iPad 2, surely the most hyped device in the technology world today. Very shortly I have been thinking to upgrade to the most wanted gadget iPad 2. I have a good smartphone a handy laptop; I cannot convince myself on buying an iPad. Do I need it? If yes, then for what? For making “internet a wonderful experience” as they say. Just to check emails, surf the web, watch movies, is iPad a good buy? Well, I already have a good experience of internet and cheaper than what iPad has to offer. So let me compile in this post, what are the reasons that stop me from spending on iPad.
iPad is not a replacement, for neither laptop not smartphone! It’s actually a new class of devices, as they say, but rather an unnecessary one.
1- iPad is not replacement of your Laptop
You cannot replace your laptop with your iPad. You certainly cannot accomplish any task on iPad that you can do with your laptop, that’s for sure. To make iPad a complete replacement of laptop, you would at least need a complete office suit comprising of word processor, presentation maker, spreadsheet etc. all of that will cost you additional dollars. And not only office suit, you need many applications to run on iPad that you run daily on your laptop.
Even having all the office suits and applications, some good ones pricing over 10 USD per piece, do you expect to have productivity comparable to your laptop? Certainly No.
2- Touch screen can’t be a replacement for Keyboard: It’s impossible to type long documents on iPad with its touch screen as they pose sufficient strain on arm. Touch screens, for me are trendy but are far less useful than a traditional keyboard. The cons of touch screen are elaborated in this post.
Adding a keyboard?
If you still want to add one then you can use the iPad keyboard dock that will charge you as much as $69. The other option is Apple’s wireless Bluetooth keyboard that too will cost you $69.And even spending so much, you have to be careful about the battery life of the keyboards and carry them all everywhere you take your iPad! Well, that sounds pretty impossible!
3-Jailbreaking needed for most of useful apps!
For almost all necessary apps you need to jailbreak the iPad. Shortly learnt that iPad Camera Connection Kit are even capable to recognize USB keyboards, microphones and hubs etc. and can be particularly helpful if you want to wire up more than one device. But interestingly this again is unofficial. That is you need jeailbreaking for it. The question is, when I am already paying as much as 500 USD for the iPad then why is it necessary to get it jailbreaked for some necessary apps? It’s unofficial and I am an opensource lover, a free user! Only with jailbreaking you can connect to external hard drive, a very complicated install process and again un-official.
4- Jail breaking for iPad 2 still faces difficulties: No jail breaking means, no flash. I agree that many websites are now employing HTML 5, yet Flash remains king of video formats over the internet. As already indicated in this post, the usage of flash player is extensive. Flash is already available for Android Tablets and Android powered smartphones.
5-Most useful of 650,000 Apps are all paid! Print n Share ($8.99) and Print Magic HD ($4.99), two very popular apps to extend the wireless printing capabilities to other Wi-Fi printers, Premium Documents To Go (16.99 USD), DataViz. QuickOffice ($14.99), Air Sharing HD ($9.99) etc and the list is ongoing! Mobile Me too isn’t free!
6- To utilize iPad to its full potentials I have to make extra purchases, such as the HDMI output requires an extra adapter.
7- I don’t need FaceTime! I certainly don’t need FaceTime when I already have Skype. Why is there all the hoopla for FaceTime when already millions of people are doing video chat on Skype? No FaceTime on 3G networks
8- Okay if its portable then is 10 hours battery enough?
9- Camera but no Camera- The cameras are of poor quality: When I viewed the gallery of images taken by the rear camera of iPad (forget the front0facing camera its already VGA quality!) I was disappointed! The camera is of certainly poor quality. That means iPad 2 is not the replacement for your digital camera too! It has reportedly done fair job to FaceTime, but again, I don’t need it! Today smartphones come with way better cameras. So why not have them?
10- Mouse integration almost impossible! Again to integrate mouse, you need the iPad to be jailbreaked.
11- No 4G connectivity: Motorola Xoom promises free upgrade to 4G
12- No SD Card slot: An SD card slot is so essential for extensible memory. No SD card slot means more usage of built-in memory. This in turn implies that even 32 Gb memory is short, if you use the iPad for storing videos, movies and digital images.
13- NO USB slot: Why why why? I so need this feature to be added.
14- Price! Well probably the biggest point for me is the price. I would certainly want to get a better smartphone or add in more money (that I already need to extend the potentials of ipad) and get a latest laptop.
15- No Retina display! Well as it was hyped about iPad 2 that it will include retina display, it does not include one. Nonetheless, retina display is a battery burden. And I feel that compromising on battery is not an intelligent move, but one can do without Retina.
In short, I will still wait for iPad 3, when they would double the resolution, and have he SD-Card slot. Moreover, for me, ipad today is more of a fashion than a reliable computing device. I think then, iPad will definitely be a good buy!
iPad is not a replacement, for neither laptop not smartphone! It’s actually a new class of devices, as they say, but rather an unnecessary one.
1- iPad is not replacement of your Laptop
You cannot replace your laptop with your iPad. You certainly cannot accomplish any task on iPad that you can do with your laptop, that’s for sure. To make iPad a complete replacement of laptop, you would at least need a complete office suit comprising of word processor, presentation maker, spreadsheet etc. all of that will cost you additional dollars. And not only office suit, you need many applications to run on iPad that you run daily on your laptop.
Even having all the office suits and applications, some good ones pricing over 10 USD per piece, do you expect to have productivity comparable to your laptop? Certainly No.
2- Touch screen can’t be a replacement for Keyboard: It’s impossible to type long documents on iPad with its touch screen as they pose sufficient strain on arm. Touch screens, for me are trendy but are far less useful than a traditional keyboard. The cons of touch screen are elaborated in this post.
Adding a keyboard?
If you still want to add one then you can use the iPad keyboard dock that will charge you as much as $69. The other option is Apple’s wireless Bluetooth keyboard that too will cost you $69.And even spending so much, you have to be careful about the battery life of the keyboards and carry them all everywhere you take your iPad! Well, that sounds pretty impossible!
3-Jailbreaking needed for most of useful apps!
For almost all necessary apps you need to jailbreak the iPad. Shortly learnt that iPad Camera Connection Kit are even capable to recognize USB keyboards, microphones and hubs etc. and can be particularly helpful if you want to wire up more than one device. But interestingly this again is unofficial. That is you need jeailbreaking for it. The question is, when I am already paying as much as 500 USD for the iPad then why is it necessary to get it jailbreaked for some necessary apps? It’s unofficial and I am an opensource lover, a free user! Only with jailbreaking you can connect to external hard drive, a very complicated install process and again un-official.
4- Jail breaking for iPad 2 still faces difficulties: No jail breaking means, no flash. I agree that many websites are now employing HTML 5, yet Flash remains king of video formats over the internet. As already indicated in this post, the usage of flash player is extensive. Flash is already available for Android Tablets and Android powered smartphones.
5-Most useful of 650,000 Apps are all paid! Print n Share ($8.99) and Print Magic HD ($4.99), two very popular apps to extend the wireless printing capabilities to other Wi-Fi printers, Premium Documents To Go (16.99 USD), DataViz. QuickOffice ($14.99), Air Sharing HD ($9.99) etc and the list is ongoing! Mobile Me too isn’t free!
6- To utilize iPad to its full potentials I have to make extra purchases, such as the HDMI output requires an extra adapter.
7- I don’t need FaceTime! I certainly don’t need FaceTime when I already have Skype. Why is there all the hoopla for FaceTime when already millions of people are doing video chat on Skype? No FaceTime on 3G networks
8- Okay if its portable then is 10 hours battery enough?
9- Camera but no Camera- The cameras are of poor quality: When I viewed the gallery of images taken by the rear camera of iPad (forget the front0facing camera its already VGA quality!) I was disappointed! The camera is of certainly poor quality. That means iPad 2 is not the replacement for your digital camera too! It has reportedly done fair job to FaceTime, but again, I don’t need it! Today smartphones come with way better cameras. So why not have them?
10- Mouse integration almost impossible! Again to integrate mouse, you need the iPad to be jailbreaked.
11- No 4G connectivity: Motorola Xoom promises free upgrade to 4G
12- No SD Card slot: An SD card slot is so essential for extensible memory. No SD card slot means more usage of built-in memory. This in turn implies that even 32 Gb memory is short, if you use the iPad for storing videos, movies and digital images.
13- NO USB slot: Why why why? I so need this feature to be added.
14- Price! Well probably the biggest point for me is the price. I would certainly want to get a better smartphone or add in more money (that I already need to extend the potentials of ipad) and get a latest laptop.
15- No Retina display! Well as it was hyped about iPad 2 that it will include retina display, it does not include one. Nonetheless, retina display is a battery burden. And I feel that compromising on battery is not an intelligent move, but one can do without Retina.
In short, I will still wait for iPad 3, when they would double the resolution, and have he SD-Card slot. Moreover, for me, ipad today is more of a fashion than a reliable computing device. I think then, iPad will definitely be a good buy!
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