Comments on: The new Apple iPad

By: alan

alan — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:07:54 +0000

Freakin’ sweet! That’s a step in the right direction. VTOL FTW!

By: Graham

Graham — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:02:42 +0000

Sorry for the delayed comment on this post, but you need to look here…

http://www.firebox.com/product/415/Moller-Skycar-M400?via=ser

Got a spare £324,000?

By: alan

alan — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:44:11 +0000

Good points, Anton. We need interaction, not read only!

By: Anton Gully

Anton Gully — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 00:49:55 +0000

When you can edit your Google Docs text documents on it, then they’ll be onto something.

I was initially excited about the iWorks for cheap, but the more I think about it, the more I think it should be able to edit documents and spreadsheets out of the box.

I can read my docs on my Touch through Google Docs or Dropbox (haven’t decided what I’m settling on to use) but I can’t edit them.

That pretty iBooks demonstration looks neat but those white backgrounds on a bright OLED screen will burn your eyes out. I read off my Touch with gray text on a black background, same way I’ve been reading off my Palm TX for years now.

By: Alan

Alan — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:20:41 +0000

Yeah, Stanza on the iPhone has a pretty cool turning page graphic. No sound though, thankfully.

By: ganymeder

ganymeder — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:02:38 +0000

Yeah, hubby’s been showing me ereader devices that open, which would mimic the feel of opening a book also. I understand that appeal.The sound of electronic pages swooshing though? I actually have a reader on my phone like that (Libris-lite), the pages look like pages and you see them ‘flip’ and hear the swooshing sound, and after the initial novelty wears off it’s actually a bit annoying. I end up turning the volume off my phone when I read those ebooks. But seeing the turning pages is cool and a little surreal.

By: alan

alan — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 23:10:48 +0000

Shawn – you’re right, it’s standard practice for Apple. The reason they shouldn’t do it is because it’s the ultimate douchebaggery!

ganymeder – exactly! A paperback size version of the iPad would be a great intermediary device for all reading and web surfing, etc. without being a behemoth to carry around. That thing is like the slab from 2001: A Space Oddyssey. Of course, the smaller iPad would still need camera, expansion ports and so on to be a really solid device.

By: ganymeder

ganymeder — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 22:51:44 +0000

I agree with the phone comparison. I do the ebook, internet, phone, video, etc. things all on my Android phone. The only argument I’ve been able to understand for using the bigger readers was when someone told me that reading the small screen gives them a headache. Still, the screen in the picture is so HUGE. I can’t imagine carrying that thing around with me. Also, I love the convenience of having EVERYTHING on one device, not a device for everything (except ebooks), and then a separate device for ebooks.

By: Shawn

Shawn — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 19:55:55 +0000

I had similar thoughts about the iPad. I agree that Jobs does a good, er, job of sounding like Apple just invented a whole bunch of stuff that have been around for ages. To their defence, they do seem to package stuff quite well.

The main thing for me is the parallels between iPad v1 and iPhone v1. I didn’t want the iPhone v1 just like I don’t wan’t the iPad v1. I have no doubt though that I am very much going to want the iPad v2 just like I really love the iPhone 3G/3GS.

iPad being launched missing many obvious features, I think, is par for the course for Apple. They will sell people an iPad now, sell them a bunch of peripherals and then sell them a brand new iPad in a year from now when they release the version with the camera, multi tasking, better battery life, phone functionality etc.

And if they can sell you their product twice why shouldn’t they?

Anyway, I also wrote a blog post along those lines: http://onefuriousllama.wordpress.com/2010/01/29/and-this-is-why-i-am-not-interested-in-the-ipad-version-1-0/

By: Frasier

Frasier — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 18:06:15 +0000

Steve Job’s revolutionary iTablet will eventually grow after the first pumped up time during it’s launch. The A4 chip and Mac’s potential to fix defections will help to make the product a success story in time.