Quick? That was bloody smart if you ask me, considering it was uploaded in 2007
Can't wait for a jialbreak/hack... ie for all those people complaining about lack of Flash etc
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Apple Releases iPad Tablet, New SDK, iBooks and iWork Apps
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Quick? That was bloody smart if you ask me, considering it was uploaded in 2007
Can't wait for a jialbreak/hack... ie for all those people complaining about lack of Flash etc
I used my IPS screened 20" white iMac everyday all day for over 2 years - I read and concentrated on visual text and content on it ALL DAY without a problem. IPS LCD are great screens.
There's a lot of crap talk on this site tonight.
Hopefully the GoodReader app from the iPhone will work seamlessly on the iPad. That does what you're looking for. I have 200 page color PDFs on there, as well as aviation charts and approach plates. Works very well. And costs 99 cents.
I do hope they integrate a Bonjour client to allow wireless printing from the iWork apps to an Airport Express.
Sometimes I wonder whether people who write such messages also say this stuff to people in real life ?! Just a thought...
No - part of the beauty of the iPod Touch is that it can be stored in one's pocket. As many in this forum have already mentioned, the size of this device may be it's bane. If people really want this technology, they will likely opt for an iPod touch. If they want to carry around something this size, they will likely want something more powerful, like a laptop.
I couldn't agree with you more. The iPad won't compete with e-ink directly in terms of quality of the reading experience -- so at best it is a compromise to get color and video support. At worse it is poor battery life and 50% more weight than a Kindle DX.
Ergonomics
Did anyone notice how the people using it were sitting and holding the device in the video? Most of them were reclining with their legs pulled up toward them. Yes - sometimes you can sit that way. Many times you can not. Most of the time I bet people will be forced to hold it the way that the one guy did on the couch. He had to actually hold the device up to keep looking at it. That will get annoying very fast. I am typing this on one of my laptops. It rests on my lap and the screen angle is totally adjustable to meet my needs. And - best of all - the screen does not move after I adjust it. No hands!!!! I am afraid that there are going to be disappointed people who buy this and THEN over time figure out the ergonomic limitations. Good luck using this to read while lying down in bed. What are you going to do - hold it as it rests on its side? Have they fixed the accelerometer issue yet to avoid the screen image flipping to "right" itself? I doubt it, as it is using basically the same OS as the iPhone.
I won't even bother with addressing carrying this thing around for "casual" use.
Did anyone notice how the people using it were sitting and holding the device in the video? Most of them were reclining with their legs pulled up toward them. Yes - sometimes you can sit that way. Many times you can not. Most of the time I bet people will be forced to hold it the way that the one guy did on the couch. He had to actually hold the device up to keep looking at it. That will get annoying very fast. I am typing this on one of my laptops. It rests on my lap and the screen angle is totally adjustable to meet my needs. And - best of all - the screen does not move after I adjust it. No hands!!!! I am afraid that there are going to be disappointed people who buy this and THEN over time figure out the ergonomic limitations. Good luck using this to read while lying down in bed. What are you going to do - hold it as it rests on its side? Have they fixed the accelerometer issue yet to avoid the screen image flipping to "right" itself? I doubt it, as it is using basically the same OS as the iPhone.
I won't even bother with addressing carrying this thing around for "casual" use.
Nobody is seeing what comes next
I read lots of comments about the good and the bad about the iPad. The thing is, nobody is looking ahead.
If apple include in this version of iPad all the features that everybody wants (including me), other less innovative companies will copy everything.
I don't agree with this approach, but I can understand, it was the same way with the iPhone, every update, they add something.
I read lots of comments about the good and the bad about the iPad. The thing is, nobody is looking ahead.
If apple include in this version of iPad all the features that everybody wants (including me), other less innovative companies will copy everything.
I don't agree with this approach, but I can understand, it was the same way with the iPhone, every update, they add something.
Well, even the iPhone can get mail while watching a movie (Mail is one of the apps that does run in the background on Iphone OS X).
"Quite the mindless zombie you are. Ah, the "Heaven" known as App Store. More like a monopoly... and if it were a Microsoft app store you had to go through to get things, you'd be screaming bloody murder.
Oh the hypocrisy of your sick mind. You must be also be an stock holder besides a sick fanboy. You really are incredible. My disgust for you can't be expressed here due to no personal attacks. A shame, because you deserve a dose of ice cold water drenched over your head."
you are way out of line for your comment on what you quoted. If anyone sounds sick and perversely emotionally attached to a point of view you sound more like it.
(Ps why isn't 'quote' button quoting the posts?)
Oh the hypocrisy of your sick mind. You must be also be an stock holder besides a sick fanboy. You really are incredible. My disgust for you can't be expressed here due to no personal attacks. A shame, because you deserve a dose of ice cold water drenched over your head."
you are way out of line for your comment on what you quoted. If anyone sounds sick and perversely emotionally attached to a point of view you sound more like it.
(Ps why isn't 'quote' button quoting the posts?)
With all the hype and years of waiting I was expecting at least a tiny bit of Apple ingenuity or technology advancement somewhere.
Big Touch. Plain and simple.
This is bringing back memories of the how the eMate rose out of the Newton. The Apple case is nice though.
Big Touch. Plain and simple.
This is bringing back memories of the how the eMate rose out of the Newton. The Apple case is nice though.
Long live iPad
Well, most of my predictions were correct. But the pricing did surprise me.
iPad was the obvious name choice. And iBooks was the the obvious name for the book store. It does all the things I hoped it would. 1GHZ CPU that Apple owns is possibly the best way to keep the opposition at least three years behind them on this one.
So, now we get to watch and experience Apple doing for newspaper and book publishers what they did for the music industry - saved them from themselves!
Yet we still have nay sayers...
It was the music industry's avarice and lack of empathy with music lovers that gave rise to Napster etc. Music downloading via file sharing was music lovers' answer to greed and profiteering on the part of the record labels. The music industry's answer to Napster was to go to law!... and do nothing to address the real issues. CDs actually cost less to produce than 12" albums, yet they cost more. Wrong? Of course it was, and we all knew it.
Everyone, including businesses all over the world was looking at the same situation. Apple was just one of those businesses. But Apple came up with iPod and iTunes and iTunes Store. Music players weren't new and neither was downloading music. But iPod and iTunes together in a seamless service from Apple, they worked. That is the iPod business model.
The iPod business model was developed into the iPhone business model, and the story was repeated with smart phones. Phones weren't new. Smart phones weren't new. Maps on your phone weren't new. Music on your phone wasn't new. But a smart phone with an intuitive App Store was new. And of course, again it worked.
Now we have an evolved iPhone business model with subscription newspapers and an iBook Store. Tablet personal computers aren't new either, but it took Apple to define the form and release on that works - in every sense.
All of you sitting there wearing your myopic cynicism like a badge of honour for the unwashed techie revolution that will never meet your narrow expectations, try thinking laterally.
In 2001 Bill Gates predicted the Tablet PC. In nine years many different PC manufacturers have released a variety of devices. Steve Ballmer has even announced the same product twice, and continues to hint at "many interesting products in the pipeline..." as well as rambling on about "three screens and a cloud..." whatever the F* that means.
But instead of developing and releasing an industry standard product, they play around with cut-down versions of Windows 7 and grossly underpowered net books! And Ballmer defends 7 different versions of Windows 7 with: "There are really only three!!", whilst claiming MS sell 300,000 PCs a year - when of course they don't sell any.
All this proves that Microsoft isn't a a hardware company. They're not even a responsible software company. What they are is an old fashioned sales company, relying on a business model that any Columbian drug cartel would be proud of - using the goldilocks principle to sell average stuff to an addicted community.
Yet the little people criticise Apple - the people who actually get the job done,and make record profits - in a recession!
Kindle is dead. Net book is dead. Tablet PC/HP Slate whatever - all dead.
Long live iPad.
Well, most of my predictions were correct. But the pricing did surprise me.
iPad was the obvious name choice. And iBooks was the the obvious name for the book store. It does all the things I hoped it would. 1GHZ CPU that Apple owns is possibly the best way to keep the opposition at least three years behind them on this one.
So, now we get to watch and experience Apple doing for newspaper and book publishers what they did for the music industry - saved them from themselves!
Yet we still have nay sayers...
It was the music industry's avarice and lack of empathy with music lovers that gave rise to Napster etc. Music downloading via file sharing was music lovers' answer to greed and profiteering on the part of the record labels. The music industry's answer to Napster was to go to law!... and do nothing to address the real issues. CDs actually cost less to produce than 12" albums, yet they cost more. Wrong? Of course it was, and we all knew it.
Everyone, including businesses all over the world was looking at the same situation. Apple was just one of those businesses. But Apple came up with iPod and iTunes and iTunes Store. Music players weren't new and neither was downloading music. But iPod and iTunes together in a seamless service from Apple, they worked. That is the iPod business model.
The iPod business model was developed into the iPhone business model, and the story was repeated with smart phones. Phones weren't new. Smart phones weren't new. Maps on your phone weren't new. Music on your phone wasn't new. But a smart phone with an intuitive App Store was new. And of course, again it worked.
Now we have an evolved iPhone business model with subscription newspapers and an iBook Store. Tablet personal computers aren't new either, but it took Apple to define the form and release on that works - in every sense.
All of you sitting there wearing your myopic cynicism like a badge of honour for the unwashed techie revolution that will never meet your narrow expectations, try thinking laterally.
In 2001 Bill Gates predicted the Tablet PC. In nine years many different PC manufacturers have released a variety of devices. Steve Ballmer has even announced the same product twice, and continues to hint at "many interesting products in the pipeline..." as well as rambling on about "three screens and a cloud..." whatever the F* that means.
But instead of developing and releasing an industry standard product, they play around with cut-down versions of Windows 7 and grossly underpowered net books! And Ballmer defends 7 different versions of Windows 7 with: "There are really only three!!", whilst claiming MS sell 300,000 PCs a year - when of course they don't sell any.
All this proves that Microsoft isn't a a hardware company. They're not even a responsible software company. What they are is an old fashioned sales company, relying on a business model that any Columbian drug cartel would be proud of - using the goldilocks principle to sell average stuff to an addicted community.
Yet the little people criticise Apple - the people who actually get the job done,and make record profits - in a recession!
Kindle is dead. Net book is dead. Tablet PC/HP Slate whatever - all dead.
Long live iPad.
Well I guess I look like an idiot thinking they were going to put OS X 10.6 on this thing. That's probably where they really dropped the ball on this one. Over sized iPod touch blahblahblah.
Its just a big ipod touch but more expensive. Thanks but no thanks! Fortunately Im only two feet tall so I'll just stick to the ipod touch. No need for something bigger.
***I cant wait for a ipad sized ifart app. Now that I'd buy for a dollar
***I cant wait for a ipad sized ifart app. Now that I'd buy for a dollar
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.
Well said.
Well you have better eyes than I then. Reading novels for several hours every day on a tft screen made my eyes get bloodshot, dry and burning. The resolution isn't the problem, the backlight is. (and that you don't blink enough while reading of course
)He's not the only advocate of e-ink on this site. I am another. I didn't even think I had a problem reading LCD screens until I started reading my Kindle, and realized I always have a low-grade headache going on when I read a screen.
LED backlight is not at all the same as an OLED display. This thing is LCD.
131 ppi. Welcome to 1998!
Yeah. A 10 inch OLED screen at a density of 252 ppi does not sound like a $500 device.
I expected relatively little form the tablet and my expectations were about met. I was tempted to buy one initially, but the 1024 x 768 resolution puts me off. This is simply not enough to read some web sites comfortably (and one of the reasons I passed on netbooks so far). Still, I will try to play around with it once I get the chance to see how big of an issue this really is for me. Might still be a fun toy to have.
I am as well-- my guess is that the guys who developed "Papers" will be all over this. I really like the PDF reader built into that program.
JT
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