I use it in both landscape and portrait. Both orientations are very comfortable in the hand. I mainly use it in portrait of I'm using apps and sometimes for web browsing. Landscape when I'm watching videos and also sometimes when web browsing.
Why is the iPad still designed as a portrait device? Those of you who own iPads, what is the default way you hold it? I NEVER hold it portrait. Why not move the FaceTime camera to the top in landscape view? Why not put the home button on the bottom of landscape? I'm just wondering, does anyone default to portrait mode when they use their iPad?
I use the iPad in landscape mode when I'm working on it, but if I grab it for quick reference things then it's in portrait. Plus when I use it in class to take notes I use it in portrait mode - though I'm considering using it upside down as I kept activating Siri by accident the other day (I should probably just learn to move the 'paper'!). Plus in landscape more having the home button on the right hand side is much easier for me.
I browse online in portrait, but i can't believe facebook's site can't scale to the iPad in portrait. It always loads zoomed in like 25% and you have to pan around (or try to pinch to zoom out without going into tab view). Super annoying as notifications are basically obscured by the formatting.
So basically is the market for portrait tablet users so small that Facebook can't even be bothered to make a site that formats decently? Or am I in one of those godawful Facebook a/b tests to see how users react to a broken experience?
(Also snark about using Facebook at all is totally encouraged.I'd ditch it if I could but there are a few people who insist on using it)
iPhone apps have had this sort of restriction before, probablyThe only issue I have with using it upside down is that some apps won't work upside down!
Not sure what issue you are having with Facebook but it works perfectly for me. The genius of the iPad's aspect ratio has long been that most web content is designed to fit perfectly in 768 pixels of width, aligning perfectly with the iPad's 768 points of width, meaning you can see an entire web page with no panning and nothing wasted on white space on the sides.