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Originally Posted by RedHeadPeter
Nooooooo! You don't even know if the Apple DRM is going to be unique to Apple - if it is any book you buy from Apple is tied to the iPad.
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It's been established that it's unique to Apple. Similar to Amazon.
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And the battery life in real world situations?
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Did you see the change in their battery life statement in their announcement of release date the other day? Essentially, life of the battery depends on everything. And that was about it.
That'll be hard for current color LCD/LED screens except, so far, for the Pixel QI.
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Plus the things we already know are bad:
No Flash support
No USB
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What's strange is the insistence on HTML5 taking over (in place of Flash) -- eventually, but not for a few years as far as affecting many sites.
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no doing more than one thing at a time
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having to use iTunes - are you aware how much garbage iTunes loads onto a Windows PC - there are more processes running than fleas on a dog
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I hate it because if I'm tired, I can forget and if it does not have something your computer does have, it defaults to deleting your computer copy -- so I always have to make sure I have that setting right. I don't do it enough because I avoid iTunes but when I do, it's something I have to remember.
If you need to hook up your iPad to our computer you have to buy the $29 camera connection kit, which has the adapter for USB connection.
How cheap were they in not just including that adapter ? But at least the camera connection kit has a, I think, microSD card reader in it.
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I just thought of something else - another reason you can't use it as a PC replacement. Without a PC running iTunes you can't actually load anything on to it, right?
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There would likely be a file management app, it's said. I think that's done for the iPod?
Edit Added: By the way, PC World has a very harsh column on iPad pre-ordering folks.
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http://bit.ly/pcwipordr
In reply to them, some columnists who did not initially like the idea of the iPad loved it when actually playing with it for 20 minutes to half an hour.
(How do people in England or Boston differentiate between iPod and iPad?)