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So I bought this thing. As to why I did, well, partly it was retail therapy, partly it was my birthday, and well, I like shiny electronics.
So that positions me as an iPad owner who doesn't feel a need to justify it in terms of "revolutionizing computing forever!!!1one". I feel like I can give a pretty unbiased depiction of what you can expect if you buy one.
( Reviewish )
There are a couple of problems with it that only time will solve:
1. There's no good Meebo app. There's the iPhone app, but running iPhone apps on it is ugly.
2. You look like a dork carrying it around. I felt the same way about my iPhone for the first few months, until suddenly everyone had one. I think this is why a lot of people buy cases for them, more than to protect the screen: in a case, it looks like an organizer. Alone, it looks like a nerd toy.
3. The App Store sucks. I don't mean their policy of rejecting cool things or being control freaks, I mean the actual design of the store. It gives you very few ways to look for things: you can search by name, look at the top selling or top grossing apps, or look at the top apps in a given category. You can't look for, say, 4X games, or the top-selling free music apps, or all apps tagged as "puzzle". All these would be excellent things for them to add, and they'll eventually have to add at least some of that, or revenue will drop off as nobody can find anything to buy. Until then, I've had good luck just googling for what I want and then searching by name in the store (use the store only to buy, not to find).
So that positions me as an iPad owner who doesn't feel a need to justify it in terms of "revolutionizing computing forever!!!1one". I feel like I can give a pretty unbiased depiction of what you can expect if you buy one.
( Reviewish )
There are a couple of problems with it that only time will solve:
1. There's no good Meebo app. There's the iPhone app, but running iPhone apps on it is ugly.
2. You look like a dork carrying it around. I felt the same way about my iPhone for the first few months, until suddenly everyone had one. I think this is why a lot of people buy cases for them, more than to protect the screen: in a case, it looks like an organizer. Alone, it looks like a nerd toy.
3. The App Store sucks. I don't mean their policy of rejecting cool things or being control freaks, I mean the actual design of the store. It gives you very few ways to look for things: you can search by name, look at the top selling or top grossing apps, or look at the top apps in a given category. You can't look for, say, 4X games, or the top-selling free music apps, or all apps tagged as "puzzle". All these would be excellent things for them to add, and they'll eventually have to add at least some of that, or revenue will drop off as nobody can find anything to buy. Until then, I've had good luck just googling for what I want and then searching by name in the store (use the store only to buy, not to find).
