My iPad sucks, everyone who recommends them.... WHY?!

[TheAnimus]

I'm not an apple fanboy, but many of your comments don't gel with me as an ipad owner (version1)
- it has its faults, but not the ones you mention:

I grant you the 1024x768 res isn't great - but how are you putting photos on it ?

All photos are resized on a sync via itunes, so there's no slowdown on large pictures - this method makes it good for storing 1000s of pictures in a limited memory, but makes is crap for zooming in on pictures though.

I think I turned off the resizing of pictures, I probably turned off everything that seemed like re-encoding in the options on iTunes (I run it on an old laptop, to avoid cluttering my dev/game boxes), the thing is it has a 32gb memory, and we're not talking 1000s of pictures, only hundreds, and I'm using a nice K-5 with a 16-50mm f2.8 lens, I want to be able to appreciate all of the picture, I quite like some shots were they are decent as a crop, and as a wider one.

Not my experience, and most of my hexus posts come from an ipad.
...but I do keep the number of tabs down to 1-2 (remember its limited ram).
I also just popped over to engadget and dinn't see much effect after the page had loaded (its slow to lad on PC too).

That might be it, the tabs, I've got about 9 open because I assumed they get paged out, well they get forced to reload sometimes so I'm assuming its a page out scenario. I'll have a play with it. But its not the loading, its the scrolling that pisses me off too. Ok I will confess this, I spend about 6-10hours a day on PCs which are all £2K value range, £3k for the laptop, so I'm probably a little spiolt by the nature of my work.

Yep - but since it now does inline videos its ok, you can do flash with some fiddling.
My annoyance is many sites detecting it as an iphone, and giving you the mobile version of the site,
or popping up a stupid "forum runner" popup.

True, but my comment is that it seems the best way to browse is via the app, be it BBC news or Bloomberg, and yes the Bloomberg app is quite cool, but its missing out some of the great news stuff....

True the case doesn't visually alter, just a caps lock image .
As for the copy/paste comment - there IS copy/paste by pressing and holding over the word or didn't you know that?

I wrote this rant on a PC, I know how to copy and paste, its more an example I find this so incredibly frustrating I'm willing to write it out by hand......

You do have to type the correct password... just ONCE.

Say your on holiday, in a fairly major city, your mate left the guide book on the plane, because he's a retard, you think no worry I'll just download trip advisor, maybe a few city guide apps (mostly written for the phone). Each time you go back in, you have to re-enter password..... I've found no setting to turn it off for free apps.

Faulty ipad ? I've never rebooted my ipad apart from when updating the OS, and its in my briefcase, on a different wifi a few times a day.

Hmm, that might be it, it might be a duff one, could easily explain why the browsing is so painful too (might take a little video to show it)

The low res annoys me, as I use pressreader, and 1024x768 is just not clear enough for a full page without zooming in, as does the lack of sd slot. The 3rd party case I have props it up ok for iplayer.

The kindle is still my preferred read-from-magical-slab-thing.

[Dareos]

I do not understand iPads. They seem to have been designed to fill a niche that never existed. A niche for a device as powerful as a phone, but as big as a laptop, which can't be used as a phone or a laptop but costs as much as a phone and a laptop combined.

Now, just because a niche does not exist, does not mean that you cannot convince people that there is not a niche that does not xist, this is called creative marketing, and Apple are very very good at it. If only they put this effort into making tech related gadgets....

[Brucelles]

I think the answer to your original question is:

• Browsing in front of the tv for non-power users. Not so likely to fry your thighs.
• Watching films / TV on the train/plane/boat. Doesn't need to be plugged in for a 6 hour journey, like my laptop does.

If you are me it's of no use whatsoever, but my Project Manager is only slightly technical and he loves his for the above reasons.

[mikerr]

Say your on holiday, in a fairly major city, your mate left the guide book on the plane, because he's a retard, you think no worry I'll just download trip advisor, maybe a few city guide apps (mostly written for the phone). Each time you go back in, you have to re-enter password..... I've found no setting to turn it off for free apps.

Since that password prevents someone buying tomtom etc for £50 its good to be in there.
The appstore doesn't treat free apps any different than paid, but yes, maybe it should.

[BobF64]

I do not understand iPads. They seem to have been designed to fill a niche that never existed.

Not true, they filled a niche in Steves wallet, because He knows people will buy it if Apple sell it to them.

[Bluecube]

In all seriousness do you think its just a bit dodgy?

Yes I do. I like Apple products but am cynical enough to see through Apple propaganda so know that the iPad has limitations. However I use mine every day without fail for games, web browsing, Twitter and whatnot and I don't recognise the problems you're having. Hence dodgy iPad. Apple aren't perfect - go get a new one!

[TheAnimus]

Since that password prevents someone buying tomtom etc for £50 its good to be in there.
The appstore doesn't treat free apps any different than paid, but yes, maybe it should.

Or better yet! Do it like amazon or microsoft do.

I can set an amount, anything below that does not require password.

Or maybe have a 24 hour cooling off period hmmmm?

Or a trail system that isn't littering like the "lite" system is..... This list could go on....

[santa claus]

If you could just remove that one teensy comma from the thread title, it could become a lot clearer why people mistakingly recommend them

[Bunjiweb]

If you could just remove that one teensy comma from the thread title, it could become a lot clearer why people mistakingly recommend them

genius.

[BobF64]

Or better yet! Do it like amazon or microsoft do.

Dont forget, and this is probably why people like Google/Amazon/Microsoft and tend to hate Apple, everything Apple make is designed to be used the way Apple tell you, not the way users want to use it.

Do things the Apple way, and youll have no problems.

Dont and Steves sends his iHeavies round to sort you out

[DDY]

I think we may have upset Steve

[Konan555]

Its handy because when your on the sofa watching tv and browsing the net, you can rest your mug of tea and biscuits on it.

Ah, so it's rendered my Coffee table obsolete. Now I get it.

Now, just because a niche does not exist, does not mean that you cannot convince people that there is not a niche that does not xist

And then BMW can sell them an X6!

[MadduckUK]

is it gorilla glass (or similar?)?
Could it be used as a chopping board that can show the recipe?
Because that would be a good idea. i would like one of those (for £90)

edit: no, actually. glass chopping boards are abhorrent. scrap that i dont want one.

[TheAnimus]

yeh glass boards blunt knifes Madduck!

[MadduckUK]

yeh glass boards blunt knifes Madduck!

i knew this it was a rubbish idea.

a "chopping" screen protector on the other hand is brilliance.

[Marcos]

I had to read this thread because im on the other side of the fence. Wasn't sure what use I would get out of one. So i bought one for my mum and i've been using it for a couple of weeks to pre-load good apps for her.

Well...

I'm buying for myself now, I can't keep up with how much good content there is on it, the App Store, if you bother to look around, has tons of gold.

My MBP gets about 1/4 the use it did before the iPad