ipad, upad…

Feb 04

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Its funny you know, its pretty much typical of apple to do this, apple are very much a marketing company, they will release a device with minimal features, and a fairly high price, because they believe that people will buy them. Look at ipods, no fm radio, can’t play a huge selection of formats, if you want movies, you’ve got to add them through itunes, etc. the imacs were the same, no serial port (whats that) no floppy disk drive, etc.

Luckily for apple, the tend to create trends in the market because of this, notice how not many pcs don’t have floppy drives now, and all music upon the net is in mp3 or mp4 format.

but i digress…

The ipad unfortunately is running iphone os, which although its won multiple awards for usability, design aesthetics etc, its a phone os. you can’t run more than one thing at once, no file transferring systems no usb host ports etc.

I think apple are making a jump onboard the ‘cloud’ computing model that we haven’t seen in the era of computing modernity. They, in my opinion, may be wanting in the future to have all these features ’sold-on’ to the user via online service. The ipad has no camera, or ability to download images if it did, they want you to upload to the ‘apple photo service’ and get prints form them, rather than doing it at home.

This type of computer system obviously has tons of advantages etc but the cost could be a total monopoly, esp. for these who just shelled out about a grand for the device.

Oh and for ol mate who doesn’t believe that ipad has a keyboard…

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