When it comes to the iPad, most negative reviewers are retarded.
Every negative review I’ve seen has the reviewer looking at the device with nothing but preconceived notions of what a tablet computer should be, but those notions are based on decades of failed devices.
Every one of them thinks they know what the iPad “should” have been. Every one of them saying that the lack of an SD reader (built-in), the lack of USB, a camera, a desktop computer’s operating system and capacity for multitasking will be what dooms the device. Apparently all these things would save the iPad from iminent abject failure. They talk as if they’ve had the secret recipe for the perfect tablet computer this whole time and they’ve just been sitting back watching every tablet created fail.
Where were you guys BEFORE the iPad came out? Why don’t you work for Apple and show Steve how a real iPad is made? They see the device Apple will release and have nothing to say but “it sucks because…” I’m personally glad these people aren’t going to get it because I wouldn’t want to be associated with people who think like that.
They never fail to mention how much the device sucks because it can’t do multitasking, “I can’t listen to pandora as I answer email,” “I can’t do this while I do that…” does your iPod or iPhone suddenly swell to a size incapable of fitting into your pocket because your holding a tablet? How many things are you really going to be doing at once anyway? Though this has been the case for the iPod touch and iPhone for the past 3 years, they show no sign of dying.
Having no camera? That’s gonna kill it too? What, being able to video chat on a buss or while sitting in a hotel lobby is that important? If you’re really in need of a video conference, you’ll probably be using at or using desktop or laptop computer anyway! This thing isn’t designed to replace your full computers, or your phones. These detractors just don’t get that.
I’m going to get it, not just for what it can do right now, but for what it’s capable of. When I got my first iPod Touch, all it could do was surf the Internet, play music and movies, and organize my contacts. But there was potential there, and since then there have been thousands of applications made available. I can literally pull my iPod out of my pocket and level photo on the wall, convert currency and distances, play hundreds of games from solitaire to driving sims, and even write/edit/post blog entries (thank you Tumble, which I’m using for this very post!)
If you think that all the iPad will ever be able to do is what it can do on day one, you have no insight, no imagination, no hindsight, and no right to claim you know what this device should be capable of.
When they do get their hands on the device, every last one of them will be forced to not only eat crow, but their words as well. And “lack of multitasking” is going to be a tough one to chew on.
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