Definetly alot of it is green eye envy. I have the iPhone 4 and MacBook pro. So the iPad has no appeal to me. If I want to quickly browse the web I'll use my iPhone.

Maybe the iPad is good if you don't have a iPhone.

 

I can see why you wouldn't want/need one if you have an iPhone and a Macbook.

Yep, that's precisely my position, no iPhone, so the iPad makes sense for me.

 

lol @ green eye envy

 

Sadly it is Michael . Not all cases tends to be the people that have never experienced it or follows hype . But if offered a free one they would happily accept it.

 

good stuff Anthony

 

Envy over a gadget? When your are older than abut 14?

Edit sorry for the mistake I typed it with my iPad pmsl.

Back to cat videos...

What is with this very gay Sent from my iPad it defaults to at the bottom of emails? Is it to show off, is it to say you are also an Apple believer or is it an excuse that your typing is rubbish because you haven't bought a proper laptop, net book or overpriced keyboard?

 

OK, I paid the £6 for numbers, and then tried to open a csv file by holding down the attachment in mail and clicking "open in numbers". It doesn't do anything. Clicking "quick look" just gives a white screen that is empty.

So much for Apple testing, my first app I've purchased from the app store doesn't work.

Is there a way to save an attachment and then browse for it from numbers?

 

I have an old 1980's IBM AT (with Excel on) that opens CSV files, you could of had it for a fiver - all in

 

Exactly, this is hardly the New Jerusalem is it?

First Apple product, first paid app and it doesn't do what I bought it to do. It will open an xls but the scrolling is slower than just opening it with quick view.

 

This is just getting more frustrating. Click a csv from a webpage and it displays OK.

Click a csv from gmail in Safari and it is an invalid format, offers open in numbers as an option which doesn't work.

At least a netbook is cheap enough to throw out a window LOL.

Piece of **** Fisher Price fruitcake glossy nonsense.

Back to cat videos.

 

It’s seems like the technological equivalent to flying to Mars to play golf

I am sure it is a brilliant bit of kit – but a friend had one on a recent trip to Egypt – and all he did on it was play a massive game of tetris it-- wtf

As posters have said --- a nice to have toy

Anything worthwhile – a PC (or god forbid a mac)

 

Second paid app, CSV touch, doesn't work either.

It says file format unsupported and wants to load things from static links on webpages rather than open from emails.

Is there no way to save a file from an email or a webpage with this stupid toy and then browse for it later? Let me guess, I have to buy something from Apple to "enhance my user experience"?

B*ll***s to this. This is just plain frustrating. It is an operating system designed by idiots for people who want to watch cat videos (as long as they don't need flash). At least the wife will be happy, I can't even be arsed surfing with it any more and am typing this from my laptop, that despite running Windows 7, just works, and when it doesn't you can at least fix it.

 

Tetris - looks cool though

 

Chopper 2, NFS, Shrek kart all seem quite good.

 

just leave it by the downstairs toilet -- in the basket next to the Car Mags -- job done

 

Envy, nah, what stops me is its another fooking gadget with an LCD screen that can surf the internet, play music, play gmaes, films and waste yet more time and require charging like my collection of other little Tamagotchis that need feeding, I get guilty if I neglect one, not because its like a Dog or something, just feel like I need to justify the purchase price.

I feel like I never get the full use out of anything and dont make the most of it, rmemember that Commodore 64 that got hammered, no game unplayed, programmes written and all manner of ad ons bought and used to the max, I used to crave and fantasise over disk drives and printers, now I get defensive if anyone is trying to give me a piece of electronics to add to the clutter I already have and dont use.

I dont Envy people for gadgets, I can buy whatever I want, I envy those whose lives arent ruled by little electronic dictators, a Blackberry is like offending tagging for the wage slave.

Is it me or is the shine wearing off gadgets ?

 

John
It does work, I have just tested it and I know sod all about .csv files

True, if you send an email to yourself (in my case I simply did it via gmail on safari) with the .csv file as an attachment, it will try to open it in Safari.

Launching the CSV Touch app asks you to go to an ftp site to collect the file

However if you email it to yourself and then try and open it in safari, touching the screen opens up this screen



You will see it now asks you to open it in CSV Touch and voila, an editable and searchable document

 

I already tried that too before I said it didn't work!

Untested junk apart from the games in this app store it seems. Over-rated rubbish, worse than free shareware much of it.

 

John
I am sure you tried it, but what happens when you click that Open in CSV Touch etc ?

The other option is to use something like dropbox. Free with 2GB of storage. It is like an ftp site for you. There is an app for it on the app store. Install it.
Then using your desktop or browser type http://www.dropbox.com
Enter your username and password and upload the .csv file

Then using the dropbox app on your ipad, again entering your details (you only need to do this once ) you will see the files stored. Clicking on the .csv file should prompt you to open it in CSV Touch by clicking the arrow symbol top right

 

 

All the apps are verified by Apple, imagine what the Android Market is like!!

 

I am guessing you think that funny because of the amount of steps you need to do ?

True, it is a bit of a pain but that is what you get with a mobile OS

 

So far I've been much more impressed by the Android market, things work better, games apart. I've got a superb free keyboard (Swype) which is far better than the Apple offerings and the Google location/places stuff is better, plus Navigation. So far I wish I'd bought the Dell Streak for serious stuff compared with this, but didn't because the price ended up so near to the apparently superior (now doubting this) Ipad.

Thanks SwissTony, seems a bit of a workaround as I'll need to get the tuner I work with to put the csv files in there, but will try it. When I click open in CSV touch or lite (can't remember what mine says) it goes to CSV Touch and then shows the inbox with no files. When I scroll to the right it shows an error of some sort about the file. Will play with it more later, but it all is far more faff than on Windows where these files just open and just work.

I am seriously not trolling, I thought this would be a "magical" and "amazing" product, or at least work for the basics. So far Android and a £150 netbook knock it into a cocked hat.

 

Pretty much yeah

 

I just emailed myself a .csv file and it displays perfectly on my iPhone.

Is your .csv file private or can you paste it's contents here? I'm curious more than anything as you can't really get more basic than a .csv file.

 

That is what I was thinking with John. I used a bog standard .csv file that contained lists totalling around 2000 with multiple columns etc.
Nothing major but opened up on the iphone and ipad with no problem.

Just wondering John if there is something locked down on this .csv file you have. Can you try a simple one that you create yourself as a test

 

I'll look into it and post more info, I tried a few different ones.

Oddly in Safari, some csv files linked from webpages would display when you clicked them and others not.

I suspect it is the Ipad software that is the issue.

 

There was a note in the CSV touch stuff I read that it doesn't yet work with attachments from mail but would in a later version.

Is there a file system that I can browse with a file manager and then click to open files in a suitable application, like I can in Windows and Android out the box?

Can I save email attachments to the file system on the Ipad?

I'm getting the distinct impression that this OS works well for watching cat videos and playing games, and when you try to do more it just doesn't work properly and there is nothing to fix it. Or is this just my unfamiliarity with it?