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Apple Now Featuring iPad Guided Tours
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I totally agree... Apple's gonna have a rash of calls about why the annoying ads no longer function.
I hope they don't. One of the drivers of putting multiple users onto one "Personal Computer" is because it isn't actually a personal ( as in one user) computer. That is in driven by the fact they PCs cost more than more personal items. Once everyone has one ( and not the price point is not there yet. ) that aspect will drop out. I hope they drive the cost down so it becomes largely a non issue.
Likewise if there was ubiquitous internet and infnite bandwidth your stuff could float out in some server and this would be just a viewer (you'd log into the server more so than the individual device. )
iTunes Syncing (for those with relatively modest storage requirements) is really iTunes "back up". It is more like TimeMachine/TimeCapsule that the desktop machine is adding rather than syncing.
It is still quite necessary for people who have a bizillion photos , lossless audio, huge DVD collection , etc. that is much more economically stored on hard disks than on Flash. Hard Disks will stay the lowest $/GB champ for many years to come. As most people packrat away every larger volumes of stuff each year, flash storage isn't going to catch up.
The problem overlooking is that it is rather nice for Apple in a service/support position if they can flush your iPhone/touch/iPad contents or even give you a refurb knowing that you have a backup at home. Just plug new (or 'mindwiped' ) one back in and you get your data back.
However, yeah.... in that the majority of Mac OS X owners don't have backups. ( or very bad backups ). It wouldn't be much different.
We'll see. If it is really just "back up" process needed, then some software may show up later that allows back-up to remote disk. It will also be a bit awkward if Apple doesn't directly support registering the device from itself.
There is nothing technically necessary why you need one. Mostly just some legacy mechanisms that need updating and a few new, straight forward applications.
No one likes a smartass. I was making a serious statement, as someone in the support industry who deals with people who don't know what a mouse is, Apple is going to have like 10,000 calls saying "Hulu doesn't work, wtf!". I guarantee it. Where on the ipad page do they specifically state flash doesn't work? I don't see it.
HTML 5 is going to move to a new paradigm where annoying ads will most likely function.
Stuff like "ClickforFlash" works because the flash ads are easily segregated from the HTML content. Once most of the "disco making mechanisms" are added to Javascript and HTML they won't be as easily segregated or trivially blocked.
Screen lock/login and password. Just like your computer that just sits in your house.
Not sure if Mail App will cooperate but if have an IMAP mailbox, but just leave your password out of account configuration. The app could/should ask for the password.
Likewise if can exclude Mail (and account info) from the sync process and never configure Mail on the device then won't be any email on it. Probably the best move if going to offer it up as a coffee table, communal usage device. ( exclude bookmarks / mail / calendar ) stuff.
Early adopter will be recognized for the Apple logo branded into their thighs. Read Marketing 101: "Creating Brand Awareness." The optional cup-holder/coffee warmer will become available early next year followed by new fashions that will allow you to show off your "cutting edge" scar tissue.
"It's a feature, not a drawback."
Why would someone enumerate all of the things the device doesn't do?
Usually you list the things it can do.
As several have said may folks don't even now what Flash is. For those folks stating don't have it is equally as non informative. It would be like saying the iPad doesn't have an oscillation overthruster .
Somewhere in the online support system there is going to be an article on the topic though "What's the funny symbol in my web browser?" (and other entries ) . If large number of people call, yeah that is burning up money though.
I'll bet real money that the aspect ratio was looked at and argued over for a long time before ending up as you see it now.
That isn't what Amazon says ( http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1000490441 )
"Get the best reading experience available on your tablet computer including the iPad. No Kindle required "
So whatever is best locally on your tablet they are claiming "best" on that platform. They are not comparing between platforms. If the user considers iPad platform "best" then that is their decision. If the user likes Kindle best, then that is also their decision. User gets to choose the hardware.
That is in contrast to Apple wanting to dictate the hardware. (at least at this point)
Amazon wants to sell books. Taking a monopoly hold on the reader hardware market isn't a primary issue with them.
More than likely Apple will later follow down this very same path when ports iBook reader, just like iTunes , to the other platforms. When that happen will the iPad be worse at being a book reader? No.
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From looking at the iWork guided tour videos there is no doubt that printing is not going to be an option. Bummer
It will come in 4.0. Calm down haha!
You offer good points, but I think having the ability to back up to Time Capsule would be very helpful. I know a lot of people who don't use any computer features that the iPad doesn't offer, i.e. web and email, so owning a separate computer seems a waste.
Quickly becoming a basket case...
Okay, these videos have only made the waiting all the more unbearable. I actually came home from work at lunch just to watch them.
By Friday, I expect I will be completely useless at work. Not expecting to sleep at all Friday night...
Sure am glad I ordered the "cheap" 16GB WiFi model to use until my 64GB 3G model ships!
Also, I'm fortunate to have some business travel coming up which will allow me to exercise iPad in a light "laptop replacement" use-case.
Okay, these videos have only made the waiting all the more unbearable. I actually came home from work at lunch just to watch them.
By Friday, I expect I will be completely useless at work. Not expecting to sleep at all Friday night...
Sure am glad I ordered the "cheap" 16GB WiFi model to use until my 64GB 3G model ships!
Also, I'm fortunate to have some business travel coming up which will allow me to exercise iPad in a light "laptop replacement" use-case.
the tours make the ipad look amazing, yes its a big touch but that's what makes it amazing
After these vids how can people still rationally say this, the OS is so radically different, its nothing like the OS on the Touch, if it were it would'nt be so amazing.
That works great if you don't want anyone else to use the iPad at all, but that would defeat the whole purpose of the device for me (a reader and entertainment device). Why wouldn't I allow my kids to use the iPad to go on the web, read books or play games? I don't want to lock them out of the device, just my my e-mail.
It turns out the answer could have been Restrictions, found under Settings. It allows you to turn off certain functions, but Mail is not one of them. (And neither is Calendar.)
I've always thought of the iPad as a shared device, like a television, where anyone can pick it up and go online, watch videos, read. But I think I was wrong about that, Apple has set it up as a personal device only. Big mistake, if true.
*cough* https://www.macrumors.com/2010/03/2...d-time-inc-announces-support-for-html5-video/
also,
@ Numbers demo. I was ready to laugh off spreadsheets on this thing, but they actually might be doable!
They are commericials. They are trying to sell the "almost full sized keyboard" feature. In portrait it is not "almost full sized".
For instance look at the Pages video. Starts portrait and then when they flip to landscape they mention "almost full sized keyboard". The say "almost full sized keyboard" repetitively over the several videos. The Numbers video stays portrait almost the whole time.
If doing one-index-finger-henpeck typing then the smaller portrait keyboard is actually better because reduces finger travel, but still substantially bigger keys than iPhone/Touch . If banging away with two fingers then landscape will likely be better. However, that presumes something else is fully supporting the iPad.
If it is a reader/entertainment device then don't store your email on it and leave it unlocked.
Seems unlikely it would be your only email option since what will do when need get to email when kids are reading books , playing games , etc. If your email is stored on a server can read it from there by logging in.
Restrictions sucks as a security mechanism. Especially. if all of the others can run a sync on the main computer keeping the backup.
Besides it is lopsided. If you read email/calendar/etc why can't kids do it too for there stuff ?
do you keep your physical mail taped to the television ? If you want to use it as a TV , movie player , game machine, web thing .... fine. Do exactly that. It works.
Your real problem is that you want to use the "TV" as a big screen email reader and storage device. The easy solution is just don't do that one specific thing.
If use webmail (or IMAP with only server folders) ... entirely a non problem.
If you leave your personal stuff off of the device then it is an impersonal storage device (no ones person's data). So nobody gets to store personal stuff there ( only common bookmarks , calendar , etc. )
What you want is some mixed mode device. Sometimes personal / sometimes not. That is the real issue.