EIGHT ANNOYING THINGS ABOUT THE IPAD

If you’ve just received your iPad, you may have been working with the new tablet non-stop ever since. You may love it so much that you ignore your MacBook Pro for awhile.
But, slowly you have come to the realization that it isn’t all roses and sunshine. You find a few annoyances, missing features, weird effects and bugs. No, it’s not the lack of Flash support and the absence of USB ports, we all already know that. It’s something new and annoying.

1. No Hover
The lack of hover is annoying when browsing on many websites. For example, when using Twitter, the retweet and reply buttons will only be visible when you hover on the tweet and that is impossible on the iPad touchscreen.

2. Issues on HTML rendering
Many websites, big and small, don’t render well on the iPad. Some users complained that the Facebook layout is simply a mess and there are also reports on interface issues when using other popular websites.

3. Apps are re-arranged poorly
You may have five apps in landscape mode, but when you use the Portrait mode only 4 apps are displayed in a row. The other app is placed one row down on the left; for some users, it can be both confusing and annoying.

4. Poor International support
Of course, your iPad may work nicely in Europe but curiously you can’t log in to the iPhone App store except if you use a US iTunes account. The iPad is a mobile device and users will bring it during their travel and vacation in many foreign countries. Movies and music may have a few copyright issues but all apps should work wherever you go. It is simply annoying that we can’t buy Numbers, Pages and Keynote in other countries.

5. Bad speaker design
Speaker sound system needs a couple of speakers, and of course, the iPad has two speakers. But unfortunately, they are located next to each other. The speakers are loud, but bad placement diminishes their stereo effect significantly.

6. Unpredictable and buggy Wi-Fi
This is a big issue for many Apple customers; many people have complained that they never have a full Wi-Fi signal strength in the MacBook Pro and iPhone. Some iPad users complained that they are stuck on the login screen due to the sluggish Wi-Fi connection and if they do pass the login procedure, they will receive no incoming data. If you can’t show off and impress your friends while hanging out in the Starbucks, what’s the point of having the new tablet?

7. iPhone apps won’t rotate at all
In the iPad, your iPhone apps won’t rotate in the landscape mode. Programmatically, it should be easy to rotate the whole application module when the device is also rotated. Perhaps, someone in the development team forgot about this simple feature.

8. Bad ‘No-Flash’ implementation
If Steve Jobs doesn’t want Flash support in the iPad, then so be it, but forgetting to fill the holes left by the missing animations is simply unacceptable. The best solution is to collapse the empty space and re-design the layout as if the world never knows Flash. Instead, you may stare to an empty space on the browser wondering what it is. Even the no-Flash icon is a bad thing; it will make as if your iPad is an incomplete device.

The iPad is still a great and amazing device for just $499 and it would be foolish not to get one. The annoyances mentioned above should be fixed in the next iterations. If you can accept these issues and want people to have a second look at you then buy it!