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iPad: Music Playtime 140 Hours, eBooks Priced Same as Amazon
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Ignorance breeds stupidity. A laptop is therefore a large netbook. A full size truck is simply an enlarged compact truck. With your logic (if one can call it that) why do any of the aforementioned products sell?
Apps on the iPod touch are primarily limited by the screen size and processing power, both of which are improved on in the iPad. Compare mail on the iPad to the iPod touch, then the calendar, then the the iWork Apps (wait nothing to compare against). The iPad ones have much greater functionality that the iPod touch versions, now imagine what other developers could do with this platform.
And painful! In full sun, brightness doesn’t matter (iPhone/iPad is not like a laptop where sunlight makes the screen go black). And in a dark area, my iPhone at half-brightness hurts my eyes, so I turn it down. An iPad at full brightness is not something you’d want to stare at for 10 hours
(The ideal for long staring, I think, would be Kindle-style e-Ink, but only if it had better contrast. I like that it’s not lit up, but the gray-on-gray is really annoying to me. Not all that book-like either. And no color or motion of course. e-Ink with fast motion, color, good contrast, and a good front-light for dark rooms might turn out to be awesome some day, if they ever achieve that. But LED-backlit LCD is the best compromise for now. We do already use backlit displays for hours every day already, and survive to tell the tale.)
Yeah—I did mention Amazon jungle treks, but still I wouldn’t want to see the iPad be thicker and heavier (or have a screen that’s useless in sunlight) just for the sake of a tiny number of backpackers who are willing to carry a tablet computer through the wilderness, but unwilling to carry either a battery pack or a paper book.
(P.S. I would totally play DoodleJump on Mt. Everest! Or Defender Chronicles at least.)
Yes. People like to say “iPhone doesn’t multitask!!!!” but the truth isn’t so simple: it DOES multitask in MANY ways. That’s one of them. THe browser and mail apps multitask too—that’s why you can jump in and out of them so quickly.
People want MORE multitasking, to be accurate. (OS 4.0? I wouldn’t want it on my iPhone but I would on an iPad.)
That pretty much cuts to the core. There's a decent argument for more multitasking capability on an iPhone, but there's a much larger one for iPad, because the capabilities are greater and everyone (from Apple to techies to consumers) are asking it to do more.
I really don't expect the technical capabilities to remain frozen at this. I also expect to see Apple stake out a very defined niche in the marketplace, master that niche and then extend outwards (like they have with a lot of other products).
battery life: why not?
People said the same about the supposed impossibility of the unibody enclosure.
People said the same about the supposed impossibility of the unibody enclosure.
AirTunes?
Agreed, first thing I was wondering as well. From the videos and screen shots of the iPod application there doesn't appear to be an AirTunes selector button any where but then there has to be an Airport Express active before that button shows up -- so I guess it's wait and see.
From the specs it states you can use a Bluetooth headset so I'm guessing you could buy something like the Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver and connect/stream that way.
Agreed, first thing I was wondering as well. From the videos and screen shots of the iPod application there doesn't appear to be an AirTunes selector button any where but then there has to be an Airport Express active before that button shows up -- so I guess it's wait and see.
From the specs it states you can use a Bluetooth headset so I'm guessing you could buy something like the Belkin Bluetooth Music Receiver and connect/stream that way.
You're right. Comparing to the Kindle isn't the right one... the Kindle DX is the comparison people should be using due to the same Screen Size of 9.7", Book Reading, of course and Price -- $10 more and you get the iPad and SOOO much more. I think the reading experience is going to be better. You don't have to wait for the pages to turn so you can read faster and with the adjust to display brightness, you'll be able to fine-tune your reading needs quickly.
Just found this comparison from Redmondpie.com
I would HATE to be Chandra Rathakrishnan of Fusion Garage right now with his $500 JooJoo. OMG! A year too late. If he could've released this just 12 months ago, he would've made some money... now I think he's fudged. So sorry, Chandra. For what it's worth, his has a bigger screen.
Pure BS. Every time a PC fan gets the chance, they compare a Macbook to a similarly equipped PC and come right out and say the usual BS, "You can get so much more on a PC for less money". Now that the iPad offers a plethora a features (including an eBook reader with titles to support it), with plenty of software support, with the same size screen as the Kindle for the same price (or $10.00 more) as the Kindle, now you come here and say it's not fair to compare it to the Kindle??? Gimme a break.
I hate to agree with this but it's very true. He was backed into a corner and didn't want to answer those questions. I wish Mossberg had've asked him about Flash.
Wow, that's a good idea! Do they do that because the earth's circumference gets smaller as you get close to the poles?
Thanks very much for that link - that's going to be handy. Power provision seems to be pretty hit and miss on long haul flights still in my experience.
no, they do it because both Tokyo and NY are in the northern hemisphere, so its shorter to go over the pole (well, almost) than to simply 'go west'
its the 'great circle'
It's more apparent if you use a globe, and connect two cities with a string.
On a "digital globe", from the equator the direct routes look like detours to the north.
From "above", they are straight lines. Look at the routes from Tokyo to NY and LA....
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I'd rather just have a single app that supports all formats. I have one on my 7 year old pocketpc but it's time to upgrade.
I don't have an iphone but how do you get various ebook formats onto it?
So basically, this guy isn't considering all the facts. Apple isn't going to tout 10 hours if it gets less than 3 like he claims
That guy is ignorant. He sounds like a salesperson at Best Buy that has no idea what he is talking about, but just read a few spec sheets.
"IPS stands for In-Plane Switching Display. Its one of the newer innovations that weve found in looking at LCDs for the roundup review."
According to Wikipedia, IPS has been around since 1996, thought it has been improved upon every couple of years since then. The newest kind, E-IPS, has "Wider aperture for light transmission, enabling the use of lower-power, cheaper backlights."(wikipedia)
"Most LCD screens today use TFT, which is a thin film transistor liquid crystal display. However, having tested both TFT and IPS, I can tell you that IPS offers far superior image quality and color matching."
All modern LCD computer and TV monitors are TFT. IPS is a type of TFT.
"For an LCD monitor like the VP2365wb, it works great, enabling the $399 unit to compete with much more expensive LED-backlit displays."
The backlight of the display has no relation to what type of LCD technology it uses, and is irrelevant to the discussion. It has a fairly minor effect on overall picture quality when compared to the rest of the panel.
Almost all desktop Apple LCDs have been IPS, and I hope they can transition most of their portable devices to it also.
i'll have to check out that video. but i think we should wait about the battery until the product is released