{"id":1988,"date":"2010-01-28T21:08:12","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:08:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2010-01-28T21:08:12","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T21:08:12","slug":"apple-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=1988","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An OLD article! From 2010.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Let me make it clear right from the start: I am a Windows fan, and Bill Gates is one of my heroes. I would never use anything other than Windows (and there are a lot of sound technical reasons for that). I deliberately avoid buying Apple products: my MP3 player is a Creative Zen, and\u00a0my smartphone is an HTC Touch HD running Windows Mobile.<\/p>\n<p>However, whenever Apple releases a new product I have to admit that on the surface it <em>looks<\/em> highly desirable. I think this is how the iPhone took off &#8211; it costs a bloody fortune and has (or had)\u00a0several technical limitations when it was released\u00a0(i.e. ringtone customisation\/cannot use mp3 files for ringtones, no video recording, limited Flash support when browsing, etc.)&#8230; but it still took off because it looks great and was hyped on that strength.<\/p>\n<p>The same is true of the MacBook Air. It <em>looks<\/em> gorgeous, and if its performance were in any way related to its <em>looks<\/em> it would currently be running for office, and be a dead cert for next US President. But it has upgrade limitations, restricted connectivity, bloody expensive with a tiny hard drive, and you can&#8217;t replace the battery.<\/p>\n<p>And as far as the iPod goes, Apple&#8217;s bad record with non-user replaceable batteries and DRM-protected (originally, anyway) files is well known. But it <em>looks<\/em> great.<\/p>\n<p>The keyword in all that is &#8216;looks&#8217;. Apple has appearance down to a fine art.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the iPad was announced. It is a tablet computer and&#8230; yes, it looks absolutely beautiful!<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/ipad_11.jpg\" alt=\"Steve Jobs And The iPad\" width=\"520\" height=\"363\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" class=\"lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 520px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 520\/363;\" \/><br \/>\nBut based on previous Apple performance issues, does it really achieve anything new?<\/p>\n<p>This <a title=\"Daily Mail - iPad Weaknesses\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-1246801\/Apple-iPad-met-derision-laughter-web-users.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">story in the Daily Mail highlights<\/a> some of the drawbacks which are actually rather serious:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It cannot run more than one application at a time &#8211; so you can&#8217;t fire up a wordprocessor, then switch to a browser. One has to be shut down and the other started, and vice versa<\/li>\n<li>It has no camera (of any kind)<\/li>\n<li>It can&#8217;t handle Flash &#8211; so browsing is extremely limited<\/li>\n<li>It uses a touchscreen keyboard &#8211; but Apple will sell a proper keyboard for $70!<\/li>\n<li>It has no card slots or USB ports &#8211; but surprise, surprise! It has an iPod port. So you can pay out more money for an adapter if you want to connect non-Apple peripherals to it via the iPod port<\/li>\n<li>iPad owners will only be able to download apps from the Apple Store &#8211; yet it is being touted as &#8220;the most innovative product in the world of netbooks&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The display is not HD-ready and the 4:3 format means widescreen will have a bar at the top and bottom<\/li>\n<li>It will cost $499 (or \u00a3308) in the US &#8211; but no British price has been announced. I&#8217;ll lay odds it will be around \u00a3500 or even more over here.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Critics are labelling it as an oversized iPhone, and the web is already awash with virals poking fun at its limitations.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve included a couple of\u00a0YouTube movies below &#8211; I warn you, they&#8217;re parodies involving Hitler&#8217;s Response to the iPad, so don&#8217;t watch them if that is likely to offend you. Oh, and there&#8217;s a lot of bad language.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 520px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1988-1\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hitler_11.flv?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hitler_11.flv\">https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hitler_11.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 520px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-1988-2\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/x-flv\" src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hitler_21.flv?_=2\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hitler_21.flv\">https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/hitler_21.flv<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>But I agree that the iPad is likely to be successful &#8211; even though it probably shouldn&#8217;t be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An OLD article! From 2010. Let me make it clear right from the start: I am a Windows fan, and Bill Gates is one of my heroes. I would never use anything other than Windows (and there are a lot of sound technical reasons for that). I deliberately avoid buying Apple products: my MP3 player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90,99],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-related","category-funny-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}