{"id":2030,"date":"2010-02-05T23:57:10","date_gmt":"2010-02-05T23:57:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.widmann.org.uk\/?p=2030"},"modified":"2010-02-05T23:57:10","modified_gmt":"2010-02-05T23:57:10","slug":"wholl-use-the-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wholl-use-the-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"Who&#8217;ll use the iPad?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdac\/4309342861\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2681\/4309342861_138bc517ac_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: solid 2px #000000;\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: 0.9em; margin-top: 0px;\"><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jdac\/4309342861\/\">Apple iPad Packaging Revealed<\/a><br \/>\nOriginally uploaded by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/people\/jdac\/\">JDAC<\/a><br \/>\n<\/span>\n<\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been discussing with wifie who&#8217;ll use the iPad, and we find it hard to find a single group of people that it&#8217;s perfect for.  Let&#8217;s have a look:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>School kids and students won&#8217;t like it because they can&#8217;t play the Flash games that are their raison d&#8217;\u00eatre, and because they multitask all the time (homework is always done while MSN&#8217;ing in another window).\n<li>Content creators (such as bloggers) won&#8217;t like it because it doesn&#8217;t have a proper keyboard, and because it&#8217;s hard to attach a camera.\n<li>Gadget nerds will think they don&#8217;t really need it because they already have an iPhone, a netbook, a laptop and a portable DVD player.\n<li>Mature technophobes who would really like a minimal solution for light web browsing and emailing won&#8217;t like it because the iPad requires a proper computer for synchronisation, too.\n<li>Business people will not buy it because it cannot be connected to a lightpro for presentations, and they might also want a front-facing camera for conferencing.\n<li>Commuters won&#8217;t like it because it&#8217;s hard to hold on to on public transport.\n<li>Porn addicts will dislike that it needs to be held in the hands.\n<li>Book readers will not buy it because the screen isn&#8217;t as good for reading as electronic paper.\n<li>Women won&#8217;t buy it because of the name, and because it doesn&#8217;t fit in a handbag.\n<li>Game players will only buy it if there are games available for it that are better than their equivalents on other platforms, and that&#8217;s not the case (yet).<\/ul>\n<p>So I must admit I find it hard to figure out who exactly will think it&#8217;s worth the money, unless some ground-breaking games are soon released for it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple iPad Packaging Revealed Originally uploaded by JDAC I&#8217;ve been discussing with wifie who&#8217;ll use the iPad, and we find it hard to find a single group of people that it&#8217;s perfect for. Let&#8217;s have a look: School kids and students won&#8217;t like it because they can&#8217;t play the Flash games that are their raison d&#8217;\u00eatre, and because they multitask all the time (homework is always done while MSN&#8217;ing in another window). Content creators (such as bloggers) won&#8217;t like it because it doesn&#8217;t have a proper keyboard, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[159,107,114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-en","category-gadgets","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/widmanniana.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}