Is iPad As Good as Announced?

The hotly anticipated iPad from Apple was announced to the market earlier this year by Steve Jobs in his annual press conference in California and became available for purchase a few days ago, in the beginning of April 2010. Device touting a new technological revolution in the media fans around the world, the device itself is a focus on the many rumors for months with spyshots loosen attractive to potential buyers about the specs and characteristics of the device. What is interesting to note that the tech world is to define new media in relation to newspapers and books online, finally gracing the world more comprehensively than conventional online subscription models, and IPAD's leading payment.

Here's the keynote speech from the conference:


Now some of the hype has died down, we are taking about the developer point of view, IPAD, and what are the things that we really think and other things that definitely need to be addressed.
Source - guardian.co.uk

Before launching the actual details, here is some basic information about the device itself.

Display: 9.7-inch IPS
Size and weight: 9.56 by 7.47 inches 0.5, and 1.5-1.6 kg
Processor: 1 GHz Apple Chip A4
Storage: 16, 32 or 64 GB flash
Battery life: 10 hours of battery life, more than 1 months in standby mode
Connectivity: 802.11n Wi-Fi, 3G, Bluetooth 2.1 EDR
Other features: accelerometer, compass, speaker, microphone, 30-pin connector
Price: $ 499 from the move to full 3G 64GB version costs $ 829.

Our first impressions IPAD is somewhat related to the original rumors circulating. The device is getting the same hype that the iPhone is, but we believe it is still without some key aspects. Four main issues that plague us are:

1. Lack of support for Flash

It's not that we love Flash, but we need to use it to develop from time to time. Using a number of workarounds or hacks do not necessarily like us or the customers we develop games and applications. We are aware that it can not be the best technology available, but a large part of the digital media is converted to Flash. Until HTML5 and new video codecs get better support, we have to do with Flash. Apple's continued stubbornness to refuse to open the Flash support means that we are still stuck in the same place as the iPhone and iPod Touch.

2. No camera

Once again, such an expensive device or a camera? It seems a bit odd that the media sharing capacity of IPAD and all the connections, there is nothing that allows you to save interesting and relevant moments. The main training partners have been enlisted to support the IPAD, it'd be a nice feature to save lectures, if you're a student, or at least take photos or record videos. Images appear as it is the magnificent display. Location based applications and augmented reality really begin to use the whole capacity of the camera possible source of information, but there is no chance of its Apple's latest device.

3. No sound support (SMS, which is not supported)

No Bluetooth support, but not the ability to pair the audio device support GSM networks. It is a nice step, IPAD is a prepaid card for micro-sims but still, it'd be great to pair a Bluetooth headset to make a call from IPAD. Not need to do about the iPhone when you can just fire up your IPAD make a phone call. It got a nice big screen and better keyboard and text messages to facilitate longer battery life - see, not that logical? Apple has refused to support something like this is like us. More confused with the recent decision by the Google Voice and VOIP drive freely Carrier Networks, IPAD opportunities to throw the concept out of my phone was huge. Apple really does not take up this idea as much as they wanted.

4. No USB or microSD support

We all do not download from iTunes, some of us have accounts elsewhere in the media. After all, nice to see pictures of someone who applies their IPAD, or at least having a source of music or transfer files without the need to use the computer to move things around. It is the only thing that prevents most of Apple products from getting the criticism, what is usually flawless models. 3G connections means that people can download, but if they end state, they can not move it elsewhere. It helps create a feeling of longevity and usability of the device price, because people can update the IPAD better microSD cards, when they need more storage space.

Although these were some of the niggles we believe that Apple must seek to improve, we are excited to hear that the IPAD to drive all the apps from the App Store. Game Developers like us, the good news to hear how the new faster better able to deal with code, but the big screen what the final focus. Larger screen means that we would be able to create games that can join the multi-touch support at different scales, As two-three fingers are easy to fit instead of two. Furthermore, the evidence, the other good news for us is that the IPAD runs iPhone OS version, so that development is not going to change too much. Along with this, that is not compatible with current apps, we can easily continue to provide the titles as well as iPhone and IPAD without recode titles in both devices. It is wise that Apple seems to pick up the success of the iPhone and iPod.

Although there has been much criticism of IPAD does not necessarily make it a killer product in the "new" media, but we think it is a natural extension of the iPhone. Larger display, focus towards education giants, iBook store, the App Store compatibility, etc, all indicate that it was a logical follow-up. Netbooks really does not make a sufficiently strong case, when calculating the tablet was definitely missed in this digital revolution, it was logical to combine something that was best features of both. Connectivity, power and ease of storage, natural netbooks no extra weight, such as a keyboard, etc to create IPAD.

It is only a week, though, and Apple certainly given itself a challenge, but it seems that the IPAD might change about everyone involved in the company and supporting industries. Quite a few industry giants have been criticized by IPAD does not make as strong a case as the iPhone or iPod, but we are still in favor of the device. Although its limitations, the people who support it - namely the education heavyweights - would seem to indicate that the market has changed. We believe that the focus is now shifting to education for success in several Apple products on college campuses internationally, so this could be a training device side of the heart focuses on being a media player.