haha, I agree about the name. And the one with lots of memory shall henceforth be known as maxipad :D
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haha, I agree about the name. And the one with lots of memory shall henceforth be known as maxipad :D
Not impressed.
There's always zooming in. Who here honestly has a write-on-screen tablet bigger? Other then someone like this :rolleyes: http://twitter.com/joeyldotcom
Ever seen/used a Cintiq? Their smallest one now is a 12" one, matched with Corel Painter or Photoshop and I found it a nice size and comfortable.Quote:
Originally Posted by hanratty21
As far as using 9-10" inches for Photoshop/Painter, I could do it for sketches. Rather use Autodesk SketchBook Pro and sketch out ideas, sync with my machine at home, and go from there in Photoshop, what not.
That's the ideal setup for me. This... sans multi-tasking, does not keep my attention.
Nice product but did not live up to the hype.
No. Thus, the question. Interesting - looks like it still needs a local computer to connect to...Quote:
Originally Posted by gerbick
All of that being said, I still think this is going to put Apple into the road warrior laptop user market. Having that nice mix of power and portability will appeal to lots of the plane-riding business side folks I find myself sitting next to on planes most of the year. I don't think this one was meant for the creative types. They'll lose some street cred, but definitely pick up some market share.
Entertains you on the plane, works like a laptop with the keyboard dock when at the hotel, has 3G and wifi -- I'd buy it for those alone.
I'm presently trying to secure a side project just to purchase one. I used one onsite at a client's location and have wanted one ever since.Quote:
Originally Posted by hanratty21
The smooth back and lack of a way to "grip" it shows me that they're not really going for the "road warrior" types. This is a niche product that fits right where a lot of people wanted something that didn't exist until today. Mobile OS X, the ability to create presentations, send e-mails, surf the web, and do it either via wifi or 3G. The lack of multi-tasking also displaces this out of the "road warrior" types... and more like big iPhone.
I wonder if it will wobble when you place it on the table and try to use the touchscreen, like the iphone 3G does.
and here is the video on youtube
sketching is a regular hobby for me. I wouldn't do graphics production work on one but it'd be nice to curl up on the couch with one and be able to check email or manage netflix without having to put it down. Otherwise, any of my desires are already met in my iphone.
Kind of disappointed that there was no Verizon announcement. Looks like I'll just bite the bullet and get one with AT&T.
I think the iPad has its market...i think it's more of a Kindle/Netbook type of device than a laptop that you'd use photoshop on. I dont know if the current iPhone OS will really be ideal for that device but it will be nice once the next version comes out and supports multitasking.
They can't do anything with Verizon or any other carrier until June as they have exclusivity with AT&T until then.
Wow - I could not disagree more. From the features section on their site - http://www.apple.com/ipad/features/Quote:
Originally Posted by gerbick
iBooks
Maps
Notes
Calendar
Contacts
WiFi
3G
I'll check with some of my colleagues, but I think most of them would kill to have all of these things in a tiny, sexy, 10 hour battery life package that can be returned to office to sync with another desktop/laptop.
Not to mention the price point which makes it can't afford to NOT have rather than a can't afford.
wait till june, dont get stuck in a 1-2 year contract when your 4 months from knowing if you will have better options.
I know the contract with AT&T ends in June. There were a bunch of rumors flying around about an announcement involving Verizon and possibly a new 4G iPhone.
I never understood why they'd make such an announcement now anyway because it would put a big dent in iPhone sales from now until the switch to Verizon.
So do you all think multitasking will come to it with OS 4.0 or a 2G iPad? Seems strange not to implement it when that is one of the biggest request. I guess they would just get **** for the 10 hour battery not really lasting that long with all the BG apps running.
I read this -
here - http://www.dlocc.com/articles/apple-...lugin-support/Quote:
Apple’s largely hyped iPad will not support the Flash plugin on it’s built-in Safari browser. This means there will be no free Flash games, videos or music on the Apple iPad. Instead, the Safari browser will show the missing plugin icon when an iPad user attempts to access a website that is Flash enabled.
I don't know if that is true or not, but if not, one would think that Adobe and Apple would get together on developing a plug-in for the Ipad Safari browser soon.
david
Adobe's been trying, Apple's not hearing it about Flash. Blame Apple on that note.
And no... I don't think that multi-tasking will come out with OS 4.0 either. If it does, it'll be limited.
...without the phone :)Quote:
Originally Posted by gerbick
I'm with you on wanting a cintiq table. I have used a Pen and Wacom tablet for years, and working direct on images would allow me to 'stay inside the lines' much better.
Ipad basically looks like a web-connected book reader to me.
david
btw...Here is a big advert for cintiq for anyone who wants to look.
I think it's an oversized ipod touch. If it came with max osx, i'd buy it.
Besides, I think there will be better options that might "copy" it in a few months (running android or windows 7 probably). I just hate the fact that Apple blatantly tells you what you can and can't use in a device you own. It's a completely closed source system....not saying it should be opensource, but it should offer options (let you install apps from unofficial appstores, or choose a different browser, etc).
I'm wondering if this device falls in the "computer" category...it'd be sweet if it gets in trouble with the EU for how they deal with this OS.
I have one of those but I don't like it...it's way too inaccurate when you're near the borders. The more expensive one is the awesome one.Quote:
Originally Posted by david petley
I see what you're saying, but I'm coming from an internet tablet - Nokia N810 - that has Flash Player 9, full browser capabilities, the ability to sync with Google apps, VoIP, Wi-Fi, IM, Office reading/editing, Exchange/IMAP/POP3, ePub/eBook/PDF reader already built-in, and true multi-tasking.Quote:
Originally Posted by hanratty21
For me, this is a step backwards in some cases. But the fact that I have an iPhone and this means my purchases won't be deadlocked to one device - which is a huge plus.
I'm just disappointed by the lack of a forward facing camera (sorry, but video calls/IM's is a killer app to me) and true MS Office editing alongside the lack of multi-tasking - one app at a time isn't how I work, all but my iPhone makes me do that - is a bit of a letdown.
This is a definitely mass-market item that will sell damn well. But for the "road warrior"... we will just have to agree to disagree at this moment. They solve multi-tasking, I'll turn on a dime and agree with you wholeheartedly.
it's a giant iPod touch! they are actually mocking ppl and fans with this crap!
lets see, no webcam, no multi tasking, iphone OS, no flash support, NO USB, no external memory cards, no external battery! and above all it's overly priced..500$! there is something that includes all that and for half the price...a netbook! to be honest if such device was introduced by any other company, with all this hype, there will be some serious criticism... i'm not against apple or anything...but this is a joke...ipad is a fail :thumbsdow
Haha!
That is a very nice find jAQUAN.
lol
That's damn funny!!
I could see the use for a tablet pc especially if you have to do field work or inventory control. honestly the only thing that caught my eye in the gadget field was the yrg. I'm already in pre-production building apps for it. once I get the sdk's I'll be a happier camper.
yrg == yoga for regular guys?
yrg==YoungRussianGirls?
Who said young russian girls!?
maybe they can donate some money to help develop world vaccines like bill and melinda gates.
Since Bill & Melinda are already doing that.. Dear Apple, I'd like to see a 1ghz A4 on an iPhone soon. XOXO
Bwahahaha, this is from the jokes link ihoss posted:
Quote:
Mac's iPad. Mac's iPad. Mac's iPad.
Say it with me, folks.
Maxipad, maxipad, maxipad.
Man, I was so over exercised about this when the presentation happened and Jobs gave the big "F* no" to ever having Flash support. I've been an Apple user for 20 years and a Flash user for 15.
The only reason I'd ever buy one of these would be if it ran Flex Builder and let me code in a somewhat less obtrusive way, on a flat surface, on a cheap machine, so I don't have to worry as much about getting jacked or kidnapped since I spend 90% of my coding time at cafes in the third world, with a laptop that runs about half the annual income of most of the people around me.
Anyway, this is just for idiots. If Apple has a reputation for marketing aggressively stupid-to-use products to stupid people, at least in the past they left an option for those of us who wanted complete control over the machine. The idea of buying hardware you can't even download freeware for -- where every app has to come through the hardware manufacturer's store -- is sickening. Their decision to bar Flash from the platform is a slap in the face to developers like us, but it's just a small part of their hugely insulting overall campaign to rid their platform of what used to be affectionately called "power users".
I've been an Apple junkie since 1990... the reason Flash appealed to me in its earliest incarnations was because of my long standing familiarity with building projects in HyperCard. But I've gotten to the end of that. **** Apple. They've lose me as a customer. From now on, I'll just run pirated OS X on cheap PCs.
You're assuming that this was for "power users" - that's your main problem.
Let me clue you in... it's not for power users. It's for folks that want to have a fancier Kindle or nook. It's not a device that I'd even consider to use for Flex; that's before the announcement. Now that the announcement is out, the form factor - too small, the lack of a proper CPU - PA Semiconductor based ARM processor, and the lack of true multi-tasking - power users multi-task, non-power users serial-task, that's what the iPhone does, so does the iPad.
The whole snub to Flash, it was halfway expected. They say that it crashes Safari the most, so they'll say that they would rather block it. The rest... Jobs ego has gotten the best of him - Adobe's lazy, Google's evil... blah blah.
I'm not insulted. This isn't a product for me at all.
Yeah, but I'm also saying that power users have been a not-insignificant subculture who sustained Apple through years of darkness in the mid-'90s when their platform was widely ridiculed by PC users. During the shift to Unix, Apple relied on the more-informed fraction of their user base to evangelize for them. Now they seem to have changed wholeheartedly to a marketing strategy aimed only at the lowest common denominator, the dumbest appliance user, the GPS-enabled cell phone consumer... or what Windows users always accused Mac junkies of being from day one. I think it's a terrible strategic error, because they're tossing out the years of investment they've made to build themselves into a legitimate competitor against what most acknowledge is a terrible hog of an OS that controls 80% of desktops, laptops and mobiles... and they're ditching that in favor of... an OS that doesn't allow multitasking? That doesn't allow any kind of creativity, only consumption of pre-made movies and music and crapplications?
The reason most so-called power users bought macs and got good on them was that we wanted powerful video editing and color calibration and preflight press tools that just weren't up to speed under Windows 3 in the mid-90's. Most of which were made by Adobe or companies and technologies it has since absorbed. We became power users because we didn't want to be constrained by out-of-the-box utilities and applications. I think Apple's mistake here is that they've become convinced that ease of use was the only reason most artists and designers opted to buy their machines. It's not and it never was. We bought their gear because it was slick and easy and we could make it do whatever we wanted it to do. Take the flexibility and openness out of the equation, stick it all into a walled garden, and you have an overpriced dummy appliance; a TiVo box on steroids. I think it's huge mistake. It's the Apple Lisa all over again, and Jobs should know better.
I've never downloaded an update of iTunes. When I buy a new Mac for my business, the first thing I do is delete iPhoto, iMovie, and everything else on the ****er that starts with a lowercase i. If they aren't going to let me do that, I don't want their POS*** platform anymore; it's worse than worthless.