Nothing to say regarding the points then.
Ok, I'll bite. Let's have a look at those points of yours.
While the fake multitasking works most of the time, it isn't really multitasking. The only thing its doing is triggering one of a few background services apple allows, depending on the app, and saving state when you exit. Perfect - Not so much. This save state thing causes time outs, crashes, and does not allow running more than 1 app at once; you'll notice if you try to go between too many similar types of apps it'll simply delete the save state randomly of the previous app.
I don't care if it's 'fake' multitasking or 'real' multitasking, I care if it lets me achieve what I'm using the device to do. I've never encountered the problems you report, so unless there is some hard data on the magnitude of this problem and user complaints in response, it's a moot point. 'Real'
multitasking has problems too, such as an iOS user leaving every single App running for no good reason without realizing it.
they're supporting... STANDARD FEATURES... To appeal to someone who, you know, whats to replace their laptop with a tablet. Which you can't do with the ipad because it straight up doesnt work with a significant amount of websites.
Who wants to replace their laptop with a tablet? If I need a laptop, with its pros and cons, I'm going to buy one. If I need a tablet, with its pros and cons, I'm going to buy one. Nobody has said 'a tablet is supposed to replace a laptop and that's how it should be evaluated'. They only say 'the iPad does X for price Y. If that's what you want, here it is.' Why would I buy a competitor's tablet on the grounds it does things a laptop does? If that was what I needed, I would
buy a laptop.
Look I have an iPad because it gives me access to apple's world; i use it for content consuming. Don't try and pretend that this thing has no significant, SIGNIFICANT limitations that stop it from being a real work device, because it does. This is why I have an Android phone. Apple should give a central file system so Apps can edit or work with the same file. Apple should also allow flash on their browsers. But they don't, and this is to maintain their DRM and to appease the Music/Movie industry who have given them exclusive contracts.
So you've pre-emptively decided that anyone who uses the iPad to get things done is just pretending. Tell me again why anyone should bother talking to you then? Also, the usual 'real' work vs. 'fake' work conceit, whatever, you've picked the things the iPad doesn't do and post hoc said those are the crucial things the iPad has to do to receive your assent.
Anyway I'm not sure what we are arguing at this point - my fault as well as yours - blind leading the blind, you're clearly an Apple apologist which is fine.
What the @#$% is this? People who disagree get met with "You're clearly an Apple apologist" and then you get mad when people don't bother to address what you say.
On one hand they milk their customers dry and limit significantly the features on their devices on the other hand they make their limited features work very easily and make them super accessible to people where maybe on Symbian/Android it would be more muddled or take half a brain cell to figure out. . . . This is their formula. They've looked at the feature set of devices on the market and cherry picked the ones that people use the most, neutered them, made them pretty. They treat their customers like children queuing up to the ice cream truck with dollars in their hands.
Oh, I see, when people buy Apple products they have been brainwashed into liking flashy simple things, whereas if they were as minimally smart as you they would make your reasoned decisions. Clearly the lack of widgets and animated wallpaper, as well as the ability to play Flash games and homebrew animations is what distinguishes the superficial Apple iPad from the sophisticate competitor tablet, because the latter is for 'real work'.
Why, just the other day, I spent hours working within a file system. Realizing that a mouse, keyboard, and desktop OS is designed to let me do exactly this most efficiently, I said 'hoo boy I hope I can replace this existing device which meets my needs perfectly with a touch screen that I can mash my sausage fingers against all day.'
Yes, what can anyone say against such genius, clearly this deserves this extended rebuttal!
