Ok, so I must admit – I really do love my iPad 2 that I got for Christmas! I have been against the whole iPad thing for – well since the start, when the first gen came out! I looked at the product, like so many others, on the Apple site and went wow – that is the top of consumerism right there. It certainly looks nice, but it’s just another little entertainment device that you can’t do anything on – Apple’s iOS is notorious for limiting the functionality of their machines and the way you can (or should I say can’t) save and edit your data on. BUT 2 – 3 years on, after the production of thousands of apps, the refinement of iPad 2 (slimmer/thinner, dual core, better graphics or whatever else they have upgraded in their system), and the million of accessories available for the iPad (which I think all those people out there must be making a killing!!), it certainly starts to hold an appeal…
I am not one of those Apple lovers who would go out and buy everything that is Apple – no. I have an iPhone and an iPad. I am pretty tech savvy, have also a laptop and a desktop – so when the iPad came out, I immediately thought, the iPad can never replace the laptop, or the tablet pcs – functionality is so limited. You are restricted to running the only approved programs from the app store. You can’t transfer data unless through iTunes, and hell once you have set up all music/books/ whatever else you have autosynced to one laptop (like I do), you can’t sync apps/music/books etc from another machine (like my desktop) without deleting your whole library first! How frustrating!
Nevertheless, my mind has been, well you can say brainwashed if you will, into being pro-Apple and pro-iPad. As I mentioned earlier, all the major sharks in the market out there have embraced the electronic world – I mean how could you not? It’s the next step in our technological evolution – you have social media, social networking, the appearance of cloud/sky drives, evolution of seamless, wireless internet, smartphones etc – all the information you could ever need to get ahead is at your fingertips. And so we are going a little off track here but as I was saying, every major market leader out there has got their hands in the pie – the iPad has revolutionised technology, making pretty much everything else obsolete. Let me give you a few examples.
