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iPad SDK 3.2 Details: External Display, File Sharing System, No Multitasking

A quick observation/question...

Will the "File Sharing" feature allow programs like VLC Player app to play movies in a format other than the iTunes standard? If so, that would absolutely be a huge plus for the iPad. I would love the ability to play .avi files on the device without having to convert them like I do on the iPhone.
 
It Useless Junk

trav said:
Incredibly disappointing. I will not be buying this product... and I had the credit card ready and waiting this morning!
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Same here, the "most advanced technology in a magical and revolutionary device at an unbelievable price" is junk to me when I have an iPhone that fits into my pocket. My MBP is nice to have for my school work and I love the iPhone for my maps, Facebook, and other materials I used on the go. I have the internet with me too. Why do I need to get the iPad.
 
Wow. Letdown. If you have an iPhone, I don't get the point of this outside of the fact that you can read ebooks. Then again, if you have an iPhone, you might as well just get a cheaper, and more established, Kindle...
 
What about a damn 'Home sharing' solution...

Okay I'll buy one when I don't have to sync my entire library to it...

Something like this should really be able to stream my iTunes library (Audio and Video) from my own network... When Apple makes it do that I'll bite.
 
a1kim said:
I think it's interesting to note that the SDK that has been released is iPhone SDK 3.2. I'm pretty sure when a new iPhone is released, that will introduce iPhone OS 4.0. Perhaps that's when all (or most) of the mobile devices, including the iPad, will get multitasking and whatever else. Just a thought.
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I was thinking the same thing. Let's hope so.
 
If Apple is foolish enough not to include multitasking on this thing, I'll definitely be jailbreaking the shiznit out of it.

Though I do agree with others that this will probably be an iPhone 4.0 feature that will carry over to the iPad (I still can't believe they went with that name).

Seems it's time to rename this iPhone OS, no? Perhaps OS X Mobile? Or OS X Touch?
 
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Lesser Evets said:
True multi-tasking is very over rated for such a device.

If music can play behind everything, like an iPt, fine. But, a calculator that multitasks would be nice. Other than that, I can't imagine what is so important that you can't switch between the applications, if the applications launch fast enough to not be noticed.
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My biggest need would like to be able to use XM on the iPhone and a GPS app at the same time.
 
countdown to iPadDevTeam jailbreak ....

its so dumbed down, and the 4:3 ratio - eew

shoulda called it "iFoolscap " :p
 
External display

Full of Win said:
So, you can use it as an external display or it can use an external display?
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You can use an external display. The iPad drives VGA and 480p. Presumably you can use it to deliver Keynote presentations, which would be a big win for me.

I'll try one, please.
 
This thing is sick. I'm getting the first revision which I hardly do with Apple products...

Besides, all the other great innovations with the new iPad - I am sold because of the 10 hour battery life... That is perfect for long plane trips!

RELEASE IT NOW PLEASE!!!!! :p
 
hamzab said:
We're gonna have to wait till iPad 6G S. That's when there's gonna be some major improvements, atm, it's just a big iPhone with no camera! iPad = IFlop IMO. :mad:
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Don't forget that when that day comes, there will also be an iPhone 6GS - so the iPad will STILL be "just a big iPhone." :rolleyes:
 
glxyjones said:
A quick observation/question...

Will the "File Sharing" feature allow programs like VLC Player app to play movies in a format other than the iTunes standard? If so, that would absolutely be a huge plus for the iPad. I would love the ability to play .avi files on the device without having to convert them like I do on the iPhone.
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The likelihood of that happening is pointless. Apple doesn't even support programs so you can take your DVDs to iPod format. It is all third party stuff. Apple wants to make the most money and the iPod touch will still out sell the iPad.
 
I miss
1) Multitasking
2) Build in SD card reader (I don't want to have extra hardware to plug in to it, to see/transfere items)
3) VLC player, or just a way to get it to play all video and audio formats out there. And general just open all file formats

If I dumps a few DVD's as ISO, or incode them with x.264 in a Matroska container, so I can take them with my on my travels.
Then I want to play them with out problem (And a tablet looks like a smart thing to take on travels. it's small, it's handy to read E-Books, watch movies, listen to some music)
For real work, I use a real computer :)

So what I wanted was more real computer, less iPhone.

But it's a start.
 
Little disappointed

I'm actually a little disappointed with the product in general. I really was hoping it would be a real table Mac, that runs OS X and allows you to do everything a regular laptop would be able to do but in a tablet format. Woulda loved to be able to use a stylus to mark-up documents, save files to a hard drive, print, all the things a regular laptop can do but the iPad can't. I do like the iphone/ipod touch interface as well, but wish it also had the option to act like a regular MacBook and use OS X. It could be much more capable than what it is. I'm not sure if people will go for simply an oversized ipod touch...I know I won't :(
 
GeekLawyer said:
Agree with your analysis.

However, am forced to wonder if no multitasking is a function of OS 3.x, rather than a hardware limitation. I guess what I'm suggesting (as others surely have), is that we'll see multitasking on this device in OS 4.x.
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I am sure multitasking on some level will crop up soon. In a few years there will most likely be a great deal of multi-tasking. The iPad form will become a stronger computing platform.

fkntotalkaos said:
listening to mp3 and surfing the net is overated
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So you are obviously unfamiliar with the iPod Touch/iPhone.

FAIL.
 
Lesser Evets said:
True multi-tasking is very over rated for such a device.

If music can play behind everything, like an iPt, fine. But, a calculator that multitasks would be nice. Other than that, I can't imagine what is so important that you can't switch between the applications, if the applications launch fast enough to not be noticed.
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offwidafairies said:
i agree. especially if it takes a second or 3 to launch an app. what a letdown.
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The launch time is not the problem, it's the state of the application when quitting. For example, you're in IM program, you type a message, you want to grab the url of the site that you were reading early in the day, so you have to switch to Safari. Unfortunately, that requires you to quit the IM app, which disconnect you from the service, you go to safari, grab the url, back to IM which has to reconnect to all the IM services and download new IMs that you missed while you were gone meaning the application got reset basically. This operation can take 5-15 seconds to do but can be done less than a sec with a true multitasking OS.

A lot of applications reset itself when quitting. Suppose you're playing a game and you want to switch to some other app to check on something, you can't get back to the game after quitting. Applications should be frozen when switching, not reset.
 
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