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During the TechRepublic 10 Things blog, Debra Littlejohn Shinder published an article entitled "10 reasons why I'm going through in the IPAD." Some of his arguments is sound, but many of his points are easy to refute. Interestingly, in his post and the points that tries to do, because it is indicative of a general misunderstanding, not only the capabilities of IPAD, but its customer base affected.

1. No keyboard physical

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Debra IPAD is true that there are physical keyboard. But he has in mind is not only to sell Apple a spring IPAD keyboard, the device also can be coupled with the existence of Bluetooth keyboard. Apple reasoning not to include a physical keyboard on the IPAD is even more compelling as the iPhone, because unlike the iPhone, go to at least be able to link IPAD with a physical keyboard. To put the physical keyboard device itself, there are two options: maintain the same size IPAD and the sacrifice of one third of the mass of the screen, or increase the size of IPAD beyond this number (Including Debra) and are heavy to include a keyboard.

In the horizontal orientation, the virtual keyboard IPAD is about the size of a conventional keyboard, well, so as you type will be a challenge, it's a safe bet that IPAD touch will be much faster and easier than the upper limit of the thumb 30-35 WPM affecting many people (including me) the performance on the keyboard of iPhone much lower. No physical keyboard on the iPhone has not affected their sales appreciable; IPAD is not likely to suffer heavy losses this sales, either.

(Note: Some people have asked for a source on the Bluetooth keyboard problem, especially my assertion that you can use any BT keyboard and Apple wireless models only. During his practice with IPAD following the announcement that the device Jacqui Cheng, Ars Technica has shown that "You can use any Bluetooth keyboard you want, instead of an Apple keyboard dock. You can use the box / stand with existing Bluetooth keyboard. You can not use a Bluetooth mouse, however. )

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2. One size does not fit all

Debra argues that if the IPAD is supposed to be a niche device located between a phone and a netbook, you must have a size the screen midway between the two – in other words, smaller than 9.7 "screen. However, this is not how Steve Jobs made the IPAD all, during the speech, Keynote slide work has clearly demonstrated IPAD fill a gap between the iPhone / iPod Touch and a MacBook 13. It is curious that in a sentence, Debra complains IPAD is too large to fit in your pocket, while in the next sentence, which extols the virtues of the Sony VAIO X netbooks, which are almost exactly the same size – in terms weight and thickness anyway. The VAIO X has a 11.1 "16:9 screen, which is actually a bit larger than the IPAD. Another thing about VAIO X is a bit larger than the IPAD: price, starting at $ 1,299 – much more expensive than even the most expensive IPAD.

While IPAD is certainly not fit in a pocket, yet is much even more portable than a MacBook Air. Stephen Colbert has even pulled one of his coat at the Grammys, and although the IPAD is larger than the iPhone, is far to be the heavy monster many people try to claim it is.

3. He manages a phone OS

One thing that many experts do not consider is that the iPhone OS is actually a version of OS X for a suitable device touch screen. No, no Finder, Dock or menu bar. No, there is no exposure, spaces, or Time Machine. But the foundation of the iPhone OS are exactly the same as Mac OS X. So when people complain IPAD not OS X, what they really are and aspire to OS X as I have already mentioned – the Finder, Dock, menu bar, etc. However, none of these OS X features are particularly suited to a touch screen device, especially with a 9.7 "screen. Tablet PC running the full version of Windows and have demonstrated the difficulties the race for one operating system to a larger unit with a traditional interface point-and-click, and therefore, most of these devices have been gaining ground in the market.

Debra and others also cite the lack of multitasking IPAD as an attack against him. In This point at least, I agree with them. While the iPhone OS enables multitasking and limited between Apple's own applications – Phone, Messages, Mail, Safari, iPod, and all may operate simultaneously in the background – third-party applications are still limited solutions that push notifications. While multitasking is a restriction kind of sense on devices like the iPhone 3G, with a capacity of RAM available on IPAD technology limitations that do not fly as an excuse. It can be argued that the not have the multitasking in the IPAD is easier to use for the grandmother and other non-technical, but also limits the potential use of the device. IPAD certainly not positioned as a substitute for a MacBook, but the ability to run even one or two third-party applications in the background is much more versatile device.

Personally, I would be very surprised if Apple does not at least a limited form of multitasking in the iPhone OS 4.0. Of course, I also said the same thing last year about the iPhone OS 3.0 and who knows. A point worth noting, however: despite the introduction of iWork for IPAD, Apple continues to push the device as a platform for the consumption of means, not as a platform for productivity. To do serious work, Apple is still waiting for you to use your main computer, either a MacBook, iMac, or a PC.

4. Not enough storage

The most important question to ask at this point: "Who? Debra argues that model 64GB with capacity sufficient for your purposes, but grouse about the price of this model by comparing the cheapest netbooks with "four storage times. "I will say I'm surprised by Apple's decision to the page on the ability of the IPAD 64 GB, especially since the iPod touch which is currently head. A 128 GB IPAD was very tempting, but unfortunately, given the price of flash memory, also would probably cost more than $ 1,000.

But allowing you to store 64 GB? In my case, an IPAD 64GB would be my 39 GB music library – 19 days worth of music – in addition to my library collection iPhoto over 7000 photographs, which, when optimized for screen IPAD probably somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 GB, plus or minus one or two GB in most crazy my application was about 2 GB of applications on my iPhone 3G and "other" space, probably including the operating system itself takes a little over 1 GB. Added up, this equates to 47 to 64 GB. In my case, this leaves more than 15 GB of storage space for documents, videos, etc. Let's say I keep all my documents folder the IPAD (I – I can not use iDisk and Dropbox for this) – 4300 documents having a bit more than 2 GB of space. Now we have 13 GB left for video and everything else. Even if you leave a buffer of 3 GB for any reason (including accounting for the United Kingdom regarding the difference IPF) is still 10 GB of space for video – enough to store 10 movies of two hours at a decent speed, or almost an entire season of a television series than an hour.

Let me break it again – a 64GB IPAD be stored:

– 19 days of music
– 7000 photos
– More than 100 applications
– A copy of two documents with items 4300 GB
– 20 hours video
– About 3 GB of free space for anything (Storage Photos temporary e-books, which represents the difference between binary gigabytes compared decimal gigabytes, etc)

It is true that some people with music and photo libraries bigger than mine, but most of my friends Mac with just an average 1500 articles in their iTunes collections, a thousand photos, and perhaps three pages of applications on your iPhone. 64 GB may not seem like much on paper but in practice they can come together on a large number of media. Unless you spend weeks at a time away from your main computer, IPAD should be able to carry enough media to keep themselves entertained for most of the day.

5. There is no HDMI output or camera

Debra claims that you can not IPAD video output to an HDTV without an HDMI connector. This is simply not true, with a VGA adapter, you can power the IPAD to 1024 x 768 HDTV video signal. With a component connection, you can make a 576p signal to 480p NTSC or PAL signal on your TV. Well, this is not the definition 1080p ultra-high, but where exactly will you find the video of this resolution anyway (in addition to Blu-Ray and Bittorrent)? I must admit I have been nice to have at least 1366 x 768 video, but I bet the vast majority of consumers will not bother even hooking the IPAD to their TV sets around it is much more easy just put the screen on his lap and watch a movie about himself instead of IPAD.

(Oops – as some people have pointed out, is 1080i 1920 x 1080 [so you know, 1080 i] and not 1366 x 768. It is the resolution of my HDTV does, and argues that handling a signal 1080i – I did not realize is that the 1080i signal is deinterlaced to fit my screen resolution. I even used to sell these stupid TV and we really should have known better. Sorry.)

Debra Another point raised by IPAD is the aspect ratio of 3:4, which is far from ideal for the video. It has been said all over the internet, including here on TUAW, but as many have pointed out, the aspect ratio of 3:04 ET ideal for virtually all other functions the IPAD, video except books, documents, web pages and photos are taken much closer to a ratio of 3:04 or 4:3 to 16:9. Using a ratio of IPAD 16:9 in the device does not only larger than it already is, also makes all other forms of media in the device in a position disadvantage compared with the video.

IPAD lack of the camera is another point Debra and others have spoken out against the device, but multitasking is a point where I disagree. A camera a step back as the iPhone does not do much common sense in the IPAD – would be a little heavy to try to take photos or video with camera of this size, a bit like trying to have a MacBook Air to take pictures with your iSight camera. Most people probably have a separate chamber point and shoot to take better photos and / or video camera hypothetical IPAD step back anyway and you can upload photos directly to the camera with the camera connector IPAD specific drive or SD card. But a front camera for video conferencing would certainly have been a feature of the murderer. Apple apparently thought so too, because it is a space within the IPAD exactly one camera, only to retire for reasons known only to Apple. That the company is waiting for the next IPAD generation introduce a camera or a large drawing Switcheroo as was done with the original iPhone – which was originally scheduled to ship with plastic side strips tend previous iPod, but has been replaced by scratch-resistant glass almost, in the six months between the announcement and release – you can not say.

6. There is no USB ports

The main complaints against the lack of USB ports Debra can not connect a flash drive or a USB keyboard. As for the keyboard, I have already mentioned the fact you can buy a dock or use a Bluetooth keyboard keyboard. As for not being able to connect a DVD player flash? I can understand why some people may want to do this – IPAD storage expansion, file transfer, etc, but I'm ready to bet that most people will not be a problem. Although I run the risk of sounding like Bill Gates and the famous 640 "should be enough for everyone to say (though Gates has never said that), 64 GB of space on a device like really IPAD you must answer the needs of most users – at least the next two years anyway. As for file transfer? I can think of any number of current solutions based on the cloud, the simpler e-mail. No, you can not file transfer several gigabytes at a time e-mail or "cloud" but most people do not transfer data more than once even a handful of times with a portable device, and even at least on a regular basis.

I will not complete fanboy and say that IPAD is a good thing does not come with USB ports. In fact, I'm kinda with Debra and the other on it, hoping Apple includes at least one USB port. Although probably not the port is used very often (if any), which undoubtedly belongs to the category of "nice to have." I've been an iPod user for almost five years and an iPhone user for a year, and I can not count the times that I needed / wanted a USB port in one of these devices in fingers … not exactly, but I must admit that I could sing another song with a larger device such as an IPAD. But for most people who are prone to buy the IPAD namely non-geek, non-techie, "I just want internet and music and movies" people, it is likely that not all USB ports.

7. There is no slot for flash memory card

No, IPAD does not have a flash memory slot. You can buy an attachment SD card reader, but while Debra, and others against the added cost of rail decision, arguing that to achieve "the functional equivalent of a netbook, you can end up spending much money. "Many of the same arguments for or against USB also apply here, and most non-geeks are not lost an SD slot for all. Transfer documents via SD cards in 2010 tracks of the discs "We who were on strike and dot matrix printers and modems for transmission of 2800, just say most users will have images or videos on SD cards most users will wait for your return to your computer Main downloading these files, and most users do not guarantee that the IPAD lacks a dedicated SD slot, as they are concerned about the lack iPod. In any case, the argument an SD slot is much smaller than the argument for USB.

8. The price is not fair

Debra claims IPAD "Cost Double than Kindle and other e-book readers. "It is simply false. IPAD $ 499 costs twice Norma Kindle, but compared to other e-reader there, the price is extremely competitive IPAD Once one takes into account all the things that no other readers IPAD iDon't. A DX 489 000 000 Kindle, for example, while to $ 10 cheaper than the cheapest IPAD, do not have a color screen, has only 4 GB of storage, has a touch screen, with no applications running, not by e-mail, music, and so on and so forth. IPAD price is the only aspect of the device that some experts have complained, in fact, prices Wall Street and other financial analysts conference.

IPAD not even compare to similar products from other companies to see if an agreement is. The 16GB costs $ 300 more IPAD iPod touch 8 GB. The $ 300 you get twice the capacity, a much larger screen and better quality, a more powerful processor, better Wi-Fi 802.11n, even improved significantly the performance of the battery, a built-in speaker and microphone, and possibly access a range of applications designed to leverage more IPAD screen and superior performance. A 32GB IPAD was the difference in price to $ 300, compared with a 32 GB iPod touch, as the 64 GB model Once you add a sum additional $ 130 for 3G wireless price gap widens but the fact that the usefulness of the device – the mobile broadband access whenever there is a 3G network available, which, like the iPhone users already know, is priceless.

Debra compares fully equipped off-$ 829 3G-enabled IPAD "a compact laptop powerful run a complete operating system for multiple tasks and has USB and Ethernet connectors and SD, 4 GB of RAM and 250 GB of storage. "The" operating system in itself ", she speaks is not OS X, however, and the laptop, it certainly speaks not manufactured by Apple. That could not make a difference for many people, but if you are already in the Mac cost too much "camp, not surprisingly, IPAD has great appeal in comparison with that of running Windows Home Edition, Plastic Portable computer-bin commercial quality Dell or HP would almost certainly stop working in two years or less. Yes, I know the sound of this very fanboyish sentence. No, I do not apologize for it. Cheap laptops are just that: cheap. Call it elitism, fanboyism, portable drinking Kool-Aid, if I prefer to endure gaps IPAD of the "powerful, but oh-so-cheapo other manufacturers.

9. He is locked in

"You have to buy their applications in the App Store, Debra said. Yes, I know: in a store with more than 140,000 applications available, most of them free, and capable of doing almost anything. The hatred of the Store application for any reason? Fine. Jailbreak the thing and use Cydia instead. Apple can do that, and they can out of their way to prevent it, but if they are already jailbreaking the mentality does not stop, right?

A very vocal minority of people like to complain about "vendor lock-in" when it comes to iPhone / iPod touch / IPAD, even when these same people have probably been playing with Nintendo video game systems, Sony and Microsoft for decades – all platforms "Lock-in" even more pervasive and insidious than the Apple platform. What these people do not realize is that the same vendor lock-in is precisely what prevents Apple's handheld platforms is fraught with viruses, malware and applications Scumware more. "Security through obscurity" may be invalid (ISH) The argument for using the Mac, but with more than 75 million people using the iPhone's operating system is a priority for the majority of virus writers. This same "walled garden" that developers of Linux and the Internet "open" evangelical moan is what keeps the iPhone platform to be a nightmare unusable. Yes, the approval process for the App Store is in many cases, has been a pain in the lower regions, but things are improving – applications that could having once took days or weeks to get approval to proceed now through the approval process within hours. In the App Store "lock-in" iPhone sales one iota? No. In fact, sales of the iPhone has taken overall, the App Store after the arrival of.

Yes Apple is the keeper "is upset by fans of George Orwell. But somebody has to guard the door, because at the time of the iPhone OS is a true" open " platform as some people get married is the time, the Russian mafia distance away from your iPhone to a basement Vladivostok, because you only have to download the "Siberia Honey "application of the dark alleys Internet.

Other aspects of the dreaded "lock-in" Debra in question are full of lies. "No You can run Skype to make phone calls asking, "with the IPAD, she says." We do not want to cut into the market the iPhone, after all. "What I can say? Must be new to the Skype team, which already has an investigation of a specific application IPAD Skype. There must be new to Apple, also, no longer limits the use of VoIP over 3G. "You can download Flash must be installed on the browser, which means you do not see these videos on YouTube. Say what that again? When the iPhone / iPod touch / IPAD unable to view videos in YouTube? Oh, yes ever since. No, you can not flash the IPAD, but according to our survey informal, 75% of people looking to buy or do not care or are simply not happy with Flash appeared.

What hardware lock-in? " Debra said, "you can remove and replace the battery yourself," which was true of all the iPod only since 2001 and has not stopped people from buying them by the millions. She continued and said: "If you were flying to Australia and I wanted to carry an extra battery for extra long flight, forget it." Um. A search for two seconds on Google to "external battery for iPhone" could be a good idea. Also, speaking from personal experience, if you stay awake during a flight across the Pacific Ocean will have much more pressing problems to worry about the battery of the IPAD, the fact that you feel like being beaten by a truck after landing. Take that knows about the trans-Pacific flights are the best stay in happy unconsciousness.

10. Network

Yes, IPAD 3G connection is available only in AT & T … If you live in the United States. If, like me, living in what is known so informal "with the rest of the world", this argument against buying a 3G enabled IPAD not make sense to you. But we left the States for a while and analyze the argument Debra Contra network AT & T. No, AT & T not everyone (or maybe even one s) 'Favorite American network, but the pay-as-you-go, fully no contract plans available for IPAD are very attractive price. You can get 250 MB of data for $ 14.99 (not $ 20 Debra claims in his article), which is more than enough for casual use of the data. 250 MB does not look like much on paper, but that's what my plan began to iPhone here in New Zealand. I was never more or less 100 MB data usage per month until I started using the iPhone tie, and I believe that my use of the data sufficiently robust. The "unlimited" plan AT & T for $ 30 a month is even more effective, and even if "unlimited" only way to 5GB, will not burn for this amount of data unless you use the connection of all waking hours each month.

Debra argument against these plans is that this is a another bill to pay on your cell phone bill, but the IPAD beauty of the plans: contract without incurring, you can cancel the plan when you want. If you start with $ 30 per month "unlimited" terms of IPAD, only to discover you can not use the head 250 MB, instead of being locked into this plan for another 23 months, you can return to the plan of $ 15. If you find that you do not need 3G coverage at all, you can always buy the Wi-Fi IPAD. "We wish them good luck in finding these access points Wi-Fi," says Debra in response to this idea, that sounds pretty well for us in New Zealand, where the Wi-Fi is as rare as gold, but is much less in the U.S., where Wi-Fi is not usually a library or coffee away.

If you need to have 3G IPAD, it is imperative to not use AT & T, and are willing to spend double for the privilege of going with Verizon, you can always link IPAD MiFi to a (perhaps – we'll have to wait until the IPAD actually put before you know if this works or not.) Moreover, just because the IPAD is not available on Verizon Now (NOW NOW) never do it, Apple and Verizon are "always speaking" for the IPAD and / or iPhone on the network.

We reached the final ten points Debra, but not at the end of mine. My final point, one that sums it up: as the Mac, iPod, and like the iPhone, IPAD is not for everyone. This even for me – despite all the words I have to defend the past, I will not buy one until next IPAD, at first, and if I change my current contras, an aging MacBook Pro with the same team instead of an iMac / combo IPAD.

The result is that the IPAD can not be all things to all people. Not intended to replace full-fledged Mac or PC – which is designed as an extension of a larger device ultraportable, and one with a more intuitive interface and simple from a distance, a team "for the rest of us, if you will. And make no mistake: Debra Littlejohn Shinder for each Internet for all "open" geek shouting "lock-in every time the name Apple is mentioned, for each "no multitasking, no flash, no sale" for each contemptuous techno Pundit who shrugs and says, "It's too big iPods, "there is at least one person who has been waiting for a device like the IPAD, and these people are what make a success. If you like it or hate it, is indicative IPAD the future direction of computing.

But just for the sake of argument, let's say that you can cook a laptop now "better" that IPAD, a dream device that has USB ports, 1080p output, a removable battery and run the full version of Mac OS X, has a front camera, does not depend on AT & T is not "closed" to the App Store, has a physical keyboard, the widescreen format, and has over 64 GB of storage. This may, eg device seems?

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