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Apple unvails the "Ipad"
January 27, 2010 at
10:17 AM
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I think its kind of ugly 
And the name is stupid.
Its litteraly just a really big iphone. Looks almost comical.
No word on price yet.
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And the name is stupid.
Its litteraly just a really big iphone. Looks almost comical.
No word on price yet.
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Last Edited by ajkam
January 28, 2010
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05:45 AM
There was a madtv skit about the Ipad can someone please post it?
HERE YOU GO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8
HERE YOU GO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsjU0K8
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A laptop could easily be used for the purposes you mentioned as well and might actually be easier to use for those purposes as well.
A laptop could easily be used for the purposes you mentioned as well and might actually be easier to use for those purposes as well.
t least in my personal life I can see where I'd have a use for it.
But I wouldn't spend more than $100 on it if I had to buy it. It's highly overpriced (even the cheapest version).
I just can't think of a practical use for it. MAYBE if I was a traveling business person, it would be a good alternative to a heavy laptop... if it has the same functionality that is.
I guess I'm confused about this thing. WTH is its purpose in life?
But I wouldn't spend more than $100 on it if I had to buy it. It's highly overpriced (even the cheapest version).
I just can't think of a practical use for it. MAYBE if I was a traveling business person, it would be a good alternative to a heavy laptop... if it has the same functionality that is.
I guess I'm confused about this thing. WTH is its purpose in life?
You wouldn't spend more than $100 on something that costs more than $100 to make?
My concern with the iPad is that it isn't going to do anything really well. Gaming will be meh, but never reach hardcore gamers. Ebook reading would be neat, but lack of battery life may detract from that. Videos are grand, but lack of 16:9, format support and storage kill that. Productivity, not a chance in hell. Web surfing, well now you might be onto something. And you know what, that middle of the road stance might just be enough to hook all those people who are ok with those shortcomings just to have a multi-functional device.
My concern with the iPad is that it isn't going to do anything really well. Gaming will be meh, but never reach hardcore gamers. Ebook reading would be neat, but lack of battery life may detract from that. Videos are grand, but lack of 16:9, format support and storage kill that. Productivity, not a chance in hell. Web surfing, well now you might be onto something. And you know what, that middle of the road stance might just be enough to hook all those people who are ok with those shortcomings just to have a multi-functional device.
I'm holding out hope that Steve gives them away to his employees like he did with the original iPhone, though I'm not holding my breath and won't be too surprised if he doesn't. In any case, I should be able to get my employee discount on it.
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You wouldn't spend more than $100 on something that costs more than $100 to make?
But I do think it's a steep price. If the top of the line maxed out at $500 I could definitely see that. As it is though the top of the line device comes way too close to their lowest end laptop. I would go for a laptop anyday over this though. I would have loved to see a full fledged laptop with this interface, i.e., a tablet mac that works well.
Video
One of the biggest reasons is for video via YouTube, Hulu, and others. Netflix is Silverlight, so thats a whole different argument. YouTube already has a native app and is implementing HTML5 [blogspot.com] which works on the iPhone and should work on the iPad. Vimeo has also started doing the same thing [vimeo.com]. What about Hulu? Well, Hulu does have a desktop app and its just whether or not they want to implement a iPhone / iPad app. They have resisted against otherstrying to put Hulu on other devices [gigaom.com]. Hulu likely won't go with the HTML 5 route because you can save the source of the video with ease [Demo [neosmart.net]], which the studios probably don't want people to do. I'm not sure if you can disable this, so correct me if I'm wrong. Dispute over the HTML5 Video codec [arstechnica.com] will make adoption of this take longer. If Hulu gets on the iPad via an App, HTML5, a hack, or by other means I could care less about using flash for video. It certainly is possible to run a variant of flash on an iPhone right now [github.com].
Games
Flash games is an important thing to some people, which includes Facebook games. Yeah no excuse for this, it won't happen though because Apple want people to go through their App Store to get native games. Sadly, there is no replacement for some Facebook games like Farmville. In Apples defense, flash is absolutely a CPU hog and drains battery quickly even on simple flash stuff. But how much better does a native app perform versus a flash app, that is hard to test and would be an apple vs orange comparison. Apple should give people options, but we know Apple has never been known for a company to do that.
Websites
Some websites, especially businesses, are heavy on flash or even 100% flash based. There is nothing to do about this, except complain to either Apple to support flash or the webmasters for making a site flash heavy. I can think of a couple of times where I wish I had flash support on my iPhone to quickly check a business, only to find out everything is done in flash. So while this is a negative, its not a deal breaker for me.
On the surface, the iPad isn't that great and the lack of Flash support doesn't help. However, the iPad does have potential. Some may argue that the iPhone really took off when it got hacked and the thousands of apps showed up in the App Store. But Apple has a lot of dedicated Mac developers, and I'm sure we'll see a lot of great apps for the iPad. Until then its just an evoltionary product that got hyped up like crazy. Add an elegant free solution to watching shows on the iPad, and I won't need flash.
I see the uses, but the restrictions make me cringe. (So I made the pic attached to summarize my thoughts).
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