My brother gets all the Apple products free because of his job, so I’ve started test-driving them through him. I just bought the iPhone 3GS (heavily discounted now that 4 is out) and I used his iPad for a couple of weeks. It’s a handy little tool but I’m just not interested in it at this point since I’m currently in a place where I need a productivity boosting (smartphone) rather than absorption gadget. I like the feel and heft of books and I read the media I need to access (WSJ, NYT, Barrons etc.) on my laptop.
My sis and I have been thinking of buying one for my dad, though, since he’s switched over entirely to e-books.
To add to this (and to Todderbob’s comment), both Google and Apple have the ability to ‘remote wipe’ your entire phone or specific Apps.
If I were a betting man, I’d say that the phone companies insist on this - they would not want the reputation of being the company that allowed a malware app to empty customer’s bank accounts or worse.
I started this thread, and this is my first Apple product. And reading back, I don’t know how you came to the conclusion that only Apple fanboys were praising the device.
And I find computer platform wars to be a colossal waste of time.
There’s nothing else like iPod out there. There are a few tablets on the way, running Windows 7 and/or Android. We’ll see if any of them can measure up. By Christmas there should be a couple on the market.
Asus has a small 7-inch tablet, and Dell is making a 5-inch one, I believe. But the iPad’s strength is its UI and ecosystem that comes with it. That’s going to be hard to beat for quite a while, I think.
HP makes the touchsmart tx2, which I own, and in a sidebyside comparison is inferior in every way, with exception to the ability to use it as a laptop.
It is heavy, the screen is difficult to use, it sounds like a leaf blower, and the fucker still burns my leg. And it runs windows7, which is a piss poor touch screen OS.
My wife has had hers for about two weeks now. It has become our primary web browsing tool as it is much easier to peruse the morning papers on over a cup of coffee. She has pretty much swapped from using her ipod touch for all email and calender stuff to the iPad.
Also it is in constant use for books and films when in bed.
It is mildly annoying that it doesnt have a web camera as we use skype a lot for the kids to stay in contact with the grandparents, so it would have been nice to do that in the iPad. No great loss though.
One of its biggest fans is our 3 year old. It is sometime quite hard to get him off of it as it is his Blues Clues and memory games portal.
Great device, id buy one myself if i could get it hookrd into the corporate wifi as most of my days are spent moving around to meetings, and it would be great for notes etc. Does it do powerpoint and excel?
I’m thinking of getting an iPad soon (yay, credit card rewards!). I’ll definitely be getting a 3G-enabled model, but I’m not sure about how much on-board storage I might want. I don’t anticipate putting much from my iTunes library on there, if at all, and I assume that Apple books (or any Kindle stuff I put on there) don’t take up a ton of room. I assume the Kindle will still be my primary reading device, and my iPhone will be my podcast/music listening device. If I get the iPad with the smallest amount of memory, how fast will I use it up, and what will eat it up?
As a data point, my iPhone shows about 19GB used, and it’s got my complete iTunes library on it. I don’t buy video from iTunes, so I’m not too worried about eating up capacity with that. Anything else I should be thinking about?
If you’re getting the 3G version, the initial cost is going to be less than the long term, and storage might come in handy. You can stream movies over 3G, but it’ll closet you an arm and a leg.
I have the 32 gig version, and I’m nowhere close to filling it up, even with 18 gigs of music and a few movies.
Just remember, you can’t upgrade the internal storage later, and to use a memory card you need to purchase the external reader dealie.
yes, it does powerpoint and excel. But if you’re going to use it for data betray, get a blueetooth keyboard.
I want you to know that all you iPad users are very bad people. Because you have money. Whereas I, who do not have an iPad, am clearly a hip and with-it kind of guy. Because I have no money. If I had money, I would have bought an iPad, and then become a very bad person… whut?
I don’t get it either. Read the link, try to make sense of it, wouldya?
You can’t afford to be a dickwad, or you would be a dickwad. But we can afford to be a dickwad, so HA!
It’s like people who bitch about rich people having mansions, and wasting resources. They don’t actually hate mansions, they just hate that they don’t have a mansion.
No, I’m going to go back to playing with my Mansion, and Ferrari, while I laugh at the hideous poor people accumulating outside begging for bread. Let them eat cake.