It has been over a year since we first saw the iPad. It hasn’t quite been on the market for a year, but I have to confess: I expected more.<\/p>\n
I didn’t expect more from the hardware – it seemed like the RAM was lacking but honestly it has turned out to be a non-issue most of the time. The thing that surprises me is how uncreative applications have generally been given the potential power of the iPad.<\/p>\n
It seems like an incredibly good thing that the iPhone preceded the iPad, because I think the lack of creativity that would have been displayed in that case would have been even worse.<\/p>\n
The iPhone was small enough to not be considered a computer. The iPad is too small to be a “computer” in the sense we know it, but too large to be pocketable and contextless like the iPhone. I think that has constrained the domain of problems that people want to tackle with the iPad, but I think that’s short-sighted.<\/p>\n
There are certainly instances of specific tasks that have been revolutionized by the iPad, but not in the kind of all-encompassing vision one might have initially had. Is this simply down to the time it takes to develop such applications? Perhaps.<\/p>\n
In any case, I hope the rumors of decreased prices are true. If more devices make their way into the hands of people, perhaps those sorts of all-encompassing applications in various domains will happen. I’m convinced that the existing hardware is completely adequate – we need better software to realize the potential of that hardware.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It has been over a year since we first saw the iPad. It hasn’t quite been on the market for a year, but I have to confess: I expected more. I didn’t expect more from the hardware – it seemed like the RAM was lacking but honestly it has turned out to be a non-issue … Continue reading one year of the iPad<\/span>