Hardware
It's great, but you would know that from reviews on the web, newspaper, etc.
Still dangerously slippery at the back, the only safe scenarios when using this is leaning back on the sofa, one leg on another, steve jobs style
Thickness of the bezel is perfect to put your fingers on, but there should be way to indicate where the volume rockers are as the device has no real way of
showing up down left or right.
If someone could stick a velcro strap at the back where you can slide your hands across ala old camcorders, it would solve the grip issue I'm having with the ipad.
It feels like trying to hold on to a slippery eel.
Screen is perfectly sharp, just like my macbook pro, it's basically a high end led backlit display panel, so no complaints there.
Interface
If you have used an iphone before, then you would be at home.
Unfortunately, if you are frustrated at how wildly inconsistent some of the UI design across multiple apps are, then you will be even more frustrated here.
There is no clear convention of where things should be, on how go to hit the "menu" button
It feels a lot like an old adventure point and click game where you pixel hunt all the time, only this time it's four times as hard.
Coming from an android user, I really miss the back and menu button.
Instead of trying to find where an on screen button should be, why can't I just hit the menu button and expect the menu to pop up, no matter which app I
am currently running.
And to have that big gaps between apps on the ipad screen is a major miss from Apple.
The ipad could have had a lot more displayed on the screen, or they could make the icons bigger and display more info, say your next appointment on your calendar,
your first unread email on your email icon, the forecasted weather on the weather icon, missed calls, it could have been so much more.
The iphone interface is good on a small screen, on a big screen it's stupid.
I mean look at the amount of wasted space here
The gaps actually are bigger than the icons!
App Store
Apple app store still has the most number of apps, especially games, albeit missing a lot of apps due to being rejected by Apple.
I explained that in my android versus iphone review, so I'll leave it at that for now
But the most annoying problem I have with it at the moment is:
- why can't I stay on the app page after purchasing/downloading one?
Let's say you are browsing for a particular app going through the "most downloaded app" page, let's say I found two apps on page 3.
When I click download and install on the app, it jerked me out of the page install the app and left me there.
If I go back to the app store, I will be back to the main app store page again.
That, to say it mildly, is bullshit.
The walled garden experience
Using the iphone OS on the ipad is akin to living in a high walled castle with golden walls, great food, and comfy bed.
The place may be nice and shiny, the food maybe good and expensive, and the bed is a Sealy 5 star. But you're not going anywhere fast.
Sure, by locking yourself up you will be protected from the sometimes malicious world out there. Sure your servants can pamper you all day long,
but it's still a prison.
Let me give you some examples:
- Just synched the ipad, i got a few photos on my dropbox account and my nas that I want to sync to the iphone.
So you download the dropbox app, and copy the photos over right?
WRONG! You would need to copy the photo to iphoto on your mac, sync it to itunes (prison warden), which will then sync it to your ipad.
What if you have more photos on your memory card? Same thing, copy to iphoto, sync with itunes, then to ipad.
- What about music you say? You have neatly organised folder with playlist on your nas, and want ipad to play it back, surely it's a matter of
opening your nas share and copying to your device so your device can pick them up? Yeah... fat chance
- OK, let's say someone emailed me a pdf document 200 pages long, and I want to read it.
So I open up the mail client, open up the attachment and start reading.
Halfway through I realised I'm not gonna finish the document in one sitting, I can surely save the document somewhere right?
I mean I have 64gb of storage after all...
HAHA (Nelson's laugh from the Simpsons), ipad does not allow you to save a document anywhere
- I can go on with previously purchased ebooks, personal word documents, videos, and they all ended up the same, in tears...
The castle may be great and all, but I still prefer the fresh air of the outside world.
Salvation may just be around the corner, we could always break out of jail...
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