The Apple iPad comes with a lot of good features and couple of major snags.
This ten inch tablet (screen is about 9.7 inches with a resolution of 1024 x 768 pixels) is Apple’s latest device offering and it is expected to be available in the UK by late April. The US release of the device will be much earlier at April 3 though only the 3G version of the unit will be available. Rumors are pointing to recent problems with Apple’s China based manufacturers to be the cause of the delay and recent news about the iPad battery might have identified the problem part of the hardware.
Anyway, the device is missing two major features –multitasking capabilities and Adobe Flash support. With Steve Jobs being very vehement about not supporting Flash, it is quite possible that we would never see an update to fix this. As for multitasking, it is unlikely, but there is a slim chance that they would actually put it in at a later date. At least the device comes with cut and paste by default.
About a month ago, Apple updated images of iPad advertisements to properly reflect how websites would appear on the device. Initial ads showed flash content on famous websites appearing on still images in ads –fostering false hopes that the tablet would eventually support to function. A new placeholder image has since been used on Apple adverts.
With the UK launch of the tablet coming soon, Apple has also changed the still images on ads to replace the websites being shown. The New York Times has been replaced by local favorite, the Guardian as an effort to localize the advertisements.
Now if they can only update the product itself.
Get to know more about the changes in the iPad ads at Pocket Lint.
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