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The iPad is a great device but, it isn't essential to anything or anyone. If tomorrow there where no iPads anymore, we would all just get on with our lives.
iPads have complete market dominance in the world of the kiddies. I can't believe how many there are - big iPads in big cases, young children playing with some game or watching YouTube Kids. I don't think it's the market Apple invisioned, but it's a hugely successful one regardless. I think judging the iPad based on changes they make for power users is near pointless in terms of its success.
He says nothing about success, but about personal disappointment with the product. Why would you judge that against other people's experiences?
Text selection is the most broken thing to me on an ipad. It makes any kind of editing pretty much unusable. Great device to browse the web from my bathtub and watch movies on a plane, but haven’t found any other usage.
I really feel like this should be a solvable problem though. It can’t be that complicated to select text reliably.
I actually recently got my first personal iOS (okay, iPadOS) device and this is how I feel about many of the UI features. Touching some side of the screen triggers this or that surprising feature and I'm struggling to undo what I did to get back to the business. Maybe what's needed is good old RTFM, but having heard how easy Apple device are to supposed to be to use, it's kind of unexpected that so much of this stuff is not that discoverable.
You’re missing the iPad business model. You’re not allowed to do anything (except maybe wash the dishes or get dressed) when the iPad is showing an ad that gets you free something.
True multitasking would break the business model of thousands of sites.
iPads have complete market dominance in the world of the kiddies. I can't believe how many there are - big iPads in big cases, young children playing with some game or watching YouTube Kids. I don't think it's the market Apple invisioned, but it's a hugely successful one regardless. I think judging the iPad based on changes they make for power users is near pointless in terms of its success.
Kid not screaming for X hours on a flight is a reason to buy and iPad for that trip alone.
Plus you can easily justify it to yourself as ‘educational’.
>By 1994 almost all graphic designers and illustrators were using computers for work. The iPad is a great device but, it isn't essential to anything or anyone. If tomorrow there where no iPads anymore, we would all just get on with our lives.
If I want to reply to an email I'll walk upstairs to my real computer rather than attempt to do it on our iPad.
As Joey Hess said[1] "If it doesn't have a keyboard, I feel that my thoughts are being forced out through a straw."
Multitasking? Huh? You’re missing the iPad business model. You’re not allowed to do anything (except maybe wash the dishes or get dressed) when the iPad is showing an ad that gets you free something. True multitasking would break the business model of thousands of sites.
The worst thing is that the forced over-simplification of the UI features did not make it easier to use for beginners. I can see many people (including myself) struggling. So we have been forced into a "compromise" with all the downside, but none of the upside.
Given how great the hardware is (really, I think this is under-appreciated), I really hope Apple can get out of that thinking rut.
I also think that the slow iPad sales are directly connected to the mediocre OS software.