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08-08-2011, 07:18 AM | #46 | |
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Except there is no MS Office or Open Office or equivalent. There are light duty document viewer/editor apps and Apple sells their equivalent to MS Works as unbundled apps. iPad is not a Macintosh tablet and should not be cross-shopped or compared to laptops or Windows TabletPCs. iPad is, rather, a derivative of iPod touch and iPhone and is based on smartphone technology (ARM CPUs, Flash storage, etc) instead of x86 desktop-derived tech. You *can* use them to carry out some light productivity work (just as people used to do on PalmPilots and PocketPCs) but that is not what they are designed to do; iPads are *not* full-function computers and cannot be turned into computers. (I've seen it tried, though.) What iPads are primarily designed for is (paid) content consumption, gaming, and non-Flash web surfing. (Flash-based web sites are designed for desktop PC browsers and eat up too many resources to provide a smooth and responsive experienced on ARM-based hardware so rather than try, Apple just told website developers to stop using Flash and use HTML5. This has not yet happened.) |
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08-08-2011, 10:56 AM | #47 |
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Thanks very much for the information. I had no idea they were so limited. Clearly, an iPad would not make a good replacement for a laptop. Do the same limitations obtain on Android tablets?
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08-08-2011, 11:02 AM | #48 |
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I would wait for fjtorres's more detailed reply, but in short, yes.
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Depends on your uses. If you primarily do email, surf the web, watch videos etc. then it works fine. If you write your latest magnum opus or need an Ethernet jack, a laptop is likely a better option.
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Each app has its own "bucket" of storage, so you have to use iTunes as an intermediary to copy files to and from the device. Some apps now do allow more system-wide access to files, but I found it to be rather clunky in this respect. AFAIK with Android you can run whatever apps you want, you don't have to go through Google Market, and you can access the device's file system normally. |
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08-10-2011, 10:17 AM | #53 |
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I didn't read through all the posts, so someone probably already posted about Amazon's plan to be able to sell on iPad without having to do the 30 percent cut. Basically...there's an app for that...
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The Kindle Cloud Reader has a lot of potential, but it really doesn't make it any more convenient for Ios customers.
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Can enter text. Lousy platform for writing a novel. Can round up bookmarks online; lousy platform for designing webpages. Can track checkbook spending; lousy platform for business accounting. If there's *one particular thing* you want to be able to do, you might find an app for it. Or a small cluster of apps. But there's no elegant cross-app coordination for managing creative or business work, and it's not likely to exist in the future. |
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I have it on my phone. The fact is, tablet processors now are as powerful as the pentium II machine I built in 1998 and they have orders of magnitude more memory. |
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Example of uses that could never get past Apple's filters? Or more complex apps?
Don't have specifics for either; I just know that Apple has booted out a number of open source apps (some open source licenses clash with Apple's TOU), and Apple puts strict constraints on its apps. I don't know if one open source app could access another one to allow coordination between files--I'm pretty sure Apple isn't going to allow apps that do nothing but manipulate another app's content. |
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The apps are still available--for anyone who isn't working through Apple's restrictions on use. |
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