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Why iPad is good even though it sucks

Posted by Bharat in News, Opinion on 28. Jan, 2010 | 0 Comments

iPad I hate the iPad Apple released yesterday. I just don’t see how it will be practical to have an over-sized iPhone with me everywhere I go. I love the iPhone and am a big fan of Apple but iPad just doesn’t make sense to me. If you are looking for a fancy, not to mention expensive, replacement for your net book or a portable video player, then iPad may be appealing.

Apple I guess thinks that its more important (and profitable) for them to control the apps on their tablet with iTunes Store than giving the user the freedom to do whatever he wants with his gadget. I actually thought having atleast a lite version of Mac on this “pad” would get more people used to it and then switch to Mac on their main laptops or desktops. But again Apple would lose all the money that comes from selling apps at their store.

By now, you should be wondering why I said iPad is good. Well like everything else, anything Apple does always get a very high audience. Although HP and others have released tablet PC’s before, nothing really clicked. Take the iPhone for example, we all knew touch screen phones would be the way for the future but until the iPhone came out, it didn’t become a reality. So I think the iPad will do good overall because more people will think about getting it and then look at its alternatives. And who knows, may be one day we will see a slick new practical tablet PC with an actual OS on it.

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