5 Things The iPad Has Taught Me

Here are some of my thoughts on the iPad after using it for a week.

Josh with his iPad

I have tried a few RSS readers on my computers in the past, but haven’t found them useful. Now with the iPad I spend a good majority of the time using one. NewsRack is my iPad RSS reader of choice at the moment. I love that I can easily share interesting blog posts and articles with friends on Twitter, as well as star/favourite articles for later use.

I DON’T NEED FLASH

I have never really liked flash, probably because it has always crashed for me.  I hear a lot of people saying a con of the iOS is that it does not support Flash. I have not yet had an experience on the iPad where I have wished it had Flash support.

I ENJOY MOBILE GAMING

I have had my iPhone for 2 years and have not once played a game on it. The only apps you would find on my iPhone were social networking and GTD apps. A few mates had mentioned ‘Angry Birds HD’ for the iPad. Its a pretty simple concept; use flying birds to kill the green pigs. I downloaded it for my iPad and haven’t looked back. Its really addictive and unproductive, but its a heap of fun. I have now downloaded a pinball game and am pretty close at buying chess. Its safe to say that I now ‘game’ on my iPad.

I ONLY NEED A DATA PLAN…ONE DAY

Since I have had my iPad (just over one week) I have probably picked up my iPhone three or four times to use it. I could happily never make a ‘normal call’ again. What I am waiting for though, is for Skype to release an update that will make it viable for me to have a Skype number/subscription and thats it. The idea of text messaging is close to dead, spending 20 odd cents per message (kbs of data) is a crazy thought when we can use skype, facebook and google talk to do the exact same thing.

PEOPLE EXPECT YOU TO EXPLAIN WHY THE IPAD IS AWESOME

For some reason, whenever I have had an apple product, whether it be one of my Macs or iPods, people have said ‘Why did you get a mac?’, or ‘Why is it so good?’. A few years ago I would have a 10 minute long speech about how awesome they were, as if I was Steve Jobs’ wife. Now, when people ask me ‘why is the iPad so great?’, I just reply ‘It’s just a big iPhone, but you can’t make calls’ – that way they don’t ask to touch it…

Would love to hear your thoughts on the iPad in the comments.