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Re: Official Jan 27 Apple Announcement Thread Islate?Itablet?Iphone4.0? Thread............

 

You ever see the cell phones they make for old people?

 

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Ipad is the Iphone version of that, except it doesnt make calls, but then again neither does the Iphone.

Will the Ipad sell? Sure. Is it revolutionary? No. Is it even up to date? No.

It is pretty but most 300 dollar netbooks destroy this thing.

 

The biggest fail for this thing is that there is no multitasking. I have to turn off my music to do anything else? Thats saying that at any time I would want to use this huge thing JUST to listen to music.

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Re: Official Jan 27 Apple Announcement Thread Islate?Itablet?Iphone4.0? Thread............

 

You ever see the cell phones they make for old people?

 

oldphones.png

 

Ipad is the Iphone version of that, except it doesnt make calls, but then again neither does the Iphone.

Will the Ipad sell? Sure. Is it revolutionary? No. Is it even up to date? No.

It is pretty but most 300 dollar netbooks destroy this thing.

 

The biggest fail for this thing is that there is no multitasking. I have to turn off my music to do anything else? Thats saying that at any time I would want to use this huge thing JUST to listen to music.

 

 

 

Don't forget the DRM.

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Re: Official Jan 27 Apple Announcement Thread Islate?Itablet?Iphone4.0? Thread............

 

. Personally, I would love it if it could run Illustrator and I could use a pen tool on the screen. That... that would sell me.

 

 

isnt that what the modbook thing that mams posted does. im really wanting that thing thanks to this thread.

 

i mean you cant get a waccom style tablet that lets you use the stylus on the screen for less than 1200 bucks. and thats just a drawing tablet. those modbooks look like the whole package OS plus the stylus/tablet with the ability to write on the screen. am i right about that? sounds rad to me.

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Re: Official Jan 27 Apple Announcement Thread Islate?Itablet?Iphone4.0? Thread............

 

When the first ipods came out, everyone had the same reaction: "looks like a kinda cool toy, not gonna spend 400 bucks on it." Six years later, how many people do you know who don't have an ipod? Three years ago was the tipping point for me; a lot of people had them already by then, but everyone who didn't at that point got one for christmas that year. Yesterday was a somewhat anticlimactic introduction to what will probably become a totally ubiquitous tool in the next decade.

 

I predict seeing most high school/ college kids replacing their textbooks, binders, and giant backpacks with a future generation of these. Once that happens, the next logical step will be to replace the current textbook content (mostly text, some pictures/ diagrams) with more multimedia content, such as streaming videos, interactive menus, and audio. Before long, kids who are currently lugging around 60 pounds of textbooks will be carrying a tablet, a stylus, and their headphones. Teachers will broadcast lessons over wifi or bluetooth, and kids will learn to do the same for presentations. No more worrying about that kid in the back who can't see the chalkboard, or can't hear the teacher. Everyone will have their own personal screen, calibrated how they want it. College kids who spend 400 bucks every semester on books will have no problem dropping 500 on something like this their freshman year, once there is a way to efficiently and (somewhat) less expensively access all of that information.

 

Parents will buy these for their kids to watch movies on in the backseat (or in their rooms so mom and dad can watch what they want on the big screen), to listen to their obnoxious music, to play video games, to skype with their friends, grandmothers, etc., and to cruise the web without accidentally getting a virus or crash Daddy's work computer.

 

Old people will buy them to look up recipes, check email, watch television in bed, share pictures of their kids, use as a GPS on roadtrips, and read books/magazines/newspapers. People with long commutes will spend 500 bucks to have one small device that can act as a kindle, internet access point, and portable dvd player on the plane/ train/ car ride. I'll probably get one eventually, just because I'm on my laptop all day long; it would be nice to have a separate device that I could use in the evening, for purely entertainment reasons. Don't even get me started on porn.

 

There are certainly some features that will have to be added before it reaches a tipping point for total ubiquity, but this is a major first step. Ipods were in their fourth generation before everyone had one, but it happened, and it didn't take long.

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A lot of people like to say "look at when the ipod first came out". Right. NOW the ipod is good, the ipod was shit for how many years tho? The problem is that Apple came out with a crappy product and it took them years to get it right. How hard or more expensive would it have been to build the ipad with USB, camera and all the other shit it is missing on the hardware front. It wasnt put there so next year they can come out with a new version with all that shit added and have you drop another 600bucks. The people who buy this shit are suckers and dont realize they control the market. If no one bought this sad little machine, Apple would take a hint.

 

Still, the main problem with this thing is the software. The no multitasking thing completely makes this device near useless. My 3 year old blackberry multitasks. I can search the web and listen to MP3s on a phone not geared towards multimedia in the first place, so what does that say of a device that is geared in that direction but doesnt have basic functionality.

 

Sorry the ipad will be wack for at least another 5 years.

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Re: Official Jan 27 Apple Announcement Thread Islate?Itablet?Iphone4.0? Thread............

 

This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.” Audience roars.

 

About Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5.

 

Read More http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2010/01/googles-dont-be-evil-mantra-is-bullshit-adobe-is-lazy-apples-steve-jobs/#ixzz0eDUZkxRn

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