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The iPad Literally Breaks Every Use Case I Had For It

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Re: The iPad Literally Breaks Every Use Case I Had For It

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"Even past the fact that the iPad does not have a camera, it cannot run two applications at the same time. Meaning: talking to my girlfriend, I could not look up a train time while we talked. Result: have to use my iPhone while we video chat. All that in a device that commands a price premium." How do you video chat using an iPhone, which has a camera on the back? "Again, we run into a software problem. From what I h…

> How do you video chat using an iPhone, which has a camera on the back?

He's saying that even if it (the iPad) had a camera for video chat, he would have to use his iPhone to look up the train times because there is no multi-tasking on the iPad.

Re: The iPad Literally Breaks Every Use Case I Had For It

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post #5

Is it really single tab browsing? Ugh.

It allows for multiple windows, which is somewhat similar.

I didn't understand his objection here. Is it the inconvenience of hitting the "windows" button?

With the iphone's touch interface this is painless and I can't imagine it'll be any worse for the ipad.

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post #7

> The Daily Show, Castle, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother: Annoying workaround, but Air Video can stream from your desktop.

I've always envisioned watching TV on a TV while I have the iPad on the couch doing other stuff.

That may be, but in the Keynote they did push the 'you can watch 10 hours of video on a single charge' so they are pushing this as a device to watch video on. If it fails at video, then it's a failure of the device if that is one of its goals.

Re: The iPad Literally Breaks Every Use Case I Had For It

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post #11

This guy is a complete idiot, and has obviously never even used and iPhone or iPod Touch. Apple almost got there with this one, copying someone else’s interface for iBooks. But then it hit me again, only one app at a time! I listen to music while I read.

Unless he's talking about using Pandora while reading, I'm pretty sure you can use the music app in the background
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