Noisetheorem

FAN BOY WARNING: You will not like what I am about to say.

All feminine hygiene jokes aside, I was actually interested to see what Apples iPad would be like. Would it be a touch based netbook, or would it be a giant crippled iPhone. Today we got our answer, and its worse, much worse, than I thought Apple was capable of.

My main issues with it are no multitasking (i.e. only one app can run at a time) and only apple proprietary devices can connect to it. Basically, no matter how you cut it, its just a really big iPhone. It is *not* a computer. Its a crippled phone. It even runs iPhone OS. Thats great on a teeny tiny screen…not so great on a 9.7 inch one.

What will the developers do with it? make iFart apps that take up more screen. Its locked down and locked into the apple iTunes ecosystem which immediately alienates me as a user since I *hate hate hate* iTunes. Its crappy bloatware used to punsh PC users who dont buy macs but dare try to hook up apple hardware to such inferior junk. Yes, thats exactly what it is.

And one more thing. My ‘netbook’ which ‘does nothing well’ does everything the iPad does, and does it all at once. It doesnt have a touch screen, but there are models coming out this year from other manufacturers that *do*.

So I have a choice, basically (much to apples chagrin..choice is antithetical to the whole apple marketing premise). I can buy a crippled giant iPhone, or I can wait and pay (probably less) for a device that will do more all at once and not be locked into to a crappy choice free application store. hmm..hard one there.