iPad Wins my Most Useless Device Award

I'm just going to come out and say it, I hate the iPad! Steve Jobs, pay close attention if you are reading this.

The iPad wins my Most Useless Device award because it does not do anything that our computres or phones cannot already do. In fact, it has even fewer features than the iPhone.Let us first view the photo above, because it does a great job of explaining my stance. The iPad doesn't have a camera (my Android phone does), it doesn't have multitasking capabilities (my Dell computer does), and it doesn't have any standard ports (both my Android and Dell do). The machine can boast a very large touch screen, but that is a thing of the past because my phone can do that too.

Blogger Josh Belzman agrees with my position, saying that he was highly disappointed when he arrived home with iPad in hand. In addition to the pitfalls mentioned above, he found a few more problems with the device. He said that it was too heavy, had expensive accessories, and does nothing that his phone and laptop didn't already do. He also brings up an important point that only an iPad owner would know. In order to use the device to its full capability you need to pay an extra $30 a month for unlimited data usage. That is on top of the already ridiculous price of $500.

Now, I do agree that the iPad can be very useful for some people. My roommate is an artist and loves to sketch on her tablet which connects to her MacBook. She says that sketching on an iPad would be much easier because she could see on the screen what lines she is drawing. This is a feature which a tablet does not provide--the images are just shown on the screen of the computer. I just haven't actually seen any artists use it to do tablet drawings. Because I haven't seen it be properly put to use, I still find it to be useless. Steve Jobs, I'll just stick with my Android and Dell for now. Give me a ring when you really create something useful.