Rekna

1) Web browsing has no tabs, which makes switching between websites a change.

2) I'm not fond of the email clients interface and I wish it was organized better and had better threading/conversations.

3) Switching between apps is ok but if you switch between too many apps your other app will have been killed. (This is likely a function of the pitifully low RAM in the ipad, the ipad 2 may have more but i doubt it since they didn't say so).

4) No Word/Excel/Outlook/Powerpoint apps...

5) Keyboard is annoying. I often find it doing things I don't expect.

6) Widgets would be nice. Widgets provide a method to have a screen where you can check information really really quickly for multiple programs. On the ipad you have to open each app individually to check if there is anything new.

7) Notifications on iOS suck really really bad. And I mean really really bad.


Now everyone always talks about how many good apps there are on the ipad but I have to admit I haven't found that many good apps. There are great games but just not good productivity apps. I hoped that the ipad would take over many of the functions my laptop does but it didn't. I like to multi task and easily switch between those tasks (at this very moment I have 7 websites open, a note pad, a pdf, and google talk open). Apple just does not have a good multi-tasking system set up yet.

In the end the ipad feels like it is a tablet with a phone OS. A tablet is not a phone and there is no reason to think that a tablet with a 10" screen should have the same interface as a phone with a 3" screen.

I hope this helps.