How can the iPad be as popular as it is?
Posted by
Russ Abbott on
URL: http://friam.383.s1.nabble.com/How-can-the-iPad-be-as-popular-as-it-is-tp6415938.html
It has a horrible editor, and it doesn't have an undo button. Touch it in the wrong place, and it does something that you don't expect. And it's often hard to touch it in the right place.
But that's only when you want to navigate from page to page or enter information. It's even terrible when you want to use something that's already created but that Apple doesn't own. I wanted to run an applet. Forget it. An alternative was a Java Web start version of the same application. Forget it. Nor can one download a jar file and run that. In other words, forget using Java or anything written in Java on your iPad.
So I decided to look at some documentation. Too bad it was packaged in a zip file. Can't read that either.
The iPad may be pretty, but it's awfully dumb. How can we all be so taken in by its looks?
It seems to me that Apple is the new Microsoft. It wants to have a walled garden and won't let anything in or out unless it has complete control. We didn't stand for this with Microsoft. Why are we putting up with it with Apple?
Or am I wrong about all this? Is there a way to these things, and I just don't know the secret handshake?
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