Ipad
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The price that buyers pay for the iPad: The device is not as open as a standard PC or Mac. You can only install software from Apple's favor from the App Store. Free programs from the internet will stay outside. That will do to the average user certainly not hurt. But Apple will make money from it. If the iPad actually will be an Everymans computer, Apple is the gatekeeper for all software programmers as well as for book publishers, music providers, media companies and film studios, the iPad users want to sell something. It will be the same with Amazons Kindle.
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Have you noticed that the iPad with attached keyboard, bears more than a passing resemblance to the Xerox Parc computer?
(at least with the orientation of the screen. Perhaps this was a wry nod in the direction of the Parc design? A subtle joke from Jony Ive perhaps?
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@tfdesign said:
Have you noticed that the iPad with attached keyboard, bears more than a passing resemblance to the Xerox Parc computer?
Actually it's more like the original idea for a tablet from that group -1970 or thereabouts. And a lot like the old Active Book, or Momenta, or (blech) Go (all around 1990), or assorted Windows tablets from a few years ago (2004). Except it has the advantage of being made with the latest advances in cpu/memory/battery and so should be better hardware than the older machines. It has a dual core advanced ARM cpu running at 1GHz. That's more compute power than any laptop had just a few years ago and using less power than some cellphones without big screens. It has (up to) 64Gb of storage, more than most laptops blah-blah-blah. Are people really too lacking in imagination to come up with interesting ways to use something like that? It would make a great ebook reader (duh), a nice photo viewer (duh), a useful in-minivan movie/game player to keep kids quiet, a neat slot-in instrument panel for your car/boat/plane, a really good (and cheaper) house/TV/audio controller and on and on.
And what's with the idiocy about "it's only a big iPod touch"? Are people on this forum - mostly designers - really not aware of the difference in effective functionality that changing size can cause? The bigger screen allows different usage modality to that of the iphone/touch. A still bigger screen - say 30" - would allow still others and would prevent some that are convenient with a 10" screen.
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iPad is a better name than "iSlate". "Slate" was already used by Steve Ballmer, when he demoed the new HP Slate. But one thing I don't think many Americans realise (as I found the term is NOT used in the USA) is that in English slang, to 'slate' something is to 'put it down', or belittle it.
http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/slate
Actually, it looks like "to slate" is used inAmerica, but not so much any more
So "iSlate" would have been a bad choice anyway?
iPad? "My Pad"?- a tampon? "iJamrag"?!?
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TamPod?
And it can't play Flash? Every site on the Internet uses flash in some way small or large. That really seems like just a way to force you into buying a bunch of apps.
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@jim said:
And it can't play Flash? Every site on the Internet uses flash in some way small or large.
No it (the iPad) can't play flash, but for very good reason. Flash is hideously out of date, is a power hog, owned by Adobe (who seem to be out playing golf everyday, rather than developing flash), you can't link flash to a separate website, within a browser for eg. 9.9 times out of 10, it will be flash that crashes your browser (Mac or PC). Flash is utterly useless for blind people, because it can't be read by a screen reader. Probably the only thing left that flash is good for is watching porn! In a nutshell, Flash is shit.
However Apple and Google (oh yes
) believe that HTML5 is the way forward. According to Steve Jobs, "Adobe are lazy";@unknownuser said:
They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.
To be honest, I've had an iPhone for over a year now, and I haven't missed flash at all. Rock on HTML5 then.
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I agree and I don't care for flash pages; but will the Internets make the change before your iPad is obsolete? It's just the way things are at the moment. A device without flash today is useless for casual browsing.
I browse using a flash-blocker - I'm not sure which is more annoying - having all the flash apps on by default, or having to activate only the ones I am interested in; and that only takes one click.
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@jim said:
A device without flash today is useless for casual browsing.
I browse using a flash-blocker - I'm not sure which is more annoying
For a start, that's nonsense (ie useless). I browse all the time (except it seriously f**ks with my eyes on such a small screen), on the iPhone. My wife's iPod, is all she uses for the internet (because the kids are always on her PC! Which madly, is mostly crashing or freezing because of flash content, or complains, because certain things can't be replayed because the wrong plugin is installed, despite that it is).
I suppose as well it also boils down to what kind of site you look at as well. I tend to look at more text based sites than sites which contain a lot of flash.
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@tfdesign said:
For a start, that's nonsense (ie useless).
Of course.
I can certainly understand Apple's decision not to support Flash on the iPad - as you say, Flash is slow and I doubt the iPad's processor could handle it. It would have caused endless complaints, so it was smart for Apple to avoid it altogether. No matter if it was a political or technical reason.
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Ergonomics.... Where are the Ergonomics?
Where is the handle in the back so I can hold it with one hand properly while I scroll with the other, or do I always need to be near a chair so I can rest it on my lap. Personally I like my $300.00 Aspire 250 notebook. I can adjust the screen to any angle so it will reflect unwanted external light, and it also has a built in camera. I can also download lots of PDF books for Free, However if you want a large i phone go for it!
Apple is happy to create another i tunes monster trying to suck money out of your pockets. This thing will become like the printer phenomenon. They can give the printers away for nothing, the make all the money from selling you ink cartridges. Its been estimated that printing ink cost about US$8000.00 per gallon.Watch out for Technology traps!
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@tomot said:
Apple is happy to create another i tunes monster trying to suck money out of your pockets. This thing will become like the printer phenomenon. They can give the printers away for nothing, the make all the money from selling you ink cartridges. Its been estimated that printing ink cost about US$8000.00 per gallon.
What a load of paranoid nonsense!!
Do you really think that Apple are making such a profit from ventures such as iTunes? Apple hardly break even! Do you really think that multinational labels and publishing corporations such as Warner and Universal are going to cut Apple some slack when it comes to making a profit? Give me a break! Apple make money on their hardware. iTunes just simplifies the process of buying music and films, and so making it easier, makes the hardware more attractive.A printer is a different thing altogether. I've got an old laser printer (black and white), which works off ethernet. It's 10++ years old, but still works fine. Carts are a pig to get though, and I usually have to buy these off eBay, if I can find them. If you had to upgrade the chip inside the printer every two or three years, then the situation would be the other way round, as ink would only cost pennies. The chip inside this printer is made by AMD and is only 8bit! But as long as it prints Postscript at 1 A4 per hour, who cares?
BUT,
I totally agree with you on the question of ergonomics, but imho, computers in general fail big time in the ergonomics dept, even your Acer. This Macbook sucks on ergonomics, as it's screen is attached so close to the keyboard. I get neck ache and dizziness from using it 'on my lap' for long periods of time. Mac or PC- same difference!
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silly gadget, waste of money. why not just buy a 13 inch macbook? twice the processing power...similar size
and you can install whatever you like.no pressure sensitive screen either so forget dreams of photoshop brushes etc.
also....its got a really glossy screen.....stupid idea. its hard enough using a glossy screen indoors! reflections are so annoying! only the 17 inch mac book pro has the option of a matte finish screen (as far as im aware....worth every penny by the way)
anyway...im sure everyone will buy it and it becomes the next big thing that none of us need.
"Apple: creating solutions to problems you never had"
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I dunno, where do you read magazines normally?
I'd rather have an ipad in the toilet than a laptop.
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I'd rather have a tablet in a lot of places rather than a laptop. Which brings up the TSA question (pete, i'm at DFW as we speak). Can these things stay in a bag or do they have to come out and be scanned separately?
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Sorry to hear that Jeff...lost a bet?
I'd assume the ipad would be treated like a laptop in airports, it is after all a computer right? How does the TSA handle Kindles?
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Ha. Just passing through on my way to California.
Maybe I can't just tell security "it's just an oversized iPhone and you let me keep that in my bag"
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are they going to start calling the iTouch now the iPad Nano or something?
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