It seems that NPR has already realized the folly of an iPad app, since it now auto-forwards to a "Beta" /tablet page that has non-Flash players. And the NPR.org page has everything the HD app has and much more, including a handly link for the hourly news summary. The weather I can get anywhere, including my My Yahoo page, which also monitors RSS feeds. When both crashed once too often, I stopped using them. Next apps to go were the TWC Max+ and NPR apps. So I haven’t opened either of those apps in a week or so, instead clicking on the bookmark I made for the Times’ website. It started with the New York Times, whose Editors Choice app has fewer categories than the NY Times iPhone app, which I also downloaded.īut then it dawned that I didn’t need to bother with the apps at all, since I had a web browser (albeit a crippled one that doesn’t handle Flash) with a netbook-sized screen capable of displaying full web pages in either portrait or landscape. But a funny thing happened over the past weeks of day-to-day use. So when I got the iPad, I scoured the Apps Store for "HD" versions of the same apps so that I could duplicate my morning reading on the iPad’s larger screen. I dutifully rotated through WeatherBug, Techmeme and New York Times apps, which did nice jobs of wrangling web content designed for normal web browsers into formats more suited for small mobile screens. But maybe Android and Windows-based devices would do well to.īefore the iPad, the iPod Touch was my daily breakfast companion for catching up on what happened while I was sleeping. to add arrow keys, a touchpad or even scroll wheel. Not can I count the unwanted links I’ve accidentally opened while just meaning to scroll the screen. I can’t tell you the number of times that the iPad has thought I wanted to copy something when my finger lingered a bit too long on some text. But there are enough niggles and annoyances to quickly make you realize that you’re dealing with yet another gadget that requires you to adapt to it more than it will to you. It is a damned impressive piece of gadgetry, even if most of its innards are taken up with the batteries that provide its 10 or so hour run time. I can see why Apple’s marketing machine is trying to convince us that there is pixie dust sprinkled inside the iPad. So before I do some damage that I’m sure I’ll regret, I thought I’d share a few thoughts about the iPad that came to live with us about two weeks ago. It seems like everything that I’ve been trying to test today has decided to give me a hard time.
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