Apple iPad buyers / Owners thread (1 Viewer)

[TonyD]

Is this irony?
on today's front page of

 

[Sam Posten]

Another epiphany....
http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2010/02/ipad-future/

Flash:
http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_Flash_Isn_t_Going_Anywhere__iPad_Be_Damned

 

[Oswald Pascual]

I have been looking for a product like this for a long time. The 64GB minus the 3G is what's on my future radar. Main use will be for having a nice collection of movies when I travel sans DVDs and clunky battery hog portable DVD players! This will fit that bill just perfect.

Secondary use at home is quick web and email access without having to go boot up my laptop. I see myself having this in standby mode in the house and just tapping the screen when I went to look something up quickly. Also a great way to have family and friends photos at the touch of a button. I thinking like a coffee table book at home and a juke box movie player for on the road (which for me it's a lot of times).

There have been other companies that have tried to provide a product to carry your digital movies, but most have hard drives and not that user friendly. I have yet seen anything that will work as slick as this for those uses and that is why I am sold. There are things I would of like to have seen like flash drive slot and USB port, but those are future model things I am sure.

 

[Sam Posten]

You might not ever see either of those on an iPad. They are counter to all it stands for.

http://www.macworld.com/article/146040/2010/02/ipad.html?lsrc=twt_macworld

Updates:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/02/biggest-apple-ipad-questions-answered/
http://northtemple.com/2010/02/01/on-ipads-grandmas-and-gam
http://www.nytimes.com/external/readwriteweb/2010/02/02/02readwriteweb-googles-tablet-versus-apples-ipad-open-vers-99098.html
http://smokingapples.com/opinion/multi-tasking-iphone-ipad/

 

[DaveF]

The iPad will likely get adapters for SD cards and USB cables, if not an dedicated ports. Certainly there will, eventually, be a way to move photos from a camera to the iPad's photo library without an intermediate computer.

If the iPad can read photos wirelessly from a camera with an EyeFi card, then you've got something really special (see my earlier predictions )

 

[Sam Posten]

I didn't take it that's what he was asking for tho. Apple themselves are going to make dongles (including SD cards but NOT compact flash AT LAUNCH) for importing your own videos and stills from your personal cameras into editing programs. But a 'does all' SD card reader that lets you use a secondary SD Card as a generic secondary storage for music movies and apps? Fuggedaboudit.

See the bottom of this page:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/

Laughed when I saw this: "saying an iPad is "just a big iPod Touch" is like saying a 30" monitor is "just a big 13" monitor"." @arnoldkim

Sam

 

[DaveF]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sam Posten

I didn't take it that's what he was asking for tho. [...] But a 'does all' SD card reader that lets you use a secondary SD Card as a generic secondary storage for music movies and apps? Fuggedaboudit.

Right. Expandable memory by SD chip: never gonna happen.

 

[Sam Posten]

In case you havent been keeping up with The Moss:
http://mosspuppet.com/2010/01/28/several-reasons-why-the-ipad-is-amazing/

http://mosspuppet.com/2010/01/31/a-use-case-for-the-ipad/

http://mosspuppet.com/2010/02/01/the-ipad-keynote-in-180-seconds/

http://mosspuppet.com/2010/02/02/my-interview-with-steve-jobs/

THIS IS GREAT!!!!
http://mosspuppet.com/2010/02/02/im-going-to-comment-john-gruber-so-hard/

 

[Sam Posten]

Hrmmm:
http://scottbourne.com/post/368750997/q-a-with-scott-bourne-about-the-ipad

 

[DaveF]

Go back to his earlier posts, too.

People NEVER, EVER buy anything because of what it WON’T do – they buy because of what it WILL do. They don’t buy it because of what it DOESN’T HAVE – they buy it because of what it DOES have.

http://photofocus.com/2010/01/28/more-on-the-apple-ipad-as-a-photographers-tool/

 

[Sam Posten]

Interesting recap:
http://www.chesa.com/wordpress/?p=241

 

[Sam Posten]

I saw this before Gruber did, I swear!
http://weblog.muledesign.com/2010/02/the_failure_of_empathy.php

 

[DaveF]

Sam, you know no one will believe you

 

[Ted Todorov]

I believe. Gruber probably gets most of his stuff from techmeme.com -- it appears there first.

Speaking of stuff covered by both Techmeme and Daring Fireball (but that I saw before either on the dead tree Times this morning): did you guys read this:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?pagewanted=all

Wow...

 

[Robert A. Willis Jr.]

This could be a perfect "cloud" machine. This way you could run the more powerful applications (even software devopment tool) without having to lug around a big clunky laptop. All it would need is more wifi (free) availability. The major companies are jumping on the cloud concept.

 

[Sam Posten]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ted Todorov

Speaking of stuff covered by both Techmeme and Daring Fireball (but that I saw before either on the dead tree Times this morning): did you guys read this: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/opinion/04brass.html?pagewanted=all

And the swift response:
http://blogs.technet.com/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/02/04/measuring-our-work-by-its-broad-impact.aspx

If microsoft ran ALL their businesses like they are running Xbox the world would be a much different, weirder and cooler place!

Sam

 

[Sam Posten]

I thought about this last week, this article reinforces my hunch: Prediction-Gates will introduce Courier at TED next week.
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/nov2002/tc2002111_7927.htm

BADASS:
http://gizmodo.com/5463681/comic-books-will-look-incredible-on-the-ipad?skyline=true&s=i

 

[DaveF]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sam Posten

Quote:

And the swift response:
http://blogs.technet.com/microsoft_blog/archive/2010/02/04/measuring-our-work-by-its-broad-impact.aspx

If microsoft ran ALL their businesses like they are running Xbox the world would be a much different, weirder and cooler place!

Sam

That response was solipsistic, having nothing to do with the original article and not even refuting the specific claims. That (lack of) quality of communication from a VP Communication is part and parcel with MS's failure to advertise.

As for the Xbox: I've bought a 360 a year ago and think it's a great console. But also consider
* RRoD: fundamental hardware flaws lasting for a couple years
* A UI system designed by people who don't "get it"
* Marketing over games: forcing the gamer to view ads before they do anything else on the console
* Long-term financial losses.

If MS was run like the Xbox division, they'd simply be out of business already.

 

[Sam Posten]

I don't disagree with you on either point. But you have to admit that Xbox represents areas of successful innovation that dwarf anything the OS, Office, Media Player (ie zune) and Web teams are doing. The only other MS product with a real innovation track record is Media Center. That they have been able to achieve what they have in the wasteland of TV is pretty impressive.

More on iPad as a photographer's assistant:
http://photo.net/equipment/apple/ipad-as-photography-tool/

 

[DaveF]

That's MS's achilles heel: they can innovate and fail in the marketplace, or print money with uninspired product iterations.

There are those rare, mature companies that both innovate and succeed, like Nintendo and Apple.