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SpriteMaster wrote:

stevetheipad wrote:

G0D_M0D3 wrote:

I knew steve would post here!

Hey, if there's a tablet discussion going on, you can count on me to be there. 

IPads aren't tablets, psh. wait...

They started the current tablet craze.

funelephant wrote:

soupoftomato wrote:

SpriteMaster wrote:

IPads aren't tablets, psh. wait...

They started the current tablet craze.

If you would notice my conveniently placed "wait..." there you could infer that I was being sarcastic.

SpriteMaster wrote:

stevetheipad wrote:

G0D_M0D3 wrote:

I knew steve would post here!

Hey, if there's a tablet discussion going on, you can count on me to be there. 

IPads aren't tablets, psh. wait...

Then... What are they I see now...

I thought that this was about USB drawing tablets for digital art.
I no longer have anything positive to contribute.

CheckItNow12 wrote:

CheckItNow12 wrote:

Well, it can do whatever a smartphone can do (minus the 4G) for NO monthly fees. That's a good one.

Most android tablets are badly made.

I have never understood the "smaller" tablets. What makes a tablet a tablet is the larger screen. You can see the screen much better on a bigger screen; exactly the point of a tablet. The iPad is light and thin enough to carry easily in a bag, and it really isn't difficult to just carry it in a hand. (how most people seem to carry phones anyway, *cough*)

While we're at it why don't I give up my desktop for the Raspberry Pi that can fit in my pocket? I was of the "doesn't fit in your pocket" argument when the first iPad topic was made on the Scratch Forums (before I actually followed hardware news like WWDC and Google I/O). It's something you need to see. I probably seem like a fanboy right now (calm down the iPad is my only Apple product) but it's true. The iPad is nearly perfect, only limited by Apple's vision of it. If it ran a full OSX, I would beg all my family members for a loan right now.

slinger wrote:

Uggh tablets.
No, you can't do that much with them.
You're supposed to be able to but they really aren't that amazing.
I also feel that having only 1 gig of ram is a rip off. Like seriously, that's from like ten years ago. I would also like to point out that when using a tablet the sweat and oil from your fingers clouds up the screen.
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Of course I've always been against tablets 
I've also always found these funny. Wasn't the whole point of an iPad to get away from the keyboard? xD

You have used a desktop/laptop for a long time, haven't you? This is the same reaction I get from older people, not because of their age, because they're used to a clunky, plastic desktop or laptop. Some tablets are exactly like you describe. The iPad, however, unlocks a world of content. The first iPad was very much a consumer product, it was for entertainment, but not for creating. But now, I can see that it's moving towards the laptop industry (while eating a bunch of the laptop market) where it will simply become a better, mobile laptop. I've always been against mobile sites, because it's like taking a great website and then sizing it down to three buttons so it fits the device. It shouldn't be like that, the device should fit the content, not the content fitting the device, like Android tablets.

Yeah, those seem pretty funny, they take the "p" in "iPad" away, making it an iPad without the portability. The one instance where those keyboards are handy is when someone's only computer is the iPad and when they get home, the keyboard helps make the iPad more desktop-like. I would never actually carry one of those around, but I might leave it at my desk if I didn't have my MBP.

Last edited by stevetheipad (2012-07-01 12:56:39)

Dinoclor wrote:

It's a tablet. That means you can draw with it.

These tablets are a little different. Saying that about iPads is like saying "all I can do with this dollar bill is buy a piece of candy".

stevetheipad wrote:

slinger wrote:

Uggh tablets.
No, you can't do that much with them.
You're supposed to be able to but they really aren't that amazing.
I also feel that having only 1 gig of ram is a rip off. Like seriously, that's from like ten years ago. I would also like to point out that when using a tablet the sweat and oil from your fingers clouds up the screen.
--
Of course I've always been against tablets 
I've also always found these funny. Wasn't the whole point of an iPad to get away from the keyboard? xD

You have used a desktop/laptop for a long time, haven't you? This is the same reaction I get from older people, not because of their age, because they're used to a clunky, plastic desktop or laptop. Some tablets are exactly like you describe. The iPad, however, unlocks a world of content. The first iPad was very much a consumer product, it was for entertainment, but not for creating. But now, I can see that it's moving towards the laptop industry (while eating a bunch of the laptop market) where it will simply become a better, mobile laptop. I've always been against mobile sites, because it's like taking a great website and then sizing it down to three buttons so it fits the device. It shouldn't be like that, the device should fit the content, not the content fitting the device, like Android tablets.

Yeah, those seem pretty funny, they take the "p" in "iPad" away, making it an iPad without the portability. The one instance where those keyboards are handy is when someone's only computer is the iPad and when they get home, the keyboard helps make the iPad more desktop-like. I would never actually carry one of those around, but I might leave it at my desk if I didn't have my MBP.

Heyheyheyheyheyhey- take that back, I've been using a laptop and desktop ever since I was four or five (I'm current;y 14).
As far as I know the iPad can do everything the iPhone and iPod touch can do.
I realize that the iPad is good but um, seriously, as an example let's take word processing, I would probably laugh if there was a serious word processing app for the iPad, not because the iPad isn't good enough for that but because it's more of an entertainment system. Of course these are just my opinions.

Why would anyone buy an iPad as their only computer? That doesn't make sense...
edit: I just realized, I can't win this argument, you're an iPad D:

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Yay someone agrees with me!
But I would like to point out that tablets are amazing for stuff like drawing and most likely the mouse side of scratch. They are also pretty good for browsing the web too 

slinger wrote:

stevetheipad wrote:

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Heyheyheyheyheyhey- take that back, I've been using a laptop and desktop ever since I was four or five (I'm current;y 14).
As far as I know the iPad can do everything the iPhone and iPod touch can do.
I realize that the iPad is good but um, seriously, as an example let's take word processing, I would probably laugh if there was a serious word processing app for the iPad, not because the iPad isn't good enough for that but because it's more of an entertainment system. Of course these are just my opinions.

Why would anyone buy an iPad as their only computer? That doesn't make sense...
edit: I just realized, I can't win this argument, you're an iPad D:

Yup, it can do everything the iPod Touch can do but it's not limited to that, it does more than that, it's almost a replacement for a laptop, but not quite, as it is it's own category.

I can tell you've never used an iPad, because you don't know about Apple's Pages application on the App Store for the iPad that's one of the App Store's top sellers. It's a really nice word processing app, that's sleek, easy to use and has high ceilings. The fact that you didn't know about Pages tells me you haven't investigated the iPad enough/given the iPad a try yet, which makes your opinion slightly less valid on this subject. 

In reply to "why would anyone buy an iPad as their only computer? That doesn't make sense...":
1. It's a very inexpensive computer
2. It's great for travel, and lots of people travel a lot
3. It's completely capable of being a lone computer and is really easy to sync using iCloud, download apps without the desktop iTunes program and do everything your laptop can do without the huge screen.

Last edited by stevetheipad (2012-07-01 14:48:52)