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As with all winer whining, you have to take it with a large pinch of salt. On this one, he's made 3 factual errors before he even gets to his point: > I have b

by imajes 16y ago

As with all winer whining, you have to take it with a large pinch of salt. On this one, he's made 3 factual errors before he even gets to his point: > I have both an iPad and a netbook, and the netbook is strictly more useful than the iPad. > If I go out with the iPad invariably I hit a wall. No SD card slot. No USB. The keyboard is hunt-and-peck. not so much. SD and USB connectivity is provided by peripherals sold by apple. Are they fully open and free to use? no. but that's of course the price you pay to use an ipad. As mentioned below, plenty of people (including me) are able to use the keyboard just fine. > The iPad doesn't remember my Facebook password, so when I want to check Facebook I must reach for the netbook. > A small thing you say -- but operating systems are collections of hundreds of small things, and new operating systems > like the one in the iPad don't have them and old ones like XP do Or just get 1Password, shipping with the iPad from day one, which, if perhaps haphazardly, solves his problems and syncs everywhere. > I had pictures in my camera the other day. No way to get them up to Flickr through the iPad. > If I had had the netbook with me, no problem. (I used my Droid instead.) The usb/sd peripheral is designed specifically for this. > The netbook has a real keyboard. I'm writing this blog post on it. It's taken a couple of minutes so far. I'd still be on paragraph 2 > if I had used the iPad. And I'd be entering it on one of my WordPress blogs because my customized content tools don't and > will never run on Apple's new platform. (Unless they change their mind.) http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC533LL/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4NjE&mco=MTc0Njk4NzY http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC533LL/A?fnode=MTc0MjU4Nj... (or, the bluetooth one, which also works). Though, i prefer to just suggest to him that he learns how to use the new keyboard, and stops trying to make it behave like the one he has on his netbook. > There's an awful glitch in the way the clipboard works on the iPad. Try to put the cursor on a mis-spelling. > It always selects the whole word. I've gotten in the habit of retyping the word when there's a one character spelling error. > These little things are of course little, but they mount up. Yes. then you press again to stop selecting and make it go to the misspelling. I think he's trying to fit a round peg in a square hole again, and that has limited appeal outside his echo chamber. It's a shame, though, as he has an abnormally large audience who reads what he turfs out. He reminds me of the computer professor who refuses to accept obsolescence but insists that all his students learn fortran and nothing else.

Alex63 16y ago
Without implying any particular support for Mr. Winer's views, I don't think it's fair to say he made "3 factual errors". The point of his post was to compare the iPad (as delivered) and a netbook (as delivered). To that end, he points out that: 1) the iPad does not include SD card slot or USB - the fact that you can add peripherals for this purpose does not invalidate his point 2) the iPad doesn't remember his Facebook password - again, you appear to be suggesting that an add-on product addresses this concern, but that doesn't negate the fact that the iPad as delivered is not equivalent to a basic netbook 3) the netbook has a "real" keyboard, versus the "soft" keyboard of the iPad - again, the fact that you can add an external peripheral doesn't mean his post was factually incorrect.
- imajes 16y ago
  Sure. I was commenting more to the between-the-lines idea that he'd make a comparison between a tablet touch screen and a miniature laptop. It's a bit of an apples-and-oranges comparison. He also complains about sd/usb/keyboard/password as if they are unsolvable failings of apple. I think he seems to miss the point of Apple's approach to life- the 80/20 rule. Not to mention that _everything_ he complained about is solved already. In other words: Winer has a widely read website in which he has used it as a pulpit to rant about the iPad without doing any research. In other places, he calls himself a journalist- and I feel offended that he'd do that and show such shoddy examples of the trade. :(

by imajes 16y ago

Alex63 16y ago

Without implying any particular support for Mr. Winer's views, I don't think it's fair to say he made "3 factual errors". The point of his post was to compare the iPad (as delivered) and a netbook (as delivered). To that end, he points out that: 1) the iPad does not include SD card slot or USB - the fact that you can add peripherals for this purpose does not invalidate his point 2) the iPad doesn't remember his Facebook password - again, you appear to be suggesting that an add-on product addresses this concern, but that doesn't negate the fact that the iPad as delivered is not equivalent to a basic netbook 3) the netbook has a "real" keyboard, versus the "soft" keyboard of the iPad - again, the fact that you can add an external peripheral doesn't mean his post was factually incorrect.

imajes 16y ago
Sure. I was commenting more to the between-the-lines idea that he'd make a comparison between a tablet touch screen and a miniature laptop. It's a bit of an apples-and-oranges comparison. He also complains about sd/usb/keyboard/password as if they are unsolvable failings of apple. I think he seems to miss the point of Apple's approach to life- the 80/20 rule. Not to mention that _everything_ he complained about is solved already. In other words: Winer has a widely read website in which he has used it as a pulpit to rant about the iPad without doing any research. In other places, he calls himself a journalist- and I feel offended that he'd do that and show such shoddy examples of the trade. :(