you clearly do not realize what multitasking is. The device is not even out yet, but you clearly know of its "lack" of multitasking. pphffft. Guaranteed all the native apps can multitask....maybe not pandora just yet (since that is all everyone chimes in as the biggest fail of all time..oh no, I CANT GET STREAMING INTERNET RADIO..ZOMG) the iphone OS allows MULTITASKING....and you can multitask EVERYTHING IF jailbroken.
now why dont you just turn around and take the misrepresented information somewhere else that does not know the buzz words you like to haphazardly throw around...
And yes simultaneous voice/data is true multitasking, and a feature that I personally and many others do not know how we survived without before.
What are you going to listen to pandora while on a phone call? that could not be annoying at all
You may want to listen to Pandora while working on a Pages documents. Yeah that would be really odd.......
Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
No, she would just be in a wheel chair.
I'm ready to buy mine!! No one here except trolls are hating on the ipad and it seems the rest of the world is pretty interested as well. Too bad I want to wait for the 3g model.
You may want to listen to Pandora while working on a Pages documents. Yeah that would be really odd.......
I don't think multitasking is going to be left out forever. C'mon. Like every "must have" feature that Apple has left out; if it's useful it will eventually make it to the market. Apple is trying to implement every feature correctly.
One could take your argument in reverse quite easily and this is apple's stance. If it doesn't work intuitively straight out of the box, users will be frustrated. If it takes away from the performance of the device, again users will be frustrated and switch. I'm not sure what you are missing here, but it's not Apple's prerogative to put every feature into their devices just so they can say they have it or they are first or make every nerds fantasy a reality. Apple has never done that and sales of their devices have been through the roof for years now. Sure, let's take the advice of a skate dork who has no idea what he's talking about and change direction of a hugely successful company.
Go back to skateboarding, take a long ride down a short hill and stay away from things you know nothing about. Your input is useless.
An notice how conveniently it's not mentioned where the survey was taken.
Yeah, how convenient. There's obviously a conspiracy in the mist. They're only talking about 13% being better than the 9% received by the iphone announcement. It's not remarkable and hardly worth fraud.
You may want to listen to Pandora while working on a Pages documents. Yeah that would be really odd.......
One of these days I really need to download this Jesus-app Pandora that I keep hearing about and see what all the hoopla is about. Apparently you listen to music with it like a radio right?
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.
Glad you think so, but that's probably not reality. If flash is so important, why has my companies web division (HTML5, CSS, Java, PHP etc) grown, while I watched our immediate and local competition (flash developers) close their doors? I now it's anecdotal, but I'd like to think that our decision to embrace open standards was a smart one. Our clients simply do not want flash and we evolved our business to accommodate.
With so many big names switching to html5 and h264 it only going to be a problem for the handful of people that play games on the web or people that can't live without porn. The vast, vast, vast majority of people could care less and would hardly be effected.
One of these days I really need to download this Jesus-app Pandora that I keep hearing about and see what all the hoopla is about. Apparently you listen to music with it like a radio right?
Pandora is okay but hardly the Second Coming. If someone really has to listen to music while they write (which to be honest explains a lot of the discombobulated nonsense that some people write here), then they already have their entire iTunes library at their disposal.
Pandora is okay but hardly the Second Coming. If someone really has to listen to music while they write (which to be honest explains a lot of the discombobulated nonsense that some people write here), then they already have their entire iTunes library at their disposal.
Yeah, that's what I figured. When I want to listen to music, I listen to my own music. But whatever, I was just wondering since every thread or mention about multi-tasking immediately jumps to not being able to use Pandora with some other program.
Yeah, how convenient. There's obviously a conspiracy in the mist. They're only talking about 13% being better than the 9% received by the iphone announcement. It's not remarkable and hardly worth fraud.
Yet just last week or the week before when it was announced in another survey that consumers had expressed lack of interest or none at all since it's unveiling, you all jumped all over where that survey was taken.
Go back to skateboarding, take a long ride down a short hill and stay away from things you know nothing about. Your input is useless.
I have been in technology most likely longer then you have been alive. Its stupid comments like the one above that made everything else you said totally useless. Go back to spanking your monkey
One of these days I really need to download this Jesus-app Pandora that I keep hearing about and see what all the hoopla is about. Apparently you listen to music with it like a radio right?
Someone else used Pandora as an example. You can use any number of examples and the result is still the same.
I'm not going to pre-order but will buy one a month or two after being available. I want the earlybirds to discover all the bugs first (thanks guys!). Hopefully the bugs will be worked-out within a couple months.
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!
As a companion to a good desktop system, the iPad has a lot of potential. You do heavy lifting with the desktop, use an iPhone or Touch when on the go and settle back on the couch with a good book via the iPad.
Because this unit will be added to other products like the iPhone and a regular full-function Mac, it doesn't need to do it all. Jobs claims that this device will be better suited to some activities and that, really, will determine if it succeeds. The preception has to be that an iPad makes sense in situations where other current products do not.
What percentage will be disappointed when they find out that their shiny new iDevice will not display their favorite websites?
As others stated: There is no Flash in the iPhone and iPod Touch, but they still sell well.
Also, since many users do not know whether an animation or an ad is Flash or not, if they do not show up, they would think the site is just not working well. They will blame the site, and not their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad (in the future).
If the most visited sites, like Google's You Tube, sports sites, news sites, etc. do not adjust to the no Flash direction of Apple mobile products then it can be an issue. However, many commercial sites or even non-commercial sites, like BBC have already started modifying their sites to be compatible with the mobile devices of Apple. In fact, the newspaper industry were so threatened by the move of BBC to port their free news edition to the mobile products of Apple, because that would threaten their desire to charge people for their news and feature articles. They petitioned to independent governing board of BBC to force BBC to stop the move. Of course, the governing board found no reason to rescind the decision of BBC itself.
The popular CMS software I use do not have Flash integrated to it, and many of the good "information" sites I know do not necessarily have Flash on them.
The reality is that no commercial enterprise can ignore the more than 100million iTunes subscribers, as well as the more than 75(?) million iPhone and iPod Touch owners. For one thing, the fact that they are much more well off than the "average" users of these technologies make them very desirable target market.
For this reason alone, those advertizers that want to reach these target market will be foolish to ignore such a large market that is growing.
So, this will be a battle that more than likely go in the direction of Apple and Google. But who knows what will really happen in the future.
What we know is that technology is always in flux.
No- that's not fair enough because I'm sure the AppleTV sold a million in its first year and look where that is now. I will not shut up.
Good try.
A million- as if?
Worldwide , USA?- how conveniently you leave out the details.
If I am not mistaken, the iPod did not sell more than a million during its first year.
OK forget one year. So, how many million worldwide in three years would you consider a success? Set your terms for success.
Do you consider Kindle a success? How many did it sell in the US or worldwide so far? Do you consider the Zune a success?
I am not sure iTV sold more than a million the first year. But, however many it sold, what is sure about Apple is that it is not afraid to "set aside" or place in the backburner the products that did not catch the market. They did that with the Cube.
Some of the problems I see is the difficulty in propping up the device to use and the arms and hands getting tired from all the moving required to navigate the screen.
The Apple retail stores will help sell a lot of ipads. The ability to walk in and touch, feel and play with the device cannot be overlooked.
Agreed agreed.
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Originally Posted by Abster2core
We plan on getting three* iPads with WiFI day one. And another with Wi-Fi+3G*? as soon as they are available.
Have fun! I will wait, maybe until the following happens:
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Originally Posted by cvaldes1831
...the iPad....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.
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you clearly do not realize what multitasking is. The device is not even out yet, but you clearly know of its "lack" of multitasking. pphffft. Guaranteed all the native apps can multitask....maybe not pandora just yet (since that is all everyone chimes in as the biggest fail of all time..oh no, I CANT GET STREAMING INTERNET RADIO..ZOMG) the iphone OS allows MULTITASKING....and you can multitask EVERYTHING IF jailbroken.
now why dont you just turn around and take the misrepresented information somewhere else that does not know the buzz words you like to haphazardly throw around...
And yes simultaneous voice/data is true multitasking, and a feature that I personally and many others do not know how we survived without before.
What are you going to listen to pandora while on a phone call? that could not be annoying at all
You may want to listen to Pandora while working on a Pages documents. Yeah that would be really odd.......
Aye, and if my grandmother had wheels, she'd be a wagon.
No, she would just be in a wheel chair.
I'm ready to buy mine!! No one here except trolls are hating on the ipad and it seems the rest of the world is pretty interested as well. Too bad I want to wait for the 3g model.
Dude, of all the things to rag on TEKSTUpiD, spelling isn't one of them. Potatoe is a valid spelling, as is Potato.
Or he could just be a Dan Quayle Fan.
I just cracked up over lunch. That's hilarious.
NO one I know is interested in this AT ALL. Everyone I know is waiting for the i7 chip in the MBP's already.
Nice try by the chearleaders of Apple to whip up interest with this story.
Poor guy. You must not know a lot of people. Or, all people you know are like you. How about we make a deal.
- If the iPad sells more than a million during its first year, you shut up completely in this forum with your pontifications?
- If the iPad does not sell more than a million during the first year, you can keep gloating here?
Fair enough?You may want to listen to Pandora while working on a Pages documents. Yeah that would be really odd.......
I don't think multitasking is going to be left out forever. C'mon. Like every "must have" feature that Apple has left out; if it's useful it will eventually make it to the market. Apple is trying to implement every feature correctly.
One could take your argument in reverse quite easily and this is apple's stance. If it doesn't work intuitively straight out of the box, users will be frustrated. If it takes away from the performance of the device, again users will be frustrated and switch. I'm not sure what you are missing here, but it's not Apple's prerogative to put every feature into their devices just so they can say they have it or they are first or make every nerds fantasy a reality. Apple has never done that and sales of their devices have been through the roof for years now. Sure, let's take the advice of a skate dork who has no idea what he's talking about and change direction of a hugely successful company.
Go back to skateboarding, take a long ride down a short hill and stay away from things you know nothing about. Your input is useless.
An notice how conveniently it's not mentioned where the survey was taken.
Yeah, how convenient. There's obviously a conspiracy in the mist.
You may want to listen to Pandora while working on a Pages documents. Yeah that would be really odd.......
One of these days I really need to download this Jesus-app Pandora that I keep hearing about and see what all the hoopla is about. Apparently you listen to music with it like a radio right?
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.
Glad you think so, but that's probably not reality. If flash is so important, why has my companies web division (HTML5, CSS, Java, PHP etc) grown, while I watched our immediate and local competition (flash developers) close their doors? I now it's anecdotal, but I'd like to think that our decision to embrace open standards was a smart one. Our clients simply do not want flash and we evolved our business to accommodate.
With so many big names switching to html5 and h264 it only going to be a problem for the handful of people that play games on the web or people that can't live without porn. The vast, vast, vast majority of people could care less and would hardly be effected.
One of these days I really need to download this Jesus-app Pandora that I keep hearing about and see what all the hoopla is about. Apparently you listen to music with it like a radio right?
Pandora is okay but hardly the Second Coming. If someone really has to listen to music while they write (which to be honest explains a lot of the discombobulated nonsense that some people write here), then they already have their entire iTunes library at their disposal.
Pandora is okay but hardly the Second Coming. If someone really has to listen to music while they write (which to be honest explains a lot of the discombobulated nonsense that some people write here), then they already have their entire iTunes library at their disposal.
Yeah, that's what I figured. When I want to listen to music, I listen to my own music. But whatever, I was just wondering since every thread or mention about multi-tasking immediately jumps to not being able to use Pandora with some other program.
Yeah, how convenient. There's obviously a conspiracy in the mist.
Yet just last week or the week before when it was announced in another survey that consumers had expressed lack of interest or none at all since it's unveiling, you all jumped all over where that survey was taken.
Just sayin'...
Poor guy. You must not know a lot of people. Or, all people you know are like you. How about we make a deal.
- If the iPad sells more than a million during its first year, you shut up completely in this forum with your pontifications?
- If the iPad does not sell more than a million during the first year, you can keep gloating here?
Fair enough?No- that's not fair enough because I'm sure the AppleTV sold a million in its first year and look where that is now. I will not shut up.
Good try.
A million- as if?
Worldwide , USA?- how conveniently you leave out the details.
Go back to skateboarding, take a long ride down a short hill and stay away from things you know nothing about. Your input is useless.
I have been in technology most likely longer then you have been alive. Its stupid comments like the one above that made everything else you said totally useless. Go back to spanking your monkey
One of these days I really need to download this Jesus-app Pandora that I keep hearing about and see what all the hoopla is about. Apparently you listen to music with it like a radio right?
Someone else used Pandora as an example. You can use any number of examples and the result is still the same.
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!
As a companion to a good desktop system, the iPad has a lot of potential. You do heavy lifting with the desktop, use an iPhone or Touch when on the go and settle back on the couch with a good book via the iPad.
Because this unit will be added to other products like the iPhone and a regular full-function Mac, it doesn't need to do it all. Jobs claims that this device will be better suited to some activities and that, really, will determine if it succeeds. The preception has to be that an iPad makes sense in situations where other current products do not.
What percentage will be disappointed when they find out that their shiny new iDevice will not display their favorite websites?
As others stated: There is no Flash in the iPhone and iPod Touch, but they still sell well.
Also, since many users do not know whether an animation or an ad is Flash or not, if they do not show up, they would think the site is just not working well. They will blame the site, and not their iPhone, iPod Touch or iPad (in the future).
If the most visited sites, like Google's You Tube, sports sites, news sites, etc. do not adjust to the no Flash direction of Apple mobile products then it can be an issue. However, many commercial sites or even non-commercial sites, like BBC have already started modifying their sites to be compatible with the mobile devices of Apple. In fact, the newspaper industry were so threatened by the move of BBC to port their free news edition to the mobile products of Apple, because that would threaten their desire to charge people for their news and feature articles. They petitioned to independent governing board of BBC to force BBC to stop the move. Of course, the governing board found no reason to rescind the decision of BBC itself.
The popular CMS software I use do not have Flash integrated to it, and many of the good "information" sites I know do not necessarily have Flash on them.
The reality is that no commercial enterprise can ignore the more than 100million iTunes subscribers, as well as the more than 75(?) million iPhone and iPod Touch owners. For one thing, the fact that they are much more well off than the "average" users of these technologies make them very desirable target market.
For this reason alone, those advertizers that want to reach these target market will be foolish to ignore such a large market that is growing.
So, this will be a battle that more than likely go in the direction of Apple and Google. But who knows what will really happen in the future.
What we know is that technology is always in flux.
No- that's not fair enough because I'm sure the AppleTV sold a million in its first year and look where that is now. I will not shut up.
Good try.
A million- as if?
Worldwide , USA?- how conveniently you leave out the details.
If I am not mistaken, the iPod did not sell more than a million during its first year.
OK forget one year. So, how many million worldwide in three years would you consider a success? Set your terms for success.
Do you consider Kindle a success? How many did it sell in the US or worldwide so far? Do you consider the Zune a success?
I am not sure iTV sold more than a million the first year. But, however many it sold, what is sure about Apple is that it is not afraid to "set aside" or place in the backburner the products that did not catch the market. They did that with the Cube.
A typo. Should be netbook.
Netbooks will become extinct.
Some of the problems I see is the difficulty in propping up the device to use and the arms and hands getting tired from all the moving required to navigate the screen.
Agreement here!!
The Apple retail stores will help sell a lot of ipads. The ability to walk in and touch, feel and play with the device cannot be overlooked.
Agreed agreed.
We plan on getting three* iPads with WiFI day one. And another with Wi-Fi+3G*? as soon as they are available.
Have fun! I will wait, maybe until the following happens:
...the iPad....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.