It is an OS. It just doesn't allow you to do all the stuff that us power users (and I would suggest membership of this list marks someone out as such) want to do. The closed app ecosystem is similarly only really an issue for us. I suspect a bigger issue for your normal user will be the lack of Flash on it.
They keyboard thing is a red herring. It doesn't have a physical keyboard - that hasn't been a problem on the iPhone for me and hasn't been a problem for anyone I know who actually has actually used the iPhone keyboard. Some people just have hangups about it. I agree with what others have said - the biggest problem I can see is that lack of a front facing camera. Using it for video chatting would have been awesome and made it pretty much perfect for grandparents. Alex On 28 Jan 2010, at 10:17, Daniel Morris wrote: > Am I missing something - how is it not an OS? :) > > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth > Sent: 28 January 2010 09:56 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [backstage] iPad > > Sorry, I didn't realise we were back in the 1970s where the software that > runs on the iPhone can be called an operating system. > > And it clearly doesn't have a keyboard. > > 2010/1/28 Mo McRoberts <[email protected]> > On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:32, Brian Butterworth <[email protected]> > wrote: > > It does, both, what? > > it runs an operating system. > > it has a keyboard. > > > > > 2010/1/28 Mo McRoberts <[email protected]> > >> > >> On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 08:03, Brian Butterworth <[email protected]> > >> wrote: > >> > Underwhelming. It's a big iPhone. It's named after the Star Trek PADD. > >> > Might be good it if ran an operating system and had a keyboard. > >> > >> It does, both. > >> > >> - > >> Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > >> visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > >> Unofficial list archive: > >> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > > > > > -- > > > > Brian Butterworth > > > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover > > advice, since 2002 > > > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > > > > -- > > Brian Butterworth > > follow me on twitter: http://twitter.com/briantist > web: http://www.ukfree.tv - independent digital television and switchover > advice, since 2002
