> Wires? Yea, we still need wires for some things. Apple doesn't do stuff that's not going to be a good experience.
Having to plug crap in and out is not a very good experience though. In fact, Apple seems to agree. See AirDrop in Lion.
> Memory? ...don't know, don't care how much memory is in my original iPad - I only care that it performs well - and it does.
Disagreement, Safari is a pain to use on more than two different page (outside the issue of not having tabs or anything simple) because it keeps reloading the fuck out of them due to lack of RAM (iPhone 4 has far less issues there, with a similar resolution)
> Storage space? I bought a 32gb and wish I had saved the 100 bucks. All my content is on my Mac which has many hundreds of GB of storage.
Well yeah but not everybody's is, and iPad would be even better if there never was a need to tether it to anything (but a wall outlet for charging).
This is not the case currently.
On the other hand, storage space — as screen resolution — is a technical problem: you can't find 128GB NAND chips on the market, not in the amount Apple needs anyway. That's also why the iPod Touch still has only 64GB NAND and the iPhone finds itself lagging at 32.
> Having to plug crap in and out is not a very good experience though.
I was thinking the same way you were until a year ago when I spoke to a colleague who has a Droid that got an OTA upgrade to Froyo (2.2)... what a clusterf*ck... he lost battery during the event, it torched his device, and he couldn't even re-flash the firmware, he had to take it into the Verizon store, where they simply replaced it.
All the settings and hacks he put it? Wiped. (Backup is optional in Android... my colleague hadn't done it).
This made me understand why Apple is so old-school when it comes to iPod/iPad sync and upgrades. It's not just the wireless bandwidth, it's about avoiding disastrous edge-cases that ruin customer experience.
A wired sync or upgrade can guarantee backups, power availability and reasonable bandwidth.
I'm not saying doing everything wireless is ideal, and updating your firmware is one of those things I believe are OK wired, I generally want my machine to be plugged in when I update the OS or firmware.
But syncing your contacts, your browser favorites or some music should not require that the phone be plugged into the computer. That's just annoying.
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> Wires? Yea, we still need wires for some things. Apple doesn't do stuff that's not going to be a good experience.
Having to plug crap in and out is not a very good experience though. In fact, Apple seems to agree. See AirDrop in Lion.
> Memory? ...don't know, don't care how much memory is in my original iPad - I only care that it performs well - and it does.
Disagreement, Safari is a pain to use on more than two different page (outside the issue of not having tabs or anything simple) because it keeps reloading the fuck out of them due to lack of RAM (iPhone 4 has far less issues there, with a similar resolution)
> Megapixels? ...pointless fluff marketing numbers.
Yeppers.
> Storage space? I bought a 32gb and wish I had saved the 100 bucks. All my content is on my Mac which has many hundreds of GB of storage.
Well yeah but not everybody's is, and iPad would be even better if there never was a need to tether it to anything (but a wall outlet for charging).
This is not the case currently.
On the other hand, storage space — as screen resolution — is a technical problem: you can't find 128GB NAND chips on the market, not in the amount Apple needs anyway. That's also why the iPod Touch still has only 64GB NAND and the iPhone finds itself lagging at 32.
> Having to plug crap in and out is not a very good experience though.
I was thinking the same way you were until a year ago when I spoke to a colleague who has a Droid that got an OTA upgrade to Froyo (2.2)... what a clusterf*ck... he lost battery during the event, it torched his device, and he couldn't even re-flash the firmware, he had to take it into the Verizon store, where they simply replaced it.
All the settings and hacks he put it? Wiped. (Backup is optional in Android... my colleague hadn't done it).
This made me understand why Apple is so old-school when it comes to iPod/iPad sync and upgrades. It's not just the wireless bandwidth, it's about avoiding disastrous edge-cases that ruin customer experience.
A wired sync or upgrade can guarantee backups, power availability and reasonable bandwidth.
I'm not saying doing everything wireless is ideal, and updating your firmware is one of those things I believe are OK wired, I generally want my machine to be plugged in when I update the OS or firmware.
But syncing your contacts, your browser favorites or some music should not require that the phone be plugged into the computer. That's just annoying.
Wired sync isn't exactly a great experience with iOS, either. iTunes db different from your iPod's? Get ready for some work.