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Apple Shows Off iOS 4.2 in New 'iPad is Amazing' Commercial
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i found it on youtube but can't get the URL to copy-and-paste the link here. is that always blocked somehow?
The commercial is fine. Gets the point of what most consumers want in a consumption device.
I enjoy my iPad for what it does. Some posts say it doesn't do this or that. So it's not good.
Good to know.
Off to the garbage with ya! People tell me you aren't working like they think it should be!
I enjoy my iPad for what it does. Some posts say it doesn't do this or that. So it's not good.
Good to know.
Off to the garbage with ya! People tell me you aren't working like they think it should be!
isn't that the whole point of Airplay? Not needing a PC/Mac to stream from iOs device to apple tv?
i don't want to back to 4.1. to get my videos back, i'm waiting for apple update to fix this soon...
Was 4.1 ever publicly released for the iPad? Was it a jailbroken iPad? I found jailbreaking my old 3G made it unstable as anything.
I love how you phrased that comment to make it seem like Terminator 2 is some obscure title whose compatibility is not important.
Yes, and so was Rubik's Cube. That's what the iPad and the Cube have in common: They're both amazing... toys.
I like toys. I just find it disturbing when their owners advertise their toys as something so wonderful that everybody should have at least three of them.
There are two or three use cases in which the iPad might actually solve a problem or at least work as an acceptable tool, but like a PlayStation Portable it is nothing to get even remotely excited about. It has far too many artificial limitations and restrictions to become a really useful platform outside the iTunes-content-streaming ecosystem for which it was actually built.
Instead of getting excited over the fistful of things that Apple actually lets you do with the iPad, just imagine for a second what you could with the SAME device if it hadn't all those restrictions that Apple put into it and if it weren't tied to the iTunes DRM world. Imagine the iPad as an OPEN platform - which it isn't.
Apple is selling digital perfume and digital designer clothes. How else do you sell luxury goods that nobody really needs?
Although I think its a good product and a good ad, you can't really ignore the text in the advert. It might not be spoken word but without it I think the ad would not be anywhere near as good.
So a few words are needed, yes.
Some folks call the iPad a toy. Ok. I quickly thought of 25 useful things I can do with this toy:
Read & create Emails
Maintain & use Calendar
Maintain & use Contact info
Search web
Use Maps & find directions
Use Weather & travel info
Take notes
Review Documents (docs, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF)
Edit Documents (docs, spreadsheets, presentations)
Annotate PDF
Create simple Documents (docs, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF)
Store & Read trade journals, manuals, & other publications
Track news and markets
Display presentations
Print Documents
Remotely Log in to office desktop
Store and use documents in the cloud
Use project management apps and "to do" apps
Use specific business apps for your industry (real estate, stock trading, design, etc..)
Use as a secondary touch screen for your Mac
Use, create & maintain simple data bases (Bento, Filemaker)
Use business reporting, visualization, and analytics apps (SAP, Roambi, etc.)
Participate in online meetings via WebEx or similar apps
Develop and Draft process flow charts and free form sketches
Perform simple photo editing
Now, I know that a laptop might be able to do some of these things better, but that is really not the point of the iPad. The iPad does these things sufficiently well to meet 90% of the users most frequent needs in a lightweight mobil package that cost half as much as the lowest price MacBook. For this reason, people are buying the product. Add to this that it is fun to use, and you have a winner.
Read & create Emails
Maintain & use Calendar
Maintain & use Contact info
Search web
Use Maps & find directions
Use Weather & travel info
Take notes
Review Documents (docs, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF)
Edit Documents (docs, spreadsheets, presentations)
Annotate PDF
Create simple Documents (docs, spreadsheets, presentations, PDF)
Store & Read trade journals, manuals, & other publications
Track news and markets
Display presentations
Print Documents
Remotely Log in to office desktop
Store and use documents in the cloud
Use project management apps and "to do" apps
Use specific business apps for your industry (real estate, stock trading, design, etc..)
Use as a secondary touch screen for your Mac
Use, create & maintain simple data bases (Bento, Filemaker)
Use business reporting, visualization, and analytics apps (SAP, Roambi, etc.)
Participate in online meetings via WebEx or similar apps
Develop and Draft process flow charts and free form sketches
Perform simple photo editing
Now, I know that a laptop might be able to do some of these things better, but that is really not the point of the iPad. The iPad does these things sufficiently well to meet 90% of the users most frequent needs in a lightweight mobil package that cost half as much as the lowest price MacBook. For this reason, people are buying the product. Add to this that it is fun to use, and you have a winner.
If you lack all imagination and ignore all examples to the contrary, except for those two or three, of course.
And in this fantasy, ignore all the benefits of Apple's approach. Only concentrate on the negatives.
As opposed the the alternative DRM worlds.
As long as you define "OPEN platform" in a way that excludes the iPad.
Toy?
I read the post called an iPad a toy. I have to disagree. I use my iPad several hours a day doing all kinds of work. Especially now that it can multitask.
I use pTerm to start ssh sessions with three different websites I manage. I edit scripts, html, transfer files using ftp and while in grad school, I did research, edited papers, and stayed in contact with other group members.
Its lighter then my laptop, ready in a moment when I need it, and has become a tool I do not leave home without. It doesn't sit on my coffee table for the sole purpose of browsing the Internet during commercials.
Oh, I also use VNC on it to connect to my home network when on the road. That is a very cool app!
Lastly, I read a lot of books. Before the iPad I would spend hours in the local book stores gathering new books for business trips. Now, I see a commercial or someone suggest a great book and I'm literally reading it within minutes. I currently have over 60 books on my iPad.
So how can you call such an amazing device a "toy".
Mark
I read the post called an iPad a toy. I have to disagree. I use my iPad several hours a day doing all kinds of work. Especially now that it can multitask.
I use pTerm to start ssh sessions with three different websites I manage. I edit scripts, html, transfer files using ftp and while in grad school, I did research, edited papers, and stayed in contact with other group members.
Its lighter then my laptop, ready in a moment when I need it, and has become a tool I do not leave home without. It doesn't sit on my coffee table for the sole purpose of browsing the Internet during commercials.
Oh, I also use VNC on it to connect to my home network when on the road. That is a very cool app!
Lastly, I read a lot of books. Before the iPad I would spend hours in the local book stores gathering new books for business trips. Now, I see a commercial or someone suggest a great book and I'm literally reading it within minutes. I currently have over 60 books on my iPad.
So how can you call such an amazing device a "toy".
Mark
Ahhh, nothing's better than rendering your £429 iPad useless than laying it on your chest upside down so you watch the real shiz on your £900 Wifi-enabled TV
From what I've read AirPlay works in the background so you should be able to be able to use your iPad just fine while a video is playing to your TV.
Okay, I've finally watched this. So all we see is a demo of how to CONSUME various kinds of media with a touch interface. That truly is not amazing, it's actually rather pathetic, considering the age of the device.
Where are all those magical apps that allow the user to CREATE something with this "awesome, magical, beautiful, revolutionary" device and its by now rather old user interface model that was already introduced years ago by other products? I mean, we all know by now that the iPad sucks as an eBook reader and as a writing device. In my experience, it's not even a good video playback device due to performance issues with non-Apple video formats. But does the "innovation" really end with a DJ app or other software simulations of instruments?
Where are all those magical apps that allow the user to CREATE something with this "awesome, magical, beautiful, revolutionary" device and its by now rather old user interface model that was already introduced years ago by other products? I mean, we all know by now that the iPad sucks as an eBook reader and as a writing device. In my experience, it's not even a good video playback device due to performance issues with non-Apple video formats. But does the "innovation" really end with a DJ app or other software simulations of instruments?
I know 30 seconds is a long time to pay attention, but the first demo was "create." Three of the 8 demos were about creating with iWork.
You really have to be willfully ignoring what's out there to continue with these arguments. You can create music (with real instruments), movies, documents, artwork, and websites to name a few. What are you missing?
The iPad is not for everybody, but many of us are getting enjoyment and productive use from this device everyday.
It seems that the difficulty some folks have with the iPad is that they expect it to do the same things as their Laptop. This was never the goal of the iPad. Apple would not make a device that costs half as much as their Macbook, but does all of the same things.
Instead, the iPad does 90% of the things folks most frequently do on a computer really well, in a highly mobile package at half the price of a Macbook. To be clear, I am not saying it does 90% of what a Laptop can do. I am saying it does 90% of what people most frequently do. People that hate on the iPad seem to have difficulty imagining that most consumers just do not need very much computing power.
While the iPad is not a replacement for a desktop or laptop, many households need/want more than one computing device, so the iPad makes a lot of sense to families, couples and other folks that want multiple devices. Why buy two laptops/desktops, when one laptop/desktop plus an iPad better meets your needs.
It seems that the difficulty some folks have with the iPad is that they expect it to do the same things as their Laptop. This was never the goal of the iPad. Apple would not make a device that costs half as much as their Macbook, but does all of the same things.
Instead, the iPad does 90% of the things folks most frequently do on a computer really well, in a highly mobile package at half the price of a Macbook. To be clear, I am not saying it does 90% of what a Laptop can do. I am saying it does 90% of what people most frequently do. People that hate on the iPad seem to have difficulty imagining that most consumers just do not need very much computing power.
While the iPad is not a replacement for a desktop or laptop, many households need/want more than one computing device, so the iPad makes a lot of sense to families, couples and other folks that want multiple devices. Why buy two laptops/desktops, when one laptop/desktop plus an iPad better meets your needs.