iPad is iFail

The much anticipated  iPad was supposed to be the biggest release by Apple in the beginning of 2010, Everyone was stuck to the computers on 27 and it was finally “Released” from the hands of Steve himself.

There was a lot of Expectations form the device, but it let us down very badly. Lets see where the iPad went horribly wrong.

No Multi Tasking:

This device which is supposed to be a gadget built to fill in the gap between a smart phone and a Mac, does not support multi tasking, then how in the world can they say that it is something near to a laptop. Even a basic Smart phone supports Multi tasking. This is the major let down by apple they just copied the Features of the iPhone and elongated it into the iPad.

The least apple could have done is including Multi tasking into the iPad, to make it something worth giving a try.

The Design:

What can be told about the design, it is just a copy of Apple iPhone minus the curves. The Design is just taken from the iPhone and put into the iPad it is just an Elongated thinner version of the iPhone.

Apple could have done much better than just making it a taller brother of the iPhone, with the same central key and the Sleep buton on the top.

Does not Support Flash:

This is another disappointing feature, the iPad does not support Flash and this is the same taken from the iPhone, insted of correcting and including Flash Apple has just made it more worse by  not including Flash atleast for the iPad.

This means that we cannot have Flash based games and the Flash based websites cannot be viewed to their full capacity.

No USB Slot:

There are no USB slots included in the iPad, which also adds to the misery of using this Tablet, we cannot transfer stuff from other computers easy and fast. The only thing which we can do is use this tablet as a Netbook and god knows why Steve made the statement that this is a device which will fill in the gap between Smartphone and Laptops, and it is just another Net book like the many other devices we can find out there.

No Camera:

There is neither a camera, the feature available in the iPhone is also absent in this.

The Same Apps as iPhone:

The iPad supports the same Apps as that of the iPhone, without any Flash even the Apps which support Flash cannot be used in this. The App developers are left helpless due to this and we have to suffer with the same 3rd party apps available in the App store.

No Full GPS:

The Wi-Fi-only versions flat out have no GPS support whatsoever. The basic versions have to compensate of GPS. The 3G versions have Assisted GPS, which makes use of the cellular connection to help pinpoint your location.

No SD Slot:

The absense of an SD slot makes the iPad memory very costly, with 15$ for 250 MB we have to shell out a lot of money to get to the higher end version of the iPad.

The Pricing is based on the memory:

For a Tablet i think this is just a lame thing to do, by placing the pricing based on the memory and that too by  giving 250 MB for 15$ is such a shame.

Overall looking at the Device we can say that, iPad is not living up to its expectations. There were way too high expectations on the device and it has got nothing near it.

“We can say that iPad is just and Elongated iTouch”