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iPad SDK 3.2 Details: External Display, File Sharing System, No Multitasking

Freeþinker said:
I think this thing will become so widely used that some very macho guys are going to be spotted carrying theirs around in glossy leather shoulder bags.
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Forget that, I rather carry my MBP instead of the iPad only because I can do so much more on the MBP (and iPhone) instead of the clunky iPad. :cool:
 
my hackintosh is way better and half the price

Alright, here's my major problem with all of this. I understand a lot of people are pissed off that everyone seems to be automatically bitching because their "expectations were too high", but Apple shouldn't tell me that this thing is supposed to be the Apple solution to a netbook when it can't even do what a netbook can do. I have a dell mini 10v with a 160GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM running an N280 Intel Atom processor and OSX Snow Leopard. All of that, OS and new RAM included totaled less than $400. I can tether it with my iPhone and get online anywhere, I can run SEVERAL applications at the same time, and I can even use Photoshop on it. Not to mention that it has 3 USB ports, VGA out, and an SD card slot without the need for any adapters. If a product is touted as revolutionary, it is not inappropriate to expect it to be so, especially when Jobs has been quoted as saying this is the most important thing he has ever worked on. Most important money making scheme, maybe. I understand why there is no flash, Apple wants to sell you stuff, but that in no way excuses it. Sorry Apple, you missed the boat on this one, and I will be right there, when my uninformed friends want to buy an iPad, to tell them that I'll hack a mini 10v for them for less, and that they will be much more happy with it. I feel this product is a slap in the face to anyone who actually expects revolutionary technology. And don't get me started on the 1GHz processor, what a joke!
 
Feature-Request:
Multiuser-Support

The iPhone is a personal device. But the iPad could be a "family device".
So it would be nice to have the option to have different user-accounts (e.g. E-Mails).
 
gibbz said:
I think right now it isn't practical or user-friendly to use a desktop OS with touch capabilities overlaid on such a small device. Ask Windows how well that has worked. I think certain features will be added in subsequent software updates.
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Bachh, I disagree...if I could use MS office and adope pro to mark up documents and drawings with a stylus, save files to the network or internal memory, print files, run normal apps like VLC to watch movies, I'd be sold instantly. I think a lot of people would be very interested in using a Mac in tablet form. And I didn't discount the ipod touch interface it runs now, I think that's great, but it should be able to do more...it should be able to do everything a macbook can do but it can't...it's not a fully functional laptop, it's simply an oversized ipod touch. I don't get why anyone with iphone or ipod touch should buy this device...or why anyone should buy an ipad over an iphone or ipod touch. It doesn't do anything MORE, it's just bigger, which is also more cumbersome.

Sure, not EVERY program I have on my desktop i'd run on a tablet with a 10" screen, but there are definitely a lot that I could/would run and be productive with as i mentioned above.
 
swagi said:
Everybody was screaming for an Apple netbook. Now this is basically available.

Light document editing, browsing, eMail, contacts - that stuff. you know. Basically you are supposed to buy one IN ADDITION to your iPhone. You want to talk? Get a phone...

Video camera? Yeah. I'd love to see all those nerdy dumba**es tossing around their iPads to grab some nonsense clips they can put on youtube.
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Don't get me wrong. I want one. But, this device is no netbook without multi-tasking. That said I'd probably sell my Dell Mini 9 and keep my iPhone and MBP for a full range of mobile options.
 
greedyhands said:
Alright, here's my major problem with all of this. I understand a lot of people are pissed off that everyone seems to be automatically bitching because their "expectations were too high", but Apple shouldn't tell me that this thing is supposed to be the Apple solution to a netbook when it can't even do what a netbook can do. I have a dell mini 10v with a 160GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM running an N280 Intel Atom processor and OSX Snow Leopard. All of that, OS and new RAM included totaled less than $400. I can tether it with my iPhone and get online anywhere, I can run SEVERAL applications at the same time, and I can even use Photoshop on it. Not to mention that it has 3 USB ports, VGA out, and an SD card slot without the need for any adapters. If a product is touted as revolutionary, it is not inappropriate to expect it to be so, especially when Jobs has been quoted as saying this is the most important thing he has ever worked on. Most important money making scheme, maybe. I understand why there is no flash, Apple wants to sell you stuff, but that in no way excuses it. Sorry Apple, you missed the boat on this one, and I will be right there, when my uninformed friends want to buy an iPad, to tell them that I'll hack a mini 10v for them for less, and that they will be much more happy with it. I feel this product is a slap in the face to anyone who actually expects revolutionary technology. And don't get me started on the 1GHz processor, what a joke!
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Tell me about it.. I have a Mini 9 that was about $200 refurbished and it does much more.
 
MacRacer said:
They could of did a bigger processor and put Mac OS X on it to make it killer.
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Apple already sells what you are asking for: It is called MacBook Air. You can get a 1.6GHz MBA for $1100 with HDD or $1200 with SSD at "refurbished" Apple store...
 
a 32GB iPod Touch is half the price, same capacity, same functionality, more portable. Please feel free to debate this...
 
Well iPhone External Display Support has ALWAYS been possible, and it is LONG OVERDUE that Apple enables it on IPHONES!!!
 
Wow, I agree. No multi tasking is a turn off. So much for listening to streaming radio while using other apps.

But, I will probably get one anyway :-( oh hum....
 
JensenJJ said:
2) Build in SD card reader (I don't want to have extra hardware to plug in to it, to see/transfere items)
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The stupid problem here is that there are so many different kinds of memory cards. While a built-in SD card reader would be great for, it'd piss me off because I use memory sticks and would rather not have a useless port on my device. What I would give for a standardized portable memory format.
 
If it's the "iPhone OS 3.2" and only runs on the iPad, then something sure doesn't fit! Clearly then it is the "iPad OS 3.2"... :rolleyes:
 
greedyhands said:
Alright, here's my major problem with all of this. I understand a lot of people are pissed off that everyone seems to be automatically bitching because their "expectations were too high", but Apple shouldn't tell me that this thing is supposed to be the Apple solution to a netbook when it can't even do what a netbook can do. I have a dell mini 10v with a 160GB hard drive, 2GB of RAM running an N280 Intel Atom processor and OSX Snow Leopard. All of that, OS and new RAM included totaled less than $400. I can tether it with my iPhone and get online anywhere, I can run SEVERAL applications at the same time, and I can even use Photoshop on it. Not to mention that it has 3 USB ports, VGA out, and an SD card slot without the need for any adapters. If a product is touted as revolutionary, it is not inappropriate to expect it to be so, especially when Jobs has been quoted as saying this is the most important thing he has ever worked on. Most important money making scheme, maybe. I understand why there is no flash, Apple wants to sell you stuff, but that in no way excuses it. Sorry Apple, you missed the boat on this one, and I will be right there, when my uninformed friends want to buy an iPad, to tell them that I'll hack a mini 10v for them for less, and that they will be much more happy with it. I feel this product is a slap in the face to anyone who actually expects revolutionary technology. And don't get me started on the 1GHz processor, what a joke!
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I agree with ya. :D You gotta tell how u got the dell mini 10v running snow leopard.
 
they will get to os x 4.0
and by then there will be some real feedback, some real ipad apps and more time for apple to really finish it.
then it will really rock
 
I cannot believe it has no SD Card port!!!! HOW DUMB!

aristokrat said:
The stupid problem here is that there are so many different kinds of memory cards. While a built-in SD card reader would be great for, it'd piss me off because I use memory sticks and would rather not have a useless port on my device. What I would give for a standardized portable memory format.
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