What doesn't come with Winnie The Pooh? I upgraded my 3GS last night to iOS 4, downloaded the iBooks app and Winnie the Pooh was there on the bookshelf in iBooks.
When I downloaded iBooks it did not come with Winnie The Pooh, though it's free to download separately.
One of the supposed "dependencies" of the iPad is the need to connect it to something else for backup. The answer to this criticism is so obvious that it's hardly worth mentioning. Just let me know when a Mac or PC can be backed up without connecting it to something, then this will be an argument.
The slight difference that you don't acknowledge is that computers don't require being connected to whole another computer to be backed up. It can write to a second hard drive or even optical discs if your apps and data are small enough. A $100 external hard drive is a far cry from a $1000 computer.
I fully expect Apple to eventually make the iPad not need to be connected to a PC with iTunes installed to activate it, but I think we'll have to wait until at least iPad iOS v4.x and for that massive data center to have been built, with whatever they turn LaLa into up and running along with other cloud services they have planned. It will still be designed and focused as an accessory satellite device, but a physical connection to a PC won't be requirement.
Interestingly, the new iBooks 1.1 sync your bookmarks and notes via your iTunes Store account (if I read that correctly). It sounds to me like it's kept on Apple's iTunes servers, not just your local iTunes Library and not via MobileMe. Is the first sign of what is to come? I think eventually the first thing you'll do with the iPad is either plug it in to activate it or login to iTunes on the device to activate it. Either way, though, I think an internet connection to first use it will be needed.
I can visualize the remote activation through iTunes-- either WiFi or Cell. Further, I can see Apple cutting deals with multiple carriers in every country to include 1 week (or one month) of cell access (included in the purchase of the device). Something like:
1) Turn your iPad on for the first time-- a WiFi/cell scanner app starts and picks a default connection pipe.
2) The user Taps OK and is taken to a iTunes Activation screen (each device comes with an iTunes account)
3) Activation and software update takes place
Later iTunes logins can add a credit card, purchase a cell contract (or paygo), purchase MobileMe, Warranty...
Only 1.5 million Windows tablets sold last year. The year before, it was 2.5 million. That was the high.
I don't know of any other tablets that accounted for more than very minor sales.
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That is not correct. The projection was 10 M units in 2010 - including the iPad. The report was that total tablet sales for 2009 was around 1.1 M units - roughly the number of iPads sold every month.
I'm aware of the 10M projection for this year. Since I can't find the article I thought I read about 2009 tablet sales I have nothing to back up my previous statement, so I gladly yield to Apple already selling more than 2x as many tablets as everyone else last year.
What doesn't come with Winnie The Pooh? I upgraded my 3GS last night to iOS 4, downloaded the iBooks app and Winnie the Pooh was there on the bookshelf in iBooks.
1) You need a computer to activate it for the first time. It doesn't require a "computer" to be used. You can activate on a Mac in an Apple Store or at a friend or family member's house.
This is as good an argument for Apple branded kiosks as I've seen yet. Apple should set up these units in high-foot traffic areas (Best Buys, public libraries, bookstores, Starbucks, gas stations, airports, etc.) that would allow a person to connect their iPod, iPad and iPhone and pay about $5/5 minutes of use which would connect them to the iTunes store WITHOUT A COMPUTER and the kiosk would have a high-speed connection. They could update their software (not over wi-fi) register their device, or connect directly to customer service for simple software issues or questions.
These kiosks would multiply much faster than the average Apple Store and essentially remain "open" 24 hrs. a day.
I agree with you here. The need for wires is unlikely to go away for this sort of device, but at the same time, I've not plugged mine into a computer for over two weeks now.
I'll plug it in when I need to transfer a lot of data but that's not something I need to do on a day to day basis. In practice, when I need to transfer data it's swapping the movies I have stored on the thing, and I can't see how that could be done without a computer, I mean, transferring multiple gigabytes over a wireless connection is going to take ages.
I do it every 30 minutes everyday with my Mac when I wirelessly back up with Time Machine.
Seems like the pace of sales should have increased after the international launch.
The pace of sales is constrained by supply right now, not demand. This should be obvious given the fact that you can't find them in stock anywhere and shipping times are (still) greater than one week.
Apple simply can't make iPads fast enough to keep up with demand, let alone match whatever acceleration curve that YOU might find more reasonable.
I do it every 30 minutes everyday with my Mac when I wirelessly back up with Time Machine.
Fair enough, but I suspect (and I have no evidence to back this up), you are in the minority. Consumers seem to be notoriously bad at backing up devices.
The slight difference that you don't acknowledge is that computers don't require being connected to whole another computer to be backed up. It can write to a second hard drive or even optical discs if your apps and data are small enough. A $100 external hard drive is a far cry from a $1000 computer.
It is not easy to back up your purchases even if they are stored in iTunes. At least it is not something you can do through the iTunes interface AFAIK. You have to do it manually. I am not sure, but I don't think there is any way to back up data that an App contains such as user modified content, high scores, etc.
It is not easy to back up your purchases even if they are stored in iTunes. At least it is not something you can do through the iTunes interface AFAIK. You have to do it manually. I am not sure, but I don't think there is any way to back up data that an App contains such as user modified content, high scores, etc.
I agree, though you could probably just back up your entire user account and your itunes files should be in the backup.
I just use Super Duper, it makes me a complete clone of my primary drive and it catches everything. I have it set to sync late in the evening every day. If the drive dies, I could reboot to the new drive as if nothing happened.
Winnie was offered the first time I entered the book store.
I didn't see it.
So I just went back.
Not at the top of Featured.
Not at the top of Charts.
Not at the top of Browse, which is alphabetized.
Not there in Purchases, where I found my old books.
So you have to look for it. If you don't know about it (and no matter what the publicity, there will always be people who don't know these things; like people buying new Apple products the day before the new ones come out, and then complaining about it), then you won't know to look for it either.
The slight difference that you don't acknowledge is that computers don't require being connected to whole another computer to be backed up. It can write to a second hard drive or even optical discs if your apps and data are small enough. A $100 external hard drive is a far cry from a $1000 computer.
It could be your several year old $500 computer too.
The slight difference that you don't acknowledge is that computers don't require being connected to whole another computer to be backed up. It can write to a second hard drive or even optical discs if your apps and data are small enough. A $100 external hard drive is a far cry from a $1000 computer.
Maybe, but that's a different distinction from the criticism of the iPad I've been hearing since day one. The critique is that the iPad needs to be frequently connected to another device to be useable, therefore it is a "dependent" device by definition. The type or cost of the other device has never entered into the complaint before, only its supposed dependence. I think that criticism is way overblown.
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What doesn't come with Winnie The Pooh? I upgraded my 3GS last night to iOS 4, downloaded the iBooks app and Winnie the Pooh was there on the bookshelf in iBooks.
When I downloaded iBooks it did not come with Winnie The Pooh, though it's free to download separately.
Wonder why it's different from user to user?
One of the supposed "dependencies" of the iPad is the need to connect it to something else for backup. The answer to this criticism is so obvious that it's hardly worth mentioning. Just let me know when a Mac or PC can be backed up without connecting it to something, then this will be an argument.
The slight difference that you don't acknowledge is that computers don't require being connected to whole another computer to be backed up. It can write to a second hard drive or even optical discs if your apps and data are small enough. A $100 external hard drive is a far cry from a $1000 computer.
I wonder how this figure compares to the combined total of everyone else's tablet PCs for the past three years.
Great point!!! And you won't see that as a title of an article either. If Apple made "PC's" then this would be a huge talking point.
I fully expect Apple to eventually make the iPad not need to be connected to a PC with iTunes installed to activate it, but I think we'll have to wait until at least iPad iOS v4.x and for that massive data center to have been built, with whatever they turn LaLa into up and running along with other cloud services they have planned. It will still be designed and focused as an accessory satellite device, but a physical connection to a PC won't be requirement.
Interestingly, the new iBooks 1.1 sync your bookmarks and notes via your iTunes Store account (if I read that correctly). It sounds to me like it's kept on Apple's iTunes servers, not just your local iTunes Library and not via MobileMe. Is the first sign of what is to come? I think eventually the first thing you'll do with the iPad is either plug it in to activate it or login to iTunes on the device to activate it. Either way, though, I think an internet connection to first use it will be needed.
I can visualize the remote activation through iTunes-- either WiFi or Cell. Further, I can see Apple cutting deals with multiple carriers in every country to include 1 week (or one month) of cell access (included in the purchase of the device). Something like:
1) Turn your iPad on for the first time-- a WiFi/cell scanner app starts and picks a default connection pipe.
2) The user Taps OK and is taken to a iTunes Activation screen (each device comes with an iTunes account)
3) Activation and software update takes place
Later iTunes logins can add a credit card, purchase a cell contract (or paygo), purchase MobileMe, Warranty...
.
Your still in the denial stage. Some people take more time to see the light.
No, some people refuse to see the light
No, some people refuse to see the light
So true
Only 1.5 million Windows tablets sold last year. The year before, it was 2.5 million. That was the high.
I don't know of any other tablets that accounted for more than very minor sales.
That is not correct. The projection was 10 M units in 2010 - including the iPad. The report was that total tablet sales for 2009 was around 1.1 M units - roughly the number of iPads sold every month.
I'm aware of the 10M projection for this year. Since I can't find the article I thought I read about 2009 tablet sales I have nothing to back up my previous statement, so I gladly yield to Apple already selling more than 2x as many tablets as everyone else last year.
Your still in the denial stage. Some people take more time to see the light.
I deny that I'm in denial.
What doesn't come with Winnie The Pooh? I upgraded my 3GS last night to iOS 4, downloaded the iBooks app and Winnie the Pooh was there on the bookshelf in iBooks.
Not on mine.
1) You need a computer to activate it for the first time. It doesn't require a "computer" to be used. You can activate on a Mac in an Apple Store or at a friend or family member's house.
This is as good an argument for Apple branded kiosks as I've seen yet. Apple should set up these units in high-foot traffic areas (Best Buys, public libraries, bookstores, Starbucks, gas stations, airports, etc.) that would allow a person to connect their iPod, iPad and iPhone and pay about $5/5 minutes of use which would connect them to the iTunes store WITHOUT A COMPUTER and the kiosk would have a high-speed connection. They could update their software (not over wi-fi) register their device, or connect directly to customer service for simple software issues or questions.
These kiosks would multiply much faster than the average Apple Store and essentially remain "open" 24 hrs. a day.
I agree with you here. The need for wires is unlikely to go away for this sort of device, but at the same time, I've not plugged mine into a computer for over two weeks now.
I'll plug it in when I need to transfer a lot of data but that's not something I need to do on a day to day basis. In practice, when I need to transfer data it's swapping the movies I have stored on the thing, and I can't see how that could be done without a computer, I mean, transferring multiple gigabytes over a wireless connection is going to take ages.
I do it every 30 minutes everyday with my Mac when I wirelessly back up with Time Machine.
Seems like the pace of sales should have increased after the international launch.
The pace of sales is constrained by supply right now, not demand. This should be obvious given the fact that you can't find them in stock anywhere and shipping times are (still) greater than one week.
Apple simply can't make iPads fast enough to keep up with demand, let alone match whatever acceleration curve that YOU might find more reasonable.
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I do it every 30 minutes everyday with my Mac when I wirelessly back up with Time Machine.
Fair enough, but I suspect (and I have no evidence to back this up), you are in the minority. Consumers seem to be notoriously bad at backing up devices.
The slight difference that you don't acknowledge is that computers don't require being connected to whole another computer to be backed up. It can write to a second hard drive or even optical discs if your apps and data are small enough. A $100 external hard drive is a far cry from a $1000 computer.
It is not easy to back up your purchases even if they are stored in iTunes. At least it is not something you can do through the iTunes interface AFAIK. You have to do it manually. I am not sure, but I don't think there is any way to back up data that an App contains such as user modified content, high scores, etc.
It is not easy to back up your purchases even if they are stored in iTunes. At least it is not something you can do through the iTunes interface AFAIK. You have to do it manually. I am not sure, but I don't think there is any way to back up data that an App contains such as user modified content, high scores, etc.
I agree, though you could probably just back up your entire user account and your itunes files should be in the backup.
I just use Super Duper, it makes me a complete clone of my primary drive and it catches everything. I have it set to sync late in the evening every day. If the drive dies, I could reboot to the new drive as if nothing happened.
Winnie was offered the first time I entered the book store.
I didn't see it.
So I just went back.
Not at the top of Featured.
Not at the top of Charts.
Not at the top of Browse, which is alphabetized.
Not there in Purchases, where I found my old books.
So you have to look for it. If you don't know about it (and no matter what the publicity, there will always be people who don't know these things; like people buying new Apple products the day before the new ones come out, and then complaining about it), then you won't know to look for it either.
The slight difference that you don't acknowledge is that computers don't require being connected to whole another computer to be backed up. It can write to a second hard drive or even optical discs if your apps and data are small enough. A $100 external hard drive is a far cry from a $1000 computer.
It could be your several year old $500 computer too.
The slight difference that you don't acknowledge is that computers don't require being connected to whole another computer to be backed up. It can write to a second hard drive or even optical discs if your apps and data are small enough. A $100 external hard drive is a far cry from a $1000 computer.
Maybe, but that's a different distinction from the criticism of the iPad I've been hearing since day one. The critique is that the iPad needs to be frequently connected to another device to be useable, therefore it is a "dependent" device by definition. The type or cost of the other device has never entered into the complaint before, only its supposed dependence. I think that criticism is way overblown.
I deny that I'm in denial.
I don't recognize your denial.
Not on mine.
No Winnie-the-Pooh on mine either... odd!
I want my Winnie...I want my Winnie...I want my Winnie...
Had to dl it separately
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