Interested in gettin an iPad - some questions!

I got my Ipad2 yesterday and I'm having a great time messing about with it.
Today I discovered how to stream music over my network through my hi fi system using the iPad and wasted this afternoon with the groove bug music app.

The streaming means I don't have to use up capacity putting my music library on the iPad.
 
DangerMoose said:
I'm reasonably sure something very similar was said by many people about the Android Honeycomb tablets.
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Difference is we already know what support the windows tablets will have, like Zune, split screen and a host of other features. We've already seen a prototype device and of course microsoft arent scared of putting money behind and have a proper regulated app store like apple and unlike android.

I know where my ipad2 will be going middle of 2012.
 
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Windows 8 tablets are an unknown quantity. What we don't know is the key factor: how successful the app store will be. Apps are everything.

Microsoft's money will help, but money isn't all. I don't like to think how much money they've thrown into promoting Bing, for instance - with little impact upon Google's dominance. Same with Windows Phone, if we're being honest.
 
Glaucus said:
Difference is we already know what support the windows tablets will have, like Zune, split screen and a host of other features. We've already seen a prototype device and of course microsoft arent scared of putting money behind and have a proper regulated app store like apple and unlike android.
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From what I have seen though, Microsoft are still pushing the tablet PC with the emphasis on the PC. The Samsung one, if that is what you are referring to, is decidedly PC like in spec. i5 CPU. 4GB of RAM. 64GB SSD is admittedly high end tablet territory as well but what we seem to have here is an ultrabook without the keyboard built in. It will be interesting to see what sort of price that they can sell those for but I would be pleasantly surprised if they can keep them anywhere near as low as the entry level iPads, not to mention the Android options with the discounts some of them have been getting lately.

Now clearly Windows can run on lesser hardware, but I still reckon this misses the point of what has made the iPad so successful to date. Although they lack many of the features of a full blown PC, they also remove most of the concerns of using one as well. Android devices to bring a few of them back into the mix but you don't need to worry about antivirus software, useless toolbars hitching a ride with programs that you install and just general problems with stuff running in the background slowing things down. If people wanted to run Windows on a tablet, they have already had many chances to do so. It will be interesting to see just how much this new interface changes things but really, I think one could be forgiven for being sceptical about the impact it will have on the iPad's market share. Still, choice is good and it will be nice to know that anyone wanting more than just a stripped down tablet OS has somewhere to go.

And Windows Phone has already been mentioned.

I know where my ipad2 will be going middle of 2012.
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Meh, to each their own.
 
DangerMoose said:
From what I have seen though, Microsoft are still pushing the tablet PC with the emphasis on the PC. .
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No they aren't, that is a developer preview model, so developers can start designing apps. They are pushing arm powered tablets.
Also makes ypthe reta of your argument pointless, as that isn't how Microsoft are going about tablets.
Perhaps you should actually read what metro on arm tablets is going to be and do.
It's hugely more powerful that iOS with some amazing features.

Windows phone has only recently been released, or at least the viable mango update and the Nokia phone. Which has become best selling phone in several countries.

The appstoreis currently small but growing. But it feels very much like apple. Apps done well by big companies. Not like android that has no checks and dominated baby knock of apps by 12 year old kids.
 
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(1) There is a web browser app you can download called Skyfire that lets you watch flash videos. Although Youtube has a stand alone app to watch YT videos.

(2) Why do you want an SD card slot?

(3) Rumours state that the iPad3 will be out in march, however these are only rumours

(4) Yes, but why would you want to?
 
I bought my one a few weeks ago, bought it second hand and am planning on selling it early next year. An interesting year coming up for Tablets because the Android platform is slowly getting there and Microsoft are coming out with a proper OS for tablets.

Mattus said:
Windows 8 tablets are an unknown quantity. What we don't know is the key factor: how successful the app store will be. Apps are everything.

Microsoft's money will help, but money isn't all. I don't like to think how much money they've thrown into promoting Bing, for instance - with little impact upon Google's dominance. Same with Windows Phone, if we're being honest.
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If you throw enough money at something more often than not it can be successful but you have to remember Microsoft have a few things going for them. First of it is Microsoft a company that most are people are familiar with and will probably feel quite comfortable with. Also with the W8 tablet most people still work on Windows machines so should integrate well into the next OS and then you have the XBOX as well which will probably have a very similar interface as well.

Also with Bing Microsoft are trying to take Google users whereas the Tablet market is growing with every day and Microsoft will target new customers or those looking to upgrade. It is in the customers interest for there to be three main players in the Tablet market rather than Apple just running the show. Each company will be forced to innovate further and it will hopefully bring prices down, can't go wrong with that :) Windows Phone is a new platform really and when the Windows Phone 8 comes out that will make things interesting

The key is the app market like you say and I'm sure those who develop for Apple with be getting nice incentives to develop for Microsoft as well. I'm sure there are many apps in development as we speak
 
The problem MS have with their new tablet and Windows phones is most people with an iPad and iPhone are not going to switch because the benefit is too small to make the change. MS are too late to the party.

Faster hardware specs are worth nothing if you have £££'s tied up in apps on another system.
 
Glaucus said:
But that's jail broken isn't it?
Becuase the normal sd reader, only recognises photos and not even photos from all digital cameras. You can't stick iTunes films on or music.
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You don't need to be jailbroken to use the midi and USB soundcards, but to do the more advanced stuff like read films and music from and SD card then yes you need to be jailbroken, as you need something like iFile really. :)

I'm still awaiting an iOs 5 jailbreak myself, until then I'm with 4.3.3 but I was able to use my Korg Nanokey with the CCK with programs like Animoog and Sunrizer before I was jailbroken.
 
Still huge amounts of growth in the smartphone and tablet area if ms do it well there of lots of people who still have not gotten these devices. Currently nothing touches the iPad and it's a brilliant device I have had the first gen one for over a year and its been so useful taken it on holidays when visiting the in laws and just around the house, so I wouldn't sweat buying one, they hold value well if you decided you wanted to upgrade.
 
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