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Over 10's blog TechRepublic things, Debra Littlejohn Shinder has published an article entitled "10 reasons why I will be going on in the IPAD. "Some of his reasoning is good, but a good number of his points are easy to refute. It is worth looking at his post and the points that tries to do, because it is indicative of a widespread misunderstanding not only of the capabilities of IPAD, its consumer base, but also intended.

1. No physical keyboard

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Debra is correct that the IPAD no physical keyboard. But what he ignores is that not only sells Apple keyboard dock for IPAD, the device can also be combined with any existing Bluetooth keyboard. reasoning Apple did not include a physical keyboard on the IPAD is even more compelling for the iPhone, because unlike the iPhone, at least have the option of linking the IPAD with a physical keyboard. To give a physical keyboard on the device itself, there would be two options: maintain the IPAD the same size and the sacrifice of a third of the land of the screen, or increase the size of the IPAD, beyond what some (including Debra) and find it difficult to manage to include a keyboard.

In horizontal orientation, the virtual keyboard of IPAD is about the size of a conventional keyboard, too, so while typing touch will be a challenge, a fair bet to write in the IPAD will be much faster and easier than the upper end of 30-35 words per minute typing thumb many people (myself included) achieve in the iPhone keyboard is much smaller. The lack of a physical keyboard on the iPhone has not measurably affected sales, the IPAD is not likely to suffer heavy losses Sales of this, either.

(Note: Some people have asked for a source in the Bluetooth keyboard issue, particularly my assertion that you can use any BT Keyboard and Apple wireless models only. During his practice with the IPAD following the announcement of the device, Jacqui Cheng at Ars Technica found that "You can use any bluetooth keyboard you wish, instead of the Apple keyboard dock. You can use the case or stand with your existing bluetooth keyboard. You can not use a bluetooth mouse, however. ")

As for the other nine points in the Read link below.

2. One size does not fit all

Debra says if the IPAD is supposed to be a niche device located between a phone and a netbook should have a screen size midway between the two – in other words, more smaller than a 9.7 "display. But that's not how Steve Jobs positioned the IPAD at all during the opening, slide clearly showed Jobs' Keynote IPAD fill the gap between the iPhone / iPod touch and MacBook 13 ". It is incomprehensible that in a sentence, Debra complains of the IPAD be too big to fit in your pocket while in the next sentence that extols the virtues of the Sony VAIO X netbooks, which are almost exactly the same size – in terms of weight and thickness anyway. The VAIO X has a 11.1 "16:9 screen, which actually makes it slightly larger than the IPAD. Another thing about the VAIO X slightly larger than the IPAD: the price, which starts at $ 1299 – much 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 a MacBook Air. Stephen Colbert even pull a jacket out at the Grammys, so while the IPAD is larger than an iPhone, is far from unwieldy monster many people are trying to claim.

3. It runs an operating system phone

One thing that many experts do not consider is that the 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. But the fundamentals of the iPhone OS are exactly the same as the version for Mac OS X. So when people complain about the IPAD does not run OS X, are really eager OS X as those mentioned above – the Finder, Dock, menu bar, etc. However, none of these OS X features are particularly suitable for a device touch screen, especially one with a 9.7 "screen. Tablet PC with full version of Windows, and demonstrated the dangers of running an operating system intended for larger device with a traditional interface point and click, and as a result, most devices have failed to gain traction in the market.

Debra and others also cite lack of multitasking IPAD as an attack against him. On this point, at least, I agree with them. While the iPhone OS already allows limited multitasking between Apple's own applications – Phone, Messages, Mail, Safari, and all iPods can run simultaneously in the background – third party applications are still restricted solutions such as push notifications. While the restriction multitasking, a kind of sense in devices like the iPhone 3G, with limited processing power and RAM available on the IPAD technology limitations do not fly as an excuse. It can be argued that not having multitasking on the IPAD makes it easier to use for techies grandmother and others not, but it also limits the potential usefulness of the device. Of course, the IPAD is not positioned as a replacement for a MacBook, but the ability to run even one or two third-party applications on the bottom would be the most versatile device.

Personally, I'd be very surprised if Apple did not introduce at least a limited form 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. One point worth mentioning, however: a Despite the introduction of iWork for the IPAD, Apple continues to push the device as a platform for media consumption, not as a productivity platform. To get any 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

The most important question to ask at this point is: "Who?" Debra said that the 64 GB model would have sufficient capacity for their purposes, but grouse about the price of this model, compared to cheaper netbooks with "four times more storage." I will say that I surprised by Apple's decision up to the capacity of IPAD is 64 GB, especially considering that is where the iPod touch currently tops out. A 128 GB had IPAD been very tempting, unfortunately, given the price of flash memory, also would probably cost more than $ 1,000.

But what will allow 64 GB store? In my case, a 64 GB IPAD keep all my music library 39 GB – 19 days worth of music – along with my library from iPhoto total of more than 7000 photos, which, when optimized for screen IPAD probably take somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 GB, plus or minus one or two GB. In most of my application madman who had about 2 GB of applications on my iPhone 3G, and "Other" space, presumably including the operating system itself takes up little more than 1 GB. Added above, which equates to 47 out of 64 GB. In my case, leaving more than 15 GB of storage space for documents, videos, etc.. Let's say I can save all my documents folder the IPAD (I do not – I use iDisk and Dropbox for that) – 4300 documents occupy more than 2 GB of space. Now we have 13 GB left over for videos and everything else. Even if I leaving a buffer of 3 GB for any reason (including accounting for GB versus GB difference), which is still 10 GB of space for videos – enough to store 10 movies two hours with a decent bitrate, or almost an entire season of a television series than an hour.

Let me break that again – a 64 GB IPAD, shop:

– 19 days of music
– 7000 photos
– More than 100 applications
– A 2 GB Documents folder with 4300 points
– 20 hours video
– About 3 GB of space left over for anything else (Temporary storage of photos, eBooks, representing the difference between binary gigabytes front decimal gigabytes, etc)

Of course, there are people out there with music and photo of the larger mines that libraries, but most of my Mac-using friends have only an average of 1500 items in their libraries of iTunes, a thousand photos, and perhaps three pages of applications on their iPhones. 64 GB might not sound like much on paper, but practically speaking, it will create around a lot of media. Unless you are going to spend weeks at a time away from your main computer, the IPAD should be able to carry around the necessary means to keep most people entertained for days and days.

5. There is no HDMI output or camera

Debra claims that you can not IPAD video output to an HDTV without an HDMI connector. That simply not true, with a VGA adapter, you can leave the IPAD is full 1024 x 768 video signal to a HDTV. With a connector component, can emit 576p or 480p PAL signal to NTSC TV. Okay, okay, not 1080p ultra-high definition video, but where exactly is going to find Video resolution anyway (in addition to Blu-Ray and Bittorrent)? I'll admit it would have been nice to have at least 1366 x 768 video, but I bet that vast majority of consumers are not going to bother even hooking the IPAD to your TV at all when it is much easier to simply display in your lap and watch a movie on the spot IPAD.

(Whoops – as some people have said, 1080i is 1920 x 1080 [therefore, you know, 1080 i] and 768 x 1366. That is the resolution of my HDTV has, and intends to manage the 1080i signal – which did not take into account that the signal was 1080i Deinterlacing is to match the resolution of my screen. Even stupid to sell these TVs, so I really should have known better. Sorry.)

Another point is Debra brings up the aspect ratio of 3:4 IPAD, which is less than ideal for the video. This has been argued throughout the Internet, including here on TUAW, but as many have pointed out, the 3:04 aspect ratio is ideal for almost all other functions in the IPAD, except video: books, documents, web pages, and photos are all set much closer to a 3:4 or 4:03 ratio of 16:9. Using a ratio of 16:9 in the IPAD not only that the device would bigger than it already is, but would also leave all other forms of media in the device at a disadvantage compared with the video.

The lack of camera IPAD is another Debra and others have carried out against the device, but as multitasking, this is a point on which I disagree. A front and back-up camera iPhone will not make much sense in the IPAD – would be a little awkward trying to take photos or video with a device of this size like trying to hold a MacBook Air to take photos with your iSight camera. More people probably have a separate camera point and shoot to take better stills and still or video camera to come back facing the hypothetical-IPAD, and you can upload photos directly to the device either with the camera connector specific IPAD or an SD card reader. But a front camera for video conferencing would undoubtedly have been a feature of the murderer. Apple apparently thought so, too, because it actually included a space in the IPAD exactly a camera, only to withdraw for reasons known only to Apple. If the company is waiting for the next IPAD generation to introduce a camera or pulling a big switcheroo as it did with the original iPhone – which was originally supposed to ship with plastic face scratch-prone previous iPods, but was replaced with almost scratch-proof glass in the six months between the announcement and release – you can not say.

6. No USB ports

Debra main complaints about the lack of USB ports that can connect a flash drive or a USB keyboard. As far as the keyboard goes, I mentioned the fact that you can buy a dock keyboard or use a Bluetooth keyboard. As for not being able to connect a flash drive? I can see why some people might want to this – IPAD storage expansion, file transfer, etc, but I'm willing to bet that for most people this will not be a problem. Although run the risk of sounding like Bill Gates's infamous "640K should be enough for anyone", so to speak (although Gates never actually said that), 64 GB storage space IPAD devices such as those you should really meet the needs of most users – at least for the next two years, however. As for the transfer File? I can not think of a number of existing solutions in the cloud, the simplest of which is e-mail. No, you can not transfer multiple gigabytes of files both through the mail or "cloud", but most people do not transfer that much data all at once or even a handful of times with a portable device, much less on a regular basis.

I'm not going to go full fanboy and say it's a good thing that the IPAD does not come with USB ports. In fact, I'm kinda with Debra and the other on it in the hope that Apple includes at least one USB port. While probably not use very often harbor (If any), which undoubtedly belongs to the category "good to have." I've been an iPod user for almost five years and an iPhone user for a year, and I can count the number of times I've needed / wanted a USB port in one of these devices are not exactly in the fingers … but I'll admit that I could sing a melody different with a larger device such as an IPAD. But for most people to buy the IPAD, ie non-geek, non-techie, "I just want Internet and music and movies "people, who probably will not lose the USB ports at all.

7. There is no flash memory slot

No, The IPAD does not have a flash memory slot. You can buy an SD card reader attachment, however, despite Debra and rail against the added cost of connection, stating that in order to achieve "the functional equivalent of a netbook, you can end up spending much money." A lot of the same arguments for or against USB also apply here, most non-geeks are not going to lose an SD slot at all. Transfer documents via SD cards in 2010 sneakernet stinks "We thought we were close to the abolition of dot matrix printers and 2800 baud modems, say that most users will take photos and / or videos on SD cards, most users will wait until I get home to your main computer to upload the files, and most users will not care that the IPAD is dedicated SD slot missing more than worried about the iPod as a fault. In any case, the argument slot SD is much weaker than the argument for USB.

8. The price is wrong

IPAD Debra claims of "twice as expensive as the Kindle and other e-book readers. "That is plainly false. The IPAD $ 499 costs almost double the standard Kindle, but compared to any other reader e-out here, prices are extremely competitive IPAD once it takes into account everything that makes IPAD iDon't other readers. A $ 489 Kindle DX For example, while $ 10 cheaper than the cheapest IPAD, does not have a color screen, has only 4 GB of storage, has a touch screen, no applications running, no email, music, etc, etc. The price of IPAD is the aspect of a device that few experts have complained, in fact, the price has Wall Street and other financial analysts doing cartwheels.

Not even have to compare the IPAD to other companies' similar products to see how good it is a business. The 16 GB costs $ 300 more than a touch IPAD 8 GB iPod. That $ 300 you get twice the capacity, a much larger screen and higher quality, more CPU powerful, better Wi-Fi, as 802.11n, much better battery performance, a built-in speaker and microphone, and finally, access to a host of applications designed to take advantage of IPAD's largest screen and higher performance. A 32 GB IPAD has the same $ 300 difference in price compared with a 32 GB iPod touch, the Like the 64GB model. Once you add an additional $ 130 for the price gap widens 3G wireless, but so does the usefulness of the device – The wireless broadband access anywhere there is 3G network available, which, as iPhone users know, is invaluable.

Debra fully equipped compares the output IPAD $ 829 3G-enabled "a powerful compact laptop that runs a full operating system and multi-tasking and has USB and Ethernet connectors SD, 4 GB RAM and 250 GB of storage. "The operating system" of right "is talking about is not OS X, however, and the laptop you are talking definitely not manufactured by Apple. That might not make a difference for many people, but if you are already in the "Mac costs too much" field, it is not surprising the IPAD not maintained much more attractive in comparison with the Home Edition of Windows running, plastic laptop quality business-bin Dell or HP would almost certainly stop working in two years or less. Yes, I recognize the extremely fanboyish sound of that phrase. No, I do not apologize for it. Laptops Cheap is 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-cheapo laptops from other manufacturers.

9. It is enclosed in

"You have to buy their applications from the App Store," says Debra. Yes, I know: from a store with more than 140,000 applications available, most of them free, and capable of doing almost anything. I hate the 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 prevent it, but if you're jailbreaking and mentality that will not stop, right?

A very vocal minority of people love to complain about "lock-in" when it comes the iPhone / iPod touch / IPAD, even though these same people have probably been playing with Nintendo video game systems, Sony and Microsoft for decades – with all platform lock-in "even more pervasive and insidious than the Apple platform. What these people do not seem to realize is that the same vendor lock-in is precisely what keeps Apple's mobile platforms to be riddled with viruses, malware and applications of the fact that the code more shit. "Security by obscurity" may be a valid (ish) The argument to be drawn with the Mac, but with 75 million people using the iPhone OS, is an objective of very high profile virus writers. That same "walled garden" that proponents of Linux and the Internet "open" evangelicals complain is what keeps the iPhone platform be a nightmare unusable. Yes, the approval process for the App Store has many cases have been a pain in the lower parts, but things are improving – applications that might have once taken days or weeks to get his approval, has been restored the approval process within hours. App Store has the "lock-in" iPhone sales affected the least? No. In fact, iPhone sales took off after the implementation of the arrival of the store.

Yes, "Apple as" gatekeeper George Orwell fans angry. But someone has to keep the door, because at the moment the iPhone OS becomes a true "open" platform like some people are taking, which is the same moment the remote Russian mafia kidnapping your iPhone in a basement in Vladivostok because you just downloaded that "Siberia Honey" application from the dark alleys of the Internet.

Other aspects of the dreaded "lock-in" Debra is concerned about are riddled with falsehoods. "Can not run Skype to make phone calls asking," with the IPAD, he says. "No want to cut into the market the iPhone, after all. "Say what? That must be news for the Skype team, which is already investigating a IPAD Skype-specific application. It should be a also Apple news, which no longer restricts the use of VoIP over 3G. "Nor 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 view videos on YouTube? Oh right: as ever. No, you can not put Flash in the IPAD, but according to our informal survey, 75% of people thinking of buying one, or do not care or are downright happy Flash is not making an appearance.

What about the hardware lock-in? " Debra says "can not remove and replace the battery yourself, "which has been the case for all iPod only since 2001 and has not stopped people from buying them by the millions. She goes on to say:" If you're flying to Australia and wanted to carry an extra battery for extra-long flight, forget it. "Um. A two-second Google search for" iPhone external battery " could have been a good idea. Also, speaking from personal experience, if you stay awake during a flight across the Pacific Ocean which will have far more pressing issues to worry about the battery of your IPAD, for example, the fact that you will feel like it was hit by a truck after the plane lands. Take it from one who knows: trans-Pacific flights are best spent in happy unconsciousness.

10. Network

Yes IPAD 3G connection is available only in the AT & T … if you live in the United States. If, like me, living in what is known informally as "the rest the world ", this argument against buying a 3G enabled IPAD water is to you. But let's stick to the States for a moment and analyze the argument against AT & Debra T's network. No, AT & T is not everyone (or anyone) 's favorites from the U.S., but the "pay-as-you-go, completely free of contract plans IPAD are available for very compelling price. You can get 250 MB of data for $ 14.99 (not $ 20 Debra claims in his article), which is more than enough to casual data usage. 250 MB does not sound like much on paper, but that's what my iPhone plan began at least here in New Zealand. I never once spent more than 100 MB or less data usage per month until I started using the immobilization iPhone, and I believe my data usage quite robust. The "unlimited" plan from AT & T $ 30 a month is an even better deal, and although "unlimited" means only 5 GB, you will not burn through that much data unless using the connection each time of day of each month.

Debra argument against these plans is that it's another bill to pay on top of the cell bill the phone, but that's the beauty of the plans of IPAD: without a commission contract, can cancel the plan at any time. If you start with $ 30/month "unlimited" the IPAD plan, only to discover that their use is not a complement of 250 MB, instead of being locked in that plan another 23 months, you can download the plan of $ 15. If you find you do not need 3G coverage at all, you can always buy the Wi-Fi only IPAD. "Here's wishing good luck in finding access points Wi-Fi" Debra says in response to that idea, that sounds pretty good for us in New Zealand, where Wi-Fi is as rare as gold, but it makes 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 not use AT & T, and is 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 have to wait until actually released IPAD before we know if this will work or not.) Furthermore, just because the IPAD is not available on Verizon right now (now now now) does not mean it will never be, Apple and Verizon are reportedly "still talking" about what the IPAD and / or iPhone through the network.

We have reached the final ten points of Debra, but not until the end of mine. My final point, which summarizes all this: like the Mac, as the iPod, and like the iPhone, the IPAD is not for everyone. Not even for me – despite all the words you just defend it happened, I'm not going to buy a IPAD until next year at the earliest, and only if you choose not to replace my current aging MacBook Pro with the same team instead of an iMac / combo IPAD.

The conclusion is that the IPAD can not be all things to all people. It is not intended to replace a full-fledged Mac or PC – that is an extension of an ultraportable device larger, and one with a simpler and more intuitive interface Now, a team "for the rest of us," if you will. And make no mistake: Debra Littlejohn Shinder for each, for every internet "open" geek shouts "lock-in" whenever the Apple name is mentioned, for each "no multitasking, no Flash, no sale" techie, for each expert disdainful shrugs and says: "iPod touch is just one big", there is at least one person who has been waiting for a device like the IPAD, and these people are which will make it a success. If you like it or hate it, the IPAD is indicative of the future direction of computing.

But, just for the sake of argument, say you can cook a laptop now "better" than an IPAD, a dream device that has USB, 1080p output, a removable battery and running the full version of OS X, has a front facing camera, does not depend on AT & T, is not "tied" to the App Store, has a physical keyboard, screen widescreen format, and has over 64 GB of storage. What could such a device look like?

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