> Those lockups are not that uncommon, Chuck. They come up quite often on
> the iPad Yahoo group.
Yup. Geeky iPad users are very well versed in the ten-second, two-fingered
salute. Also with the hold of the home button so you can clear out apps
from running memory. (We've got an identical function in Android too).
My big problem over the past two days is that I left my Apple charger cube
at another location. I've only been able to charge it from my Enercell
battery pack. Unfortunately, it sucks that battery dry quicker than I can
charge it. I've been doing the balancing act of keeping the iPad between
5-20% charge. This battery pack will recharge my cellphone about 1.5 times,
but will only give me about a 25% charge on the iPad. Usually much less
because I'm using it so much.
My iPad is usually in operation up to 10 hours a day. It runs continually
during my 105 mile commute and is a major lookup tool at work, often times
running Air-Display, but usually where i do my Google Earth searches and
product manual searches. And then Pandora or the music player are running
the rest of the time. Between iTunesU, podcasts and other recorded training
materials, I'm speed-listening (usually 2x) to a lot of stuff every week.
You can see why I got so upset when Apple took away the speed-control
function in the player with one of the iOS upgrades. The flood of protest
from around the world was quite deafening. It took them over six months
after the official release to fix it (they were aware of the problem months
earlier in the alpha/beta releases) and most of us ended up using entirely
different devices to listen to extensive spoken word content. Typical
large-corporation nanny-state response was that Apple never did acknowledge
that there was ever a problem with it.
And that's really the rub. As long as you acknowledge and work within the
limitations of the device, and don't get your hopes up too high, it's a
fantastic device. But I'm concerned that some of my primary apps are no
longer going to be supported. As an entertainment or personal
communications device, it is fabulous. As a business tool? Sometimes and it
depends. My peers (I work in a geek-centric industry) have substantially
migrated away from the Apple devices to Android devices and now they're
migrating to tablet-pc products. The ability to have a full-fledged
computer in the same or similar form-factor as an iPad is where the action
seems to be at.
I've spoken before about iPhone fatigue and the rise of Android. Just among
my peers, we've gone from, maybe 75% iPhones to less than 20% iPhones in
just over a year. Only two have gotten the iPhone5, everybody else is
Android or now the new Windows phone. The reasoning for the migration is
multi-fold, but this is a trend that Apple needs to really be concerned
with. Just a hard analysis of the Galaxy S3 compared to the iPhone5 reveals
part of the problem. But a hard analysis of the operating system and
cooperation with developers is another. Apple is NOT being responsive to
the developers and fails to fix specific problems.
End Rant. Apple is a great corporation and on a bad day they are still
better than most on a good day.
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Ken Norton
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http://www.zone-10.com
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