iPad - Buy or Not?
With the announcement of Apple - iPad, many Apple fans are either disappointed or excited by it. Me as one of the Apple fans doesn’t really take much interest in iPad. While the price is considered as cheap for Apple products, it may gouge out my wallet to purchase one.
I’ve been very active on Twitter lately and have seen several response why they want or don’t want to buy iPad. Some of them really make sense. This won’t be an in-depth review. It is only my personal insight about this iPad.
It can only run one application
Many people complain how bad this iPad is for not being able to run multiple applications. While I’m not really bothered by it because it is a feature (in my case). It’s better to focus on one thing in one time rather than playing around without a certain goal. Sure, it is pleasant to chat while listening to music. But for once in a while, try to listen to a song with your mind focused.
Remember to only do one thing at one time, let’s keep it minimal.
Preview, Presentation, and Portable
Won’t it be nice to be able to do presentation to your client by carrying this 9.7 inch tablet to meet your client and do eye to tablet presentation? Unlike using laptop, you can easily just flip it around to show your client your portfolio or presentation slide. Browsing and viewing photo won’t be just self-excitement again. Don’t forget that while you’re traveling, it is very troublesome to take out your laptop just to browse website to kill times.
Not for savvy user
iPad doesn’t work with the refined Mac OS X, instead it use the iPhone alike OS to run the applications. For some savvy user, the lack of ability to customize like most of the normal OS X is insufficient. Truthfully, the iPad is created to target the audience who is incapable to perform our daily hobbies like installing, downloading, syncing application across platform.
Conclusion
Apple has taken another approach that no one are foreseeing. Manufacturer always try to make a super-computer or mobile-phone with countless of *trash ability. My thought on this iPad is a nice and simple device for user who do simple task daily. If you don’t need laptop and only requires a simple device to manage your to-do task, browsing experience, grocery list, etc. iPad can be a suitable choice. So let’s not frown over the lack of multi-tasking in iPad.
