A review of the iPad
I should probably start this off by saying that I’m not much for Apple products. I don’t like them- yes, they are cool, but as an avid computer user accustomed to tweaking every aspect of all his devices, I find them too limiting.
In all honesty, I don’t have much to say about the iPad- to me it wasn’t much more than just another Apple product- cool, but not something I would ever use. That’s not to say I wasn’t impressed, however. The device feels very natural to use and the finger swipes and flicks are exactly as they look in any Apple advertisement for the iPad. It’s very simple to use and doesn’t take long to get used to. The first app I opened was Maps, and admittedly, it was very cool to be able to navigate the map with flicks of the fingers.
Next, I turned to the App store, hoping to download some free apps- and was disappointed when I was informed that I needed an iTunes account. In the end, I used another friend’s iTunes logins to download some free apps ...