really...they bother your eyes? I can barely see a thing with my iPhone's brightness set to its lowest setting.
really.......?
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really...they bother your eyes? I can barely see a thing with my iPhone's brightness set to its lowest setting.
really.......?
I doubt it will happen but I would like to see the ability to use the Universal Access white on black contrast change to the iPad so that I can get the screen even darker when reading in bed at night. White text looks so much better and so much easier to read on a black background at night. Even GPS systems have that built in to automatically go to a less glaring reversed color scheme after a certain time period.
Anyway, Apple if you're listening...
Anyway, Apple if you're listening...
Wow. I guess these people never want to read in the park or at the beach, by the pool, or whatever. I hope they realize that the iPad screen does not work outdoors. I suspect they don't.
i'm curious to know how "accessible" that really is. the ability to assign a special system wide gesture to toggle white on black would be very cool, similar to control+option+command+8 on mac os x, but i suspect it will involve something like:
closing the app > settings > general > display > accessibility > really? > are you sure? > who needs accessibility? > black on white > home button > start app.
Personally, I never brought my Sony Reader to the pool or beach fearing it would get damaged or stolen. And reading in the park? How 20th century. I would guess most people in the U.S. (this is a U.S. survey) do not go to the park to read.
I think people who are aware of the Kindle and choose the iPad are going for the iPad b/c it's more practical and useful than a dedicated reader. And let's face it, if one is reading outside they do it under the shade, not in the bright sun. Even paper is hard to read in bright sun.
i guess in america no one reads on campus quads either? how about on the bus/train? sidewalk café? the beach? or are those places also too passé for your america?
i guess in america no one reads on campus quads either? how about on the bus/train? sidewalk café? the beach? or are those places also too passé for your america?
According to Steve Jobs, reading is passé too. "Nobody reads anymore" so I guess we really don't need this iPad thing. Wow, this guy really is a never ending spout of crap.
I don't see paperback books going anywhere in the future.
Always see people at the beach or round the pool on holiday chilling out, reading a paperback, then when they get too hot, just turning the book over (open) onto the sun lounger and going for a quick swim, or cool off in the pool for a few mins. Then back onto the sun lounger for a bit more reading and relaxing.
I can't see any e-book / iPad ever replacing this type of holiday use.
Blinding hot sun (redability and electronic device overheating) and not many thieves are going to steal a paperback book.
Always see people at the beach or round the pool on holiday chilling out, reading a paperback, then when they get too hot, just turning the book over (open) onto the sun lounger and going for a quick swim, or cool off in the pool for a few mins. Then back onto the sun lounger for a bit more reading and relaxing.
I can't see any e-book / iPad ever replacing this type of holiday use.
Blinding hot sun (redability and electronic device overheating) and not many thieves are going to steal a paperback book.
i guess in america no one reads on campus quads either? how about on the bus/train? sidewalk café? the beach? or are those places also too passé for your america?
OK, first I suggest you try to read posts and quote in context.
Second, You seem to hail from Canada and yet know more about U.S. behaviors than an American. Interesting. And they call Americans arrogant. Ha.
Third, what do any of the additional places you list have to do with my earlier response? I already covered the beach. Buses/Trains are shaded, trains are actually underground for the most part -- even still I think I've seen someone w/ a Kindle on the Metro maybe twice in the past couple of years. And, at least around here sidewalk cafes have an awning over them -- they are not in direct sunlight or no one would sit there.
Again, I noted in my prior post that people usually read in the shade, not direct sunlight so it really does not affect the usability of the iPad for the majority of (American) consumers.
The name "iPad" would only insult any terrorists as being "pornographic" who are simultaneously: Apple haters, 10 year old infantile moronic Americans, perverts who confuse female personal hygiene with pornography, and at the same time living in Iran. And anyone meeting this description would then have to be able to get on a flight from Teheran to Oklahoma without getting lost on the Airport. I doubt that person exists.
On the other hand, many people would consider "Allah's message pad" (or "God's message pad" for that matter) to be insulting, and rightfully so.
Good for you. I guess you also only talk to people in person and would never stoop to using a device.
And all this time I thought it was the CONTENT of the book that mattered, not its composition. I'm glad I know that it's really the paper that is important. Now I can just go around with stacks of bound paper instead of bothering someone to print words.
A bood doesn't get my email. A book doesn't let me browse the web. I can't watch video or play music on a book. I can't carry 1,000 books in a 1.5 pound package.
There's nothing wrong with books, but simply discarding eReaders as useless is foolish.
OK. So we now know that the other demographic that Apple isn't targeting is people in a drug-induced haze whose eyes are so sensitive to light that a candle at 10 meters is painful.
Why all the people buying the device halfway into its lifecycle? Why get in to the early adopter crowd when you're in sight of higher resale prices?
Early devices usually have hackability. I don't think that'll make such a big impact on the iPad: it's sold unlocked. Jailbreaking is great, but I doubt Apple will solve jailbreaking for rev.2. Actually, I think Apple's attitude towards jailbreaking the iPad is going to be softer than with the iPhone.
Early devices usually have hackability. I don't think that'll make such a big impact on the iPad: it's sold unlocked. Jailbreaking is great, but I doubt Apple will solve jailbreaking for rev.2. Actually, I think Apple's attitude towards jailbreaking the iPad is going to be softer than with the iPhone.
I'm big on conspiracies, but this one ^ is tired and has been debunked so fervently I can't help but call out people who continue to spew such nonsense.
Like many here will parrot, I spend most of the day, every day, reading off an LCD screen. My eyes are fine.
In fact, reading a physical book exhausts my eyes in a way that an iPhone or Mac screen does not. Many will concur.
E-ink is a joke, and a ploy for people like yourself.
Yeah. A lot of folks. In fact, a ton of folks. I ride the Metro in DC to work every day. I see at least two or three Kindles a day, not including my own. The number grows.
Some are saying that Amazon cringed when the iPad was announced. I don't think so. Let's not forget that Amazon wants to sell books. I truly believe that they would be happy as pigs in sh** to get out of the Kindle hardware business in the next couple of years. Their seemingly free willingness to build Kindle apps for many other platforms would seem to indicate to me that, once the iPad gets established, they would be perfectly happy to let Apple be their hardware portal into selling their books. Not to mention that they'll be able to get out of the PDF conversion business. If they play their cards right, Amazon can make a boatload of money off of the iPad. Distinct advantage over Sony. Am I the only one who saw this?
Good for you.
I am quite certain that the entire publishing industry will keep books around indefinitely for the 200 or 300 of you who continue to want the "book experience" in your lives.
The same way the recording industry kept vinyl. And the camera industry kept emulsion film...
You keep carrying your book with you. I'll carry the two or three books I'm reading, and the article I want to read from the magazine, and the newspaper I get automatically delivered to me daily. All in my inside coat pocket.
I think that you have a real point here. As long as Amazon can have a kindle app on the iPhone they're not bothered.
Do you also use a typewriter instead of a computer?
Books aren't going to die anytime soon, but if you can't see the obvious advantages of the iPad or e-readers in general, you need new beer-bottles.