I'll get flamed for this. But here is some honest truth about iPads...

Using an iPad is like going backwards in time some twenty years! You can't send attachments in the iPad's native email app.... Forget multiple attchs, you can't even send one! If you don't own one you won't believe that, bit it is true! The email app is junk. And it would be easy to write any number of email programs that would be better, but of course, Apple does not allow that!

More proof that the iPad is a time machine that only goes backwards? When was the last time you used a computer that didn't have undo? Can you imagine using a device for more than ten minutes that didn't have undo? Well, buy an iPad and you can experience that for yourself... Again... After all these years.

Unreliable, browser too. Although this is supposed to be one of the iPad's strengths... It really isn't! Going to websites with iPad Safari is worse than twenty years ago. At least back then when you went to a site, if you could load it, it worked. With the iPad you never know if a site is going to work or not. I just got dinged $15 by my credit card company for missing a payment that I had made at their site using... You guessed it... The iPad. The payment appeared to go through, but as with many sites using forms, you just never know if the site has properly processed inputs from an iPad. In my case, the payment appeared to go through, but actually didn't at all. Fun, eh?

And wait until you try to type on one! My Palm Treo had better predictive typing. You must constantly correct the iPad's lame suggestions that are used by default, while you type. Depending on what line of business you are in, the iPad will make you sound like you are just a clumsy typist, or completely illiterate! And then trying to position your cursor in a TYPING FIELD LIKE THIS ONE is a complete nightmare... It is slow, if it works at all.

I'm pretty tech savvy and have tried to make my iPad useful for nearly ten months. My netbook is way more useful, day-to-day. I travel extensively and had originally hoped to replace the netbook with the iPad... Today, I just laugh at how naive I was! It is the iPad that I don't bother to pack, now!

I'm not going to flame you. I am going to point out that somewhere along the line you've confused an iPad with a lap top.

The rest of your post is just a rant. Did you sign on to iPad Forums to set help using your iPad or just to complain? People who rant like that on the first post usually have a bad case of buyers remorse.

I don't know where you got your iPad from but usually you can return them in the first couple of weeks after you've purchasedd them

See you and I use the iPad for different reasons. I use it to help me moderate the Forums I work, control my iTunes when I'm playing my stereo downstairs, and for all the wonderful apps that you can use with it. Take a look at my favoriete app SounHound. So amazing. A app that can hear music downstairs, recgnize the song, provide me the group and the lyrics and offer e videos if available. Totally awesome.

In summation, again you are treating it like a lap top and it just isnt't one.. Try thinking out of the box and see what you can do with it.

Originally Posted by Littlecay

I'll get flamed for this. But here is some honest truth about iPads...

Using an iPad is like going backwards in time some twenty years! You can't send attachments in the iPad's native email app.... Forget multiple attchs, you can't even send one! If you don't own one you won't believe that, bit it is true! The email app is junk. And it would be easy to write any number of email programs that would be better, but of course, Apple does not allow that!

More proof that the iPad is a time machine that only goes backwards? When was the last time you used a computer that didn't have undo? Can you imagine using a device for more than ten minutes that didn't have undo? Well, buy an iPad and you can experience that for yourself... Again... After all these years.

Unreliable, browser too. Although this is supposed to be one of the iPad's strengths... It really isn't! Going to websites with iPad Safari is worse than twenty years ago. At least back then when you went to a site, if you could load it, it worked. With the iPad you never know if a site is going to work or not. I just got dinged $15 by my credit card company for missing a payment that I had made at their site using... You guessed it... The iPad. The payment appeared to go through, but as with many sites using forms, you just never know if the site has properly processed inputs from an iPad. In my case, the payment appeared to go through, but actually didn't at all. Fun, eh?

And wait until you try to type on one! My Palm Treo had better predictive typing. You must constantly correct the iPad's lame suggestions that are used by default, while you type. Depending on what line of business you are in, the iPad will make you sound like you are just a clumsy typist, or completely illiterate! And then trying to position your cursor in a TYPING FIELD LIKE THIS ONE is a complete nightmare... It is slow, if it works at all.

I'm pretty tech savvy and have tried to make my iPad useful for nearly ten months. My netbook is way more useful, day-to-day. I travel extensively and had originally hoped to replace the netbook with the iPad... Today, I just laugh at how naive I was! It is the iPad that I don't bother to pack, now!

I don't believe you when you say you've had an iPad for ten months otherwise you would have discovered all the workarounds to all the problems you mention. And I even will bet that you've never purchased an app...

First, don't limit yourself to the apps that came with the iPad. It's a far better machine if you use third party apps.
Second, you're thinking your computer usage like you would a PC where a software application does everything within itself through millions of code lines. That does not work with the iPad. It's designed to work with fewer code lines within specific energy consumption guidelines.

Go ask Microsoft to build you a tablet with optimized software and see what it can do and how fast...

Littlecay,The future is apps. Usage wise for us and revenue wise for manufacturers.No matter what os you chose it's going to be very limited out of the box.
As long as we realize this it's a win/win.
I have yet to find anything I couldn't find an app for on my Incredible and only 1 thing (settings widget) on my Ipad and with so many businesses having apps the need to do business with them over the net is less and less . Maybe your credit card company has an app and you don't need to use Safari.
If you don't want to get on board with apps then nothing is going to satisfy.

Support Our Troops!!
This post was Tapatalk approved. Sent from my Incpad

Originally Posted by mountainbikermark

if you don't want to get on board with apps then nothing is going to satisfy.

I totally agree!

Originally Posted by Littlecay

I'll get flamed for this. But here is some honest truth about iPads...

Using an iPad is like going backwards in time some twenty years! You can't send attachments in the iPad's native email app.... Forget multiple attchs, you can't even send one! If you don't own one you won't believe that, bit it is true! The email app is junk. And it would be easy to write any number of email programs that would be better, but of course, Apple does not allow that!

More proof that the iPad is a time machine that only goes backwards? When was the last time you used a computer that didn't have undo? Can you imagine using a device for more than ten minutes that didn't have undo? Well, buy an iPad and you can experience that for yourself... Again... After all these years.

Unreliable, browser too. Although this is supposed to be one of the iPad's strengths... It really isn't! Going to websites with iPad Safari is worse than twenty years ago. At least back then when you went to a site, if you could load it, it worked. With the iPad you never know if a site is going to work or not. I just got dinged $15 by my credit card company for missing a payment that I had made at their site using... You guessed it... The iPad. The payment appeared to go through, but as with many sites using forms, you just never know if the site has properly processed inputs from an iPad. In my case, the payment appeared to go through, but actually didn't at all. Fun, eh?

And wait until you try to type on one! My Palm Treo had better predictive typing. You must constantly correct the iPad's lame suggestions that are used by default, while you type. Depending on what line of business you are in, the iPad will make you sound like you are just a clumsy typist, or completely illiterate! And then trying to position your cursor in a TYPING FIELD LIKE THIS ONE is a complete nightmare... It is slow, if it works at all.

I'm pretty tech savvy and have tried to make my iPad useful for nearly ten months. My netbook is way more useful, day-to-day. I travel extensively and had originally hoped to replace the netbook with the iPad... Today, I just laugh at how naive I was! It is the iPad that I don't bother to pack, now!

If you're so unhappy with this device, why do you still keep it? Sell it already and use the money to get something that you're happier with. I appreciate your candor but...don't prolong your misery. Maybe a Xoom would be better for you?

Michael "Spam, spam, bacon, eggs and spam. Hold the bacon and eggs." Sent from my iPad 2 using iPF

Ok, it's not a laptop. But there are some things that you should be able to take for granted to work, like sending attachments in an email, and the ability to easily move files on and off of the device. I should be able to drag and drop files on and off of it like an external wireless hard drive. You shouldn't have to buy third party apps to perform such fundamental tasks.

Originally Posted by J13

Ok, it's not a laptop. But there are some things that you should be able to take for granted to work, like sending attachments in an email, and the ability to easily move files on and off of the device. I should be able to drag and drop files on and off of it like an external wireless hard drive. You shouldn't have to buy third party apps to perform such fundamental tasks.

You can move files with a drag and drop with iFiles. You can email as many attachments as you like with GoodReader. You can modify stuff on your computer directly with SplashTop. You can import and read files wirelessly with FileBrowser. Grand total of less than 20$. Just try to find any software by Microsoft for that price...

Apps are bits and pieces of specialized software a little like modules. You just use the one you need for the task at hand.

Open Source maybe?

Originally Posted by iVan

Originally Posted by J13

Ok, it's not a laptop. But there are some things that you should be able to take for granted to work, like sending attachments in an email, and the ability to easily move files on and off of the device. I should be able to drag and drop files on and off of it like an external wireless hard drive. You shouldn't have to buy third party apps to perform such fundamental tasks.

You can move files with a drag and drop with iFiles. You can email as many attachments as you like with GoodReader. You can modify stuff on your computer directly with SplashTop. You can import and read files wirelessly with FileBrowser. Grand total of less than 20$. Just try to find any software by Microsoft for that price...

Apps are bits and pieces of specialized software a little like modules. You just use the one you need for the task at hand.

Correct!
I am using ifiles for all the above mentioned!