I will actually be shocked if any of the people who get in on the first shipment will be anywhere near critical since the majority probably have Apple products all over the house. Oh, and an Apple sticker on the car.
car stickers are so 1990's
It's amazing. Except, all the iPhone/iPod Touch applications I put on it kind of suck, and are buggy. They look terrible with the pixel doubling.
I wanted to put photos on it to use as my backgrounds, but there's no direct photo management like on the iPhone, I had to sync them through iTunes. iTunes "optimized" my photos for the iPad and now they look terrible. To top that off, when I go into one to use it as my background, it darkens the entire photo. So much for putting a pretty picture for a background, it makes the prettiest of pictures look like shit and robs the color before letting you do that.
The screen starts to sound "hollow" if you tap in the center, it goes away as you near the edges, so it's obviously actually hollow.
Can't charge on my PC through a USB port, have to use the included AC adapter.
My hopes for high quality streaming video are so/so. Netflix looks good but ABC looks terrible. I wonder why? (There's a big "BUY THIS EPISODE ON ITUNES" button on the page of every episode.)
Ten finger multitouch! The Pianist Pro app is pretty sweet.
That is weird. I changed the background on the demo units using some of the stock photos and they all looked the same when used as a background. I wonder what is going on there.
And yea, the piano app was pretty neat....too bad I don't know how to play anything on it lol.
I just got done listening to the 85 minute Engadget podcast and Josh T (lead editor) was ranting pretty hard about the iPad. I'm pretty sure he doesn't think it's all that magical and revolutionary. You can just tell he was saddened by the lack of Flash among other things.
I almost went and bought one just to blow cash but I'm really glad I didn't. Maybe when the iPad Gen 2 comes out in a few months with iPhone OS 4.0... maybe.
Josh is a JooJoo fanboy confirmed
Me too, I don't think he was bummed though.. did you see him on Jimmy Fallon last night? I think he was just doing his job and highlighting areas of improvement. He wrote their review, and it was very positive. I'm eager to see what he has to say about the joojoo
tweaked OSX operating system with adaptations for touch input, then this ipad might actually be a far more interesting product.
I was thinking about this while reading the engadget review. If it had perhaps a tweaked OSX operating system with adaptations for touch input, then this ipad might actually be a far more interesting product. At least it would be a lot more along the lines of a 'computer' rather than an entertainment device.
I was thinking about this while reading the engadget review. If it had perhaps a tweaked OSX operating system with adaptations for touch input, then this ipad might actually be a far more interesting product. At least it would be a lot more along the lines of a 'computer' rather than an entertainment device.
It IS a tweaked version of OS X. Designed entirely for touch. There is a reason digging through the start menu on previous tablets sucked.
I think Demo was hoping for something like how Windows 7 supports multi-touch, but makes no concessions past that. What a lot of people don't get when looking at something like the iPad is that a mouse or stylus can hit a 1 pixel target, the human finger cannot, and so a traditional desktop OS interface is never going to work on something like this.
Exactly, so why do they keep wanting it? Embrace the future!!!
It IS a tweaked version of OS X. Designed entirely for touch. There is a reason digging through the start menu on previous tablets sucked.