John Yu’s Blog

Well, so much for Apple announcing news of the iPhone going to Verizon. All we got was the tablet announcement, the iPad. I have to say, I’m with everyone else that’s left scratching their heads over this one. So if you haven’t seen it yet, imagine a great big iPhone with less functionality. All the reviews regarding speed and the beautiful screen are positive (although the screen is not wide screen format). The onscreen keypad was good but not great. Price is not all that bad actually, starting at $499, or $629 with 3G.

What’s not so great about the new iPad? Let me count the ways…

1. The name sucks. MaxiPad anyone?
2. Any sort of expansion will require and adapter (even USB!)
3. No HDMI port to output the high def videos you’ll be watching on this thing
4. All that power but no multitasking?!? Are you freakin’ kidding me!! How is this supposed to be a notch above netbooks?
5. No Flash support…boo!

I’ll just stop there. Thats already more than enough reasons to skip on this (for now, at least). Head on over to Apple’s site for more details: http://www.apple.com/ipad/.