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The biggest problem I have with the iPad keyboard is that I have to flip to another "screen" to get a damned apostrophe. The other non-letter characters I might be okay with having separate (although since many of my passwords have letters *and* numbers, typing passwords is an adventure on the iPad!) but I want the damned apostrophe. Sigh. I refuse to give in to lazy txt-typing!
Also, I am VERY surprised that I had to sync the darn thing with a computer just to set it up. Even though I had no desire to sync it at all. So basically, the iPad is a peripheral. You absolutely cannot use it unless you already have a computer, WTF.
(happy to report, however, that using the $29 Snow Leopard "upgrade" from Tiger worked well!)
Anyone know an easy way to get PDFs onto the iPad and read them? That's the one thing I *would* sync to the computer for.
Una,
I use Goodreader for pdfs (esp. large ones) on the ipod touch. There is a tablet edition:
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John August recommended GoodReader also.
Thanks for the Goodreader ref! I will be trying it out.
Ooh, thanks for the upgrade report Una!
Honestly, not having Flash on the iPhone doesn't bug me - I don't expect my phone to give me the entire internet.
Flash missing from the iPad is a bigger deal because the form factor implies a certain level of...computer-ness. And Apple supports Flash on their laptops, so it definitely feels like something *missing* from the iPad in a way that it doesn't on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
That said, I just spend about three hours playing with my sister's iPad (technically it belongs to her boss since she bought it for work, but it lives with her) and OOOOOH, SHINY. I still really don't want to pay for one (blah blah first generation Apple product) but damn if every time it was put down on the couch if I didn't want to pick it up. It's compulsively usable.
Now reporting from my iPad and Goodreader? Is awesome.
meara--if I have any further issues with the upgrade I'll let you know!
I still really don't want to pay for one (blah blah first generation Apple product) but damn if every time it was put down on the couch if I didn't want to pick it up.
Yesterday I saw one for the first time and played with it for 30 seconds. Today I'm almost regretting not buying one, even though I had not ever seriously considered buying one when it was first released.
Flash missing from the iPad is a bigger deal because the form factor implies a certain level of...computer-ness. And Apple supports Flash on their laptops, so it definitely feels like something *missing* from the iPad in a way that it doesn't on an iPhone or iPod Touch.
Yeah, this. I expect it, because of price and size and such, to be more...functional. I want to be surfing the WHOLE web. From my couch, and my coffee shop, and what have you. And if all I've got is wifi...then it can't just be mobile versions of the web. Which means not having flash...sure, sometimes is just "gee, that annoying page's intro won't load, no big", and too many pages overuse it anyway. But sometimes that means I can't even get PAST the first page. And that's something pages ought to fix, yes...but also something I shouldn't be at home on my iPad and go "Oh, guess I have to go over to the REAL COMPUTER for this site!". If I want to watch Hulu on the iPad I feel like I ought to be able to or whatever, man...
