Well thankfully they will be releasing this giant ipod touch soon - so they can refocus on updating the MBP that I've been waiting to buy.
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"Nobody wants them" and "nobody has bought them" are two different things.
I also want a spaceship. Don't have one though. Does that mean no one wants spaceships?
I want a ModBook Pro more than anything. But it's $5,000. I've instead opted for a Cintiq 21UX and taken a portability hit. This is why I was hoping beyond hope the iPad would be somehow comparable, but in its current form, it's not.
Yeah, I am a comic artist and I have "taken the time", thanks. I've kept my eye on tablet development for some while now.
Honestly, "what is available now" only impresses based on the tools in use, ie Brushes and a finger. It's like being wowed by a digital work because they used a mouse, not a Wacom tablet.
Think about it: when you see great pieces made with Brushes, do you think: "Wow, how did you make that?" or do you think, "Wow, how did you make that with Brushes??!" It's the tools used that impress, sometimes more than the piece itself.
All I'm asking for is a better input method for apps like Brushes on iPad... I was so looking forward to the iPad being an official ModBook of sorts, but without stylus input, no such luck.
Um, actually no - I do just think WOW.
If you saw me drawing you'd understand......
You aren't the target market - you know that..... the Cintiq is a niche that won't sell to the masses, and that isn't what Apple is about these days.
Doesn't mean we can't hope they will do something awesome.... but how must "mass appeal" does that have for the bottom line?
That's the real issue. Unfortunately, an "artist tablet" has an even smaller niche than the traditional tablet has had.
That's the thing. I've introduced countless people to the world of tablets. I wish they were around when I was a kid, the stuff you can achieve through them is brilliant.
A device like the iPad could have brought about a more widespread appreciation. I think they're selling the whole angle short.
It's a touch sensitive tablet, OS 3.0 supports accessories, Apps make ANY function possible, yet one of the most obvious uses of such a device goes pretty much untapped. It's weird.
Pretty please, someone make a pressure stylus, and a Brushes-style App that supports it... Wacom, ArtRage, you listening?
A device like the iPad could have brought about a more widespread appreciation. I think they're selling the whole angle short.
It's a touch sensitive tablet, OS 3.0 supports accessories, Apps make ANY function possible, yet one of the most obvious uses of such a device goes pretty much untapped. It's weird.
Pretty please, someone make a pressure stylus, and a Brushes-style App that supports it... Wacom, ArtRage, you listening?
Thanks for the back up. Someone took my comment a bit too personally, I think.
I'll restate what you said by saying that all of these people who think the ipad should have been a modbook are just wrong. Low sales numbers prove it.
Back to the subject of this thread...
my account regarding my iPad has changed from Not yet shipped
to prepared for shipment whatever that means.
my account regarding my iPad has changed from Not yet shipped
to prepared for shipment whatever that means.
He said he has one... but it's not mobile.
Some underpaid young person has placed it in a box with your name on it - or at least that is what i'm hoping it means!
what's all the hype about the ipad?
I really don't see any use of this thing, if you have an iphone and a laptop, why ipad, exactly?
I really don't see any use of this thing, if you have an iphone and a laptop, why ipad, exactly?
So basically this means that the entire first batch of iPads will be sold out on day one? That's wild.
Next question: How many iPads would that be? Anyone care to guess?
Some analysts are estimating around 240.000 iPads have been preordered. To that number we need to add all the iPads that will be sold through retail on April 3rd. Apple Stores and 675 Best Buy stores. How many would that be?
Are we talking about half a million iPads sold by the end of next Friday? A million?
Next question: How many iPads would that be? Anyone care to guess?
Some analysts are estimating around 240.000 iPads have been preordered. To that number we need to add all the iPads that will be sold through retail on April 3rd. Apple Stores and 675 Best Buy stores. How many would that be?
Are we talking about half a million iPads sold by the end of next Friday? A million?
Do you plan to keep your current laptop forever? I mean, in a few years if someone comes out with a new laptop that has a much better screen and is twice as fast as your old laptop and can run new software titles that your current laptop cant BUT this new laptop can also run all your old software titles would you be asking "why do I need a new laptop?"
I doubt it.
This is the same thing. The iPad IS a giant iPod Touch only its twice as fast, with a much better screen, and can run new software titles the old one cant, but it can still run the old titles. AND the new processor and screen size open up whole new realms of possibilities. Titles like Numbers, Keynote, Pages, and iBooks only scratch the surface of what this device is capable of doing. And just like every computer out there its software that will drive this thing.
Most people now are just looking at the hardware and are not able to see past that. I believe in a few months, as new types of software titles become available, the iPad will look less and less like a giant iPod Touch and more like the Apple tablet we've been waiting for.
The Apple Store is currently being updated makes me wonder what they have up their sleeves.
Yeah, I saw that too and it's been down for a couple of hours.
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Re-read the post of mine that you quoted... I already have one
Yipee, internet backup. Because two people saying the same thing make it right!
I'm in the market for an iPhone and a MacBook Pro at the mo. If the iPad had wowed me a bit more, I honestly might have gone for that instead of a MBP, and got a desktop for home. Wanting to get an iPhone didn't help the decision either... I do feel there'd be too much functionality overlap if I got all three.
Why do you say that? How do you know that nobody wants them?
iMac 27" 3.06GHz C2D 1TBiPod White 3rd Generation 32giPhone 3GS 32gSOON THE NEW MBP 17" Glad to see someone like you who share similar hopeful interest in a tablet that will allow us to draw on it. It's ridiculous to me at this point, how technology has become the way it is today but still no official drawing tablet from Apple. The designers on Project Runway use the HP tablet and I had a lot of interest in that particular tablet, but decided to not buy it, because I am wishfully thinking that Apple will have one similar or better... We'll see...?
I am thinking the exact same thing as you are. I really see no point of wasting money on this thing. To me, its just a blown up version of iPod Touch or iPhone, yet compared to Mac Book, but not in many ways. Again... waste of money...
Re-read the post of mine that you quoted... I already have one
I got that you had a Wacom tablet. It just sounded like you wanted to draw directly on a screen and were disappointed that you couldnt that made me think that you must have one of the intuos4 line of Wacom tablets.
But you have a Cintiq?
Wow which one, the 12XW or the 21UX? The 21UX is friggin un-be-lievable! You have to realize that were still a few years away from making something like those that are as portable as an iPad. Right now all of these new tablets have less horsepower than netbooks, but Im sure that one day, in the near future, something like a portable Cintiq 21UX will come to be. Kind of doubt it will show up on an iPad though at least not the current generation.
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Nothing gets by you.
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Nothing gets by you.
Nope. Smaller screen than my laptop, no keyboard. But not small enough to put in my pocket. Not to mention a closed platform where all software has to come from Apple's store. No sale.
Despite the limitations listed here, I think there is a substantial market of people who will find sufficient functionality in the iPad that overshadows your list of cons.
Brian Marshall of Broadpoint has increased his iPad sales estimates to 4 million units for calendar 2010. I believe Andy Hargreaves has pegged 3 million units for 2010 (Apple's fiscal year ends in late September). Both are considered star analysts for their tech industry predictions in general, as well as specifically for their Apple predictions (unlike some other analysts more frequently quoted by MacRumors, AppleInsider, etc.). They aren't fanboys; they understand the broader picture and Apple's role vis-a-vis the industry as a whole and what the competition can bring to the table.
I'm sorry that the device doesn't suit your personal desires, but it's really about designing a product that has a broader appeal.
As a longtime AAPL shareholder, I note that Apple has repeatedly proven that they have some insight into what Joe Consumer wants (well, at least the richer ones).