{"id":1556,"date":"2010-01-27T17:49:55","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T22:49:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/?p=1556"},"modified":"2010-01-27T17:49:55","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T22:49:55","slug":"ipad-ipass","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gubatron.com\/blog\/ipad-ipass\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad, iPass"},"content":{"rendered":"

Beautiful device, beautiful looking software but way too expensive for the minimum storage capabilities<\/strong> that a multimedia\/gaming device should have.<\/p>\n

If you’re giving me a great screen for video, powerful graphic processing capabilities and only WiFI connectivity you must think I will want to have a few movies, pictures and music stored in the device for offline use. WiFI is everywhere right? Wrong, most networks out there are password protected<\/strong> by the owners, so the only places where you’ll have WiFI access for free will be at home, at the office, maybe at your friends or a library. In most of those cases you will have a real laptop with you, or you won’t really be there to use the device.
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\nGiven the lack of real connectivity to the “cloud” when you’re on WiFI outside, when you’re “mobile”… you will want to have your entertainment on disk, with so little space you’ll be constantly adding and deleting stuff to it. <\/p>\n

Now if you will get the 3G version, don’t even dream of HD streaming over that slow ass unreliable 3G AT&T connection, you will need the storage.<\/p>\n

Pricing Pissed me Off<\/strong><\/p>\n

The pricing scheme really got me pissed, the lower end version costs $500 and it only gives you 16Gb; my phone has 32Gb!!!. <\/p>\n

So you gotta be crazy to pay so much for the lower end, which is what they know, and they charge $100 for additional 16Gb, and $200 for additional 48Gb putting the 64gb model at $700 bucks.<\/p>\n

You would think, “shit, it’s a tablet, multitouch, beautiful, for under $700”, but remember, it’s ONLY 64Gb. My humble mp3 collection alone takes 45Gb!!!.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I can’t even remember when was the last time I bought a 64Gb HDD. It all seems that they couldn’t wait more for SSD drives to finally drop their prices; There’s a big market in Netbooks and many companies are already there so they had to come out with something now, even if the storage will suck balls.<\/p>\n

Other important flaws<\/strong><\/p>\n

Then you have to remember other big flaws, it runs the iPhone OS<\/strong>, which still does not allow for multitasking<\/strong>, iPhone users know that this is a bitch when they see Android users switching from GMail, to browser, to maps, to twitter and back all instantly, no need to close your apps and you keep your states.<\/p>\n

Another great flaw comes because of Apple’s desire to destroy Adobe Flash<\/strong>. Steve Job has some motherfucking balls calling this device a better device to browse the web, even in his demo we could see a “missing plugin” on the New York Times. Every website out there embedding videos will have a flash player in it. Every social game in Facebook that attracts millions of players a month happens to be made with Flash (Farmville, Typing Maniac, Bejeweled, Biggest Brain, etc), but it’s the damn need to control what we do with our own computers that will make Apple force the stupid restrictions of the iPhone to this new device.<\/p>\n

Thanks but no.<\/p>\n

Netbooks aren’t that bad<\/strong>
\nSteve Jobs said that Netbooks aren’t better at anything<\/strong>, he’s right on that, but his new device sucks at storage and it’s not that great at web browsing either, no Flash support, no multitasking<\/strong>. Netbooks are not better, but they’re just as good as lots of high priced laptops a few years back, so I guess they’re better at doing the same job for a lot less money.<\/p>\n

iPad’s limited storage capabilities for this first generation are a deal breaker for many of us that will wait for round two to see what they come up with. <\/p>\n

Most of the things that the iPad does can be done with Netbooks, and Netbooks can do a lot of things that the iPad can’t, like multitasking for example.<\/p>\n

Next version will probably include a web cam (would’ve been a great feature to use it with Skype), it’s an old trick of apple to not release stupid features at once so they can have you buying the whole thing again just for a few changes here and there next year.<\/p>\n

What’s up with the CPU?<\/strong>
\nDid Intel get stabbed in the back? or it’s just an Apple branded \/ custom designed Intel CPU?<\/p>\n

We’ll probably be hearing more about once it’s released.<\/p>\n

$130 more for a 3G chip<\/strong>
\nThis is probably Broadcom’s fault, but I refuse to believe that a 3G chip is that costly, they have to bank on that extra microchip and integration I suppose.<\/p>\n

In the meantime I’ll keep using my lovely Asus EEE pc 1005HA, with 160Gb HDD (slower than SDD but hey, I’m not running mission critical apps here), multitasking, freedom of choice in free software, and a webcam.<\/p>\n

Do yourself a favor, go to the Apple Store, test it, then think all the stuff you can’t have stored in it, and other things you could buy with those $700+taxes (2 netbooks, a ps3 with a bunch of games, $300 more and you could get an actual macbook, a kindle reader and shitload of books)<\/p>\n

iPad, iPass<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Now read Andrew Fischler’s Point of View on each of my issues<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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