So what you're saying is that you want well-developed apps that take full advantage of the iPad but don't want to pay very much for them? You'd rather see the same "race to the bottom" that has occurred in the iPhone app store and (arguably) has prevented some more complex, innovative apps being developed because people will never make their money back selling them for $0.99?
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iPad app fatigue: Is it happening to you? - CNET Article
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So what you're saying is that you want well-developed apps that take full advantage of the iPad but don't want to pay very much for them? You'd rather see the same "race to the bottom" that has occurred in the iPhone app store and (arguably) has prevented some more complex, innovative apps being developed because people will never make their money back selling them for $0.99?
Chupa Chupa
macrumors G5
Yeah, and I wish BMW made an M3 for under $20K. 🙄
Seriously, if you think you can consistently make a boatload of money quarter after quarter making low priced, high quality iPad apps then go for it. You make it sound like companies just throw darts to determine price.
Seriously...everybody you know has wireless internet? If so, then I'll give you a polite little *golf clap* for the fact that your particular extended family lives in a techno-bubble.
My parents don't even have a COMPUTER at home. Let alone wireless internet. In fact, thinking of most of my family (immediate, plus aunts/uncles/cousins) less than 1/3 of them currently have wireless networks in their homes.
r0k
macrumors 68040
I find myself going to appshopper.com almost every day and watching the iPad apps counter creep up. It is over 6600 now and there are a number of things I'd like to see updated for iPad that still aren't done yet. One is Olivetree Biblereader. Another is RemoteTap. Then there is DocsToGo.
I'm disappointed in the way I use my iPad. It has turned to mostly gaming and very little of anything else. Perhaps its just a phase. I went through the same thing on my iPod Touch. I got up over 250 apps, most of which were games. A hardware failure meant I had to restore everything and since I had NEVER backed up, I found myself only putting back what I really wanted since I had to "buy" everything over again in the app store and only after I clicked "buy" did I get the confirmation saying I already owned the app. So now my iPad is full of questionable apps that are cool but really don't need to be there and I find myself wiling away the hours on aircoaster xl, mahjong and sudoku. Not the primary reason I bought my iPad. At some point, I will delete those games just to get things into perspective.
I'm frustrated with the iPad as a note-taking device. Sundry Notes (was School Notes Pro) has some gimpy limitations. It wants to use my mobile me email account to send out notes. So I have to mail them to my gmail account and then use the gmail app on my iPad to forward the notes to my friends to avoid having them capture my mobile me email address and start sending to it thereby bypassing my primary searchable inbox at gmail. I agree that Pages and Numbers on the iPad are limited, though the recent updates improved things somewhat.
Will I be putting down my iPad over these issues? No. Was CNET right? Not entirely. It turns out 197,000 iPhone apps are not very compelling on iPad because running them in 1x or 2x doesn't work that well. It turns out 6,000+ apps is really not that many when so many compelling apps are still missing. So in a sense they are right, but it's only been a single digit number of weeks since iPad was introduced. Let's give it until the fall and OS 4 comes out and even if there are over 20,000 apps, if the ones I'm looking for are still missing, I'll have to come around to the point of view of the CNET article. Did the iPad successfully replace my netbook? Absolutely yes. I could run openoffice.org on my Ubuntu netbook along with Gimp and fprot. Evolution isn't that great but it's more powerful than Mail on the iPad. But it's a lot slower than Mail, so I prefer Mail for it's speed. So I'm deliberately making a sacrifice to use iPad over my old netbook but I like the form factor and battery life enough to live with the limitations.
There are those who criticize iPad as an ebook reader because it runs games. I can see the validity of that argument in my own usage pattern. I just need to bring my usage habits into line and that may require deleting apps that are just too tempting. 😱 Sometimes it is a lot easier to build and ride a rollercoaster or solve a sudoku than finish reading a book in the kindle app. (Maybe I need to grab a more compelling book.) I'm sure once the "novelty wears off", I'll be able to take the high rode rather than devolve into a habitual gamer. I hope. 😉
So CNET you're jumping conclusions or you're all wet! We'll see in a few months...
I'm disappointed in the way I use my iPad. It has turned to mostly gaming and very little of anything else. Perhaps its just a phase. I went through the same thing on my iPod Touch. I got up over 250 apps, most of which were games. A hardware failure meant I had to restore everything and since I had NEVER backed up, I found myself only putting back what I really wanted since I had to "buy" everything over again in the app store and only after I clicked "buy" did I get the confirmation saying I already owned the app. So now my iPad is full of questionable apps that are cool but really don't need to be there and I find myself wiling away the hours on aircoaster xl, mahjong and sudoku. Not the primary reason I bought my iPad. At some point, I will delete those games just to get things into perspective.
I'm frustrated with the iPad as a note-taking device. Sundry Notes (was School Notes Pro) has some gimpy limitations. It wants to use my mobile me email account to send out notes. So I have to mail them to my gmail account and then use the gmail app on my iPad to forward the notes to my friends to avoid having them capture my mobile me email address and start sending to it thereby bypassing my primary searchable inbox at gmail. I agree that Pages and Numbers on the iPad are limited, though the recent updates improved things somewhat.
Will I be putting down my iPad over these issues? No. Was CNET right? Not entirely. It turns out 197,000 iPhone apps are not very compelling on iPad because running them in 1x or 2x doesn't work that well. It turns out 6,000+ apps is really not that many when so many compelling apps are still missing. So in a sense they are right, but it's only been a single digit number of weeks since iPad was introduced. Let's give it until the fall and OS 4 comes out and even if there are over 20,000 apps, if the ones I'm looking for are still missing, I'll have to come around to the point of view of the CNET article. Did the iPad successfully replace my netbook? Absolutely yes. I could run openoffice.org on my Ubuntu netbook along with Gimp and fprot. Evolution isn't that great but it's more powerful than Mail on the iPad. But it's a lot slower than Mail, so I prefer Mail for it's speed. So I'm deliberately making a sacrifice to use iPad over my old netbook but I like the form factor and battery life enough to live with the limitations.
There are those who criticize iPad as an ebook reader because it runs games. I can see the validity of that argument in my own usage pattern. I just need to bring my usage habits into line and that may require deleting apps that are just too tempting. 😱 Sometimes it is a lot easier to build and ride a rollercoaster or solve a sudoku than finish reading a book in the kindle app. (Maybe I need to grab a more compelling book.) I'm sure once the "novelty wears off", I'll be able to take the high rode rather than devolve into a habitual gamer. I hope. 😉
So CNET you're jumping conclusions or you're all wet! We'll see in a few months...
thejadedmonkey
macrumors G3
Someone posted a link to this on another forum I watch, it seems as if CNet isn't that far off of the mark.
full article: http://www.techeye.net/mobile/the-backlash-against-the-ipad-begins
Yes, I have "app fatigue" in that I have settled in on a set of apps that do what I want and unless something really catches my eye, I'm not looking for new ones.
I didn't buy an iPad to constantly buy new apps. I bought an iPad to use apps after I bought them.
I didn't buy an iPad to constantly buy new apps. I bought an iPad to use apps after I bought them.
quantum003
macrumors 6502a
Yes, if you are planning to adopt iPad for your small business you may very well be disappointed. Folks, it's the first gen and this device is still very new. It's going to take a little time before Apple, the developers, and we the consumers figure out exactly what we want the iPad to do and how to make it so...
This article is dumb, to me it reeks of "I have to write an article now what?". iPad smashed the original iPhone sales records, and look where the iPhone is now. The apps will come for iPad as well. Facebook doesn't even have an iPad app at the moment! But you better believe it's going to be awesome when it arrives, just like the others we haven't seen yet but are currently being diligently worked on.
This article is dumb, to me it reeks of "I have to write an article now what?". iPad smashed the original iPhone sales records, and look where the iPhone is now. The apps will come for iPad as well. Facebook doesn't even have an iPad app at the moment! But you better believe it's going to be awesome when it arrives, just like the others we haven't seen yet but are currently being diligently worked on.
GamecockMac
macrumors 6502a
No, my extended family doesn't live in a "techno-bubble", they live in the 21st Century.
Come...join us.
spinedoc77
macrumors G4
I really need very few apps to make my ipad WELL worth the investment.
Books/magazines/newspaper: I read a lot of books and like to browse magazines while on the treadmill, this satisfies this need quite nicely without having to lug around a single book or magazine. I get a LOT more also than I would at my newstand, things like NPR (fabulous program/content) for example.
Internet: I can get most of the functionality of the web on this device, sure it's missing flash and that does prove a detriment sometimes, but overall for the convenience of leaving my laptop at home it's doing a great job.
PIM: As a PIM it's very nice, having my datebook/calendar, contacts list, etc synced up and ready to go it quite nice. Arguably this can be done on most smartphones just as well sans the big screen, but I'm an old schooler and still remember the days when we carried around physical datebooks we wrote in.
Notetaking: This is really the single thing which stands out as a huge FAIL on Apple's part. This is the one achilles heel and the one thing I miss the most, is the ability to quickly, accurately and smoothly enter in gobs of text whether I'm at a seminar, class, work, or just creative writing. A bluetooth keyboard helps out a ton, but then you have just left the "ipad replaces everything" zone and it's not really in the same category anymore.
All in all I don't care about 99% of the iphone programs out there, 99% of them are pure and utter junk. I see the same trend happening with the ipad. But in judging the ipad (and iphone) on 1% of the apps it's a clear winner, and only in a small part to my list above (remember this is for ME). Once someone solves the text input issue it will all fall into place for me, but as is the ipad is well worth the investment for me.
Books/magazines/newspaper: I read a lot of books and like to browse magazines while on the treadmill, this satisfies this need quite nicely without having to lug around a single book or magazine. I get a LOT more also than I would at my newstand, things like NPR (fabulous program/content) for example.
Internet: I can get most of the functionality of the web on this device, sure it's missing flash and that does prove a detriment sometimes, but overall for the convenience of leaving my laptop at home it's doing a great job.
PIM: As a PIM it's very nice, having my datebook/calendar, contacts list, etc synced up and ready to go it quite nice. Arguably this can be done on most smartphones just as well sans the big screen, but I'm an old schooler and still remember the days when we carried around physical datebooks we wrote in.
Notetaking: This is really the single thing which stands out as a huge FAIL on Apple's part. This is the one achilles heel and the one thing I miss the most, is the ability to quickly, accurately and smoothly enter in gobs of text whether I'm at a seminar, class, work, or just creative writing. A bluetooth keyboard helps out a ton, but then you have just left the "ipad replaces everything" zone and it's not really in the same category anymore.
All in all I don't care about 99% of the iphone programs out there, 99% of them are pure and utter junk. I see the same trend happening with the ipad. But in judging the ipad (and iphone) on 1% of the apps it's a clear winner, and only in a small part to my list above (remember this is for ME). Once someone solves the text input issue it will all fall into place for me, but as is the ipad is well worth the investment for me.
I have had my iPad for a tad over three weeks now and use it in preference over my MacBook. That said my main computing was always done with my iMac and browsing and trivia done not the MacBook, the sale of which I have just agreed.
I had the initial flurry of app activity at the start - I think I knew what I wanted in advance of getting the iPad. I have purchased very few and far less than I expected. I am happy to pay the cost of a decent app but sick of buying cheap rubbish.
Since the iPad arrived, I have really found out what a pointless and expensive subscription Mobileme is.
I had the initial flurry of app activity at the start - I think I knew what I wanted in advance of getting the iPad. I have purchased very few and far less than I expected. I am happy to pay the cost of a decent app but sick of buying cheap rubbish.
Since the iPad arrived, I have really found out what a pointless and expensive subscription Mobileme is.
