Innovation on iPad?

[BFizzzle]

i agree, windows 8 is looking good. i love how it can be ran on a tablet (not a watered down version) and if the new xbox runs windows 8 (making games truly cross platform) its going to be a hit IMO.


Does windows 8 have more transitions/animations? like osx does.

 

[Hyper-X]

The Metro UI is definitely a step forward in tablet computing. Apple has decided to, for the most part stick with a very boring and basic UI for iOS. No Widgets, very limited multitasking and the need to go into several menu settings just to get to what you need (like bluetooth pairing), not counting jailbreak tweaks. iOS is very simple and easy to use but sometimes things can be excessively simple.

I felt like the iPad, even now, is basically a giant iPhone or iPod Touch, depending on which iPad you own. Interacting between my iPhone and iPad doesn't differ a whole lot and I've always wanted something that distiguishes a major benefit to using an iPad versus my iPhone and MBP. I still don't think Metro is exactly what I'm looking for but it's headed in the right direction.

 

[GMTGuy]

I think Microsoft is throwing out all stops to compete, most people that i've heard to have win7 phones actually said they like it a lot. You also have to remember Microsoft has been working on tablets for like a decade+, they just never got it right, so now they're investing everything they can to compete with Apple, Google etc...Apples new CEO maybe the most highly payed(3 times that of the closest guy) but AFAIK he's yet been tested in terms of direction and innovation, he's just riding off the coat tails of what Jobs created and planned, where as Microsofts CEO had been along side Bill Gates since the beginning I believe and has been acting CEO for a number of years now.

 

[BFizzzle]

yeahh i find the windows phones UI really sleek and oh so tempting to try out!

 

[Night Spring]

i agree, windows 8 is looking good. i love how it can be ran on a tablet (not a watered down version)

I'm really skeptical about that. First of all, there's going to be two kinds of Windows 8 tablets, ARM and Intel. Indications so far are that ARM tablets will only run Metro, not the desktop interface. And even on Intel tablets, how good will the desktop experience be? Desktop UI on tablets is just the failed paradigm that Microsoft had been trying to push for a decade before the iPad. As for the Metro interface, I haven't tried it on a tablet, but I did play with it on a desktop computer, and I have to say, it feels like a watered down version of Windows designed for a tablet. I prefer Apple's attitude toward tablets, which is to admit that the experience would be different, and embrace those differences. It seems to me like Microsoft is trying to pretend that you can have a full computing experience on a tablet, raising user expectations for an uncompromised full-featured tablet computer, but I expect such users would be disappointed in many ways.

 

[VanNess]

But in Windows 8, you can have multiple apps open at once (see picture). You can a "mini" version of a secondary app. Therefore, I can watch a show and message someone without leaving my show (just as I can on my Mac). Or, I can have my Twitter feed going as I do something else.

Sounds great! By the way, what tablet did you say this is running on? How's the battery life? How's the performance?

Odd that I can't seem to find this tablet for sale anywhere...

 

[FSMBP]

Sounds great! By the way, what tablet did you say this is running on? How's the battery life? How's the performance?

Odd that I can't seem to find this tablet for sale anywhere...

I'm sorry for pointing out a nice concept not found on a Apple product. I know it's hard for the younger MacRumors members to think past the concept that "Apple is the best ever".

I know battery life & performance may seem like issues but I can't imagine battery life being much better on iOS5 by constantly switching between iMessage and Safari every time you get a message. Performance may be a issue but we'll see this winter.

 

[Night Spring]

I'm sorry for pointing out a nice concept not found on a Apple product. I know it's hard for the younger MacRumors members to think past the concept that "Apple is the best ever"..

it's a nice concept, yes, but at the moment it's just a concept. Being skeptical of a concept that's not yet actualized in a shipping product doesn't mean that the person being skeptical is young, or holds a narrow minded belief that Apple is the best.

 

[kdarling]

The Metro UI is definitely a step forward in tablet computing. Apple has decided to, for the most part stick with a very boring and basic UI for iOS. No Widgets, very limited multitasking and the need to go into several menu settings just to get to what you need (like bluetooth pairing), not counting jailbreak tweaks. iOS is very simple and easy to use but sometimes things can be excessively simple.

I'm really liking what's starting to happen on Android tablets.

Multiple windows at a time. Movable browsers and video players.

Actually using all that real estate for decent homescreens.

Like this Kickstarter project, the Chameleon Tablet Homescreen.

 

[iEvolution]

The control Apple puts on the iPad is a bit of a downer.

For instance, I can't install 3rd party apps for the keyboard nor can I adjust the size of the split keyboard (which is annoyingly small).

The forcing of making Safari the default browser is another annoyance, if a browser wants to open up another window it pops up Safari instead of the browser I'm running in.

Multitasking on the iPad is a bit of a downer too coming from android I love the app listing icon on the bottom that you can just tap to bring up the recent list, where as the iPad requires the four finger scroll or double click the home button.

Now before someone thinks I am bashing the iPad, I'm not. I love the massive app store, I want to make sweet sweet love to the retina display and iOS is a stable well designed operating system. I just think its lacking in some areas.

 

[noteple]

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Now before someone thinks I am bashing the iPad, I'm not. I love the massive app store, I want to make sweet sweet love to the retina display and iOS is a stable well designed operating system. I just think its lacking in some areas.

Hey it's not perfect, and there is always room for improvement.
We have iOS 5.x with 6.0 comming soon. I also expect there to be a 7, 8, 9, and so on, with new features and functionality.

You don't always know what's missing until your competition takes a different and sometimes better approach.

Out of all the companies that were or still are in the tablet space I'm comfortable betting that Apple is diligently working on bringing us the best tablet experience ever.