5 Reasons You Shouldn’t Buy an iPad
After long anticipation, speculation and multiple rumors, Apple has announced its new product, the iPad.
Its gorgeous sure, but something tells me they should have added another year to its development.
The past few months leading up to the events this week have yielded some very interesting rumors regarding the iPad. For the most part, people thought this was going to be the new Macbook, running Mac OS X. I’m here to tell you right now it doesn’t run Mac OS X. It runs the iPad OS X 3.2. Sounds fancy right? Well, not quite.
Here are my 5 reasons why you should’t buy one:
1. Its somewhere between an iPhone and a computer
Lets face it. It runs iPhone OS 3.2 (Jumbo version). It does have eBooks functionality but its still not as useful as an actual computer. USB and other peripherals DO NOT come standard with it. Naturally, its an optional and separate device you can connect to the iPad.
2. No Adobe Flash support
With the current trend of websites today, Flash almost comes standard to most websites. Sure there are apps to go around some of them (FB app, etc) but good luck trying to play your FB games on its browser. FB games addicts, no fix for you here.
3. The iTunes store
Like the iPhone, there is only one way to get applications on this thing and thats the iTunes store. Granted you didn’t jailbreak your iPhone. (Who knows when and if the iPad will be “jailbroken”)
4. No Camera
Sorry cam-whores, no photo booth for you here.
5. Its the classic Apple scheme
What is the Apple scheme you ask? Well its this:
1. Release brand new shiny product with a minimum amount of essentials, accessories and functionality
2. Release next version slightly better than previous but with more essentials, accessories and functionality
3. Release next version slightly better than previous but with more essentials, accessories, functionality and a new OS
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10. Profit
After all this banter, one would probably say I’m Anti-Apple. I’m not. Honestly, the iPad is gorgeous and probably revolutionary, ushering a new age in portable devices that brings us closer to the technology we could only imagine and see in movies (Minority Report, Avatar, etc.)
Maybe when they release a touchscreen Macbook that runs Mac OS X, then and only then should one consider buying one. Right now, your better off just buying a tablet pc.
Additional details:
- in the US, you can sign a contract with AT&T to have unlimited data access but you have to pay extra to have 3G capabilites on the iPad. $130 extra.
- prices are $499 (16gig), $599 (32gig), $699 (64gig)
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