LOL, you have to be kidding right?
Verizon is nowhere near going bankrupt.
Apple would have been better off hiring Colonel Sanders to show off the Egg Steve Jobs Laid on the stage today. LOL!
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Apple Posts January 2010 Media Event QuickTime Stream
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LOL, you have to be kidding right?
Verizon is nowhere near going bankrupt.
Apple would have been better off hiring Colonel Sanders to show off the Egg Steve Jobs Laid on the stage today. LOL!
I noticed that too while watching it! Made me chuckle.
Oh well. Can't wait to see what the next generation iPad will do. Until then, I'll stick with what I've got.
i've pretty much jumped on the "G1" of every mac product, until this one. if it had at least a front facing vidcam i would have jumped. i was hoping for a both rear and front facing cam. and a version of ilfe. not everything, just "lite' iphoto, iweb, and imovie. just a light version to edit and upload video/photos and design a web page. no need for anything beyond that. i did like the iwork stuff.
i also prefered the name iSlate over iPad!!!
i also prefered the name iSlate over iPad!!!
Product cannibalization
I too just finished watching the whole thing. For a change, I thought the most interesting and exciting presentation was by Phil Schiller. The iWork suite for the iPad really is impressive and that alone *almost* makes me want to get the device.
My concern, though, is with the iPad-specific apps. If this device takes off, will developers begin neglecting apps for the iPhone and Touch? I could see a situation where if the iPad is a success, Apple might end up alienating users of the smaller mobile devices. There really are a lot more gaming possibilities for a bigger screen. But will that trend begin to cripple the usefulness of the iPhone and Touch?
I too just finished watching the whole thing. For a change, I thought the most interesting and exciting presentation was by Phil Schiller. The iWork suite for the iPad really is impressive and that alone *almost* makes me want to get the device.
My concern, though, is with the iPad-specific apps. If this device takes off, will developers begin neglecting apps for the iPhone and Touch? I could see a situation where if the iPad is a success, Apple might end up alienating users of the smaller mobile devices. There really are a lot more gaming possibilities for a bigger screen. But will that trend begin to cripple the usefulness of the iPhone and Touch?
so has apple ever made a surprised event day for a mac before? arent they all scheduled a few months a head of time like every 6 months..
This surely isn't the be all and end of portable devices. But, frankly it will fill a niche between my non-iPhone cell phone, Dell netbook and my Mac Pro.
Multitasking? I switch between a dozen applications running in background 8-10 hrs a day on the PC at work ; I'm not interested in doing the same while watching tv on the couch.
Flash blows*.
Its a resource hog and it is proprietary. Per John Gruber, Apple gave up on Flash as Adobe can't be counted on to provide proper Flash support for the Mac and iphone.
And did I mention that Flash blows*?
HTML5 supports embedded h.264 and only Safari and Chrome support it as it is quite new, but that is ultimately where video is going if people as yourself get over their fixation with Flash.
*My opinion, and supported by guru's in the mac universe
What's actually really disappointing for me is that the display still has this huge black frame around it. Would be so much nicer if it was borderless. But that's just me. It just sort of looks old already.
There's also no camera which is a shame. Because if it was ichat capable then a lot of people wouldn't need much else. This will no doubt be a winner because you can just have one of these at home to browse, email and look at photos and youtube. Let's face it, a huge number of people don't do much with their computer gear. It saves you the trip to the desk when you're having one of these sitting on the kitchen table.
It's not perfect but it's pretty good for a first try.
Now back into my corner waiting for the stream to start working...
I think the frame is a good thing - it allows you someplace to put your thumbs without blocking any part of the screen. Not sure what you mean by 'if it was iChat capable then people wouldn't need much else'. I have maybe used the camera on my MBP 3 times in a year (maybe it's an age thing - most of my friends aren't the webcam types) and I'm truly not upset in the least there's no camera (but I can understand there are those that are).
At any rate, for what I'm looking for in a device, the iPad looks great for me. Surf, email, iWork, photos, movies, music, books, magazines (hopefully they'll come up with something great - surprised there was nothing in the demo)
Just hope they're available in Canada before July (which I'm doubting due to the 3G negotiations) - it's not even mentioned on the Apple.com/ca website. Oh well.
Haha. The sad thing is that I actually like that song, as in actually liking a song not just because it's a joke. "Jizz in my Pants" on a screen bigger than the Touch? Sounds good to me
Steve & crew are THE masters of marketing.
Just hearing about the details made me disappointed. But after watching the keynote im starting to feel more positive about the device. Incredible.
Night and day difference between this press conference and that of google or microsoft.
Agree 100% with your comments and concerns.
Just hearing about the details made me disappointed. But after watching the keynote im starting to feel more positive about the device. Incredible.
Night and day difference between this press conference and that of google or microsoft.
Agree 100% with your comments and concerns.
No Use
I guess this is great if you want to read books purchased from iTunes/iBook or look at pictures on your mobile me account. This product has no significant business use and with all the hype leading up to the "iPod" oops "iPad" I would have to say this is a complete disappointment.
I guess this is great if you want to read books purchased from iTunes/iBook or look at pictures on your mobile me account. This product has no significant business use and with all the hype leading up to the "iPod" oops "iPad" I would have to say this is a complete disappointment.
I guess this is great if you want to read books purchased from iTunes/iBook or look at pictures on your mobile me account. This product has no significant business use and with all the hype leading up to the "iPod" oops "iPad" I would have to say this is a complete disappointment.
Have you heard of the App Store? Check it out some time..
The iWork demo is by far the most interesting and telling bit of the whole presentation. This is the stuff that YOU CAN'T DO ON AN IPHONE. And these are for real, productivity apps built from the ground up for a touch interface. It's really remarkable, and shows the potential of the Touch OS.
I couldn't care less what tech it is, I just want the crap to work. For a company like apple to have such horrible streams from quicktime not only blows it's downright disgraceful. Almost every other company would do live streams. In this instance, Microsoft's Silverlight stream of their CES event showed more quality and class than this. This QT stream simply isn't working at all from Australia, and it happens that way every time with Apple. Quicktime is a joke for streaming, it either needs to be fixed or dropped like the flaming bag of poop it is in favor of something that actually works.
That being said I don't dislike quicktime outright, I use it in almost all of my installation projects, but for internet streams it's just useless. The streams just fall over, all of them, yet I can pull down files from east and west coast US servers at 1.5MB/s.
LOL... Yes, it may have some advantages to be webcam free. Look, I understand your argument about the frame but I just don't like it. I see the future of this in the wireless home as your main communication device with a big entertaining factor with all the games and apps available. It's not really something that's useful at work. At least not in my field. I picture people just using this as their hub for everything light and having a webcam would just complete that picture. No doubt I will get one, including the 3G. You take it with you when visiting friends to hassle and bore them with your photos and videos.
Perfect.
PS: Not to mention you can actually download a book before boarding a plane and read it with enough battery power to last the entire flight unless you're trying to leave Australia for any other place on this planet.
But this seems to be a problem YOU are having. I just watched the Quicktime stream and it looked great. I'm in America and I don't know if there is some country-specific problem, but saying that "Quicktime blows" because you have issues is unfounded. I have far more problems with Flash.
You do realize devs love making money? They can charge for both versions of their app. No devs with a sane mind will be neglecting both products. Producing both versions means two chances of getting a sale.
As for iWork...where the hell are the iWork '10 for the Macs?
Saying "Quicktime is great" because you don't have issues is unfounded from my perspective. I have zero issues with any most other online video technologies except QuickTime streams (and WIndows Media streams, they're rubbish too), and it happens on my Windows 7 desktop and My OS 10.6 Macbook Pro.
I can watch the Quicktime video of the iPad commercial/video on Apple's site perfectly but the stream of the keynote play 2 seconds of audio then just stop, yet it keeps leeching data from apple servers according to my network monitoring tool.
And I'm not the only one. I tech multimedia at several Universities over here and for as long as I can recall Quicktime streaming has never "just worked" the way it does with other streaming technologies and I've tried it from a host of different machines from ye old eMacs, G5s, Mac Pros, iMacs, PCs of every kind. Of course most of that was trying to use streams from other countries, but that shouldn't matter. I'd go as far to compare it to Windows Media Format streaming which falls on it's face just as often as Apple's technology seems to.
Alas this is getting totally divergent to what the thread ought to be about - it's just at times like this the failure of QT streams and Apple's lack of live video technologies really gets under my skin. I mean - 2010 - shouldn't they be streaming this stuff live by now?
Now if only I could
Tie this thing into my TIVOs and stream their content over my home network. Hell I would buy three.
Tie this thing into my TIVOs and stream their content over my home network. Hell I would buy three.
It's probably at the event where they actually talk about Macs if it even shows up at an event at all. Lets face it, iWork isn't exactly a big wow app to show off during a keynote. I only payed attention to iWork for Mobile OS X during this keynote because I really wanted to use iWork on it for light work and was interested in how they got it to work.
Aside: Regarding the OS version number, it's 3.2 (at least that is what some of the people who got to touch it said).