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Ohforf said:
That's 3 Lies in one Sentence.
"magical" - It's based on well known Science, no Supernatural Stuff here.
"revolutionary" - Tablet PCs have been around for a long time.
"unbelievable price" - being ironic, eh ? Apple Fanboys pay 2x-3x more than the Windows Guys.
In my opinion, a reasonable Price would be 200-300$, unbelievable would be 99$ or less.
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There is however truth in that sentence. The "magical", the "revolutionary" and the "unbelievable" lies in Apple's marketing. They have managed to have "fanboys" in a fast and ever-changing industry. They have managed to take incompatibility and proprietary-everything and turn it from a major drawback to a sought-after feature. They have managed to make technology-savvy young people drool over expensive products with reduced functionality. I am really mystified by their phenomenal marketing and I think it should be taught in universities as not only an amazing economical success model, but also as an in-depth study in modern human psychology.
 
Darat said:
I've heard that Apple is working on an upgrade to their OS that will introduce a revolutionary new feature called "folders". (Remember like when they added "copy" and "paste" - look how every other OS now has that feature.)
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From what I've heard about the folders: First they are only for apps (12 per folder) and second you can't nest folders.
 
Since I actually own an Ipad (indeed I am typing this post on one), here are some observations:

1. Apart from the lack of flash, it is a great way to experience the web. It is fast, and it is beautiful. Safari for the Ipad lacks true tabbed browsing, but I bought a third party app for a dollar and it has great tabbed browsing.

2. The lack of flash is annoying, but I have not had a browser crash in the many hours I have been on the web, and I have looked at numerous sites that have caused Safari and Firefox to crash on my MacBook. Those sites use flash. Still, I would rather have flash ability.

3. The lack of multi-tasking is mildly annoying. That is supposed to be fixed in the next update of the OS.

4. Battery life is about 11 hours. Absoluetly amazing.

5. The screen is great. The response time is instantaneous. Watching video is beautiful, and even the built in speakers are pretty good.

6. I have discovered that I have very greasy fingers, as I am constantly having to clean the display,
 
I played with an iPad for about 30 minutes at an Apple store the other day.

The good:

  • It was very easy to figure out how to use. It looks like it would be very simple to network with all of my media and other devices.
  • The best screen I have ever seen on a handheld device. Sharp and bright. Looks as if it would handle sunlit environments OK.
  • Responsive! The accelerometer worked flawlessly - it reoriented the screen instantly and it felt natural. The touchscreen worked well - usually it takes a few tries and fumbles for me but I made no errors on this one. The applications were zippy.
  • It was nice looking.
  • I was able to listen to iTunes music while playing games or browsing web sites.
  • Some fun games.
  • The MLB Baseball app was great.

The bad:

  • Too heavy. My wrists ached.
  • The NY Times newsreader app was awful. It offers a tiny chunk of text at a time and requires endless scrolling. It will take something considerably better designed than this to change the medium through which I like to get the news, and this was one of the most interesting selling points for me.
  • I had a hard time imagining what I would do with this. Where would I use it? If I watched a lot of TV perhaps it would be handy to have next to me on the sofa so I could browse the web or check email during commercials, but a lot of TVs are getting web browsers now, too. On a commute to the city perhaps? If WiFi was available on trains and planes it would be a fun time-waster (but not much of a productivity enhancer, and a laptop would serve many of the same "fun" functions as this would.) I think I would be too frustrated with the coverage to rely on ATT connectivity for the length of the commute. I am not much for sitting around Starbucks doing nothing (do people still do that?) but I suppose this would be a great device for that.
 
I had a hard time imagining what I would do with this. Where would I use it? If I watched a lot of TV perhaps it would be handy to have next to me on the sofa so I could browse the web or check email during commercials, but a lot of TVs are getting web browsers now, too. On a commute to the city perhaps? If WiFi was available on trains and planes it would be a fun time-waster (but not much of a productivity enhancer, and a laptop would serve many of the same "fun" functions as this would.) I think I would be too frustrated with the coverage to rely on ATT connectivity for the length of the commute. I am not much for sitting around Starbucks doing nothing (do people still do that?) but I suppose this would be a great device for that.
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I don't really see what it's supposed to be used for either. It's a neat little gizzmo, sure, but doesn't appear to do anything an ordinary IPhone can't.

They have managed to take incompatibility and proprietary-everything and turn it from a major drawback to a sought-after feature.
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Like the organic food industry, in other words. "Our crops produce less food, take more work to harvest, and rots faster... and that's why you should buy it!"
 
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The only reason that Apple still exists-----------is Photoshop, made by the people that own Flash, bite the hand that feeds ya will ya, I’ll show you.
 
I have spoken to a couple of programers who have used the iphone OS SDK. They say they hate it. They claim that it is too restrictive.


But then they could be biased. They are Android SDK nuts.
 
I think he has a point, but it is a typical corporate pissing contest. An interesting case of Apple flexing its muscles. It looks as if Adobe is getting badgered. But I think they're going to have to come up with something quick if they want to remain relevant beyond Acrobat (which seems to be outliving its usefulness as well.)

I agree, Apple owes a lot to Photoshop and CS (and Pagemaker and Postscript and Illustrator and Dreamweaver, etc.) They are, in large part, what drove loyalty to the mac desktop platform. So I really don't know what percentage of all Apple customers are desktop users nowadays but I suspect it is shrinking daily. Still important, but shrinking.

Job's letter boils down to "it's a lot of work to support Flash, the results will be less than thrilling to our users, and we think they don't need it anyway" but the unspoken part is "and there's not much Adobe can do about it." So sure, it is biting the hand that fed them, but I wonder how much power that hand really has to slap back. Jobs doesn't seem like the kind of guy to reward past loyalty.
 
Ashles said:
How nice - it appears he has removed Flash functionality from all iphones and ipads for our own good.
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Look, flash isn't cool, and he can't let anything uncool onto apple products, it would ruin the vibe they have going.
 
HarryKeogh said:
Steve Jobs just posted an open letter on the Apple website giving his reasons not to use Flash in mobile devices including the iPad.

Steve Jobs' thoughts on Flash
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What's hilarious is that he's touting H.264 as an "open" competitor to Flash. For those who are unaware, H.264 requires licensing to encode using it, not dissimilar to licensing to use Adobe's Flash editor.

"Open" my pale white hindquarters.
 
GreNME said:
What's hilarious is that he's touting H.264 as an "open" competitor to Flash. For those who are unaware, H.264 requires licensing to encode using it, not dissimilar to licensing to use Adobe's Flash editor.

"Open" my pale white hindquarters.
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Unless I read it wrong, he doesn't call H.264 an open standard, just an industry one. He talks about HTML5 as being open certainly.
 
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