I've spent some time this morning playing with my iPad and while I love so much about it I'm still frustrated by many things. I think that I would have liked it better had I not gotten a droid first, then I wouldn't have know better!
I'm still highly frustrated by the lack of java and flash support. I thought it would be amazing to use iPad with Elluminate. Being able to draw on the whiteboard with my finger instead of the mouse would be truly amazing. However it is a java download and it won't work. Of course maybe that doesn't matter now because Blackboard has bought Elluminate and that may cause a change of webconferencing anyway. The other thing is that despite Apple's claim that Flash is problematic at this point it is truly one of the few video formats that always works with online classes. Losing the ability to view so much of existing content is problematic in the extreme!
Another issue I have is the multitasking. What a pain! I know this is being changed in the new OS but seriously...
Finally, i don't like the lack of a "mouse". What I mean is even just arrow keys to move around in text with. While the pressing your finger until the little zoom box is sexy it is not near as functional as actually having arrow keys to move around. Very timeconsuming and more difficult.
On the plus side, the keyboard on the ipad is actually really great. I can type reslly quite quickly and easily with few problems. Much faster than the keyboard on the droid. It is much smaller though and I don't like the iPod keyboard.
Generally I also like the autocorrect on the iPad but it seems to be fairly random. Sometimes it capitalizes my "I" and sometimes it doesn't, sometimes it add apostrophes and sometimes it doesn't. I can't quite figure it out!
Don't get me wrong, I love Apple products and I really love my iPad, I guess I'm just extremely impressed with the Android software, it's amazingly great!
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