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More than 10 Things TechRepublic's blog, Debra Littlejohn Shinder has published an article entitled "10 reasons why it is the transmission of the iPad. Some of his reasoning is good, but very few of his points are easy to refute. Worthwhile in his position and the points he tries to do, because it is indicative of a widespread misunderstanding of the capabilities not only the iPad, but also provided its customer base.

1. No physical keyboard

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Debra is right that the iPad has no physical keyboard. But that does not take in mind is that not only Apple sells a keyboard dock for the iPad, the device can also be combined with any existing Bluetooth keyboard. Apple's reasoning for not include a physical keyboard on the iPad is even stronger than for the iPhone, because unlike the iPhone, at least have the option to match the iPad with a physical keyboard. To make a physical keyboard on the device itself, there would be two options: keeping the iPad the same size and the sacrifice of one third of the screen real estate, or increase the size of the iPad beyond what some (including Debra) and find it difficult to manage, to include a keyboard.

In orientation horizontal iPad virtual keyboard is about the size of a conventional keyboard, too, so while touch typing is going to be a challenge, is a reasonable bet to write on the iPad will be much faster and easier than the top 30 to 35 WPM thumb typing many people (myself included) get on the iPhone is much smaller keyboard. The lack of a physical keyboard on iPhone sales have not affected measurably, the iPad is unlikely to suffer much loss of sales this, either.

(Note: Some people have asked a source in the Bluetooth keyboard problem, particularly my assertion that you can use any keyboard BT not only Apple's wireless models. During his practice in the iPad device after the announcement, Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica found that "You can use any Bluetooth keyboard you want, rather than the Apple keyboard dock. You can use the case / stand with your existing bluetooth keyboard. You can use a Bluetooth mouse, however. ")

Check out the other nine points by clicking the Read more link.

2. One size does not fit all

Debra says that if The iPad is supposed to be a niche device located between a phone and a netbook, you must have a screen size midway between the two - in other words, smaller that 9.7 "screen. But that's not how Steve Jobs positioned the iPad at all during the presentation, Jobs' Keynote slides clearly showed the iPad fill a gap between the iPhone / iPod touch and 13-inch MacBook. It is incomprehensible that in a sentence Debra iPad complains of being too big to fit in your pocket, while in the following phrase extolling the virtues of netbooks Sony VAIO X, which are almost exactly the same size - in terms of weight and thickness, anyway. The VAIO has a 11.1 X "16:9 screen, which really makes it a little bigger than the iPad. One more thing about the VAIO X slightly larger than the iPad: price, which starts at $ 1299 - far more expensive than even the most expensive iPad.

While it is true that the iPad not fit in your pocket, yet is much more portable than even MacBook Air. Stephen Colbert even managed to get one out of his coat at the Grammys, so while the iPad is larger than an iPhone, is far from the heavy monster many people are trying to say it is.

3. It runs a phone operating system

One thing that many experts do not consider is that iPhone OS is actually an adapted version of OS X for a touch screen device. No, no Finder, Dock or menu bar. No, there is Exposé, Spaces or Time Machine. However, the fundamentals of the iPhone operating system are exactly the same as the version of Mac OS X. So when people complain of not iPad running OS X, they are really longing for OS X, such as those mentioned above - the Finder, Dock, menu bar, etc. However, none of these features are OS X particularly suitable for touch screen device, especially one with a 9.7 "screen. Tablet PC running the full version of Windows, and demonstrates the difficulties operation of an operating system intended for a larger device with a traditional point and click interface, and as a result, most devices have failed gain traction in the market.

Debra and others also cite lack of multitasking iPad as an attack against it. At this point, at least, I agree with they. While iPhone OS already allows limited multitasking between Apple's own applications - phone, mail, Mail, Safari, and iPod can run concurrently in the background - Third party applications are available to solutions such as push notifications. While multitasking restriction makes a kind of sense for devices like the iPhone 3G, with limited processing power and RAM available on the iPad technological limitations do not fly as an excuse. One can argue that multitasking does not take the iPad makes it easier to use for the grandmother and other techies, but also limits the potential usefulness of the device. Of course, the iPad not positioned as a replacement for a MacBook, but the ability to run one or two applications in the bottom third would make the device much more versatile.

Personally, I'd be very surprised if Apple does introduce at least a limited form of multitasking in the iPhone OS 4.0. Of course, I also said the same thing last year about the iPhone OS 3.0, so who knows. A point worth mentioning, however: despite the introduction of iWork for the iPad, Apple continues to push the device as a platform for media they consume, not as a productivity platform. For serious work done, Apple still expects you to use your main computer, in the case of a MacBook, iMac, or PC.

4. Not enough storage capacity

The most important question to ask here is, "Who?" Debra said that the 64GB model could have enough capacity for your purposes, but also Grouses on the price of this model, comparing it with the netbook less with "four times the storage." I will say I'm surprised by Apple's decision up to the capacity of the iPad is 64 GB, especially considering which is where the iPod touch currently tops out. A 128 GB iPad would have been tempting, but unfortunately, given the price of flash memory, would also probably cost more than $ 1000.

But what does let you store 64 GB? In my case, a 64 GB iPad keep all my music library of 39 GB - 19 days worth of the music - along with my iPhoto library totaling more than 7000 photos, which, when optimized for screen iPad probably would eventually place in the neighborhood of 5 GB or so a GB or two. In most of my app-crazy had about 2 GB of applications on my iPhone 3G, and "others", space, probably including the operating system itself takes up little more than 1 GB. Sumar, equivalent to 47 of 64 GB. In my case, that leaves more than 15 GB of storage space documents, videos, etc.. Say I keep all my documents folder on the iPad (not me - I use iDisk and Dropbox for that) - 4300 documents take just over 2 GB of space. Now we have 13 GB left for video and whatever more. Even if I allowed myself to 3 GB of buffer for any reason (including accounting GB depending on the difference IPF), which is still 10 GB of space for videos - enough to store 10 movies of two hours at a decent bitrate, or nearly an entire season one-hour television series.

Let me again - 64 GB, iPad shop:

- 19 days of music
- 7000 photos
- Over 100 applications
- A Documents folder of 2 GB is 4,300 points
- 20 hours of video
- About 3 GB of space left over for any otherwise (photo temporary storage, e-books, which represents the difference between binary gigabytes gigabytes versus decimals, etc)

Of course there are people out there with music and photo libraries bigger than mine, but most of my friends who use Mac only have, on average, 1,500 items in their libraries iTunes, a thousand photos, and perhaps three pages of applications on their iPhones. 64 GB may not sound like much on paper, but in practice, allowing set around a large amount of media. Unless you're going to spend weeks at a time away from your main computer, the iPad must be capable of sufficient resources to keep you entertained for most of the day to day.

5. No HDMI output or the camera

Debra says it can not exit iPad video to an HDTV without an HDMI connector. That is simply not true, with a VGA adapter, you can complete exit iPad 1024 x 768 video signal to an HDTV. With a connector components, can generate a PAL signal 576p or 480p NTSC signal to your TV. Well, okay, not 1080p Ultra-high-definition video, but where is to find exactly the video of that resolution anyway (besides Blu-Ray and Bittorrent)? I must admit it would have been nice to have at least 1366 x 768 video, but I'm betting that the vast majority of consumers are not going to bother hooking the iPad to your TV at all when it is much easier to just put the screen in their laps and watch a movie on the iPad own place.

(Whoops - as some Some people have said, 1080i is 1920 x 1080 [therefore, you know, 1080 i] rather than 1366 x 768. That is the resolution of my HDTV has, and intends to handle a 1080i signal - which failed to account was that the 1080i signal is deinterlaced to fit the resolution of my screen. I even used to sell these TVs stupid, so I really should have known better. Sorry.)

Another point Debra brings up the iPad of 3:4 aspect ratio, which is less than ideal for the video. This has been sustained network-wide, including here on TUAW, but as many have noted, the 3:4 aspect ratio function is ideal for almost everyone else, except in the video iPad: books, documents, web pages and photos All the rooms are much closer to a ratio of 3:4 or 4:3 to 16:9. Using a 16:9 ratio of the iPad not only would make the device bigger than it already is, would also leave all other forms of media on the device at a disadvantage compared with the video.

The iPad lack of camera is another point of Debra and others have carried out against the device, but as multitasking, this is a point at which I disagree. Support for the camera like the iPhone does not do a lot of sense in the IPAD - would be a bit unwieldy trying to take photos or video in a device this size, like trying to hold a MacBook Air to take snapshots with the iSight. Most people probably have a separate point and shoot the camera would take better stills and / or video of the hypothetical return iPad-facing camera anyway, and can upload photos directly to the device either with the specific connector iPad camera or SD card reader. However, a front-facing camera for video conferencing would undoubtedly have been a feature murderer. Apple apparently thought so, too, because it actually includes a space in a camera exactly iPad only to withdraw it for reasons known only to Apple. If the company is waiting for the next-gen iPad introduce a camera or pulling a big Switcheroo as it did with the original iPhone - which was originally designed for ships with zero-plastic face exposed earlier iPods, but was replaced by almost scratch-proof glass in the six months between its announcement and release - you can not say.

6. No USB ports

Debra main complaints against the lack of USB ports that can not connect a flash drive or a USB keyboard. As the keyboard is gone, I mentioned the fact that you can buy a dock keyboard or use a Bluetooth keyboard. As for not being able to plug a flash drive? I can see why some people may want to do this - extending iPad storage, file transfer, etc, but I'm willing to bet that for most people this will not be a problem. Though I risk sounding like Bill Gates' infamous "640K should be enough for anybody", so to speak (though never really Gates said that), 64 GB of space on a device like the iPad really should meet the needs of most users - at least for the next two years, anyway. As for file transfer? I can not think of a number of existing cloud-based solutions in the simplest of which is e-mail. No, you do not can transfer multiple gigabytes of files at once via e-mail or "cloud", but most people do not transfer that much data at all at one time or even a handful of times with a portable device, much less on a regular basis.

I'm not going full fanboy and say it is a good iPad the thing does not come with USB ports. In fact, I'm kinda with Debra and the other on it in the hope that Apple included at least one USB port. While probably not used port very often (if at all), definitely falls into the category of "nice to have". I've been an iPod user for almost five years and an iPhone user for one year, and I can count the number of times I've needed / wanted a USB port in one of these devices in the fingers do not exactly ... but I admit that I could sing a different tune, with a larger device like an iPad. But for most people who are willing to buy the iPad, ie non-geek, not a techie, "I just want internet and music and movies" people, who probably will not lose all USB ports.

7. There is no slot flash memory

No, the iPad has no flash memory slot. You can buy an SD card reader attachment, however, despite Debra and others against the railway added cost of the connection, saying that in order to achieve "the functional equivalent of a netbook, you may end up spending a bundle. A lot the same arguments for or against USB apply here as well, most non-geeks will not lose a SD at all. The transfer of documents through SD cards in 2010 sneakernet reeks of "we thought we were together with the abolition of the dot matrix printer and 2800 baud modems, say that most users will have pictures and / or videos on your SD card, most users will wait until I get home to their team Main uploading files, and most users will not care that the iPad lacks a dedicated SD slot more than he cared for the lack of iPod. In any case, the argument of an SD slot is much weaker than the argument for USB.

8. The price is wrong

Debra claims the iPad "costs twice as the Kindle and other e-book readers." That is flat wrong. The iPad $ 499 costs almost double the standard Kindle, but in compared to any other mail reader out there, prices are extremely competitive iPad Once you consider all the things that makes the iPad iDon't other readers. A $ 489 Kindle DX, for example, while $ 10 cheaper than the cheapest iPad, lacks a color screen, has only 4 GB of storage, not have a touch screen, run applications, no email, music, etc. and so on. The price of the iPad is the only aspect of the device that few experts have complained, in fact, the pricing has Wall Street and other financial analysts somersaults.

Not even have to compare the iPad to other Products similar businesses to see how good a deal it is. The iPad 16GB costs $ 300 more than the feel of an 8 GB iPod. $ 300 that gets you double the capacity, much larger and better display quality, a more powerful CPU, better battery performance Wi-Fi, as 802.11n, much better, a speaker and microphone, and finally access to a number of applications designed to take advantage of higher screen iPad and increased performance. IPad 32GB has the same $ 300 price difference compared to iPod touch 32 GB and 64 GB model. Once you tack on an additional $ 130 for the price of 3G wireless the gap widens, but so does the usefulness of the device - the wireless broadband access anywhere there is an available 3G network, which, as iPhone users already know, is invaluable.

Debra Fully equipped to compare the $ 829-3G-enabled iPad "a compact laptop powerful than a full operating system operates full and multi-tasking and has USB and Ethernet connectors and SD, 4 GB of RAM and 250 GB of storage. El of the entire operating system of right "that is speaking is not OS X, however, and the laptop that is talking about is definitely not manufactured by Apple. That can not make a difference for many people, but if you're already in the "Mac costs too much" the field, no wonder the iPad not have much appeal compared with running Windows Home Edition, plastic, bargain-bin laptop Dell or HP as it is almost certain to stop working in two years or less. Yes, I recognize the extremely fanboyish sound of that phrase. No, I apologize. Computers Cheap laptops are just that: cheap. Call it elitism, fanboyism, Kool-Aid drinking, whatever: I prefer to endure the shortcomings of the iPad that the "powerful" but oh-so-portable Cheapo from other manufacturers.

9. Is closed in

"You have to buy their applications from the App Store," said Debra. Yes, I know: in a store with more than 140,000 applications available, most of them free, and capable of doing almost anything. I hate App Store for some reason? Fine. Jailbreak the thing and use Cydia instead. Apple may not want you to do this, and can get out of their way to avoid it, but if you're of the mentality jailbreak and it will not stop it, right?

A very small minority of people love to complain about "lock-in" when it comes to the iPhone / iPod touch / IPad, although these same people have probably been playing video games for Nintendo systems, Sony and Microsoft for decades - all platforms from "lock-in" More insidious than the Apple platform. What these people do not seem to realize is that vendor lock-in it is precisely what keeps platforms Apple notebooks to be full of viruses, malware and garbage made applications rather than code. "Security through obscurity" may be a valid (ISH) The argument that appealing to the Mac, but with 75 million more people using the iPhone operating system is a high-profile target virus writers. That same "walled garden" that proponents of Linux and "open Internet" evangelists complain is what keeps the platform iPhone to be a nightmare unusable. Yes, the approval process for the App Store has often been a pain in the lower regions, but things are improving - Applications that once may have taken days or weeks to get approval are now getting through the approval process within hours. It has "the App Store lock-in" sales affected the iPhone jack one? No. In fact, iPhone sales took off after the arrival the App Store.

Yes, "Apple as gatekeeper" to the fans became angry George Orwell. But someone has to keep the door because at the moment the OS of the iPhone becomes a true "open" platform like some people are adopting, which is the same instant, the remote Russian Mafia iPhone hacks a basement in Vladivostok, as it only had to download that "Siberia Honeys" app from the dark alleys of the Internet.

Other aspects of the blockade of the dreaded "in" he's worried about Debra are riddled with falsehoods. "Can not run Skype to make calls telephone calls "with the iPad he says." We do not want to cut into the market the iPhone, after all. "What? That must be news Skype for the team, which is already investigating a specific iPad Implementation of Skype. It must be news to Apple, too, that no longer restricts the use of VoIP over 3G. "Nor You can download Flash to be installed in the browser, which means you do not see these YouTube videos. "Say what again?" Since when is the iPhone / iPod touch / iPad unable to watch YouTube videos? Oh right: as ever. No, you can not put Flash on the iPad, but according to our informal poll, 75% of people who plan on buy one or do not care or are simply glad Flash is not doing an appearance.

What about the hardware lock-in? " Debra says that "can not even remove and replace the battery yourself," what has happened with every iPod only since 2001 and has not stopped people from buying them by the millions people. She continues and says, "If you fly to Australia and wanted to bring an extra battery for extra-long flight, forget it." Um. A two-second search Google for "iPhone external battery" may have been a good idea. Also, speaking from personal experience, if you stay awake during an entire flight across the Pacific Ocean, you'll have many more pressing problems to worry about the battery of your iPad, the fact that you'll feel like you got hit by a truck after the plane lands. Take it from someone who knows: the Trans-Pacific flights are best spent in oblivion happy.

10. The network

Yes, the iPad 3G connection is available only in the AT & T ... If you live in the United States. If, like me, lives in what is known informally as "the world", this argument against buying a 3G-enabled iPad has no water for you. But let's stick to the States for a moment and analyze Debra argument against AT & T network. No, AT & T is not everyone (or anyone) 's USA Network favorite, but the pay-as-you-go, completely free of contract plans available to the iPad are very convincing, with prices. You can get 250 MB of data for $ 14.99 (not $ 20 in claims Debra his article), which is more than enough for casual usage data. 250 MB does not sound like much on paper, but that's what my iPhone plan began here in New Zealand. I never once went over 100 MB or less monthly usage data until I started using the immobilization iPhone, and I consider my usage data fairly robust. The "no limits "AT & T plan at $ 30 a month is an even better deal, and even" unlimited "only means 5 GB, you will not burn through that much data unless you are using the connection of every hour of the month.

Debra argument against these plans is that it's another bill to pay over his cell phone bill, but that's the beauty of plans iPad: without a contract to commit to, you can cancel the plan at any time. If you start with the $ 30/month "unlimited plan" on the iPad, only to discover that their use is not a complement of 250 MB, instead of being locked into that plan for another 23 months, can reduce the $ 15 plan. If you find that you do not need 3G coverage at all, you can always buy the Wi-Fi only iPad. "This is to wish good luck Search the Wi-Fi hotspots, "says Debra in response to that idea, which sounds pretty good for us in New Zealand, where Wi-Fi access is as rare as gold, but has sense and even less in the U.S., where Wi-Fi usually only a library or coffee shop away.

If you absolutely must have 3G in the iPad, absolutely should not use AT & T, and are willing to spend twice as much for the privilege of going with Verizon, you always have the option of hooking up MiFi iPad (possibly - we to wait until the iPad actually released before we know whether this works or not). Furthermore, just because the iPad is not available on Verizon right now (ya ya ya) does not mean that will never be, Apple and Verizon reportedly "still talking" about what the iPad and / or iPhone through the network.

We have reached the end of ten Debra points, but not until the end of mine. My final point, which summarizes all this: as the Mac, like the iPod, and like the iPhone, iPad is not for everyone. Even for me - despite all the words that just passed the defense, I'm not buying a iPad until next year at the earliest, and only if it decides not to replace my current, the aging MacBook Pro with the same team instead of a combo iMac / iPad.

The conclusion is that the iPad can not be all things to all people. It is not intended to substitute a full Mac or PC - that is, as an extension of a larger device ultraportable, and one with a much simpler interface and more intuitive, a "team for the rest of us "if will. And make no mistake: for every Debra Littlejohn Shinder, for each" open Internet "geek shouting" lock-in " every time the Apple name mentioned, for each "no multitasking, No Flash, no sale" techie, each expert derogatory shrugs and says, " IPod touch is just a big, "there is at least one person who has been waiting for a device like the iPad, and these people are what will make it a success. Whether you like it or hatred, the iPad is indicative of the future direction of computing.

But, just for the sake of argument, say you can cook up a laptop "better" than an iPad, a dream device that has USB, 1080p, a removable battery, it runs the full version of OS X, has a front face of the camera depends on AT & T, is not "tied" to the App Store, has a physical keyboard, widescreen format, and has more than 64 GB storage. What could such device as a look?

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