Apple iPad: Coming to UK Soon
It is pretty hard to be excited about the Apple iPad, but there are people who are obviously eager to get the touch screen tablet as soon as the stores open up in the US. According to various reports, people have already begun lining up in front of Best Buy and other similar retailers.
Whether this will also be the situation in the UK remains to be seen. So far, there is little interest overall in Apple’s tablet, and people have a right to not be so overly impressed. First off, the tablet’s foremost feature is its web browsing capability (and please do not say it’s the eBook reading function, the device is too expensive to be mainly for that). While the large resolution certainly helps, the fact that you cannot see Flash content will render plenty of website inaccessible.
Facebook users will certainly find it annoying that all Flash based applications will not be accessible on the device either. Explanations and rationalizations regarding the why Flash is missing ranges from the basic (Steve Jobs hates Adobe) to the odd (Flash slows down performance), and frankly, there really is no excuse to not having it.
As an eBook reader, a media viewer and a video game system, the iPad is pretty promising. It will even run a whole new range of applications aside from the apps for the iPhone and the iPod Touch. Apple says that there will be over 700 applications exclusively for the iPad available at launch date (which is just around the corner).
Despite its drawbacks, the Apple iPad is still a device worth having. It will certainly make going online significantly easier as you would no longer need to turn on your netbook, just pick up the iPad and you are ready to go.
Find out more about the upcoming Apple iPad at the Telegraph UK.
Tags: Apple, Apple-iPad, Apple-iPhone
April 6th, 2010 at 2:06 pm
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