1) did you see his list? I'm suprised he didn't ask for the iPad to come with a pony.
2) The point is that it probably wouldn't stop him from complaining anyway.
The $250 netbook that I'm typing this on gives me just about every one of the hardware features that I'm asking for (it has a 320 gb hdd, 2 gigs of ram, a hdmi out, two usb ports, an sdcard slot, removable battery, a great iSight camera etc), and you're seriously telling me Apple couldn't have incorporated atleast some of these features into their device that costs between 2x-3x as much as my netbook did?
Many people (including I) had their credit cards out during the conference and were ready to pay $1000 for an Apple Tablet that offers some of the above functionality, functionality that netbooks that cost a fourth as much offer.
What are people asking for that's unreasonable?
No iSight Camera for Video Calling- It costs less than a $1 to implement. Even the iPod Nano includes it
No GPS - This costs a few pennies, there's no reason to not include this when GPS chips nowadays are so insanely small and cheap
No Multitasking - It doesn't cost a penny, it's a software feature that many cellphones offer
No Wireless Syncing or File Transfers - It doesn't cost a penny, it's a software feature that many cellphones offer
No File Management or Freedom to download files - It doesn't cost a penny, it's a software feature that many cellphones offer
No Additional Touch Gestures - It doesn't cost a penny, it's a software feature that many cellphones offer
No Java or Flash support (no hulu.com) - It doesn't cost a penny, it's a software feature that many cellphones offer
Only 16 gbs of HDD space by default - 16gb is way too small for a device meant for movies, photos, songs, apps, documents etc. You can get a 64 gb iPod Touch for several hundreds less than the iPad. IMO, they should've just stuck a 200 gb laptop HDD in it like most netbooks do.
No USB Port/SD Slot - This again would've cost a few pennies.
The enormous bezel is a massive eyesore - It wouldn't have cost them a penny. Virtually every mock up online for the iPad looks far better designed than the final product ended up looking.
No Handwriting Recognition or Support for a Stylus. A huge selling point of any Tablet is to be able to take notes in classes and such. - It doesn't cost a penny, it's a software feature that every other tablet from 2001 onwards offers
No Ability to run software not preapproved by Apple (Google Voice etc) - It doesn't cost a penny, it's a software feature that every cell phone based on either Andriod or Windows Mobile offers
Screen is not 16:9 or even the 1.5:1 aspect ratio of the iPhone, 4:3 is such a huge step backwards - It would've actually been cheaper for them
A Very Low Resolution Display with 25% fewer PPPs than the iPhone or iPod Touch, the display should have a higher resolution - This wouldn't have cost much at all.
No integrated TV Tuner/Out (They even developed a HD DTV Tuner for use in cellphones to allow users to pick up OTA HDTV signals on the go! Just imagine being able to watch tv thanks to off the air hdtv signals, wherever you are. Why they didn't include this technology in this device I won't even understand. They could've even included a record video function on the tablet to give it PVR functionality) - Yes, this might've cost a few bucks. The $600 toshiba laptop I bought my bro offers it and a whole lot more than the iPad, but I would've been okay if Apple couldn't implement this yet.
It features a 1 Ghz processor that significantly slower than just about every single notebook on the market today (as demonstrated by this processor's inability to render MPEG4 at any resolution higher than 640x480 according to Apple's own site) - My netbook can render MPEG4 at 720p, and again, it costs half what this costs, couldn't they have included a better processor?
No OTA Sync Servers To Stream Video - It doesn't cost a penny, it's a software feature that many cellphones offer and every netbook can do using tversity, media server or literally dozens of other software
No ability to connect to a bluetooth keyboard - It doesn't cost a penny, it's a software issue.
No RFID/IR to use it as a remote, or to tag it to yourself - An RFID chip costs .02 cents
No Replacable/Removable Battery - This would've been virtually free to do.
The $250 netbook that I'm typing this on gives me just about every one of the hardware features that I'm asking for (it has a 320 gb hdd, 2 gigs of ram, a hdmi out, two usb ports, an sdcard slot, removable battery, a great iSight camera etc), and you're seriously telling me Apple couldn't have incorporated atleast some of these features into their device that costs between 2x-3x as much as my netbook did?
Many people (including I) had their credit cards out during the conference and were ready to pay $1000 for an Apple Tablet that offers some of the above functionality, functionality that netbooks that cost a fourth as much offer.
We had every right to be disappointed.
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