This covers almost all my complaints about the iPad and why paying so much money for something that has less functions than a
300 dollar netbook is stupid. The most glaring mistake is not to have mulitasking out of the box. You can't tell me that no one at Apple played with the iPad and not think maybe the ability to read e-books while music is playing in the background wouldn't be cool?
I've used a few $300 netbooks. They don't have multitasking out of the box either. The best you can say is that they can run multiple inactive programs (not) running at once.
ReplyDeleteAnd you can listen to music and read a book at the same time. The iPod app (and the mail app, and a few other built ins) can run in the background while another program runs in the foreground. All you can't do is have third-party apps running in the background.
"They don't have multitasking out of the box either."
ReplyDeleteUmm... my $300 netbook running Ubuntu definitely had multi-tasking out of the box.
I assume you don't know what multi-tasking is.