Comments on: You Think You Know But You Have No Idea: The iPad Edition

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:32:29 +0000

@rtl3 that’s what I’m counting on.

By: rtl3

rtl3 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:46:10 +0000

Call me crazy but Comic Book publishers would be insane to not not get an an app up and running for this by March.The “hold it in your hand” compulsion is what’s holding back digital comics. Reading comics on the Ipad sounds like it would be a dream.

By: gum0nshoe

gum0nshoe — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 21:43:13 +0000

Surfaces are more exciting than a hand held screen that runs pre-recorded apps you could technically run on anything… and at a disadvantage.

Have to agree the lack of flash is annoying. And I’d also rather play on a DS if I want to play games. It probably won’t be long till the next ver. of Nintendo has internet access. And then this thing really won’t provide a service at all, unless you like to be trendy.

Jobs founded his company on the idea that people who don’t understand computers don’t want to, and so they should be sold dumbed down products at twice the cost to protect them from themselves and to make more money doing it. The i-pad will succeed, maybe, for this reason alone.

I assume you can’t browse the web & listen to music at the same time though. And I certainly wouldn’t have been able to type this up.

By: blackeducator

blackeducator — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:28:39 +0000

Just as the 1984 Macintosh computer transformed the newly arrived personal computer thru its Xerox conceived graphical user interface, the iPhone/Touch/Pad is transforming the way we input/interact with a computer. I remember back in 1985 my university professor colleagues scoffing at the Mac’s GUI as not being about “real” computing… and that it would never catch on in academia– especially in the math and natural science field.

The key thing to remember about Apple, is that they can now afford to set a consumer-centered trend that others in their industry will follow.

When we get to 2018, we will look back at the iPad and see that it was a precedent-setter for stuff we’ll take for granted then. Just like we now take for granted the GUI on our Mac or PC (or the iPhone- influenced GUI on our touchscreen fones).

By then, my youngest granddaughter will be 13, carrying an iPad like device to school instead of a 25lb bookbag… listening to her favorite music and watching videos both assigned by her teacher and by her peers… checking in video form with her moms and pops… and maybe giving me a vid-call to tell me about her latest favorite eBook.

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 20:04:10 +0000

@rtl3 *touches nose* I had this exact conversation during lunch. I see myself using this on the couch and in bed. No way am I taking this on the subway or liveblogging the next Apple event with it. I’m on the fence about using it on the plane.

By: queenhoneybee50

queenhoneybee50 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:35:15 +0000

I LOVE Steve Jobs and his technology! Go Apple!

By: rtl3

rtl3 — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:43:32 +0000

People, Steve Jobs was sitting in a chair! It’s not meant to be portable. It’s a home device for entertainment/web use. It’s for home individual and family use — Browse the web, play games, bring it in the kitchen to read a recipe or watch a show while you cook. It’s a home device. My wife is ALWAYS on our laptop browsing for hours on end and I’m stuck writing a screenplay on my ipod touch. I do agree with the file mgmt deficiency— besides that, I’m all in.. for version 2 if I can hold out.

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 23:33:39 +0000

@micro43 I don’t see that happening. At least not from Apple.

By: micro43

micro43 — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 00:54:59 +0000

I think the camera can be an optional accessory, one that just plugs in like the PSP. With it you can tilt it both ways to be fron and back facing. Design wise, that’s the best way to go and oh yea, since you gotta pay more for it…probably will cost a bomb too.

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 18:38:47 +0000

@yonan32 That’s one “bug” or “fault” that I can’t address because it’s true. We have enough accessories or doodads to carry around as is, but the airstash that I wrote about last weekend is one possible solution.

@guymont I don’t skype/ichat enough to care all that much.

@kabong30 I can haz ROFLcopter? Where are my meds?

By: kabong30

kabong30 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:53:19 +0000

I have seen the face of modern journalism and it told me to STFU. Please, more LOLZ and ROFLZ. This article couldn’t be more schizophrenic if it tried.

By: guymont

guymont — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 16:08:13 +0000

App development is really where the iPad is going to innovate. Yet, until it gets a camera for iChat/Skype, this Appleholic isn’t going to get.

By: yonan32

yonan32 — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:34:13 +0000

frankly i’m fine with no camera, battery life, on screen keyboard etc. the only thing that bothers me is that is has no frigging file management system! and with that, of course, the USB and/or memory card slot.

imagine you have a file on another computer, or a friend wants to show you a file on his USB stick, or a picture he has just taken on his camera, does Apple really expect us to boot our own computer, fire up iTunes, then transfer the files there, then sync it to the iPad?

puzzling.

By: charlieromeobravo

charlieromeobravo — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:04:02 +0000

I’d be more excited about it if the web browser was as capable as a browser on a regular PC. FLASH. To be a complete browsing experience it simply must support FLASH. Flash is so ubiquitous that it’s just simply a requirement. Ignoring Flash doesn’t make it any less necessary for a complete browsing experience and I don’t think that asking for that experience for $500+ is too much to ask.

By: masurix

masurix — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 03:41:39 +0000

Nerdrage! You go, sir.

By: Peter Ha

Peter Ha — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:45:24 +0000

I’m comparing it against the iPhone. It’s on par with netbooks and notebooks in regards to size.

By: Church

Church — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 01:41:18 +0000

Heh. Apparently everyone who complains that this thing isn’t portable doesn’t carry a handbag. (And probably doesn’t know someone who does.)

The GF was measuring hers yesterday. She’s good to go.