What's Not To Like About New iPad? 617
Hugh Pickens writes "With 3 million sold over the last week what's not to like about the new iPad? Michelle Maltais at the LA Times does a good job of putting together a compendium of gripes about the new device, justified or otherwise. Most people thought that Siri on the new iPad was a gimme; instead it has a scaled back version — dictation. 'If you want Siri, buy an iPhone. Plain and simple.' The new iPad is a little heavier than the iPad 2, thanks to the better graphics processor and more powerful battery. At one-tenth of a pound heavier that really doesn't sound like much, but it can start to matter if you hold your iPad in one hand for long periods or have any kind of repetitive stress injury. Apps designed for Retina display can be up to five times bigger and it's not just a problem for owners of the new iPad. Legacy owners of the original and iPad 2 who have these apps get to feel the pain too, since updates aren't device specific." The list continues, below.
"The hot-selling device can reach up to 116 degrees during intensive use, according to a test by the Consumer Reports. PCWorld tested 43 tablets and found that the third-gen iPad takes the longest — almost six hours — to fully recharge its battery. You'll love the blistering speed of the 4G iPad, you won't love blowing through your monthly data allotment in just 24 hours if you use streaming video. A number of customers have been complaining on the Apple Support page about a weaker Wi-Fi connection that in some cases will hold a connection for only a few minutes. And last, whatever you do, don't drop the new iPad. From waist height, the damage to the third-gen iPad is fairly extensive. 'Only a small portion of the screen survived.'"
News... (Score:5, Insightful)
Everything is amazing [youtube.com]
Re:News... (Score:5, Insightful)
I have to agree with this.
They may have paid too much for their "how to bring more traffic to your blog by creating more drama when there is none" seminar paid by Cory "World's Most Annoying Self-Promotionist" Doctorow
The number of crap, negative and leading headlines, along with "the answer is no [wikipedia.org]" question headlines has really spiked since Malda left slashdot. Some PHB decided that they can further monetize Slashdot as a mainstream blog by destroying what little culture Slashdot has and alienating their core long time userbase. Good luck with that, assholes. I've already started looking for a replacement to Slashdot.
Re:News... (Score:4, Insightful)
Unfortunately, almost everything else is worse than Slashdot. The articles are generally worthless, but the community is still worthwhile and every now and again something worth talking about actually comes up.
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Seconded.
I've been thinking about this for a year now, and it cracks me up that there's a law that names this effect!
Lets see some recent Slashdot headlines:
Can Translucency Save Privacy In the Cloud?
No.
When Social Media Meets TV, Are the Results Worth Watching?
No.
Will Mobile Wallets Replace Their Traditional Counterparts?
No.
Is It Time For the US Government To Back Fusion At NIF Over ITER?
No.
Any Smart Phones Made Under Worker-Friendly Conditions?
No. [slashdot.org] -- it's the first +5 comment!
Re:News... (Score:5, Insightful)
Louis CK's segment on that doesn't really apply here though, we're discussing the long, slow slide in to uselessness and obscurity through bad editorial management. It used to be that people would complain about the occasional duplicate story, but things have really gone down hill in the quality and headline department in the last year.
It's not like Slashdot or even tech blogs are a new thing, Slashdot is well over 10 years old at this point. We aren't complaining about slashdot's loading times, we're talking about editorial standards, which are something like 200+ years old (not sure how old The Times is, but I think daily publication started before 1800).
Slashdot needs a strong editorial guiding hand, and Malda did an excellent job of that for a decade, which is why the Washington Post was so eager to get him on their payroll. Slashdot was as big of a fish as this pond can really support (besides the more general Reddit type sites). Some PHB MBA saw Slashdot and, without understanding it's community or userbase thought, "we can apply some standard practices like shitty headlines to double click through rate on headlines and increase overall viewership" without thinking about how to retain their core userbase. I'm not sure what the term for this fallacy is, but it seems to happen a lot, and few companies are able to survive it and get back on track before the PHB destroys the company by alienating their core userbase.
Re:News... (Score:4, Insightful)
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This goes for the Wine Tasters who will discredit popular wine just because it is popular and rave about the more expensive paint splitting stuff just because it is more expensive. So they can seem like they know what they are talking about.
To Music/Art critics who complain that everything is derivative just to make a point that that they seem a commonality.
To IT people who say that whatever popular software/hardware is somehow worse
Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy (Score:4, Insightful)
I didn't buy an iPad and I am quite happy.
Re:Everything Is Amazing And Nobody Is Happy (Score:4, Interesting)
Coming Soon (Score:5, Funny)
Of course, the next yet-to-be announced version of Android, running on the next yet-to-be announced tablet, will solve all of these problems.
Isn't that how it works?
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Except that nobody is buying android tablets because of their price point.
The $599.00 android tablets are $200.00 overpriced. You CAN NOT charge apple prices for non apple product unless it is 200% better than the apple product.
That is like Kia selling the new Optima for $86,500 and hoping you dont notice it's not a BMW.
Re:Coming Soon (Score:4, Informative)
The $599.00 android tablets are $200.00 overpriced.
How about the $400 Galaxy Tab 10.1 (lighter, bigger screen and nicer to use IMHO than iPad v. any)?
Re:Coming Soon (Score:5, Insightful)
A bigger screen? It's only 1280x800, so what's the point?
Re:Coming Soon (Score:4, Insightful)
The $599.00 android tablets are $200.00 overpriced. You CAN NOT charge apple prices for non apple product unless it is 200% better than the apple product.
That'll be why Asus can't make their $599 android tablets fast enough to keep up with demand.
I'm not saying it's 200% better than the apple product, but they certainly can charge $599 and sell every unit they make the day it hits the shop.
Except that nobody is buying android tablets because of their price point.
Some people are buying android tablets because they're under $200. Some people would be buying android tablets at $599 if they could just find one in stock. Some people are buying android tablets at $400 because those tablets are meeting their needs.
Choice is a great thing, and you have no valid points.
That is like Kia selling the new Optima for $86,500 and hoping you dont notice it's not a BMW.
No, it's like BMW selling the new M6 for $86,500 and you buying a $90k Mercedes because of the marketing and proclaiming that BMWs are all shit, overpriced and nobody buys them.
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My ipad has a SD card slot and USB port. It's even got hdmi, DVi and VGA ports. I keep those in my laptop bag when I'm not using them.
"1/10 of a pound" (Score:5, Interesting)
I'm shocked at how physically inept modern people are becoming. The gnashing of teeth over ounces when it comes to gadgets is truly shocking to me. How does one become so incapacitated that an ounce or two is really worth mentioning?
Re:"1/10 of a pound" (Score:5, Funny)
This also stops you from using up the battery and all your bandwidth!
Every bug is a feature!
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I know. Americans should gripe using grams!
Damnit, go metric America!
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Oh and if Metric is so great, then quick with out looking it up, how many milli-torr in a kila-pascal?
Hell if I know. You do realise that torr isn't metric and a kila-pascal isn't anything at all?
Of course not.
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Kila-pascal must be the pressure equivalent of the Kill-A-Watt [p3international.com]. It tells you where you're using too many torrs and how to avoid wasting them.
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Mea culpa, but you must have imagined the part where I spouted out about how great the metric system is. As for you, you can't be that much of a not-stupid if you can't spell kilo, no?
Hello Pot, my name is Kettle. :P
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grams measure both... what is wrong with people on this site...
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Gravity isn't acting on you in free fall?
So that's how the Wile E Coyote stays up.
In practice, "zero gravity" means (Score:5, Informative)
Re:"1/10 of a pound" (Score:4, Insightful)
How many iPads equal the weight of an Osbourne 1?
Just curious... both are "portable", and advertised the fact heavily. But society's definition of "portable" sure has changed!
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At one-tenth of a pound heavier that really doesn't sound like much, but it can start to matter if you hold your iPad in one hand for long periods or have any kind of repetitive stress injury.
I'm shocked at how physically inept modern people are becoming. The gnashing of teeth over ounces when it comes to gadgets is truly shocking to me. How does one become so incapacitated that an ounce or two is really worth mentioning?
It's about 7% heavier, that is certainly enough to notice with a form factor that is already marginal in terms of being able to hold it for a long time. I would say 7% is a big deal, especially considering why: Apple really overdid it with the screen resolution. All those pixels eat battery, partly because of the screen transistors, but mainly because of having to drive an additional GPU. Not to mention making the device run noticably hotter [geekosystem.com] than the previous generation. Thirteen degrees is a lot of heat in
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It's still lighter than the first generation.
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My HP TouchPad is .2lbs heavier than the iPad3 and I can hold it one-handed for hours.
Best Part is.. (Score:5, Insightful)
Note: I am not a tablet user.
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Refurb? you can get like new ones used for $250.00 The one I bought nobody on this planet could tell it was used, and it came with a smart cover as well.
Get over your "used is icky" feelings and buy used for even cheaper.
Re:Best Part is.. (Score:5, Informative)
Apple refurb [apple.com] products have the same warranty as the original product, and for the iPad that also includes:
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I really wish they would make something closer to the size of the TNG PADD. I think there's one or two tablets out there around that size but I can't be sure.
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40M+ iPad 2 buyers disagree with you.
Re:Best Part is.. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:iFashion Accessories (Score:4, Insightful)
$60K - $10K for standard IRAs =
$50K - $10K for taxes (guesstimated) =
$40K - $12K for stated savings =
$28K - $12K for mortgage (guesstimated) =
$16K / 52weeks =
$300 / week to live on. Piece of cake, my mom and I each lived on $100/week while I was in Grad school, cars paid off, Ramen noodles for dinner, and that leaves you $5K/year "mad money" to take a vacation or two, replace the transmission that just fell out of your car, or whatever...
On the other hand, I know families living on $200K/year+ who are saving less money than you - they are the heat in the consumer driven economic engine, people like me and you are the sand in the gearbox.
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...and 40M+ iPad 2 buyers are wrong in my opinion.
For me, spending money on an iPad is a waste of money - I have no real need for it. I'd like to have one, but when I think of it, it's just a gadget - an uncessary purchase.
So people are wrong to make purchases of things that they don't necessarily need? Not everything has to be purely utilitarian.
The other day, I talked a young woman out of buying an iPhone - I think. I asked her, "Why do you really need it." She just wanted a smart phone, especailly an iPhone because it's a fashion accessory.
Realistically the iphone is the most common smartphone in the world, they are the Nokia of the smartphone world, it's hardly a fashion accessory when high-profile business people have the same phone as 15 year-olds at McDonalds. But even then, what's wrong with that? Your philosophy is that you shouldn't buy something unless you really need it?
And we don't spend money on crap like the this.
You wrote that you'd like to have one an
of any of these, only the battery thing means much (Score:5, Informative)
I have one, the charge times are quite slow. To be honest, too slow. Don't get me wrong, you can live with it, but it does also matter in some situations. And on top of that if you decide to just use your buddies' iPhone charger instead of the included one, you could charge it all through the work day and only pick up 25% charge or something. With the iPad 2, the iPhone charger was an acceptable back-up plan to the stock charger in a pinch. Unless your battery was almost completely dead the iPad 2 would charge completely off an iPhone charger overnight.
The weight isn't really any different, the reason it's so uncomfortable to hold for long periods is the same as any other iPad, there's simply no good way to hold it without blocking or touching the screen.
The drop situation is the same for all iPads, even if you drop tested an older one and got different results, you just got lucky on the old one. The screen is a huge expanse of glass on any iPad, you have to be careful.
WiFi has been the same on the iPad 3 as the 2. I even used mine side by side with a 2 for a bit and the results were the same.
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That's funny. My iPad 1 takes a fucking year to charge.
Re:of any of these, only the battery thing means m (Score:4)
My iPad 1 takes a fucking year to charge.
Is this one of those biblical things where a day is a year?
Re:of any of these, only the battery thing means m (Score:4, Funny)
My iPad 1 takes a fucking year to charge.
Is this one of those biblical things where a day is a year?
If we go "by the book", hours could seem like days [imdb.com].
Re:of any of these, only the battery thing means m (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:of any of these, only the battery thing means m (Score:5, Informative)
It's got a 43Wh battery, that's nearly twice the capacity of the iPad 2, and about 1.5 times the capacity of the 11" MacBook Air.
Re:of any of these, only the battery thing means m (Score:5, Informative)
and 1/2 the power the battery my laptop has and it operates for 8 hours on a charge and takes 2 hours to fully charge while using it.
Using a 3 pound 'brick'.
Physics, folks. It runs your life.
Re:of any of these, only the battery thing means m (Score:4, Informative)
What it really means is that Apple has hit the limit for the amount of current they can put through their proprietary connector. They've already exceeded the spec for what's allowed through the USB end of their cables. A lithium based battery should be able to be fully charged within 2 hours, absent such external constraints.
Re:of any of these, only the battery thing means m (Score:4, Insightful)
Apple is paranoid that you'll using it for something they didn't specifically intend.
Which oddly didn't make it into the article's list of gripes, but continues to be the single biggest reason I refuse to buy one.
I want to be able to use my devices for whatever the fuck I want. I connect my phone as a USB device and copy files to/from it. I install software from websites. I visits sites that use Flash even.
Steve Jobs made a lot of money but he's dead now. Why is his monopolistic anti-competitiveness continuing to cripple Apple devices?
re: paranoid? (Score:4, Insightful)
I can accept your opinion, but still can't say I agree with it myself.
I don't think "paranoia" factors in. That's just more Apple bashing. The fact is, Apple sells their products as part of an entire "user experience" you're supposed to get from them. That's one of the reasons you don't ever see Macs for sale at the local Wal-Mart or "Joe's Computer Shop" down the street in a strip mall. Apple is concerned with the sales experience you receive meeting certain minimum standards of theirs. Even the "unboxing" experience is thought out in advance, so you feel as though your new purchase is something important, valuable and "high end" in nature. As you use their products, they want them to work in the manner they designed too. If you call for technical support, the person on the other end of the line needs to know your product has certain menu options and runs everything a certain way - or else they can't give you the type of "step by step" support answers you might expect.
It's legitimate to disregard all of this as "meaningless" to you, or even to say in your opinion, it's not how a computer product should be sold. But it's part of the formula Apple has for their products - and it's a very successful one.
I'm technical enough so I never need to call Apple's help line ... and sure, there are times I wanted to do something with a product of theirs that's way outside the scope of what THEY intended for it. But usually, I can do that if I so desire (such as jailbreaking an iPhone or iPad) and all is good. 90% of the time though, I actually LIKE what they've done with a given product, and I'm fine with using it within those parameters they built it with. Apple is, by and large, pretty good with that stuff, IMO -- so I keep coming back to them.
Re:of any of these, only the battery thing means m (Score:5, Insightful)
Don't you sleep?
That's when my iPad's charge. I lay down at 12, 1, or 2AM, plug it in, pass out, and when I wake up it's charged and if it took an hour or six to charge I give no fucks. It's charged.
Re:of any of these, only the battery thing means m (Score:4, Funny)
Don't you sleep? That's when my iPad's charge. I lay down at 12, 1, or 2AM, plug it in, pass out, and when I wake up it's charged and if it took an hour or six to charge I give no fucks. It's charged.
But that won't work for me - I like to play Infinity Blade II while I sleep.
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palm it? How big are your hands? (Score:3)
When I'm holding it vertically, like in bed, I can't just palm it. I have to use two hands to hold it.
And if I use two hands to hold it, do I just use my third hand to tap the screen to use it?
This all could be solved with a small ridge or dent on the back, so there is a smaller feature I can span to grip it one handed. The same principle as a handle, just more integrated.
Par for the course? (Score:5, Interesting)
It strikes me that this is just par for the course for most Apple releases.
iPhone 3GS, iPad 1 -- both of mine had wifi problems until software updates came out.
iPhone 4 -- antennagate -- appeared totally fine by the time I got my 4 in March of 2011.
iPhone 4s -- batterygate -- greatly improved in 5.01 and mostly fixed by 5.1.
Overall, it seems like there's about 6 months after a device's release that Apple releases a serious of fixes to fix or mitigate some deficiency and that by that time the device is largely as good as it will get.
I just wish they would add bluetooth profiles to the iPad for microphone headsets and mice, although the latter I only want with RDP apps, although I think it might be handy if you were using a full-screen editor, too.
It kind of makes me wonder why no one has made a BT mouse adapter that plugs into the microphone port or the dock connector. With an open SDK, vendors who wanted mouse capabilities could add support for the hardware.
I expect it has some bugs too (Score:4, Interesting)
I know it has bugs in the LTE connection. It's conked out before, and I even had the WiFi connection disappear after I turned LTE off (to save power). Going to airplane mode and back fixed all the problems, at least for now.
Also, the bars in LTE mode don't make much sense, or at least aren't what you're used to. With 5 bars I get 30mbps down, with 1 I get 24mpbs down. We've been trained from 3G that 1 bar is a lot slower than 5, so they should rescale the bars so that when you are at half speed or less you get 1 bar.
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I believe that apps can now add arbitrary Bluetooth profiles (for their use only.) Ask your favorite RDP app author for mouse support.
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No microphone headset or bt mouse profile
I just wish they would add bluetooth profiles to the iPad for microphone headsets and mice, although the latter I only want with RDP apps, although I think it might be handy if you were using a full-screen editor, too.
Of course there's no BT profile for BT microphone headsets and mice. This is consistent with Apple practice.
- A microphone headset would let you make private calls with VOIP apps, which might mean less calls on your iphone, or even not need your iphone at all if properly implemented.
- A mouse might allow development of apps which would require you to use your macbook less and/or not even buy a macbook in the first place.
Re:Par for the course? (Score:5, Informative)
Of course there's no BT profile for BT microphone headsets and mice. This is consistent with Apple practice.
- A microphone headset would let you make private calls with VOIP apps, which might mean less calls on your iphone, or even not need your iphone at all if properly implemented.
Only problem with your conspiracy theory is that it's complete and utter bullshit, since the iPad 2 and up do support HFP: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3647?viewlocale=en_US&locale=en_US [apple.com] along with every other profile the latest iPhones do except Phone Book, since it can't actually dial a phone.
You can use a BT microphone headset with Skype / Facetime just fine.
Re:Par for the course? (Score:5, Insightful)
It kind of makes me wonder why no one has made a BT mouse adapter that plugs into the microphone port or the dock connector.
Because Apple won't allow it. If it doesn't fit with Apple's paradigm you don't get it, simple as that.
Note that I'm not trying to troll here, that is simply a fact. If you wanted an open platform you should have bought one.
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Apple wouldn't allow it? There are no mouse adapters because iOS has no cursor. The OS itself is mouse-less. What would you push around the screen? The non-existent cursor graphic?
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I just wish they would add bluetooth profiles to the iPad for microphone headsets and mice, although the latter I only want with RDP apps, although I think it might be handy if you were using a full-screen editor, too.
If you jailbreak, you can add another Bluetooth stack that supports those devices. If you are using Citrix, this idea [xenappblog.com] seems very cool (if it actually works).
Re:Par for the course? (Score:5, Informative)
It is for any kind of drawing/graphics app. As it stands, on the multi-touch devices, you can only 'draw' or 'paint' with the resolution of a six year old with a box of crayons. Even if you buy a third party stylus, which do exist. They have a big spongy end like a crayon.
Granted, graphic apps are not something the Apple tablets are designed to do. But people like extensible features so they have more control over their gadgets. Apple clearly doesn't like that.
Isn't all this Apple-Hate getting a bit tiresome?
Actually, there are lots of styli that are finer-tipped from Adonit, Kensington, Addesso, "RooCase" (who has a cool one with a "finger-size" at one end, and a very fine tip at the other), and also ones from about a zillion nameless Chinese companies (but don't let your utter laziness in not spending the 30 seconds on Google, like I just did, stop you from spreading tiresome lies) ; but if you saw what the guy from AutoDesk drew in 90 seconds [youtube.com] on the iPad with his finger, you'd STFU about the "six-year-old" crap.
A poor craftsman blames his tools.
And I dare say that, far from being "restrictive" or "controlled", the iPad has been one of the single-most "enabling" devices to come along in quite some time.
How to feel better owning an obsolete product... (Score:3, Funny)
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I bought a ipad 2 just a few days ago. Nothing on the ipad 3 could justify the higher price point to me. Plus I was able to get a like new one used from a guy on craigs list trying to raise money for the new ipad. $250.00 for a 32 gig not 3g was a fair price, and a lot cheaper than a ipad3 that has marginal improvements.
That answers my question. (Score:2)
They used the exact same super easy to break digitizer glass.
They really need to go back to the 2X thicker ipad 1 glass. The ipad 2 is incredibly delicate due to the much thinner glass. In fact you can feel it flex while using the ipad 2.
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In fact you can feel it flex while using the ipad 2.
I think I can safely say that you are holding it wrong. In fact, unless you are Godzilla, I'd like to see exactly how you manage that.
As if Apple products alone have "problems" (Score:5, Interesting)
Let me know when it can compile. (Score:3, Insightful)
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"I'm not interested in a computer that can't compile."
Sucks to be you. You must not have any electronics in your house except desktops, laptops and netbooks. No TV, no remote control, no cable box, no DSL.
I'm curious..... (Score:2)
Obviously, any app can be cracked manually, with enough time invested into it, but is there any mechanism that can be used to at least reliably defeat any automated tools that crack them?
I know that more effort should be spent on making a good app than on trying to prevent piracy, but if it's something relatively simple to code, and easy enough to obfuscate that automated tools wouldn't find and bypass it, that would probably be good enough, IMO.
It is Apple (Score:3)
Well, you asked.
Overpriced, proprietary, fragile, hot, hyped! (Score:3, Informative)
Apple's products overwhelmingly try to lock you into their marketplace and keep you out of the innards of their devices.
Many lower end Android tablets can be converted to a main stream Linux distribution (with a little work).
I Like Mine (Score:3, Insightful)
Mine works great. No complaints here. I see a lot of complaints from people that clearly don't have one. Your opinions have been noted and will be given the consideration merited. That is all.
part of the confusion (Score:5, Informative)
I'd bet part of the confusion is people charging via the USB port on their computer vs a wall charger.
USB ports on a computer are limited to 500mA, wall chargers are typically around 1000mA, though some I've seen go up to 2000mA.
So, someone who is saying "gee this takes forever" is likely the person who is charging via their PC.
The capacity I have seen listed for the iPad3 is 14000mAh. If you were to do a dead battery to fully charged via PC only, it could take almost 28 hours. (though batteries charging rates are not linear)
Text Reflow (Score:3)
The biggest issue is the inability for Safari or any iOS browser to wrap text. Reading websites on a 10" screen can get tiresome on the eyes, especially if your eyesight isn't that great. I don't know why Apple hasn't seen fit to include the ability to wrap text in Safari. It's the main reason I stay away from Apple products and force myself to use Android tablets and smartphones. Without text reflow reading on a mobile device is guaranteed to give you eyestraight.
Re:Fragmentation (Score:5, Informative)
Android is a nightmare for (game) developers. So many wildly varying specs, some missing major features (no FPU, no multi-touch!)
iOS has been a lot nicer, with only 3 screen resolutions to support, and all devices with FPUs, multi-touch, and PowerVR GPUs. But the new iPad is a big change, with it's huge resolution, making universal apps less practical.
Re:Fragmentation (Score:5, Insightful)
Doesn't deserve the downvotes. Android is a nightmare for (game) developers. So many wildly varying specs, some missing major features (no FPU, no multi-touch!)
Compared to Windows it's a dream come true.
Re:Fragmentation (Score:4, Interesting)
Compared to Windows as of 15 years ago, maybe. The Windows APIs the last few years have been mature enough that while diverse hardware testing can still improve the user experience, it's gotten substantially less necessary for game developers. That just isn't the case for Android games.
Re:Fragmentation (Score:5, Funny)
I know there is a windows tool to get rid of it.
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Re:Fragmentation (Score:5, Interesting)
There is a sales term called the (Adam) Osborne effect. Based in the era of "luggage" computer where a CRY screen, twin floppy Fisk drives and a transformer could fit into something as small as a suitcase, Adam Osborne proudly announced at one new product exhibition that the next model that they were going to be selling in there months time was going to have even more features. The end result was that no-one was interested in buying or developing for the current model.
Re:Fragmentation (Score:5, Informative)
For me the fragmentation comes down to whether it has a camera or not. As an owner of a original iPad, I was more and more disappointed at apps that didn't include me: many photography apps, and some games just wouldn't work. GTA3 wouldn't work without crashing before I even finished the first mission.
This will only get worse as people who are developing apps aim their performance goals at the newer devices. It's similar to when you try to put a new windows on your old machine - sure, it "works" but it is slower because you're still running on old hardware.
Re:Fragmentation (Score:5, Insightful)
When a developer targets an iPod touch, do you really think they're going to target the version 1 one which has less than 0.1% market share now? Or... Do you think they're going to target the 2 most recent generations, which covers every person who's bought one in the last 2 years? Effectively, to target iOS, you need to target an 800MHz ARM cortex A8, a PowerVR SGX 535, 512MB of RAM, and both 320x480pt and 1024x768pt. Once you've got that covered, you've got 97% of all users covered, and probably 99.9% of all users who are willing to pay for an app.
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Apps designed for Retina display can be up to five times bigger
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why don't you provide a link to the headline you mention.. is it this one?
http://www.theverge.com/2012/3/14/2870374/new-ipad-apps-larger-size-retina-display [theverge.com]
"The applications developed by Apple have been upgraded to support the Retina Display. For example Keynote was previously only 115MB but its latest version is 327MB. Numbers is up from 109MB to 283MB, Pages moves from 95MB to 269MB, and iMovie from 70MB to 404MB." (Translated from Vietnamese)"
iMovie is the only one that went up over 5x.. and that's becau
Re:It's still pointless. (Score:4, Funny)
Hear that guys, x0d's brother HAD TO SELL HIS, time to pack up and move on, tablets are done.
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That's not a troll post.
I like the hardware of the iPad, but by virtue of being an iPad it runs an OS that forcibly puts you on the outside of its security model, trusting only the platform vendor.
So yeah, I don't like it because it's an iPad. I'd also dislike it if it were crippled in the way that ASUS and Motorola lock down their tablet bootloaders and force you to surrender your warranty before you can do as you wish.
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And you think it a good idea that manufacturers build devices that can safely be utilized by a small fraction of potential customers?
Go to your local WalMart [peopleofwalmart.com]. Look around you. Do you want to trust those folks with anything more complicated than a slip of paper?
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I was like most "tech people", I never knew what I needed an iPad for until I got one. I already had a laptop and a multiple desk
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But I only read the promotional material for the articles.
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"but thats a non-issue for most mac fans so ill leave it be."
It's proven to be a non issue to everyone. I know fo iphone 2's that are still in service with the origional battery. I have a 3G here that I am prepping for sale that STILL has full battery life after 3.5 years.
I can understand coming from crap phones like Nokia and Motorola that have batteries that need to be replaced yearly (I went through 3 batteries on my Razr, and 2 Batteries on my Nokia E62.)
But honestly, battery tech on the apple device
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FWIW you can easily run Linux on a Mac Pro... been doing it since '08; it's an awesome Linux machine. It's actually better because you can use MD RAID-5 support on those four HDs, something you can't do on Mac OS X without a $1K raid card that they want you to buy.
Re:Made by Samsung (Score:4, Insightful)
Display, Processor, Chips, Battery, ...But hey, It has an Apple logo!
Actually, Apple has been desperately (and it look like, successfully) trying to become non-dependent upon the technology-thieves at Samsung for a couple of years now. The latest iPad is actually stands as a testament as to the lengths that Apple has gone to cut Samsung completely out of their supply chain.
Display: Designed by Apple. iFixit said it was "probably Samsung". No surprises there. Apple has used Samsung "glass" for years. However, leaked information [9to5mac.com] makes it seem more likely that Apple has turned to Sharp for the iPad 3 Retina display.
SoC (what you quaintly and incorrectly called the "Processor") : Designed by Apple, manufactured in Texas by Apple-owned Fab house, Intrinsity. In fact, Apple's Intrinsity is already the second-largest mobile SoC manufacturer, and ison track to pass Intel as the world's largest mobile chip fab [electronista.com].
Chips: Some are Apple-designed. Most are commodity. I think the iFixit teardown [ifixit.com] (See steps #15, 17 and 19) identified a number of manufacturers; Apple, TI, Broadcom, Fairchild, Qualcomm, Avago,Toshiba, Triquint, Skyworks... Hmmm. Let's see. What manufacturer's name is MISSING...?
Battery: Apple designed. No one else's battery comes close to size/capacity combination. Manufactured by Simplo Technology, with Dynapak International Technology as Apple's up-and-coming "preferred" source [cens.com].
But don't let facts disturb your delusions...