Really? You bothered to make a post just to rate an annoyance? Then proved my point about Safari in the first place.
I'll add another annoyance then: Bullies like you who come out just to pick on others, all thanks to the iPad.
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What's the most annoying thing about the iPad in your opinion?
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I'll add another annoyance then: Bullies like you who come out just to pick on others, all thanks to the iPad.
I would really like the ability to lock my email app -- and I guess what would come with that if it was an added feature to iOS, is the ability to just set a passcode for any app within the settings menu.
It's fun and nice to let people play around with my iPad and that, but with that I also have open access to four email accounts just sitting there, and the only solution I know of offhand is to just remove those email accounts in the settings menu and then spend five minutes later on adding them back in.
It's fun and nice to let people play around with my iPad and that, but with that I also have open access to four email accounts just sitting there, and the only solution I know of offhand is to just remove those email accounts in the settings menu and then spend five minutes later on adding them back in.
Have you read a PDF on both aspect ratios?
In my experience, the elongated Android screen really sucks for reading PDFs, and since that is mainly what I use a tablet to do, it makes it very unlikely that I will ever switch to Android (I revisit this question every time a new tablet comes out).
The PDFs are already smaller on the tablet than they would be on 8.5 x 11 paper, and while I have learned to accept this limitation on the iPad, I don't have any interest in seeing them shrink down even more on an Android.
Of course, you "can" read a PDF on something as small as an iPod, but if you are talking about reading for hours on end every day (in other words, using a tablet as an ereader), then the iPad is the best size (in my opinion).
This is a continuing source of debate and a headache, I'm sure, for manufacturers. When Lenovo went from 16x10 to 16x9 on their laptops, one would have thought the world was coming to an end among many of their business-oriented clients who proclaimed they couldn't care less about watching movies if it meant giving up vertical real estate for documents and email.
I'm inclined to agree with you about the aspect ratio on the iPad but I suspect that widescreen media requirements will trump ours in the long run.
i am quite happy that apple seems to still be championing 4:3 displays. the loss of 16:10 models in the laptop space in the 12-13" screen size was something which i felt and missed. (i tried a thinkpad x220 and the loss in vertical space was one of the reasons why i returned it and am sticking to the x200 and x201 models.)
i've found a new area of reading material on my ipad - comic books - and would have a very different reading experience if i had to read them on any of the 16:10 or 16:9 tablets out there.
most of my complaints with the ipad were already posted by prior posters. besides those, i dunno if anyone posted the inability to set security on the ipad. something which is easy to do on a JB'd ipad with several cydia apps.
YES. Another reason I'm staying JB instead of upgrading is Dimmer. I use my iPad in the middle of the night a lot, that tweak is a godsend.
You can turn it off, but people still want to sleep the device when not in use. And when you wake it again, you have to do that swipe. The ideal for me would be one tap to sleep the iPad, one to wake it.
for me the most annoying things are:
1. The inability to sync my pages info. with dropbox unless I pay to have dropdav. I know iwork is made available to us but there are to many steps.
2. The inability to email more than one pages and a photo without the use of a third party app.
-cfs
1. The inability to sync my pages info. with dropbox unless I pay to have dropdav. I know iwork is made available to us but there are to many steps.
2. The inability to email more than one pages and a photo without the use of a third party app.
-cfs
Updating apps every other day. Don't get me wrong I love new features, but some devs are idiots and change good looking icons to ugly ones and mess up features sometimes. You have to be really carefull to read the fine print and screen the apps that need updating before doing so. I say with 50+ updates ready to be downloaded on all idevices.
Amazing
It shouldn't amaze you. You are part of the 1% (iPad wise). The vast majority of iPad users don't want to think about "transferring media". They just want their stuff available in the app they're using. To you it's obvious that you get the stuff to be available by transferring media using a file system, but the 99% want the app to take care of that.
It shouldn't amaze you. You are part of the 1% (iPad wise). The vast majority of iPad users don't want to think about "transferring media". They just want their stuff available in the app they're using. To you it's obvious that you get the stuff to be available by transferring media using a file system, but the 99% want the app to take care of that.
i think it might be that we just don't care. goodreaderusb sideloads all my pdfs for reading. all of my other files are already accessible through my backup system (sugarsync). and, best of all, i don't have to leave my computer on at home all day.
I'd go further than that. I'm not sure it's as high as 99%, but most users are unaware of data storage or use, period. Just as many drivers are only dimly aware of how an automobile works.
The Apple "philosophy" is that the iPad is simply an appliance and that is both a strength and a weakness. Design is always a compromise among competing objectives. Apple has made one set of choices to achieve their priorities. Obviously those priorities match those of many, many consumers. They also leave room for other approaches.
if you don't have any annoyances then you shouldn't be posting in this thread. this is not a poll.
I'd like the ability to set third party apps as the default, i.e Make another browser open instead of Safari when I tap a link in Mail.
My iPad 2's smart cover doesn't stay very well on the back of the iPad. For example I flip it around to the backside and it's flexible so it flops a bit in my hands. It can be uncomfortable when playing games. I often detach it and reattach when I'm done.
Other then that nothing.
Other then that nothing.
if you don't have any annoyances then you shouldn't be posting in this thread. this is not a poll.
I just wanted to weigh up the negativity a bit
I hate the way Safari renders PDF documents in frames.
Doesn't sound so bad? Well, it is for me! I take some online classes, and the software my college uses (Blackboard) is horribly loaded with frames. Some of the professors put their lessons in PDF files. When I click the link, the iPad loads the PDF in the frame. Problem is, when the PDF is in a frame it can't scroll, so I can only see the first page. (I can't click, hold, and choose open in new page either, since all the links are Javascript links. Great web design!
Too bad, since for non-PDFs, the iPad is fantastic for reading online lectures. My workaround is to load all the PDFs on my PC and put them in Dropbox. Hopefully they'll fix this in a future iOS, though I'll probably be done with my degree by then.
Try Opera Mini. When it detects a PDF, it will throw it out to Safari in full screen.