Official iPad Thread

[X5Sport]

Bad marketing is probably what killed it. Same lesson HP learned in a very big and expensive way with their Touchpad. Great idea yes. iPad killer no! And at the same price point that was a very bad mistake to make, especially given the state of the OS and support available at launch. No wonder they got the hell out again, badly burned, but still going.

Figures from late 2011 (September I think) had the iPad outselling EVERY other tablet on the market combined by 4:1. That's a tough market to break into. Apple just did everything they needed to do, and got it right (mostly) first time. I'm not a fanboi and there are things that really bug me about the iPad (the virtual keyboard for one along with no external storage card support) but there simply isn't anything else out there that does enough of what I want.

That's not to say it's perfect by a long shot, but it's good enough, and in the IT industry that's usually enough. But boy do they ever need to get the current version of IOS fixed and soon. Perhaps a little mre effort on getting the customer rather than patent wars the focus might help!

[Quicksilver]

JCL:

You got me on this one. I'm not sure what your asking. Could you
be more specific? I would like to check it out on the wifes iPad and
learn something.

What's an email chain? You want to attach a photo to what?

Originally Posted by JCL

It would be nice if that easy to use interface included a menu option to attach a photo. Does Apple assume that all Apple users only start email chains, and never respond to them?


I presume that it is possible to cut and paste from the Photo or Camera app, but why add additional steps?

[LeMansX5]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

JCL:

You got me on this one. I'm not sure what your asking. Could you
be more specific? I would like to check it out on the wifes iPad and
learn something.

What's an email chain? You want to attach a photo to what?

I think he is talking about attaching a photo to email. I do that by starting with the photo and selecting email from within photo app. Copy paste if replying.

[Quicksilver]

If that's what he's talking about your right it's a simple process.

[JCL]

An email chain is an email with a subsequent response. Apple expects you to email from the photo app.

Sure would be nice to have an "attach item" menu option. More steps isn't simple, it is inelegant and cumbersome, IMO.

[JCL]

Since I have you experts here...

When browsing this forum with Safari on a 32 gB iPad 2, it closes by itself quite often. I can reopen it, but it usually closes when I am doing a short response like this one. Then I lose whatever I typed and have to start over. Why does it happen?

Edit now that I am on a PC with a keyboard: As an example, it closed twice while typing the above paragraph. I lost the text each time. I generally don't type more than two sentences on the iPad before submitting, then I use edit post, and add two sentences at a time, resubmitting several times. It is a workaround, and a clumsy one, but it saves retyping quite as much.

I Googled "iPad Safari closing unexpectedly" and got over one million hits. I did a search of the Apple forums. They seem to know all about Safari closing unexpectedly on the iPad 2, there are lots of threads on it. The consensus appears to be that it is a memory management issue, related to Webkit (don't know what that is), and that no solution will be forthcoming until Apple releases one. If that is it, at least I'm not the only one. I'll just sit back and enjoy it's ease of use, seamless integration with other Apple products, quality manufacturing, excellent customer service, free product training and a host of other advantages made possible by a closed system, lol. Should I expect an update to the operating system, or am I supposed to line up for an iPad 3?

So, in the meantime, it isn't usable for filling in text boxes, but it is a decent reader.

[JCL]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

If that's what he's talking about you're right it's a simple process.

Not on an iPhone, the screen is too small

[X5Sport]

Safari closing suddenly started in my case with the arrival of IOS 5. I have a 32GB/WiFi/3G version of the iPad1 and it does it randomly and very annoyingly and losing all the data too. Similar issue with going 'back' within the browser and finding it has actually loaded a version of the page from days ago rather than a few minutes/moments before.

I think most owners are still hoping IOS 5.1 fixes it, along with the excessive power use issue on some iPhone 4/4S models. 5.01 was supposed to sort the latter out and failed miserably.

[Quicksilver]

Originally Posted by JCL

An email chain is an email with a subsequent response. Apple expects you to email from the photo app.

Sure would be nice to have an "attach item" menu option. More steps isn't simple, it is inelegant and cumbersome, IMO.

More steps isn't simple but here's the way i do it on the iPhone.

If you already have the e mail written, or are responding to a thread, go to photos or camera roll, find the picture you want, touch and hold until the copy button pops up. Copy it. Then return to the e mail, and paste it where you want it.

[Quicksilver]

JCL:

The easiest way to solve problems may be following these instructions.
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