Why 16:10? Unless the width increased, a 16:10 screen would be smaller. Also a 16:10 screen would be too tall in portrait mode. An 8.5" x 11" piece of paper is much closer to 4:3 than 16:10.
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Apple Releases iPad Tablet, New SDK, iBooks and iWork Apps
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Why 16:10? Unless the width increased, a 16:10 screen would be smaller. Also a 16:10 screen would be too tall in portrait mode. An 8.5" x 11" piece of paper is much closer to 4:3 than 16:10.
AlphaBob
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It has ASSISTED GPS, and only in the 3G enabled model. Without 3G coverage or a WiFi connection to get map data, it is almost useless (as is the iPhone under similar conditions).
In other words, don't plan on taking that big family trip "out west" and expect to know where you are using a iPad or iPhone, unless you buy a real GPS receiver and application (in which case, you might as well just buy a dashboard GPS).
Esol?
Didn't learn how to read? 😕
How will this device allow one to make phone calls? I suppose it won't be necessary if one uses texting primarily for keeping in touch.
A camera would also be helpful. Phones have had this capability for many years.
Didn't learn how to read? 😕
How will this device allow one to make phone calls? I suppose it won't be necessary if one uses texting primarily for keeping in touch.
A camera would also be helpful. Phones have had this capability for many years.
AZREOSpecialist
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The camera would be great for iChat and video conferencing, however it's impractical to point the iPad at objects to take photos. Apparently Apple didn't feel that there was enough demand for video conferencing to justify the inclusion of a camera. It may have also blown their price point.
I don't think lack of a camera is a deal-breaker, but I can understand how the media will slam this device for lacking a basic camera that even a free cell phone has these days. Apple needs to re-think the PR aspect.
After watching the videos, Apples (which is painful to watch) and others, it comes down to this...
Its too big to conveniently have around. By this I mean, its too large to store while on the move. Its small enough to be picked up by someone and be gone. Its too big for the pocket, it might be a nice purse accessory but still its "one size" too big.
That and it cannot multitask? So I cannot be downloading a movie in the background and play another? I hope that isn't the case. I cannot get mail while watching something?
Its too big to conveniently have around. By this I mean, its too large to store while on the move. Its small enough to be picked up by someone and be gone. Its too big for the pocket, it might be a nice purse accessory but still its "one size" too big.
That and it cannot multitask? So I cannot be downloading a movie in the background and play another? I hope that isn't the case. I cannot get mail while watching something?
Was anyone around when the iPod first was released?? The damn thing didn't even work with Windows out of the box and had gimped storage. 5gigs was small compared to the 20gig, 40gig and greater mp3 players at the time...
Flashforward to the first iPhone. Slower processor, no GPS, no 3G, and less RAM than the current model. You don't release the best device first. How else do you release minor updates every year and get people to rebuy the same device?
There have been 6 different generations of iPod Classic. 6 Generations for an MP3 Player.
Apple is all about making minor updates and releasing new hardware.
You people obviously don't understand Apple at all. If they released a 500 gig 1080p OLED Device that cooked you breakfast in bed, there would be no way to release the 128 Gig model with built-in webcam next year.
Flashforward to the first iPhone. Slower processor, no GPS, no 3G, and less RAM than the current model. You don't release the best device first. How else do you release minor updates every year and get people to rebuy the same device?
There have been 6 different generations of iPod Classic. 6 Generations for an MP3 Player.
Apple is all about making minor updates and releasing new hardware.
You people obviously don't understand Apple at all. If they released a 500 gig 1080p OLED Device that cooked you breakfast in bed, there would be no way to release the 128 Gig model with built-in webcam next year.
ppnkg
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if apple weren't trying to please the parasites called stockholders every quarter, maybe we'd get a decent product
I'm sure nobody gives a rat's arse about my opinions, but here is why I am disappointed:
1024x768 LCD screen = 132 pixels per inch. The iphone has 163 ppi and the nexus one has 252 ppi. This is very weak.
No multitasking? This is all about keeping an iron grip on the platform, not about techology.
10 hour battery life? weak.
Now maybe a 10" slab of OLED goodness would have been too expensive.
As tons of people had said, this is nothing more than a bloated ipod touch.
How is this thing magical? Who knows, maybe I'll change my mind when I get my greasy mitts on one.
1024x768 LCD screen = 132 pixels per inch. The iphone has 163 ppi and the nexus one has 252 ppi. This is very weak.
No multitasking? This is all about keeping an iron grip on the platform, not about techology.
10 hour battery life? weak.
Now maybe a 10" slab of OLED goodness would have been too expensive.
As tons of people had said, this is nothing more than a bloated ipod touch.
How is this thing magical? Who knows, maybe I'll change my mind when I get my greasy mitts on one.
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iPod Touch sales are up 50% this quarter, and if this is "just an oversized iPod Touch" then it should sell very well based on the recent figures!
jozeppy26
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I'm disappointed. I guess I was hoping for something that I could used in med school to "write on" pdf and powerpoint lecture slides with my finger. If they do plan to offer textbooks in the future, I doubt many will buy them. I'm a biology major and for the most part, the textbook is reference. Reading it is generally a waste of time unless there a particular concept I need clarified. Looks like i'm still carrying around four 2-inch binders.
sishaw
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Here's one--catching shows you've missed on Hulu.com -- which would be a perfect use for this device. Yet you can't. Because Apple wants you to buy the shows. Like, I need to pay $2.99 for 30 Rock. I mean, I enjoy the show and {HEART} Tina Fey, but I'm only going to watch it once.
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This will do everything you need for college? Really? How do you propose to type out a term paper or thesis on this thing? Okay, you can attach a physical keyboard, but then you are forced into portrait orientation with only a 10" screen. Seems very term paper unfriendly to me.
It is a long exposure, you are seeing the trails the stars leave as the earth rotates.
Sure, I'd be happy if it had Flash for compatibility. But going forward, I don't see how Flash can survive. It requires separate tools, separate development methodologies, complicates deployment and integration, and I don't see what benefit it really provides.
ltldrummerboy
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I have never been so underwhelmed by an Apple product. All that hype for this? It does nothing more (that's useful, anyway) than an iPod touch. And it does far less than my iPhone, all for more money.
http://i.gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/photo-gallery-hands-on-with-the-ipad-and-live-event.ars
http://i.gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad
http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/01/photo-gallery-hands-on-with-the-ipad-and-live-event.ars
Yes - just to re-emphasize AlphBob's comment. A lot of folks are providing links to Apple's tech specs, which state that the iPad will have A-GPS (Assisted GPS). Look at the wikipedia entry on Assisted GPS. There is no requirement for such a device to actually have true satellite-based GPS hardware on board, and it's not at all clear from Apple's specs that the 3G-capable iPad will have such hardware.
In all likelihood, the iPad's A-GPS implementation merely uses a cellular data connection to locate via cell-tower position. This will not be useful for precise locations, including things like turn-by-turn, etc.
You base this on what?
They have a wii and love it and use that for internet and email now.
megfilmworks
macrumors 68020
I read on my Kindle and my iPhone. Whisper sync works across platforms so that is not an issue.
My GF will not even use the Kindle DX I gave her because she feels her iPhone is easier to read and adjustable for different lights.
I have to agree, I rarely use the new Kindle.
They will be all over the place in garage sales in the next few months.
The iPad may not have all the features I wanted but as a Kindle color reader on Steroids and a iTunes, iWork platform alone it is 3 times what the Kindle DX is and cheaper!
My GF will not even use the Kindle DX I gave her because she feels her iPhone is easier to read and adjustable for different lights.
I have to agree, I rarely use the new Kindle.
They will be all over the place in garage sales in the next few months.
The iPad may not have all the features I wanted but as a Kindle color reader on Steroids and a iTunes, iWork platform alone it is 3 times what the Kindle DX is and cheaper!
MagnusVonMagnum
macrumors 603
I think they might as well have called this the iKindle Touch because that's EXACTLY what it is. It's a glorified giant iPod Touch with a large enough screen to read books and other forms of print comfortably, but too large to stuff into your pocket so it's not much more portable than a Macbook, but without the ability to run REAL MAC OS X SOFTWARE and that last point is what makes this product *DOA* IMO. We already have an iPod Touch and the portability is what makes it so cool, not some giant screen that might as well be a smaller Macbook, but without any Macbook capabilities, thereby negating most of its value as a "pad". Forget about things like Microsoft Office, etc. too. This is
ALL ABOUT Apple maintaining its monopoly on applications for its newer "computers". I believe THAT is the real reason it doesn't run regular OSX.
I expected at least rudimentary OS X support, not just a giant screen iPod Touch. At its price point, you could get a nice Mac Mini and have a REAL COMPUTER. Look at the storage space. It's PATHETIC for a device this big. It's no more than the flipping iPod Touch for goodness sake! You could easily cram a 500GB drive in that thing, but I guess there's no point since it cannot run anything more than an iPod Touch can, but at least maybe you could store a decent number of movies and music on the thing with more storage. The monitor is 1024x768? That's 4:3 for goodness sake. So much for watching wide-screen movies on the thing without bars.... There's no camera and so no video conferencing. All in all, I'd rather have a 2nd iPod Touch. Maybe it'd make a good table-top system remote if only it had an IR port to control all your other video equipment (apparently it does not; yet more short-sightedness on Apple's part). But I suppose its price point makes it a tad expensive for that. Overall, I think Apple missed the boat on this one. It SHOULD have been what is already is but with an on-screen button that lets it run as a regular OSX machine (i.e. the software for the "touch" mode should be an app like Front Row). With that 1GHz processor, it has more than enough horsepower to run most day-to-day applications. And since it will not do that, you can forget about running Firefox or any other software you might WANT to run on it. What's Jobs' excuse for having no flash support on this device??? Brazen hatred of all things not created by Apple? Yes, that's it exactly, I'm afraid. If it were priced at $299, I'd think about getting one. I want a real computer for $700.
ALL ABOUT Apple maintaining its monopoly on applications for its newer "computers". I believe THAT is the real reason it doesn't run regular OSX.
I expected at least rudimentary OS X support, not just a giant screen iPod Touch. At its price point, you could get a nice Mac Mini and have a REAL COMPUTER. Look at the storage space. It's PATHETIC for a device this big. It's no more than the flipping iPod Touch for goodness sake! You could easily cram a 500GB drive in that thing, but I guess there's no point since it cannot run anything more than an iPod Touch can, but at least maybe you could store a decent number of movies and music on the thing with more storage. The monitor is 1024x768? That's 4:3 for goodness sake. So much for watching wide-screen movies on the thing without bars.... There's no camera and so no video conferencing. All in all, I'd rather have a 2nd iPod Touch. Maybe it'd make a good table-top system remote if only it had an IR port to control all your other video equipment (apparently it does not; yet more short-sightedness on Apple's part). But I suppose its price point makes it a tad expensive for that. Overall, I think Apple missed the boat on this one. It SHOULD have been what is already is but with an on-screen button that lets it run as a regular OSX machine (i.e. the software for the "touch" mode should be an app like Front Row). With that 1GHz processor, it has more than enough horsepower to run most day-to-day applications. And since it will not do that, you can forget about running Firefox or any other software you might WANT to run on it. What's Jobs' excuse for having no flash support on this device??? Brazen hatred of all things not created by Apple? Yes, that's it exactly, I'm afraid. If it were priced at $299, I'd think about getting one. I want a real computer for $700.
Overall, I like the product. If I didn't have an ipod touch, I would like to have an iPad. But, since I do, there's no reason to have both. The only people who will have both are : spoiled kids/maybe traveling businessmen/and obviously Apple-anything fans.
I honestly think this tablet would've soared tremendously if they released it before the ipod touch. Then it truly would be magical and groundbreaking. And the ipod touch could be released as more of a "pocket-portable" device, at an even lower cost, and it would sell well. But, I understand that they had to start with the ipod and build from there.
So, not really for ipod touch/iphone current owners, but definitely for a first time apple buyer. I'd love for that to be my first apple product. But it was semi-comical to watch the iPad video pretty much state all the things the ipod touch/iphone do as brand new and "magical". Like when the guy says, "if you want to show your friend the picture, just flip it and it goes to the correct orientation!" Something like that, but yeah, I was laughing really hard, thinking "...I never would've guessed, haha". That rumor about an ipod touch on steroids was dead on; very nice processor boost, graphics/screen boost, battery boost, and speaker improvement. If my ipod touch breaks in the next year or so, then I wouldn't mind getting an iPad. Until then, I'll use my miniature iPad. 🙂
I honestly think this tablet would've soared tremendously if they released it before the ipod touch. Then it truly would be magical and groundbreaking. And the ipod touch could be released as more of a "pocket-portable" device, at an even lower cost, and it would sell well. But, I understand that they had to start with the ipod and build from there.
So, not really for ipod touch/iphone current owners, but definitely for a first time apple buyer. I'd love for that to be my first apple product. But it was semi-comical to watch the iPad video pretty much state all the things the ipod touch/iphone do as brand new and "magical". Like when the guy says, "if you want to show your friend the picture, just flip it and it goes to the correct orientation!" Something like that, but yeah, I was laughing really hard, thinking "...I never would've guessed, haha". That rumor about an ipod touch on steroids was dead on; very nice processor boost, graphics/screen boost, battery boost, and speaker improvement. If my ipod touch breaks in the next year or so, then I wouldn't mind getting an iPad. Until then, I'll use my miniature iPad. 🙂
here's how i feel...
I know there's some magic in there, but the way the hype seemed to be building....I'm not seeing it so much.
I would have prefered the base start with 32gb and have a 64 and possibly 128 as the top end. 16, if this is a pseudo-netbook option from Apple, is anemic.
However....here's how I will likely be able to justify things:
1-my new employer requires me to use their blackberry, through verizon. So i have a phone...and my iphone contract expires in a few months.
2-i have wanted a kindle for a while, but I've been waiting. Specifically, waiting to see about a color device that will offer magazines that I like to read. Still waiting on the iPad to do magazines, but you have to think it's coming....
3-Like I said, I wanted a kindle...likely the lower end model at $259. I liked the kindle app on the iphone, its just too small a screen to make a serious long-term ebook reader. So, keeping in mind i can retire my iphone and wanted a kindle....i can get the base model iPad for 150 more than the kindle, make use of iBooks and have my ipod for music and movies/tv shows still...plus hopefully magazines soon too
i do think there's a lot of potential, and a version 2.0 could take this concept so much further....but the leap from a base kindle is not that significant, especially considering what that difference gets you in terms of apps and multi-media usage.
so....not at all floored by the release...yet still managing to justify wanting and probably getting one. may wait till these hit refurbs tho....
I know there's some magic in there, but the way the hype seemed to be building....I'm not seeing it so much.
I would have prefered the base start with 32gb and have a 64 and possibly 128 as the top end. 16, if this is a pseudo-netbook option from Apple, is anemic.
However....here's how I will likely be able to justify things:
1-my new employer requires me to use their blackberry, through verizon. So i have a phone...and my iphone contract expires in a few months.
2-i have wanted a kindle for a while, but I've been waiting. Specifically, waiting to see about a color device that will offer magazines that I like to read. Still waiting on the iPad to do magazines, but you have to think it's coming....
3-Like I said, I wanted a kindle...likely the lower end model at $259. I liked the kindle app on the iphone, its just too small a screen to make a serious long-term ebook reader. So, keeping in mind i can retire my iphone and wanted a kindle....i can get the base model iPad for 150 more than the kindle, make use of iBooks and have my ipod for music and movies/tv shows still...plus hopefully magazines soon too
i do think there's a lot of potential, and a version 2.0 could take this concept so much further....but the leap from a base kindle is not that significant, especially considering what that difference gets you in terms of apps and multi-media usage.
so....not at all floored by the release...yet still managing to justify wanting and probably getting one. may wait till these hit refurbs tho....
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