iPad in the UK [Poll added]
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What a waste of money...
No camera. WTF??
You can't put your sim it, you need a special one.
It's about the same size as a netbook, but twice as expensive and doesn't even do half the things you can with a laptop!
IMO if you have that much money to spend then buy a netbook and an iPod Touch and put the rest in your bank and laugh at the people in the queues.
No camera. WTF??
You can't put your sim it, you need a special one.
It's about the same size as a netbook, but twice as expensive and doesn't even do half the things you can with a laptop!
IMO if you have that much money to spend then buy a netbook and an iPod Touch and put the rest in your bank and laugh at the people in the queues.
I bet you will buy one within the next 12 months! :wink:
I do agree that it should have a camera for video, although I have an app on mine that links to my iPhone via WiFi or Bluetooth and enables me to use the camera off my iPhone on the iPad! Pointless really but fun seeing it work!
I actually think it's not what the iPad does so much at the moment but what it will do when the developers get to grips with it. The trouble is with these things is that the developers buy into this tech and all of a sudden the chosen tech starts to leave the other tech behind, mainly because the software is only being designed for the iPad!
There is a new name on the scene for downloading usable software now called The App! :wink: A lot better and easier than having to use a CD/DVD to load software, so the change is happening!! Watch what they do with the App next. That is going to be the next big update in the way we install!
Also computer manufacturers will not want to be left behind and they will bring out their own version, and as what has happened with the iPhone, the competitors will take ages to compete.
Microsoft will bring something out to compete but that will just crash and need about 150 updates to get it to work properly!!
I do agree that it should have a camera for video, although I have an app on mine that links to my iPhone via WiFi or Bluetooth and enables me to use the camera off my iPhone on the iPad! Pointless really but fun seeing it work!
I actually think it's not what the iPad does so much at the moment but what it will do when the developers get to grips with it. The trouble is with these things is that the developers buy into this tech and all of a sudden the chosen tech starts to leave the other tech behind, mainly because the software is only being designed for the iPad!
There is a new name on the scene for downloading usable software now called The App! :wink: A lot better and easier than having to use a CD/DVD to load software, so the change is happening!! Watch what they do with the App next. That is going to be the next big update in the way we install!
Also computer manufacturers will not want to be left behind and they will bring out their own version, and as what has happened with the iPhone, the competitors will take ages to compete.
Microsoft will bring something out to compete but that will just crash and need about 150 updates to get it to work properly!!
Breaker said:If I hadn't been bought one as a gift last Friday would I have bought one?
Probably not. I'd have waited and tried one out more. (I didn't buy an iPhone until they had been out for a few years).
After having and using an iPad for 3 days would I buy one now.
Yes I would.
Surely something like this is much better??
http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B002NPB18K/ref=asc_df_B002NPB18K670135?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&tag=googlecouk06-21&linkCode=asn&creative=7974&creativeASIN=B002NPB18K
You can do all the things you can with an iPad and much, much more!!
It has similar dimensions, light and around £150 cheaper?
iPad is something that will end up being used once in a blue moon to check your emails or to have quick surf of the web and nothing more.
If you don't understand why people like these ipads, then you never will.
No words will convince.
It's all a matter of taste. 8)
What makes Apple different is hard to put into words - it makes you feel a certain way. It's an experience.
It's not about comparing specifications. I wouldn't touch a cheap netbook with a barge pole. Looks like a piece of crap to me.
It's nothing new - I have been using Apple products for 20 years now, so it's not hype - they really do care about making something amazing.
These products certainly create 'passionate' responses.
I think it is interesting to have this debate on a Z4 forum, which is a car that split opinion like marmite also when it was released.
I would have expected more forum members to come down in favor of the 'ipad' based on the their individualistic choice of a Z4.
Interesting!
No words will convince.
It's all a matter of taste. 8)
What makes Apple different is hard to put into words - it makes you feel a certain way. It's an experience.
It's not about comparing specifications. I wouldn't touch a cheap netbook with a barge pole. Looks like a piece of crap to me.
It's nothing new - I have been using Apple products for 20 years now, so it's not hype - they really do care about making something amazing.
These products certainly create 'passionate' responses.
I think it is interesting to have this debate on a Z4 forum, which is a car that split opinion like marmite also when it was released.
I would have expected more forum members to come down in favor of the 'ipad' based on the their individualistic choice of a Z4.
Interesting!
Sorry, stand on the anti side.
The underlying technology in the iPad is derived from apples mobile tech.
So in essence (as someone said earlier) it is an over sized mobile that you cant make calls from.
Best off waiting a couple of years and getting a tablet PC where the product is actually derived from PC technology. far more capable, robust and not locked down by Apple.
wait a couple more years and get an integrated projected keyboard
Wait a further 5 years and get yourself an A4 flexible display that you can roll up and shove in your pocket.....
Wait another 5 years ...... if i knew that i wouldnt be shouting about it!
Greeno
The underlying technology in the iPad is derived from apples mobile tech.
So in essence (as someone said earlier) it is an over sized mobile that you cant make calls from.
Best off waiting a couple of years and getting a tablet PC where the product is actually derived from PC technology. far more capable, robust and not locked down by Apple.
wait a couple more years and get an integrated projected keyboard
Wait a further 5 years and get yourself an A4 flexible display that you can roll up and shove in your pocket.....
Wait another 5 years ...... if i knew that i wouldnt be shouting about it!
Greeno
I've edited the first post and added a poll, as I think the results might be closer than the responses suggest. I can't see me buying one.Seggy said:
pauld said:
This says it all for me. If the Ipad makes the laptop redundant for 90% of things then presumably the other 10% is things you can do on the laptop but not on the Ipad.
?? So why not leave the Ipad at home and take the laptop ??
I still have not seen anything in this discussion, or elsewhere which suggests the Ipad can actually do anything new, ..at all. I am tired to the bone with new devices that I can 'look at photos' on 'listen to music' with, 'play games' on. There is NOTHING NEW here ! The Iphone was new when it came out,...this is just old capabilities in a shiny new box. And a box that isn't very portable. It's a novelty that will amuse for a while until people get tired of trying to find ways to justify using it and go back to their laptops and Iphones which are more suited to purpose.
So my conclusion remains that this is a nice new shiny thing for people to buy who like shiny new things, and that's just fine. But I am not going to accept the idea that this in some way revloutionary in the the way that Apple wants us to think it is. Again, I am in awe of their ability to drum that idea into so many consumers minds. Some of the post in this thread actually sound exactly like the people on those Apple website promotional video clips. And that's frightening !
I got mine on Friday, and have used it in anger for the first time today.
For me it's an extension of my iPhone, when traveling for work I always take a shoulder bag with me, to carry note book, pens, tape measure, camera, etc etc. The iPhone is great for checking emails but writing lengthy replies is difficult. To do this I would normally take my laptop, but this is just too heavy to carry any distance. I've often thought about a Mac Book Air, but the limitations have always put me off. So today I wrote long emails, reviewed PDFs, surfed the web and generally did things I would have put off until I got back to the office. And when finished, popped the iPad back in the bag and didn't even notice the extra weight.
I'm sitting here typing while the wife watches Gok, it's silent keyboard is fantastic and doesn't get hot on my lap like a laptop.
Also I have my complete music and photo collection with me 24/7 and still 30gb free.
I hate the hype that surrounds Apple, but I love the way their products just work, easily.
And they are so well designed, the use of glass, metal and quality plastics is just so much better than the competition.
All in all, a fabulous product?
For me it's an extension of my iPhone, when traveling for work I always take a shoulder bag with me, to carry note book, pens, tape measure, camera, etc etc. The iPhone is great for checking emails but writing lengthy replies is difficult. To do this I would normally take my laptop, but this is just too heavy to carry any distance. I've often thought about a Mac Book Air, but the limitations have always put me off. So today I wrote long emails, reviewed PDFs, surfed the web and generally did things I would have put off until I got back to the office. And when finished, popped the iPad back in the bag and didn't even notice the extra weight.
I'm sitting here typing while the wife watches Gok, it's silent keyboard is fantastic and doesn't get hot on my lap like a laptop.
Also I have my complete music and photo collection with me 24/7 and still 30gb free.
I hate the hype that surrounds Apple, but I love the way their products just work, easily.
And they are so well designed, the use of glass, metal and quality plastics is just so much better than the competition.
All in all, a fabulous product?
I'm amazed how a gadget can get this sort of response, all apples products are marmite, love or hate them. I played with an ipad today, I can safely say I'll be buying the bottom end one, and leave my MacBook pro on so I can access it. Ipad will be mainly home use / go on holiday or long journeys, but like the iPhone I see it developing into more once apps are made.
In a quick test I was able to type a letter in pages easily, so if the promised upgrade to be able to print directly from the ipad comes soon, most of my laptop use can be done on the ipad! I thought about getting an iMac, but the ipad is cheaper and I can keep my laptop too! Best of both worlds.
I hav to say I've had all versions of the iPhone, an iMac and MacBook pro so I am a fan of apple products as they work for me, that's all I want. The ipad won't suit everyone, but everyone knows exactly what it is!
In a quick test I was able to type a letter in pages easily, so if the promised upgrade to be able to print directly from the ipad comes soon, most of my laptop use can be done on the ipad! I thought about getting an iMac, but the ipad is cheaper and I can keep my laptop too! Best of both worlds.
I hav to say I've had all versions of the iPhone, an iMac and MacBook pro so I am a fan of apple products as they work for me, that's all I want. The ipad won't suit everyone, but everyone knows exactly what it is!
Peddy - why so hostile? Surely the success of the preceding Apple products (and already the i-pad) proves that there's a lot more than glitzy cases here?
I think it's a mistake to simply compare the i-pad to existing hardware - it's a brand new type of computing, so there's nothing comparable at the moment.
Just look back in a year or so and see how many doubters have felt the need/desire to buy one, especially when the apps, etc start to really get going! It's a Lifestyle product that finally brings computing into the lounge, whilst maintaining a serious side when required.
Finally, one interesting point about Apple products in general - their owners actually love them - always have. How many of us love our Dell or HP PC or laptop? It just doesn't happen in the same way.
Bet you get one sometime, Peddy :wink:
I think it's a mistake to simply compare the i-pad to existing hardware - it's a brand new type of computing, so there's nothing comparable at the moment.
Just look back in a year or so and see how many doubters have felt the need/desire to buy one, especially when the apps, etc start to really get going! It's a Lifestyle product that finally brings computing into the lounge, whilst maintaining a serious side when required.
Finally, one interesting point about Apple products in general - their owners actually love them - always have. How many of us love our Dell or HP PC or laptop? It just doesn't happen in the same way.
Bet you get one sometime, Peddy :wink:
People seem to not want to get it! No, it doesn't do anything new, at all...
A car did nothing a horse and cart didn't. A cd player did nothing a record player didn't. Microwave ovens, Gas Barbeques, Electric Kettles, Cigarette lighters, Escalators... None of these things allow us to do anything we couldn't before, just allowed us a more convenient way to do something we could already do with something else.
A car did nothing a horse and cart didn't. A cd player did nothing a record player didn't. Microwave ovens, Gas Barbeques, Electric Kettles, Cigarette lighters, Escalators... None of these things allow us to do anything we couldn't before, just allowed us a more convenient way to do something we could already do with something else.
Seggy said:
Sorry but I don't see buying Apple products as being "individualistic" at all. I see it as sheep mentality - everytime Apple bring something out the gadget herd all go and buy it.
It's far more individualistic to say no I don't like the way Apple do business. Is my life any poorer for not having an IPhone/Mac/IPad - not a chance. You buy em I'll save my money.
Nope. (I mean to reply to Tweed,.. sorry I forgot to quote)
All those things allowed us to do things significantly better, easier, more efficiently. *Significantly*.
Let me suggest a closer comparison. To me buying an ipad is like someone upgrading from a table lamp to a lava lamp.
Novelty.
And the poll is proving that. Let's bear in mind that all ipad buyers reading this will vote 'awesome' while non believers do not have the same motivation to vote. Yet it's still coming down on the pants side....
All those things allowed us to do things significantly better, easier, more efficiently. *Significantly*.
Let me suggest a closer comparison. To me buying an ipad is like someone upgrading from a table lamp to a lava lamp.
Novelty.
And the poll is proving that. Let's bear in mind that all ipad buyers reading this will vote 'awesome' while non believers do not have the same motivation to vote. Yet it's still coming down on the pants side....
I don't see why everyone is getting so passionate about this! Yes, I agree that saying buying an apple product is "individualistic" is cliché and when they have just been ranked the top tech company in the world obviously it is false. But some people are apple fans, just like there are microsoft fans, BMW fans and all the other fanboys! It's an individual decision to buy or not to buy - I don't really understand why everyone is so hellbent on persuading the other camp!
In my personal experience, I love apple products. I have used windows PCs for many years and changed to mac 2 years ago - I've never looked back. I have used windows smart phones, google phones and the iPhone- again I find the iPhone far superior. It may be a closed environment but I found the open source nature of windows/google apps to be of massively varying quality. I've never used anything other than an iPod but I love it.
The only thing I will say is I like the google app Market model. You can purchase apps and if you don't like them refund them within 24hours. Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, there is little in the way of quality control and I found many apps buggy and unusable.
Anyway each to their own - if you buy or don't buy - be happy with your choice!
In my personal experience, I love apple products. I have used windows PCs for many years and changed to mac 2 years ago - I've never looked back. I have used windows smart phones, google phones and the iPhone- again I find the iPhone far superior. It may be a closed environment but I found the open source nature of windows/google apps to be of massively varying quality. I've never used anything other than an iPod but I love it.
The only thing I will say is I like the google app Market model. You can purchase apps and if you don't like them refund them within 24hours. Unfortunately, as far as I'm aware, there is little in the way of quality control and I found many apps buggy and unusable.
Anyway each to their own - if you buy or don't buy - be happy with your choice!
JimmyP
I think the passion on this is partly due to the fact that the pro-ipadders are completeley missing the point that one or two of us are making. This is not as far as I can see it a discussion of the merits if apple over pc, I think most would agree on that. It's simply that this device does not do anything that your existing gadgets have already been able to do for years.
I think the passion on this is partly due to the fact that the pro-ipadders are completeley missing the point that one or two of us are making. This is not as far as I can see it a discussion of the merits if apple over pc, I think most would agree on that. It's simply that this device does not do anything that your existing gadgets have already been able to do for years.