Awesomeness : A layperson's guide

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iOS 5 on iPad

Quick summary of the stuff I’ve used…

Safari - Tabs like a desktop browser, not bothered either way really. A boatload faster, you know the checkerboard pattern that comes up when the page hasn’t quite rendered, I haven’t seen that again since iOS 5, and I’ve tried.

iCloud - In some ways, it’s about bloody time, using DropBox to move across songs I’ve purchased through iTunes, or if I’m moving a lot, a USB stick is dark ages, iCloud solves this, well, for iTunes purchased songs, we need to wait for iTunes Match to take care of the others ($25 a year is reasonable, but I already pay for DropBox, which is a more labour intensive version of the same thing, but I can share ANYTHING).

But enough moaning, iCloud make my life easier and simpler, so thumbs up.

iCloud also syncs Safari bookmarks, I don’t use Safari on the Mac, but this could sway me, until I realized, the iPad is single user, my Mac has a couple of accounts on it, so my girlfriends iPad bookmarks get synced to my Mac account, this is a bit shit, and shows the need to multiple user accounts or someting more lightweight on the iPad.

BTW Home Sharing has the same problem on the Apple TV, it sucks.

Notifications look cool, but I don’t use them, I just don’t want to be disturbed in that way, they are much less intrusive now though.

Haven’t noticed much else, iCloud is the biggie, more on my Mac than the iPad, but if I was an iPhone user,it would be awesome.