The iPad needs native multi-tasking like a man needs a built-in vagina.
I have had it over the anti-iPad whinging. And while the iTampon jokes are a flying, I am almost surprised that there isn’t a groundswell of complaints that the danged thing can’t be used as a tampon. It would make about as much sense as most of the current crop of complaints which amount to nothing more than having a hissy fit because the iPad isn’t a MacBook. It isn’t intended to be. Just like men weren’t intended to have vaginas. They might be better off in that they finally could find a way to live without wimmin, but that simply is not what they were intended to be. The iPad isn’t intended to be a geek workhorse. It is intended to be a very simple and seamless portable device that simply works.
And I have to ask… has any of these prima donnas actually tried to multi-task on a typical netbook? Yeah technically you can, but you could also technically surf the interwebz on most pre-iPhone cellular phones, and we all know what that was like.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackIf a man had a vagina – the world would be a much less complicated place. And holidays like today would not exist. Well, I guess it would depend on the exact location of that new organ…
That being said – you are very, very wrong.
I’ve owned netbooks – plural – and I’ve multitasked on all of them. No, you can’t run Crysis and Adobe Premier at the same time – but you can have Pandora running while you surf the web, and have a Word document open all at once, without a problem. The problem is, on an iPad (or an iPhone, iPod Touch, etc.), you can’t.
Somehow Palm figured out a way to make multitasking work on a smartphone… And they did it over a decade ago on the Palm Pilot. And they are still doing it today, very well, mind you, on a less-powerful-than-the-iPad-phone called the Palm Pre.
It makes even more sense to have multitasking on the iPad, since – at this point – all of the apps except for the Apple ones, will be iPhone apps. This means they were built to be able to work on at least the 3G iPhone, if not the 2G one, so they should easily be able to run 2 or 3 or 4 on the iPad at one time – full speed.
Plus, with the larger screen, you could easily have as many as four iPhone apps open full resolution on the screen at once. This would allow drag and drop copying between apps. If you want to edit a photo from the web – just drag it to Photoshop.com. You want to copy your Now Playing song from Pandora into your tweet? Drag and drop. You want to send that urban spoon review in an email? …. you get the idea.
And Apple already has an slick, touch-friendly interface for choosing between full-screen apps, it’s called Coverflow.
If Mr. Steve Jobs (*golden choir sings*) had stepped out on that hallowed stage with the announcement of the Multitasking iPad – none of you fanboys and fangirls would have said “The iPad doesn’t need that!” And if Mr. Steve Jobs (*golden choir sings*) *does* come out with iPhone OS 4.0 on iPad launch day, and it just so happens to have multitasking, where would all the “That’s as pointless as a man with a vagina” comments be then?
And, trust me, he will give true multitasking to the iPad – and the iPhone / iPod Touch – eventually. It’s just another obvious addon that he will “REVOLUTIONIZE” with in a later generation. (Like a camera on the iPad / iPod Touch – or like adding an FM radio to the Nano, when almost every cheap mp3 player in the world had one back in 2003 – but if Mr. Steve Jobs (*golden choir sings*) does it – it’s MAGICAL….
And, yes, I’m a Mac User. I even own an iPhone.
Ahh Chad. You caused all those problems back in the first Florida Bush election and here you are again.
Precisely. You might need multi-tasking for that.
And you are very very delusional, but you have good taste in blogs to frequent.
dude, sometimes you can barely have Word open properly on a full sized computer, so methinks you are ummm well, making things up.
(plus nitpick — running pandora is not different from surfing the web…. and if you had just a pandora app and running word, that isn’t technically multitasking but background processes, but I digress)
And did I ever say it wasn’t possible? No I didn’t. This is called fluff, and your fluffy puff actually supports my point. No mass exodus to Palm for the precious multitasking.
That made no sense.
I didn’t say multitasking was useless. I just said it ain’t the big friggin’ deal for this product (and the demographic Apple is targetting doesn’t give a duck about multitasking… they want to know if they can forward the email about the little boy with three hearts that is going to die unless Microsoft pays everyone ten cents for every forward they do…. you get the picture.
And God has already provided for all your vagina needs. It’s called a female.
It would be irrelevant because people don’t complain about extra things. I think the compass on the iphone isn’t necessary. I have never used it. But I am not going to bitch about it being there. I think you have vagina-envy. Sad but true.
And I think the FM radio is useless.. much like the previously mentioned vay-jay-jay on a due. Jealous of Dear Leader I see. What’s wrong? You think he has a vagina hidden under those Levis?
But you don’t (hopefully) have a vagina. You don’t need one. But if you had one, you probably wouldn’t bitch about it as long as it didn’t get in your way.
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