just when you thought Apple was breaking away from AT&T, here comes another device that AT&T will not be able to handle. 3G connections for AT&T are the worst among all the major carriers. You can’t even buy an iPhone in NYC anymore because they do not guarantee connectivity. Their 3G model is a waste. Those who have At&t know exactly what I am talking about.
5. No Multitasking – Even the netbook allows multitasking. In today’s fast moving, super connected world, everyone multitask. I myself need up to 3 monitors just to multitask on my computer. I can’t even listen to music on the Apple iPad while surfing the Web….This is just terrible thinking on their part.
6. Where’s my camera – O.K. so you have a great device that allows you to do stuff with your pictures right….You can even Geo tag your pictures. Where is the built in camera? Why not make it so that you can take a picture with the Apple iPad and then upload it right away.
7. Can we Video -Lets chat… oh wait we can’t even Video chat.. Come on guy’s, how do you expect to have the ultimate in technology. Did anyone at Apple do their homework…. Ahhh hello Video is huge. Sure you can have a YouTube channel and watch TV from the Apple iPad..But what about being able to record directly from the device and add it to YouTube, Just as I did with the video in my blog. Oh hey here is another one… Facebook with over 300 million users, Facebook allows us to record a video message..ohh darn you can’t do that if you have an iPad..
8. Touch Keyboard – Its awkward.. It gets in your way when your surfing the web or typing on facebook or anything else you use the keyboard on.
9. No Widescreen – Now you’re really kidding right? Your telling me it has an aspect ratio of 4:3..OK stop playing with me seriously…even a netbook has widescreen
10. iTunes - Ok so with this device you cannot even transfer your songs from your computer unless you bought them from iTunes. . You can only buy from iTunes, you cannot run a different browser. Hey I want to know I can run Firefox if I feel like running it. You are pretty much taken hostage by Apple. Imagine being shut out from the rest of the world in an ecosystem controlled by one world government. That is Apple for you.
I could have kept going, but I think you guys get the picture here. The Apple iPad is clearly no desktop, laptop or even netbook killer. Were the geeks at Apple not paying attention to the world we now live in? It is a multitasking, video chatting, camera taking, file sharing, flash playing, widescreen watching, Verizon and T-mobile using, Firefox browsing open source world that we live in today. I could do so much more with a laptop. Yes the Apple iPad is unlike anything we have ever seen, but I cannot accept the fact that they missed even the simple things.
“One last note: Seriously did you guys not have any woman working on your team. Why on earth would you name it The iPad.. People – can you here the jokes coming? A few years ago Mad TV had a skit about an Apple iPad..or should we say the Apple Tampon!”
