Reviews for Apple iPad Dock

the unnecessary lip at the bottom prevents you from using this with the super awesome smart covers... how dumb can they be? I'm supposed to take my cover off every time i put it on the dock to charge?

Can't fit the iPad in the dock with the smart cover on. That's a pretty glaring flaw.
The iPad doesn't connect easily, it's a bit awkward to get it snapped in.
Doesn't support landscape mode.

I purchased this dock to work with my new iPad and because other reviews indicated it would charge an iPhone4. Here's the straight answer: If you have an Apple cover on your iPad you must either open it or remove it to charge the iPad in the dock. If you have a skin cover on your iPhone4 it simply will not seat on the connector and hence will not charge. There is no way around these issues.

To their great credit, returning the dock to Apple is straight forward. And they even pay for the shipping and credit you for the original shipping costs.

Once you get your iPad onto the dock, it works fine. The base of the dock is weighted so that your iPad does not fall over easily. With a charger connected, it charges your iPad. With an audio cable, you can play music and podcasts to your radio or other powered speaker. Both nice features.

The problem is that getting your iPad to fit onto the dock is problematic. You have to line it up just right to work. Otherwise it slides off the dock all too easily. What this means in practice is that you can't just plop your iPad on the dock in a casual, one-handed manner and expect it to work. You have hold the iPad with two hands, take the time to line it up with the dock adapter, then insert it slowly. Not good if you are the impatient type - like me!

The dock is too light. When trying to undock my iPad 2, they both lift up together. Also, since the dock is so much narrower than the iPad, it tips too easily. The dock really needs to be as wide as the iPad and heavier.

do not bye if you have a smartcover or any other protection for your iPad. i never used it because then i would have to remove my covers and that made it completely useless.

I wanted to be able to dock my iPad 2 and use it as I normally would. But the dock seats at an extremely awkward angle for use, especially for typing, and this makes the viewing angle extremely uncomfortable as well. It sits very close to perpendicular, perhaps 80-85 degrees, whereas the original iPad keyboard dock laid it back at a much more usable angle. I'll probably keep this for my nightstand, but I'm going back to the iPad keyboard dock for my office desk. Even if the iPad 2 doesn't fit well on it, it's far more usable for me.

I was disappointed when this charger for iPad2 arrived. The photo from the side looks good - but the charger is only about half the width of the iPad AND, you can't keep your cover on when its in the dock.

I bought the dock so i don't have to go pluging and unplugging all the cables I have, av addapter, audio cable and so on. But to my surprise, it actually won't work that way. If you have conected the tv (trhough av adpter) and a stereo at the same time, you only get the audio in the TV. But what is worst, is that even if you have the TV off, you won't listen through your stereo when you have the AV addapter conected. So you have to go plugging and unplugging all the wires. Then iit doesn't makes much sense, since you can do that anyways without the dock, and if you conect directly the av adapter, and the audio cable to the ipad, then you get simultanously the audio on the TV and the stereo!!!!

Very expensive for just a stand for the ipad.