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To combat these problems, I see interesting third party devices arising that will duplicate some of the ergonomic features of a laptop for the iPad, basically adding the keyboard
third party?
don't you mean Apple. Cause from day one they said they know that folks using their iworks for ipad aren't all going to want to type on the virtual keyboard so they added the ability to use a bluetooth keyboard with the ipad, they created a dock for the device or if you want they have a dock with an attached keyboard.
don't you mean Apple. Cause from day one they said they know that folks using their iworks for ipad aren't all going to want to type on the virtual keyboard so they added the ability to use a bluetooth keyboard with the ipad, they created a dock for the device or if you want they have a dock with an attached keyboard.
I couldn't find anything that says the keyboard is BT enabled. As far as I can tell it is just a keyboard attached to the dock. I don't think you will be able to use a BT keyboard with the iPad without third party adapter.
Originally Posted by Woohoo!;1577895To combat these problems, I see interesting third party devices arising that will [i
duplicate some of the ergonomic features of a laptop for[/i] the iPad, basically adding the keyboard and trackpad with a clear slider sleeve to hold the iPad and protect the screen, provide anti-glare abilities, and charge up both devices too.
After I read than I immediately thought of a Macbook w/ a dock connector where the screen would be. So basically the iPad would act as detachable touchscreen.
I love it when people use anecdotes to rebuff survey results. I think it will be a hit, and the survey results support my position.
Now for my anecdote: I was in a meeting after the product announcement, and a group of older ladies (read: not techheads) were all worked up over it. One wanted to buy it for her grandchildren to use so they wouldn't have to use her PC to web surf. Another wanted to buy it just because it was 'neat'. Everyone was engaged, and that was interesting. Of course, I remained silent because I hadn't learned enough about it yet, but, I now know I'll buy the 16GB WIFI version for web/email around the house and when I travel.
I think the iPad is a great device and would love to have one. However the lack of Flash will be a huge issue with people. The survey says that 68% are buying it to surf the web - that would be my primary use as well. Like it or not there are a ton of web sites that use flash to some extent. I have been disappointed in trying to surf on my iPhone as some web sites that rely on Flash are just not usable.
When people get their iPad and realize how many web sites are impacted or unusable there will be some screaming pissed off people or a big line outside the Apple Stores of people wanting their money back.
I think that Apple excluding Flash from the iPhone and iPad is going to hurt them in the long run as I don't see flash going away anytime soon - like it or not.
It's obvious Apple is marketing this iPad device to replace the $1000 MacBook in schools, so now that it's about $500 for the base model, half the price of a MacBook.
A Dell Mini 10 netbook can be had for less than the price of a iPad and still have a real keyboard and wider access to more software titles (but more headaches, more fragile and less child friendly UI naturally) because of Windows and using of hard drives.
Again it will be interesting how the iPad plays out.
Interesting comment about the hard drives...the future is indeed the Solid State HD's. I'm writing this on an original intel macbook. And it feels heavy, clunky, 'un-thin' and inelegant with all its moving parts, keyboard, trackpad and unneeded Superdrive.
Now when I first bought it I thought it was state of the art which it was...I was saving my money for an updated MBA (SSD, glass trackpad, more RAM, etc.) but now it's going to be an iPad for sure...with the SSD and 3G...it will save me over a $1,000 compared to the MBA....iPad + my iPhone 3Gs and my iMac and I'm good to go!
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Now yer talkin.
Make it your sig for a while.
Colour it up a bit, though. You'll want to make it stand out.
I think the iPad is a great device and would love to have one. However the lack of Flash will be a huge issue with people. The survey says that 68% are buying it to surf the web - that would be my primary use as well. Like it or not there are a ton of web sites that use flash to some extent. I have been disappointed in trying to surf on my iPhone as some web sites that rely on Flash are just not usable.
When people get their iPad and realize how many web sites are impacted or unusable there will be some screaming pissed off people or a big line outside the Apple Stores of people wanting their money back.
I think that Apple excluding Flash from the iPhone and iPad is going to hurt them in the long run as I don't see flash going away anytime soon - like it or not.
Flash is a multi-million $$ making application- used from news , games, advertising, to porn and back again - it's not going anywhere.
Thanks for the link- how will anyone view the web on his/her iPad?
I think the iPad is a great device and would love to have one. However the lack of Flash will be a huge issue with people. The survey says that 68% are buying it to surf the web - that would be my primary use as well. Like it or not there are a ton of web sites that use flash to some extent. I have been disappointed in trying to surf on my iPhone as some web sites that rely on Flash are just not usable.
When people get their iPad and realize how many web sites are impacted or unusable there will be some screaming pissed off people or a big line outside the Apple Stores of people wanting their money back.
I think that Apple excluding Flash from the iPhone and iPad is going to hurt them in the long run as I don't see flash going away anytime soon - like it or not.
Lack of flash is just killing the iphone & ipod touch
Interesting comment about the hard drives...the future is indeed the Solid State HD's. I'm writing this on an original intel macbook. And it feels heavy, clunky, 'un-thin' and inelegant with all its moving parts, keyboard, trackpad and unneeded Superdrive.
Now when I first bought it I thought it was state of the art which it was...I was saving my money for an updated MBA (SSD, glass trackpad, more RAM, etc.) but now it's going to be an iPad for sure...with the SSD and 3G...it will save me over a $1,000 compared to the MBA....iPad + my iPhone 3Gs and my iMac and I'm good to go!
I see people dumping notebooks (except mobile professionals) and getting something like this and a powerful desktop. I realized last year that my macbook pro was always docked and the smaller devices (netbook, iphone) were all i needed.
I too think an iPad + iMac is all I will need, especially with apps like LogMeIn and VNC. I'll be able to do minor things remotely to my iMac on this, and that will be perfect.
Well, if you read fanboy sites like AppleInsider and MacRumors, everyone is completely disappointed about every millimeter of the device which is way overpriced (ignoring the economics of consumer electronics manufacturing) and way underfeatured (ignoring the laws of physics).
Every single thing about the device is a dealbreaker for someone at these sites, so if you believed them, it is rather surprising that anyone would be interested at all at the iPad, which should run OS X or Windows 7 for eighty hours on a quad-core i7, weigh two ounces, have a GPU that outperforms the best MacPro graphics card, has five USB 3.0 ports, two FireWire 800 ports, have a quad-mode GSM/CDMA/3G/4G chip, LightPeak, at least two gigabytes of main memory, 1 terabyte of storage, DisplayPort Mini port, and shovel snow off your driveway. Oh, and Apple should throw in the wireless keyboard and mouse for free.
All for $99.
That about sums it up. What the iPad requires is a little bit of Think Different and a 'Larger View'. Put the iPad and the app store together and it is obvious that this thing will be a runaway hit. The geek set tend to focus on specs and certain posters here and on other sites obsess and love to be contrary. Its the nature of the beast I guess but it is amazing how the technically 'educated' often don't 'get it'. They are also the ones most affected by the hype with raised expectations beyond feasibility.
I think the iPad is a great device and would love to have one. However the lack of Flash will be a huge issue with people. The survey says that 68% are buying it to surf the web - that would be my primary use as well. Like it or not there are a ton of web sites that use flash to some extent. I have been disappointed in trying to surf on my iPhone as some web sites that rely on Flash are just not usable.
When people get their iPad and realize how many web sites are impacted or unusable there will be some screaming pissed off people or a big line outside the Apple Stores of people wanting their money back.
I think that Apple excluding Flash from the iPhone and iPad is going to hurt them in the long run as I don't see flash going away anytime soon - like it or not.
Your absolutely correct... they are going to be seriously P'ed... but at who? We're talking about tech-neophytes here... they don't know what Flash is, or even what it's supposed to look like if it did work. They just know that a "block" is there instead of anything. They will not shun their new toy just because Flash won't work... considering that the iPad has tons of other uses besides "a" Flash site.
I'm betting that a lot of those websites are going to get an awful lot of mail asking them to change their sites and make them compatible. If they don't or refuse, they are just going to find themselves farther and farther behind the curve.
Big sites like the networks will have dedicated apps ready in no time.
I'm still betting on a 1 mil in 3 days of the full release worldwide... including pre-orders.
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To combat these problems, I see interesting third party devices arising that will duplicate some of the ergonomic features of a laptop for the iPad, basically adding the keyboard
third party?
don't you mean Apple. Cause from day one they said they know that folks using their iworks for ipad aren't all going to want to type on the virtual keyboard so they added the ability to use a bluetooth keyboard with the ipad, they created a dock for the device or if you want they have a dock with an attached keyboard.
scroll down to the bottom half of the page for all the pretty pictures
third party?
don't you mean Apple. Cause from day one they said they know that folks using their iworks for ipad aren't all going to want to type on the virtual keyboard so they added the ability to use a bluetooth keyboard with the ipad, they created a dock for the device or if you want they have a dock with an attached keyboard.
scroll down to the bottom half of the page for all the pretty pictures
I couldn't find anything that says the keyboard is BT enabled. As far as I can tell it is just a keyboard attached to the dock. I don't think you will be able to use a BT keyboard with the iPad without third party adapter.
You sure like using smileys in the wrong places.
duplicate some of the ergonomic features of a laptop for[/i] the iPad, basically adding the keyboard and trackpad with a clear slider sleeve to hold the iPad and protect the screen, provide anti-glare abilities, and charge up both devices too.
After I read than I immediately thought of a Macbook w/ a dock connector where the screen would be. So basically the iPad would act as detachable touchscreen.
Now for my anecdote: I was in a meeting after the product announcement, and a group of older ladies (read: not techheads) were all worked up over it. One wanted to buy it for her grandchildren to use so they wouldn't have to use her PC to web surf. Another wanted to buy it just because it was 'neat'. Everyone was engaged, and that was interesting. Of course, I remained silent because I hadn't learned enough about it yet, but, I now know I'll buy the 16GB WIFI version for web/email around the house and when I travel.
When people get their iPad and realize how many web sites are impacted or unusable there will be some screaming pissed off people or a big line outside the Apple Stores of people wanting their money back.
Check out some screen shots at this site:
http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703
I think that Apple excluding Flash from the iPhone and iPad is going to hurt them in the long run as I don't see flash going away anytime soon - like it or not.
It's obvious Apple is marketing this iPad device to replace the $1000 MacBook in schools, so now that it's about $500 for the base model, half the price of a MacBook.
A Dell Mini 10 netbook can be had for less than the price of a iPad and still have a real keyboard and wider access to more software titles (but more headaches, more fragile and less child friendly UI naturally) because of Windows and using of hard drives.
Again it will be interesting how the iPad plays out.
Interesting comment about the hard drives...the future is indeed the Solid State HD's. I'm writing this on an original intel macbook. And it feels heavy, clunky, 'un-thin' and inelegant with all its moving parts, keyboard, trackpad and unneeded Superdrive.
Now when I first bought it I thought it was state of the art which it was...I was saving my money for an updated MBA (SSD, glass trackpad, more RAM, etc.) but now it's going to be an iPad for sure...with the SSD and 3G...it will save me over a $1,000 compared to the MBA....iPad + my iPhone 3Gs and my iMac and I'm good to go!
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Help kill Adobe's Flash. Join YouTube's HTML5 beta and on Vimeo just click the "Switch to HTML5 player" link below any video. http://www.youtube.com/html5
Now yer talkin.
Make it your sig for a while.
Colour it up a bit, though. You'll want to make it stand out.
I think the iPad is a great device and would love to have one. However the lack of Flash will be a huge issue with people. The survey says that 68% are buying it to surf the web - that would be my primary use as well. Like it or not there are a ton of web sites that use flash to some extent. I have been disappointed in trying to surf on my iPhone as some web sites that rely on Flash are just not usable.
When people get their iPad and realize how many web sites are impacted or unusable there will be some screaming pissed off people or a big line outside the Apple Stores of people wanting their money back.
Check out some screen shots at this site:
http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703
I think that Apple excluding Flash from the iPhone and iPad is going to hurt them in the long run as I don't see flash going away anytime soon - like it or not.
Flash is a multi-million $$ making application- used from news , games, advertising, to porn and back again - it's not going anywhere.
Thanks for the link- how will anyone view the web on his/her iPad?
I think the iPad is a great device and would love to have one. However the lack of Flash will be a huge issue with people. The survey says that 68% are buying it to surf the web - that would be my primary use as well. Like it or not there are a ton of web sites that use flash to some extent. I have been disappointed in trying to surf on my iPhone as some web sites that rely on Flash are just not usable.
When people get their iPad and realize how many web sites are impacted or unusable there will be some screaming pissed off people or a big line outside the Apple Stores of people wanting their money back.
Check out some screen shots at this site:
http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703
I think that Apple excluding Flash from the iPhone and iPad is going to hurt them in the long run as I don't see flash going away anytime soon - like it or not.
Lack of flash is just killing the iphone & ipod touch
What is a "netback"?
Baby's got netback? yo?
Interesting comment about the hard drives...the future is indeed the Solid State HD's. I'm writing this on an original intel macbook. And it feels heavy, clunky, 'un-thin' and inelegant with all its moving parts, keyboard, trackpad and unneeded Superdrive.
Now when I first bought it I thought it was state of the art which it was...I was saving my money for an updated MBA (SSD, glass trackpad, more RAM, etc.) but now it's going to be an iPad for sure...with the SSD and 3G...it will save me over a $1,000 compared to the MBA....iPad + my iPhone 3Gs and my iMac and I'm good to go!
I see people dumping notebooks (except mobile professionals) and getting something like this and a powerful desktop. I realized last year that my macbook pro was always docked and the smaller devices (netbook, iphone) were all i needed.
I too think an iPad + iMac is all I will need, especially with apps like LogMeIn and VNC. I'll be able to do minor things remotely to my iMac on this, and that will be perfect.
No - I think it's more of a suburban couch potatoe kind of thing.
"Potatoe"?
I think there's a cream you can get for that.
Well, if you read fanboy sites like AppleInsider and MacRumors, everyone is completely disappointed about every millimeter of the device which is way overpriced (ignoring the economics of consumer electronics manufacturing) and way underfeatured (ignoring the laws of physics).
Every single thing about the device is a dealbreaker for someone at these sites, so if you believed them, it is rather surprising that anyone would be interested at all at the iPad, which should run OS X or Windows 7 for eighty hours on a quad-core i7, weigh two ounces, have a GPU that outperforms the best MacPro graphics card, has five USB 3.0 ports, two FireWire 800 ports, have a quad-mode GSM/CDMA/3G/4G chip, LightPeak, at least two gigabytes of main memory, 1 terabyte of storage, DisplayPort Mini port, and shovel snow off your driveway. Oh, and Apple should throw in the wireless keyboard and mouse for free.
All for $99.
That about sums it up. What the iPad requires is a little bit of Think Different and a 'Larger View'. Put the iPad and the app store together and it is obvious that this thing will be a runaway hit. The geek set tend to focus on specs and certain posters here and on other sites obsess and love to be contrary. Its the nature of the beast I guess but it is amazing how the technically 'educated' often don't 'get it'. They are also the ones most affected by the hype with raised expectations beyond feasibility.
I think the iPad is a great device and would love to have one. However the lack of Flash will be a huge issue with people. The survey says that 68% are buying it to surf the web - that would be my primary use as well. Like it or not there are a ton of web sites that use flash to some extent. I have been disappointed in trying to surf on my iPhone as some web sites that rely on Flash are just not usable.
When people get their iPad and realize how many web sites are impacted or unusable there will be some screaming pissed off people or a big line outside the Apple Stores of people wanting their money back.
Check out some screen shots at this site:
http://theflashblog.com/?p=1703
I think that Apple excluding Flash from the iPhone and iPad is going to hurt them in the long run as I don't see flash going away anytime soon - like it or not.
Your absolutely correct... they are going to be seriously P'ed... but at who? We're talking about tech-neophytes here... they don't know what Flash is, or even what it's supposed to look like if it did work. They just know that a "block" is there instead of anything. They will not shun their new toy just because Flash won't work... considering that the iPad has tons of other uses besides "a" Flash site.
I'm betting that a lot of those websites are going to get an awful lot of mail asking them to change their sites and make them compatible. If they don't or refuse, they are just going to find themselves farther and farther behind the curve.
Big sites like the networks will have dedicated apps ready in no time.
I'm still betting on a 1 mil in 3 days of the full release worldwide... including pre-orders.
Now yer talkin.
Make it your sig for a while.
Colour it up a bit, though. You'll want to make it stand out.
Got the bold and italics but only black choices for color!
Apple doesn't own the Trademark yet, so they have no case. Yet.
That's good to know!
Just keep telling yourself we are all your friends and you'll NEVER be lonely as long as you troll.
Got the bold and italics but only black choices for color!
If you're going to go that big with it, it's probably best to leave out the colour.