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Not to knock against an undeniable excellent effort, I am sure this will delight some people, I wish them luck. Personally, I just sold my iPad and got an 11"
by da_n 14y ago
Not to knock against an undeniable excellent effort, I am sure this will delight some people, I wish them luck.
Personally, I just sold my iPad and got an 11" MacBook Air. I know some people are tired of hearing this (Gruber for one) but from direct personal experience over 6 months use my conclusion about the iPad is it is great as a media consumption device, and it does have some extremely lightweight abilities for content creation, but that is about it. I tried using the iPad as a code editor with Diet Coda, Textastic, iSSH etc, using a remote server for remote VIM etc, but with the onscreen keyboard leaving only a tiny viewing port and the obvious lag and internet connection requirements it was just a novelty I couldn't seriously consider. For some people the iPad is a wonderful, perfect desktop computer replacement, but I found it extremely hard to justify the high cost for what I was getting in return. I guess my hopes were too high from the off, I had read many stories about people giving up laptops and just using the iPad for everything, I found that to be laughably unrealistic. Next time I get a tablet it will be a cheaper one with no expectations of using it as a sort of laptop replacement.
Good luck to them anyway, I am probably in the vast minority.
- ako 14y agoA tv is also for consumption only, and costs about the same. I prefer the content available for consumption on the Internet to the content available on tv, so this makes it easier to justify the purchase of a tablet than a tv...
- moconnor 14y agoThe onscreen keyboard? Yes, if you want to create textual content on the iPad you really do need to use a bluetooth keyboard. Whether you prefer an iPad + keyboard to an all-in-one MacBook Air is a different matter, of course!
- spion 14y agoThis is exactly why we're doing this. Companies are still treating the iPad as a toy and its productivity features are lacking. We started with a docking solution kickstarter - http://www.completedock.com/ http://www.completedock.com/ which we planned to extend with a Surface-like keyboard solution. Then we realized productivity apps aren't up to snuff and that solutions using Apple TV and external keyboards might be the answer to some input and output issues. We're actively brainstorming and trying to attack the problem on both the hardware and software fronts. This is our second attempt. As for open platforms, they're a whole different story. Unfortunately most users don't seem to care enough. The web however is quite open. You can access any website without an app store. Also, if we can get a web-based IDEs for web apps to work decently, that would be a step towards a more open iPad. Apple doesn't seem to mind web apps so this might actually work.
- Terretta 14y agoIntroducing the "other half" of your iPad: http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/ultrathin-keyboard-cover?crid=1240 http://www.logitech.com/en-us/product/ultrathin-keyboard-cov... Leave it off when at home or in the hotel bed "consuming", leave it on when heading out to the coffee shop. (It bonds using the smartcover magnets.)