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I want an iPhone. Mainly because there are so many cool apps for them. And they're really easy to browse the web on too.

My problem? I can't type on the things. They're excruciatingly painful for me. I need buttons that I can rest my fingers on, like how you rest your fingers on a keyboard when doing proper touch typing. So I'm stuck with a BlackBerry which rather than getting cooler with each upgrade seem to get rubbisher. The camera on the 8520 Curve doesn't even have a flash.

For a company that does so much marketing, Apple didn't caption the keynote address from Steve Jobs nor did it add the iPad to its accessibility page (though the accessibility features are comparable to the iphone, which is listed.) I touched on this in my blog, "Hey Apple, What About iPad's Accessibility?"



In any case, there's VoiceOver, zoom, a large screen, the ability to add an external keyboard, and other functions. I'd like to see Apple make an actual Peep about accessibility, though.

Main problem with Apple products is they aren't compatible with Windows systems. May as well use Linux as your own accessibility can be added and it's free software. Also, a Google search usually finds solutions to Linux problems as it's open source software and forums are full of problems and how to solve them.

MiniMaestro complains that Apple products aren't compatible with Windows, yet my iPod functions perfectly well hooked up to iTunes running under Windows on my PC. You have to draw a distinction between Macs (and even they can run Windows nowadays) and the rest of Apple's product line, which is OS-agnostic.

More specific to the accessibility issues with the iPad is that the traditional publishers seem to be playing hardball over text-to-speech and eBooks. They have a nice little earner with audiobooks and apparently don't want to lose that income stream, even if it means forcing Apple to disable built in accessibility functionality when reading ebooks on an iPad.

Why I think people should buy an iPad!


In today’s hi-tech world, most people are technical morons. Yes, the young and the old are tech halfwits. When it comes to explaining how new gadgets work these dunderheads do not have a clue. If you try to educate them, they look at you as though you just landed your space ship in their backyard.

If you try to dummy up the conversation with hand-drawn diagrams the thickheaded ninnies will exclaim, "Yes, Yes, now I understand!" Nevertheless, do not believe them for a minute, this is just a tactic to hide the fact that they are hi-tech nincompoops that cannot even figure out how to adjust the car radio.

The iPad is the computer of the future!

Apple has finally developed a computer for the technical challenged. You do not have to know how to save files, read a directory or format a hard drive. You just turn it on by touching a little button and tapping on a little screen icon and off you go to whatever silly little app that you just purchased for a dollar. To turn it off you just push the same silly little button. If you have an iPhone or an iPod touch, then you're fully trained and are now ready for harvesting by Apple Inc.

Will anyone buy it?

Yes and in the thousands, Millions will be sold this year alone. Billions will be sold over the next two years or so.

Why? Because Steve Jobs knows that not only will the technical morons buy them, but all the smart mouth techies like myself will sell our souls to get our sweaty little hands on them...now let me see, should I get the 3G model with 64GB flash drive...

DavidG is right, my post relates mainly to the Mac although Apple software has to be cross compatible as majority of people use Windows.

Mac is also right as the iPad will sell. Although touch screens are really coming on, are they really the way to go with regards to accessibility? Someone with a tremor will have problems as there is no feedback when selecting options, you touch and not push unlike with a standard button. How easy will it be for them to get the item they are aiming for and not the one next to it and have to navigate back.

I pre ordered an iPad on

I hope apple is fast enough.

I was one of the lucky few to get my hands on an iPad last week and I must say, so far so good. It's an incredible piece of technology and I think it will change the way we read, watch movies, listen to music and more. I just want to find more apps and sites related to iPad, which seem to be hard to trace online. I can't believe that the index www.twitter.com/dozenipad ranked Touchgrind as a Top iPad game site. I think Touchgrind is a stupid idea – who wants to fingerboard when you can skateboard for real? The best thing about is going to be video and HTML5. Most of the video sites such as youtube and vimeo can be accessed by the iPad and I think it'll improve the ultimate viewing experience.

Go Google! I say, let's kick the into outer space. I, like many other tech geeks, am fed-up with hearing how amazing Apple is. Yes, ipod was great, but since then I think there's been too much hype. The iPhone is good for everything on earth except the one basic element – phone deals. And the ipad looks like it is not good enough to play flash movies. It's too selected. I have been checking www.dozenipad.com and I think there are not enough choices out there yet. I say, wait two years for the iPad. Don't buy it yet, it's too expensive and has only 1000 apps.

I've just found this article about iPads.
It compares prices from different UK e-retailers. Very interesting if you want to order your iPad in advance and at the best prices ^^

The iPhone 3GS is the first iPhone to offer a full set of accessibility features. A line of Internet and multimedia-enabled smartphones that functions as a camera phone, a portable media player comparable to a video iPod, and an internet client that can execute e-mailing, web browsing, and Wi-Fi connectivity -using the phone's multi-touch screen to provide a virtual keyboard in lieu of a physical keyboard. It is more than just a phone that does many different things. It has faster proccessing and network speeds, extended battery life, more memory, and additional features which you normally enjoy. Dealing with Apple iPhone 3GS is really amazing.

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The iPad is the easiest to use device. My 76 old grandma used it for cooking me a tasty meal. My father played BackGammon right away. I sit on my couch and surf in the www. The iPad is nice to look movies in train and so on.
But its not productive, in my opinion its good for multimedia and entertainment, but not for the work in many ways.
I love my ipad so much, that i did a german blog: . I hope its allowed to post it, there are several iPad Tips on it... cause i love this device.
Best regards,
Tobias (sorry for my bad english)