Then don't buy it. Problem solved. Welcome to the world of competition and difference, why do people feel like they need to defend THEIR product choice? I too, prefer the iPad OS to what I've seen of Honeycomb, but I'm not going to bash anyone who buys a honeycomb tablet! Do what you want!
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What is the big deal about honeycomb
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Then don't buy it. Problem solved. Welcome to the world of competition and difference, why do people feel like they need to defend THEIR product choice? I too, prefer the iPad OS to what I've seen of Honeycomb, but I'm not going to bash anyone who buys a honeycomb tablet! Do what you want!
I'm with you on this. I own the iPad, but I may prefer the Honeycomb OS over iOS. We'll see when the Xoom is released and spends some time in the real world.
There will never be 1 product that is the best solution for everyone. Some will like the iPad, some will like the Xoom, and some will prefer to stay on their PC they bought in 2000.
Personally I prefer an OS that gives me more options to customize, has true multi-tasking, and integrates with Gmail like Android does. But i'm not going to bad mouth the iPad because I think it kicks ass too.
It seems like a lot of Apple iPad users are getting real defensive since the videos from CES have come out. Competition is only good for us. This forces Apple to look at how people react to Honeycomb and make changes if they see necessary. Personally I grasp technology regardless of manufacturer or OS. I bought an iPad even though I knew about Honeycomb coming in the next few months, I own a Macbook Pro that I love compared to my other Windows based laptops (15" Dell and 9" Netbook), I own a PC that is dedicated to my home theater/home network, I own an Android based phone that I prefer over the iPhone, etc...
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Just don't place it in the way and they won't be "intrusive"
I think diehard apple users are used to not having an option of customizing things. They figure what they see with honeycomb is exactly what they get. Nothing more....nothing less.
funny...
When I hear that someone wants this or that option on the iPhone... when you start adding options, you bifurcate the way users interface with the OS, making it really difficult to roll out big new features. You end up having to support a zillion modes and tools, etc... or you can cut things off, and tick-off small segments of your users.
There's something to be said for simplicity. Most people simply don't have time to play with fancy features... me included. Just give me something that works well, and I don't have to futz with.
When I hear that someone wants this or that option on the iPhone... when you start adding options, you bifurcate the way users interface with the OS, making it really difficult to roll out big new features. You end up having to support a zillion modes and tools, etc... or you can cut things off, and tick-off small segments of your users.
There's something to be said for simplicity. Most people simply don't have time to play with fancy features... me included. Just give me something that works well, and I don't have to futz with.
Widgets are a great way to extend the usefulness of the tablet/phone, but only if the UI allows it. iOS would have to be dramatically redesigned to allow widgets, and I don't think that will happen any time soon.
There are widget apps available for jailbroken iOS devices (not as fancy as honeycomb, but still), so adding widgets shouldn't require a drastic redesign of the OS. However, with iOS, I think Apple is trying to keep things simple. I mean, all the engineers and designers at Apple and nobody looked at the empty lockscreen and spotlight screen and said "Hey, maybe we could use this space for something"? I don't believe that. I think widgets were discussed, and they decided against using them, at least for now. I think some form of widgets will show up in iOS at some point, but as with everything else, it'll be on Apple's schedule. They wouldn't rush it out because their competitors have it.
I'm convinced that Apple just wanted to do the iPad as cheap and easy as possible, which is why it's only got virtually the same OS and UI as the iPhone and Touch.
They were taking a gamble, knowing tablets had failed, and did not to spend months/years working on a totally new OS with a proper UI for the next screen as it may flop and be another tablet disaster, so they just took the quick, cheap and easy route to see what would happen.
Now they know the market is there, perhaps we will see in time a proper UI created for their tablet line up.
Nah. I think they will refine the UI a bit, but basically, they don't want to fragment iOS any further than necessary. They want a consistent UI across all three iOS devices. So I don't think they'll ever come out with a separate UI just for tablets. As far as Apple is concerned, there's the desktop OS (OS X) and a mobile OS (iOS), and that's all you need.
I suppose I cannot understand the mentality of anyone, who would think something designed, and we would all agree on this. specifically for a 3.5" screen and tweaked for 3 years for a 3.5" screen would be the only possible thing you could do on a 9.7" screen.
I simply do not believe that if you shut designers, and/or even people from this forum in a room to design a front end, faced with two different sized devices, one about 4x the screen size of the other, you would design the, to be exactly the same, and you would not take advantage of the larger screen on the much larger device.
Actually, I don't quite agree with the statement that iOS was designed for a 3.5" screen. Remember that Apple was working on a tablet before the tablet project turned into the iPhone. I think Jobs' ultimate goal all along was to make a tablet. I find that the iOS UI feels like it was designed for a tablet and shrunk to fit the phone, and using it on the iPad makes me feel like that was how it was intended to be.
Yes, it is clear you cannot understand this, but I cannot understand someone who doesn't realize that iOS operates differently on the iPad than the iPhone/iPod, that the layout and interaction is different and does take advantage of the size difference; who doesn't get that making iOS' tied to screen sizes complicates things unnecessarily; who doesn't know that an iOS which functions properly is more important than making some eye candy; who believes that Apple didn't consider altering the OS more for the iPad, that they did it blindly, rather than deciding that the current iteration was the optimal scenario.
