NetFlix has already expressed interest in making an App for the iPad as well for streaming. It would be Wi-Fi only streaming more than likely but nonetheless it would be awesome and on that alone would have sold me on an iPad.
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NetFlix has already expressed interest in making an App for the iPad as well for streaming. It would be Wi-Fi only streaming more than likely but nonetheless it would be awesome and on that alone would have sold me on an iPad.
I have a sneaky suspicion you meant sarcastic...
I have more than a sneaky suspicion that irony barely registers on most Americans. Sarcasm is a form of irony, but it's just blunt and crude. A 200 year-old frontier nation relishes sarcasm, but the home of the mother tongue with it's cynical and self-deprecating society has a more finely-tuned humor meter. Don't argue words with someone whose profile reads Oxford.
Daphtdazz, which college do you belong to?
Try TNT for delivery to the UK. They pick up anywhere in the USA and deliver to your door.
It's MORE THAN TRUE...this thing is probably gonna surpass the iPhone in sales, it's gonna be a landslide of monumental proportions...those "pundits" that continue to bash the iPad have absolutely NO CLUE why it's gonna be so successful: the best content, the best touchscreen, the best balance between battery life and performance and the best design/build quality.
I hope I am still able to order one through a friend who lives in the US...
Apple has, INDEED, a damn winner in its hands. TORA TORA TORA!
MS IS DEAD. AND SO IS DELL.
I have one running 10.5 and I am seriously considering replacing it with a "pad"
If it can run 720p successfully (3-5kbits/s) then I am in.
A netbook surely can't....
and I'd be willing to spend double to do it (& web, email, etc)
If this ran Chromium OS with multitouch it would be absolutely amazing. Right now it seems like a $250 product sold for $500.
Some people feel Computers = Windows. It is better it was called an iPod for now. Someday people will realize you don't to have Office and Microsoft Windows with IE to surf the web and create documents.
Put down the crack pipe. A Kindle is $250. This is much, much more than a Kindle.
Another interesting tidbit for the iPad, from Macworld:
Always in motion
Squirreled away on the iPad's Specs page is a new addition as well: the iPad now supports AVI videos in MotionJPEG format, with data rates of up to 35Mbps, resolutions of up to 1280 by 720 pixels, and PCM stereo audio. iTunes has never supported any AVI files in the past, and the huge data rate goes way beyond what even the Apple TV can handle.
Always in motion
Squirreled away on the iPad's Specs page is a new addition as well: the iPad now supports AVI videos in MotionJPEG format, with data rates of up to 35Mbps, resolutions of up to 1280 by 720 pixels, and PCM stereo audio. iTunes has never supported any AVI files in the past, and the huge data rate goes way beyond what even the Apple TV can handle.
The irony in your statement is that its the iPad h8trs like yourself that can't manage to "Think Different." Its like they are married to a narrow & rigid paradigm of what they think a good computing device/tablet should be and their imagination can't take them far enough to see the iPad is a blank canvass that can be transformed into whatever a developer wants it to be - a game machine, a word processor, a remote control, an Internet terminal.
While the iPad resembles it's little brother Touch, it's applications are different. There are so many tasks that require a bigger screen. I don't really understand how that is lost on so many people. What the h8trs seem to want is not something totally new, but more of the same in a different color or shape with maybe a ribbon.
Before "Think Different," Apple's slogan was "a computer for the rest of us." The iPad is in that tradition -- Apple's mission since Day One. "Think Different" was just a rally cry against Windows. Apple ceded that battle which it could not win, and moved on to where it could succeed. The old Apple Computer is still here. I guess the h8trs just can't keep up.
The only Kindle that can be (poorly) compared to the iPad is the DX, and it costs ridiculous 489 dollars from Amazon...so I don't know who should be lowering his drug intake here...
sarcastic, but yes. i've argued with many a doubter that 80% of consumers don't even know what multitasking is let alone need or use it. i believe by 2020 more than half of computers sold (in the consumer market) will be ipad-like devices.
i'd have two on order right now, but i leave on april 2nd for a trip. i'm totally bummed as i'm now going to have to pack a small library.
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The ipad's screen is the same size as a netbook, so browsing the web on it is bound to be not ideal either (I know you can zoom). Now I'm not against the ipad and I will not bash it, just because it won't meet my needs doesn't mean that it won't meet somebody else's. I just hope that future revisions will bring it to the level where I will find it useful. In the mean time, enjoy your devices and let us know how they perform.
The ipad's screen is the same size as a netbook, so browsing the web on it is bound to be not ideal either (I know you can zoom). Now I'm not against the ipad and I will not bash it, just because it won't meet my needs doesn't mean that it won't meet somebody else's. I just hope that future revisions will bring it to the level where I will find it useful. In the mean time, enjoy your devices and let us know how they perform.
And SJ was right after all...this is gonna be the MOST REVOLUTIONARY and SUCCESSFUL Apple product ever in the long term...
hasn't affected iphone
facebook works fine on the iphone i don't know why it wouldn't on the ipad. and then there's the iphone app.
hulu uses h.264 for encoding/decoding video, they simply use flash as the delivery mechanism currently. hulu could probably begin streaming to ipad/iphone with about 10 minutes of work. i wouldn't ever release something like that as i'd want to do stress tests, beta testing etc… but the content is right now already ipad/iphone capable.
same thing happened with legacy devices when the imac first came out. only supported usb. even imac themed printers that came out the same day as the imac had utilize an adb -> usb adapter. it was inconvenient for about 6 months.
nope. appletv was introduced as very much an afterthought. it was never treated as a revolutionary product
And you know why?
The sheer amount of Future Shock experienced by the industry and consumers.
True, I'm still surprised that people think it's 2001 not to mention the negative mindshare the iPad has garnered.
If they are delivered on the 3rd why do they have to ship/bill before the 1st? It is FedEx right? Not the slowest possible USPS option.
Would make some sense to just bulk over the initial blocks and they dispense with the billable shipments from a logistics location here in US. With 2-3 dispersed logistics centers can cover 3 day ground shipments to most of the country. FexEx Ground can't exactly ship direct from Apple's Chinese contractor factories.
So for example, Sacramento , Texas or Chicago , Eastern PA or Virgina you'd be a 3 day shipping distance from the vast majority of the US population. ( yeah, corner cases in Hawaii and Alaska ... but I'm sure they are used to that. ;-) FedEx ground has similar problems with those as with picking up from Chinese contractors. )
Maybe a few folks who like to middle of nowhere ( some address on a dirt trail in remote Wyoming) would require more than 3 days may have to ship those a bit earlier.... but most of the country it is a 1-1.5 day trip if don't put the logistics center on the opposite end of the country.
To get them to all show up on the same day they'd have to stagger the shipments into the road distribution system ( or have a higher than normal number of distribution centers ... that doesn't make sense. ) The longer trips first and the shorter trips last.