{"id":291,"date":"2010-01-30T17:33:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T23:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/?p=291"},"modified":"2017-07-17T13:09:48","modified_gmt":"2017-07-17T18:09:48","slug":"apple-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/2010\/01\/30\/apple-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A couple people have asked me what I thought about the iPad, so I figured I&#8217;d throw my thoughts out here.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>While keeping up with the live event through Engadget&#8217;s live blog of the event I was underwhelmed and just got a general feeling that Apple (and Steve Jobs) thinks everything they do is revolutionary and amazing. I think it&#8217;s a trait you certainly want a company and CEO to have, but a sense of reality would be good too. You can introduce a new product with the proper amount of enthusiasm.<\/li>\n<li>My immediate impression was it is a big iPhone. After further reflection, it&#8217;s a big iPhone without calling features.<\/li>\n<li>I think it is essentially Apple&#8217;s netbook. They aren&#8217;t going to be making a laptop below $1k.<\/li>\n<li>I think it is an OK product. The weight at 1.5 lbs and battery life of 10 hours are excellent features. The simplicity of use is also very good. I&#8217;m assuming the keyboard will be very well engineered like the iPhone keyboard.<\/li>\n<li>It seems to be perfect for people to use around the house or on the go. Web surfing, e-mail, calendar and applications. I assume you can put it in standby instead of having to shut it down which basically gives you instant on access. Want to check something online real quick, it&#8217;s ready right away.<\/li>\n<li>Apple decided to use the iPhone OS instead of OS X. Without &#8220;jail breaking&#8221; it, you have a limited world. App Store programs and built-in programs. There is no flash support (likely because Adobe hasn&#8217;t decided to make the resource usage anywhere near reasonable for its functionality). Everyone isn&#8217;t going to make their site work with the iPhone like YouTube did. This does open the door for Microsoft&#8217;s SilverLight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I decided it wasn&#8217;t for me pretty fast. I&#8217;d rather have something running a real OS. In the $500-$830 range, you&#8217;re looking at Windows 7 or you can build a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insanelymac.com\/\">Hackintosh<\/a>. However, you&#8217;re not going to find anything nearly that light or with that kind of battery life. There are some trade-offs in either direction. From my standpoint, the iPad would&#8217;ve been a much better product if it ran OS X instead of the iPhone OS. However, this is also why the iPad is different from tablet PCs. Tablet PCs run Windows instead of a mobile OS. The only difference from a laptop is a user interface that wasn&#8217;t designed specifically for a tablet PC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple people have asked me what I thought about the iPad, so I figured I&#8217;d throw my thoughts out here. While keeping up with the live event through Engadget&#8217;s live blog of the event I was underwhelmed and just got a general feeling that Apple (and Steve Jobs) thinks everything they do is revolutionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,8],"tags":[50,51,52],"class_list":["post-291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-hardware","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-ipad","tag-tablet-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291\/revisions\/369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.jitesh.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}