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Omnigroup Commits to Bring Five Productivity Apps to iPad

gstylez said:
I say you should stick to your laptop. The iPad does not replace your laptop or your phone. The product falls into a whole new category not meant for heavy computing. It's meant to be a light Mac computer for customers that do not need a full computer at the time or at all.

The iPad does not replace "Cheap Netbooks" or "Slates". To me it replaces the magazines that come in the mail, the cookbooks taking up room in the kitchen, the newspaper in the morning, the portable DVD player and Digital picture frame that don't come close to the display Apple is putting out with the iPad, plus more...

The iPad is a GREAT deal for $499 or even $829 with 3G if you need to be connected away from home.

Just to compare a few prices on device that this replaces in my opinion:
Portable DVD players $75 - $499 (Prices from Best Buy)
Digital 10" Picture Frames $99 - $249 (Prices from Best Buy)
Kindel DX $489 (Price from Amazon)
Verizon Wireless hardware options $49 - $99 with 2yr Contract (Prices from Verizon)
Verizon Wireless plans 250MB $39 - 5G (5,120 MB) $59.99 (Prices from Verizon)

Would you buy a Netbook to replace your current laptop? What about a HP Slate or any other "Tablet"? CES didn't give me much hope on these products. I just heard about prototypes and a few specs. If someone can show me a clear demo showing me what these other devices can really do, with prices and release dates that would be great. Thanks!
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boss1 said:
It's going to take me quite some time to get over the lack of flash in Safari.
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I understand the medium term annoyance of not having flash, but the more that companies start pushing us towards HTML5 the less time we will need it. Google has added HTML5 video on http://youtube.com/testtube and they support it in Chrome. Apple supports it in Safari. Firefox *nearly* supports it (they just have to give up insisting on Ogg video). IE will support it.

Besides — I have ClickToFlash installed on my Mac (and a Flash blocker plugin on Firefox) and my browsing experience has improved by not loading flash.
 
sonicboom said:
I love Omni Group products. I think they have the knack for delivering highly functional, naturally intuitive and useful products for my day-to-day.

I do, however, think delivering this on the iPad is going to be a challenge for them. Think of OmniOutliner... it's a great program for pulling your thoughts and data together. A lot of the time this means dragging and dropping web page links, or photos, or documents into your outline (things in or created by other applications). This is a place where the lack of multitasking is going to hurt. Flipping between apps is an important part of the omnioutliner workflow. Changing the workflow of products like this introduces the risk of them not being naturally intuitive and useful.

It'll be interesting to see what Omni Group comes up with, as I said - they have a knack for this sort of thing. The result will be a good indicator (to me at least) how far productivity software can go with the current single task limit.
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You can make apps that can access the photo library and have a built in web browser....
 
I am not happy OmniFocus, their calendar integration is not nearly what they claim it is and refuse to fix it. I have gone round and round in circles with them and will never buy another copy of OmniFocus. I am looking forward to Nirvana as a replacement.

However, I am very happy to see about OmniGraffle ... I am really looking forward to this. The 2 things I really want an iPad for is OmniGraffle and Mindnode. 2 applications that are absolutely perfect for a tablet!
 
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