iPads are great

[alexk]

Originally Posted by shimmy

Sounds like solid advice Alex ........ Just a bit sensible !

Apple iPhone I've had for I think 3 years now. Granted some may have caught up and in some instances bettered it in certain departments but on release it was lightyears ahead in look, feel and display ideas. It was obviously built by people who could think laterally rather than engineers. Trouble is all the copiers are still engineers copying and improving. They haven't got the brief to provide something new.

iPad was a go at this but IMHO a bit like the itouch doesn't quite gut the mark. My gut feel is the next one will.

shimmy, what was innovative in the iphone ?
The fact that it couldn't do multitasking (introduced in iphone 4), it didn't have GPS, it had 2MP camera, it didn't have support for media cards (even today there isn't any) ?
Windows mobile was doing everything that the iphone 1 was doing 3 years earlier (multitasking exists since the first windows mobile devices...).
So the only thing that the iphone was much different (it's subjective if it was better in the iphone) is the interface look&feel and the device look.
A lot of people loved it and it was/is a desirable device.
A lot of people love the ipad for similar reasons which is respectable.

But if you want to buy the best thing out there, this is not the ipad

(imagine a CSL that only works with Shell v-power and no other petrol...or you can only fit Michelin CUP tyres and nothing else)