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

    So, I bought a fruity fondleslab a couple of a weeks ago, a client wanted me to research the possability of porting something.

    But I have to say the thing itself is really rather crap. It does a few things very well, its easily the best shiny digital photo frame I've ever played with, but its rather low resolution for the obsessive photo geek, and really grinds to a halt with my 15mb jpegs (oh, and of course no RAW support for me).

    Web Browsing..... It does certain light weight sites just fine, but go on something like hexus forums and its slow to scroll down, really slow. Ok so I'm jaded with my expectations, I spend most of my time on very high end workstations / laptops, the joys of visual studio's demands on PC hardware mean web browsing is always quite fast, but still, go on to something on say engadget with comments turned on, I DARE YOU. You get greated with a scrolling set of chequered spots. Want to scroll quickly through that technical article your reading.... Good luck.

    Email. Useless, its just a big blackberry with all the limitations, OWA gives better user experiance. I need a good spell chequer as some might have noticed I've somewhat strong dislexia, nope, nada.

    Flash, or Java runs half the bloody web I use, I only realise how much when its gone, gone gone, and now I'm all out of flash.

    But HEY HO, you don't browse the web, you browse the App Store, because theres an App for That! Its probably free and monolithic, but still. So you download the TED app say, and think "hmm before my flight I'll set this list to download" leave it plugged in and bingo, it goes to sleep, no background downloading allowed for that app, st. jobbs doesn't favour it. So you have to then go in to the settings system. An inchoriently arranged uselessly labeled set with no tooltip or similar extra information, no F1. It turns out that you change the option to turn off the screen, for turning off downloading too....... Intuitive.

    So the keyboard, why, why why why why why (these were written by hand, not copy n pasted) does the shift key effect look ****. Why not change the CASE of the characters not just a slightly subtle thing you won't be able to see because your fingers (assuming you've learnt to type) will be instrinctively hiding them from you. Its full, one button on your mouse, retarded, thats what.

    Then the app store, why do I have to log in twelvety times to download a free app?!

    Then the reliability, its piss poor, we're talking windows 98 grade stability here. Wifi, that spans access points, Oh. I hope you don't mind turning the slab on and off again (not even just the wifi stack) everytime I want to change between them. Thats not going to piss you off at all, say if your in a hotel, which is a likely environment to want a portable fondleslab type thing, also odds are roaming is too damned expensive on 3g so the WiFi must work. It doesn't.

    Screen rotation, the photo frame is about all a fruity fondleslab is good for, but it cocks that up even more, it gets confused, you think "hmm I must have hit lock rotation" but no, you didn't, you toggle the lock rotation, no good, you turn the device off and on again (hmm this reminds me actually of mac OS 9) and bingo, it works instantly........ Stupid thing.

    Also the Wifi antenna is useless, my P series picked up 15 wifi networks, the iPad 3. Meaning in my hotel suite I could only use it in about 30% of it, and crossing between the study and the bedroom ment reseting it because of the wifi AP bug....

    And you can't even easily wedge it for watching iPlayer in bed when your TV is on the fritz, because the magcover thing is useless, its almost always the worst viewing angle and surves only to reflect as much cieling light in office environment back down as possible.

    So why all the fuss?
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    Re: My iPad sucks, everyone who recommends them.... WHY?!

    You're just using it wrong.

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

    Its shiny and any computing device not made by Apple suckz(tm)????

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

    Quote Originally Posted by DDY View Post
    You're just using it wrong.
    I think you over-stated that.

    It is simply that he is using it.

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

    i am getting one of those HP fondleslabs with WebOS on it for cheap via a mate who works for HP, only £89 for the 16gb version. I hear some kiddies are trying to port Android onto it which might make it more useful in the future. I am not really expecing anything stellar or life changing out of it, but if I can browse the web on the sofa that will do.

    One thing, do any of these tablets support multi user accounts?
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    Re: My iPad sucks, everyone who recommends them.... WHY?!

    User error. I suggest you start work on your apology to iSteve, before he burns your house down.

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

    Usually stupid people overlook the huge limitations of the iPad and the limitations which as you so succinctly put, make it no more than a glorified photo frame. Browsing is absolutely terrible, and so it means that the vast majority of the time you have to rely on apps, many of which cost far too much and then you're just giving extra money to Apple!

    I have an Asus EP Transformer and although it isn't perfect, the web browsing is far better and not limited like on iOS, and I haven't had any of the horrid experiences you mention about wifi connectivity etc...

    If only the great unwashed would stop thrusting cash at Jobs in blind moronic behaviour because they can't resist getting there hands on something with an Apple logo.
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    Re: My iPad sucks, everyone who recommends them.... WHY?!

    because it doesnt run windows mobile 7


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

    I STILL want one.

    15mb photo's/// holy hell... that's a lot of photo

    Browsing... why so hard?

    Listen up people... it's got a use but it's just not suiting the users in this thread.

    I know what I'd want it for.. and if you want out of it I've got £200 here for you.

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

    I agree with him ^^^^^

    You're prob a minority 'power' user, it suits the generic folk fine & to be honest I'd replace my laptop with one for couch-browsing at night, for that its fine but as you say, its got limitations.

    I'd not offer £200 though Zak, not if you can grab a HP for £89 (although th chances of that are sliiiiiiiim)

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

    You must have a dodgy iPad then as I've no issues with mine at all. In fact mine happily changes between wireless access points with only a slight pause, Hexus forums scroll just dandy, etc. Maybe return it for a new one?

    Since I got my iPad2 it's replaced my MacBook Pro as weapon of choice so it must be doing something right.
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    Re: My iPad sucks, everyone who recommends them.... WHY?!

    Quote Originally Posted by Zak33 View Post
    Listen up people... it's got a use but it's just not suiting the users in this thread.
    What is it's use. I ask in all seriousness! Nobody's ever actually told me.

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

    Quote Originally Posted by Konan555 View Post
    What is it's use. I ask in all seriousness! Nobody's ever actually told me.
    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.
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    Re: My iPad sucks, everyone who recommends them.... WHY?!

    Quote Originally Posted by Bluecube View Post
    You must have a dodgy iPad then as I've no issues with mine at all. In fact mine happily changes between wireless access points with only a slight pause, Hexus forums scroll just dandy, etc. Maybe return it for a new one?
    In all seriousness do you think its just a bit dodgy?

    I could see some of the wifi issues being created by duff components just as much as duff software/design.

    Should I waste half a day swapping it for another one?*

    The issue I have is that most Apple fanboys are full of lies, and generally twist reality to fit what they want it to be. A great example is the external antenna on the iPhone4, its stupid, really really stupid, it has a massive effect, but the fanboys bought into the bullsht apple put out about "all phones" being effected by this etc.

    My understanding of the sluggish scrolling web browser is that you can't actually make such a problem by installing apps, because they are so silo'd and there is no multitasking for anything non-apple. So I'm guessing that one can't be fixed by taking it back. Oh and it is an iFondleslab2, so its ment to be faster.

    *wasting time to get it swapped out, its quite frankly more expensive for me to waste half a day than the slab is worth.
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    Re: My iPad sucks, everyone who recommends them.... WHY?!

    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:
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    but its rather low resolution for the obsessive photo geek, and really grinds to a halt with my 15mb jpegs (oh, and of course no RAW support for me).
    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.
    Web Browsing..... It does certain light weight sites just fine, but go on something like hexus forums and its slow to scroll down, really slow.
    go on to something on say engadget with comments turned on, I DARE YOU. You get greated with a scrolling set of chequered spots
    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).

    Flash, or Java runs half the bloody web I use, I only realise how much when its gone, gone gone, and now I'm all out of flash.
    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.

    So the keyboard, why, why why why why why (these were written by hand, not copy n pasted) does the shift key effect look ****. Why not change the CASE of the characters
    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?

    Then the app store, why do I have to log in twelvety times to download a free app?!
    You do have to type the correct password... just ONCE.
    Then the reliability, its piss poor, we're talking windows 98 grade stability here. Wifi, that spans access points, Oh. I hope you don't mind turning the slab on and off again (not even just the wifi stack) everytime I want to change between them.
    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.

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

    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.

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