It’s barely been a day since Apple released their much anticipated Apple tablet and the amount of negative criticism is already quite overwhelming.
That’s one of the staple characteristics of the Internet – give me any amazing feat or impressive product and I can easily find more than enough criticism. It is, almost always, over the top.
The amount of words that have been written both for and against the Tablet for the past few months could likely fill up entire libraries. The sheer amount of rumors that seem to have appeared out of nothing is more than a bit overwhelming.
In some sense, it’s no surprise that the iPad, when compared to the rumored iPad, is a bit unimpressive. Even if some of these apparent downfalls have merit, you still end up sounding ridiculous as you go down a list of your grievances with the device.
…what!?!?!? It doesn’t have a camera! How dare they.
No camera is fine, but it only has iPhone OS on it? How can they possibly put the popular reliable highly-rated operating system with 140,000 curtailed professional apps on this new tablet? That makes no sense to my genius mind.
It’s only 1.5 pounds and 0.5 inches thick. How huge! How can I possibly put this in my pocket or even carry it around? It will probably hurt my back. A lot.
Only 10 hours of battery life with direct use and 30 days with standby mode!? How can I possibly get anything done with those restrictions!
I can’t play WoW on this thing?! This is worthless.
What do you mean it doesn’t fly?
…and, after all this crap, you’re telling me this “oh so mighty” Tablet will not work under water? What if I feel like editing a spreadsheet while taking a dip in my pool?
Let’s attempt to put some things in perspective here. We’ve seen tablets being released for a bit over a decade now and nothing seems to have come close to what Apple released yesterday. It seems responsive, fast, sleek, clean, and professional. That by no means indicates that it’s a perfect device – it is the iTab 1.0. It’s been shown to journalists who absolutely loved it and investors who are astounded by its low price. Keep in mind that the Amazon Kindle DX, whose release hasn’t been marred by one percent of the accusations currently flying at Apple, is only ten dollars cheaper. And the Kindle DX is black/white and only an eBook reader. The iPad’s iBooks app is an even better interface than the Kindle and lucky for us, iBooks isn’t the only thing offered on the iPad.
In the end, you really have to try it out to have a real opinion of it. As impressed as I am with what I have seen and heard, I will not be content until the I get a chance to hold one and use it. So do the sensible thing: wait sixty days until we get to see the iPad and go and try it out. Then and only then can you be allowed to have a qualified and informed opinion on it, contrary to your baseless insensible illogical criticisms today.
And in the meantime, until you’ve seen and tried out the device, please just shut up.
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