Resolution no longer has anything to do with image or type size on the screen. You can 'pinch' the size to whatever you want it to be on any resolution screen you use.
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Apple in 'Crunch Mode' Lining Up Apps for iPad 3 Demo and Commercials?
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Resolution no longer has anything to do with image or type size on the screen. You can 'pinch' the size to whatever you want it to be on any resolution screen you use.
I would be shocked if this happened. As far as Apple is concerned, iCloud is the new data storage/delivery method of choice. It probably doesn't make sense to compete with themselves and offer higher capacity physical storage at this point.
YES YES, 128gb is atop my wish list now that most of my other reasonable wishes seem to have been granted.
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my 64GB is almost filled just with apps. iCloud doesn't really help with that. also, since you can't stream off iCloud it's almost more of a backup system than actual storage.
I never compared a $99 app to a freemium app with DLC. I was stating that it was wrong for Apple to allow companies to have freemium apps with $99 in app purchases.
Considering that if you were to go to a local game store or superstore and buy a full priced console game, the most you would spend would be $60 and tax. Why then, should app developers be allowed to offer free games with a $99 in app purchase when any of the full priced apps would never come close to $99 and would more likely be in the range of $4.99 to $14.99 with no extra paid items unless there is DLC.
The freemium concept was built as a predatorial system. It is designed so that kids who download the free apps on their parents ipad and play a game get to a point where they are enticed to get their parents credit card and buy the in app item not being concerned about the cost. Just do a google search on parents who have had to call Apple to contest the charges on their credit card statement for hundreds of dollars of charges.
Apple needs to get rid of freemium because it is taking the place of good quality paid apps. I would rather have a lite-version of an app that showcases what the app is about and then a full version of the app but when it comes to freemium there is no full version, only a broken mechanic of the app enticing you to spend way more than you would ever spend on a full priced app.
1. Well, I never noticed that eye strain.
2. Doubled resolution doesn't mean smaller text. It means text at the exact same physical size (in millimetres) but with four times as many pixels, therefore much sharper, better contrast, and easier to read.
As far as Apple is concerned, a 128 GB iPad would sell for more than a 64 GB iPad, and with more profit. If there are people willing to give Apple their money, Apple will take it. One thing that Apple has never done in the last twelve years is restrict one product to help another product. Anyway, enjoy downloading 64 GB of movies or music when you have an AT&T "unlimited" connection that throttles your speed down after you use 2 GB per month.
Showing responsibility and not allowing predatory apps is not communist, its looking out for the good of the consumer and also keeping the quality of App store.
So if what you say is true, then our own government is communist for putting a stop to predatory lending which allowed millions of people who couldn't afford houses to buy homes with option arm loans. Maybe they should be allowed to get taken advantage of for not understanding the concepts of variable interest rates.
It was only yesterday that I wrote in a thread that the app I am working on is set up ready to add graphics to suit a Retina iPad. I doubt Apple would come looking for me though. Besides being unknown, it is a board game app, so won't be "fast paced" to suit a presentation. It looks very crisp on a Retina iPhone, should look fantastic on a Retina iPad.
I have a big advantage because I create my graphics in Illustrator. Vectors are perfect for upping the size. It will be harder work for those with raster graphics. Good luck to those developers.
I have a big advantage because I create my graphics in Illustrator. Vectors are perfect for upping the size. It will be harder work for those with raster graphics. Good luck to those developers.
Calculator, Weather and better notes app would be nice. So apparently people use this ipad in schools, within companies & professional people but what apps are they using? The ipad is great but its hardly anything special right out the box. I seen doctors on tv with an ipad showing patients pictures xrays etc but what app do they use for that? how exactly are they getting the xrays on the ipad because I can't imagine stuffing them in a folder on a pc then syncing with itunes everytime.
Do you think app have plans for an icloud application very similar to dropbox.
Do you think app have plans for an icloud application very similar to dropbox.
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Excited to see what the iPad 3 will bring to the table. I won't be buying it though because my lifestyle and existing equipment does not necessitate the purchase of a tablet device.
I am more interested in the iPhone 5. My iPhone 4 contract terminates in July this year. I hope Apple release the iPhone this summer and not the Fall like last year.
I am more interested in the iPhone 5. My iPhone 4 contract terminates in July this year. I hope Apple release the iPhone this summer and not the Fall like last year.
If they do this, I'm buying one instantly. I use Aperture on my MBP and have been waiting for a good way to link my photography hobby with an iPad.
iCloud PhotoStream + Photos.app
Dump the images in a folder on their PC. By the time they walk from their office to the patient's bed, the images are on the iPad.
Magical.
News flash... garbage has always been present from the get-go. There's some excellent apps that you have to spend just a tad-bit more time discovering.
It would be really awesome if this was the reason Final Fantasy Tactics for iPad hasn't launched yet.
I mean, I'm sure that's not the case. But it would be awesome.
I mean, I'm sure that's not the case. But it would be awesome.
Not everyone knows about restricting in app purchases. That is why i referred to the similarities between that and the housing crisis. You wouldn't think millions of people would be stupid enough to sign up for an option arm loan for a house but they did. You wouldn't think several thousand parents would give their kids an ipad and not take the time to disable in app purchases but they do. That is why there are literally hundreds of stories about parents getting credit card bill surprises from their kids purchasing in app content from freemium apps.
That is largely a myth and a misconception. The "eyestrain" that comes with reading text on LCD displays for prolonged periods of time is precisely due to relatively low ppi of the displays compared to e-ink or printed materials, not due to backlighting itself. Higher ppi densities allow for sharper, smoother text that is more pleasing to the eye. Lower res displays often employ font graying-out technique which actually blurs the characters a bit, which could cause further eyestrain. As for smaller vs. larger characters on screen, I'm sure Apple will preserve the default dimensions of the text (regardless of higher ppi), which will make it super sharp.
Freemium is a newer concept that just started taking hold within the last year and now dominates the top grossing apps.
http://appshopper.com/bestsellers/gros/?device=ipad
see if you can notice a trend when you look at that chart.
and in case you think you are smarter than everyone because you start your statement off with "news flash" here's another link that shows how freemium has taken over from January 2011 to June 2011. Freemium was not dominant in the market when the first Ipad came out.
http://blog.flurry.com/bid/65656/Free-to-play-Revenue-Overtakes-Premium-Revenue-in-the-App-Store
iCloud PhotoStream + Photos.app
Dump the images in a folder on their PC. By the time they walk from their office to the patient's bed, the images are on the iPad.
Magical.
There's no way medical imaging will be using iCloud. HIPAA regulations would prevent that (at least in the U.S.A anyway, and I'm pretty sure Canada has similar laws as well. Not sure about the rest of the world, though.) Any sort of cloud-type funcionality would have to be completely private, internal to the medical office's network.
1. ISP's are trying their damnedest to put a stop to streaming (bandwidth caps, for example, especially on wireless carriers)
2. Although I live in an area with prevalent broadband, I work all over a semi-rural county which does not. I like watching tv shows on my lunch break.
3. No one has invented streaming comics or books yet. Comics in particular can take up a lot of space if you have a whole series. Photos, too. And some games, like the flagship Infinity Blade, are well over a gig. It adds up.
4. Just because it's more.
I do have a Plex server set up at home, and I have Netflix, both of which do offer plenty of nice features. But once I leave my house, that's gone.