<story><title>Why the iPad isn&apos;t for me</title><url>http://www.macworld.com/article/150474/2010/04/ipad_not_for_everyone.html?t=</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>briancooley</author><text>My wife is dubious. She doesn&apos;t like the lack of Flash. She doesn&apos;t like trying to type on the software keyboard.&lt;p&gt;Her parents, definite technophobes, were intimidated by it. The first thing they wanted to look at was a slideshow on smugmug.com, some pictures of their granddaughter. Also Flash. They looked at me incredulously as I explained to them that you couldn&apos;t view the slideshow on the iPad. They tried to use the navigation on the website, but the navigation links were small and adjacent to the shopping cart link. At the height of their frustration, I pulled out my MBP so they could watch the slideshow on it. The thought of explaining to them how to set up their iPad to sync photos gives me chills.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, my 3-year-old LOVES it. She can use a mouse and a trackpad, but she has to concentrate and make deliberate movements. On the iPad, she flies. She can get to her favorite apps and watch her videos in a flash. There are lots of downsides to having this device in a toddler&apos;s hands, and I&apos;d never let her use it unsupervised, but that&apos;s an aside from the usability issue.</text></item><item><author>Tichy</author><text>With respect of iPads for moms and grandparents, I am also a bit doubtful. Since a lot of web sites probably don&apos;t work as expected (ie no Flash, among other things), wouldn&apos;t that be confusing to the noobs? I am waiting for the first review from an iPad-Mommy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mortenjorck</author><text>I still don&apos;t understand why Apple ever decided to play up the iPad&apos;s web browsing experience. I&apos;ve written on this at length before, but even apart from Flash, the desktop web is simply not compatible as-is with a tablet interface.&lt;p&gt;The iPad will make a fantastic browser for the tablet web, if and when that web is built, but today it&apos;s a poor substitute for a mouse and keyboard when websites expect those.</text></comment>
<story><title>Why the iPad isn&apos;t for me</title><url>http://www.macworld.com/article/150474/2010/04/ipad_not_for_everyone.html?t=</url><text></text></story><parent_chain><item><author>briancooley</author><text>My wife is dubious. She doesn&apos;t like the lack of Flash. She doesn&apos;t like trying to type on the software keyboard.&lt;p&gt;Her parents, definite technophobes, were intimidated by it. The first thing they wanted to look at was a slideshow on smugmug.com, some pictures of their granddaughter. Also Flash. They looked at me incredulously as I explained to them that you couldn&apos;t view the slideshow on the iPad. They tried to use the navigation on the website, but the navigation links were small and adjacent to the shopping cart link. At the height of their frustration, I pulled out my MBP so they could watch the slideshow on it. The thought of explaining to them how to set up their iPad to sync photos gives me chills.&lt;p&gt;OTOH, my 3-year-old LOVES it. She can use a mouse and a trackpad, but she has to concentrate and make deliberate movements. On the iPad, she flies. She can get to her favorite apps and watch her videos in a flash. There are lots of downsides to having this device in a toddler&apos;s hands, and I&apos;d never let her use it unsupervised, but that&apos;s an aside from the usability issue.</text></item><item><author>Tichy</author><text>With respect of iPads for moms and grandparents, I am also a bit doubtful. Since a lot of web sites probably don&apos;t work as expected (ie no Flash, among other things), wouldn&apos;t that be confusing to the noobs? I am waiting for the first review from an iPad-Mommy.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Tichy</author><text>Funny you mention your 3-year-old. I have been thinking exactly that, that there might be a way to create fun apps for babies and kids.&lt;p&gt;I am firmly against wooden toys and want to give my kid a computer asap (OK, nothing against wooden toys, but you get the idea).&lt;p&gt;So I wondered if the iPad is durable enough for a kid. Ultimately I expect cheaper variants to appear, with special kids durability (of course not from Apple, but maybe Android or sth like that).&lt;p&gt;Would be interested in hearing more stories about kids on pads.</text></comment>