Sunday, July 17, 2011

iPad App Improvements or Things I'd Like to See

Here is a brief list of iPad apps that still need to evolve further (or have yet to be made):

1.  Facebook.  There is no official facebook app yet.  There are some decent pseudo facebook apps, but none that have all the features we've come to love in facebook yet.  
2.  Prezi.  Yes, Prezi has an app!  Yes, you can access your prezi's on the app.  But prezi is mostly flash-based.  iPad is flash un-friendly.  So the prezi's I have made online using a computer only show the words from the prezi, nothing else.  Lame.  Reminds me of when web pages wouldn't load an image because the image was too big or 'broken'.  AMENDMENT: Since this was posted, Prezi has fixed this issue!  It now works almost exactly like you'd see it on a desktop or laptop.  (The prezi folk must have been reading this blog)
3.  iWork Suite.  Although it is very nice to be able to access PagesKeynote and Numbers on the iPad, the app versions are quite limited.  After making the switch back to windows at my current school (de-evolution), I had many iWork docs that I couldn't access.  The iWork Suite was my bridge to getting those files back.  So in this regard, it is a nice tool... but creating docs on it isn't so much.
4.  Skype.  The iPad is setup perfectly already for skyping, yet there is no official iPad Skype app.  There is only an iPod app that can be used on iPad, which works but does not take advantage of the bigger screen and power of the iPad. AMENDMENT: Since this was posted, Skype has been released for iPad!

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