iPad is Amazing: new Apple ad touts iOS 4.2 features
Apple is promoting new features of the iPad enabled by the free iOS 4.2 update in a new commercial named "iPad is Amazing."
The 30 second spot (shown below) highlights AirPrint, multitasking features, and shows of the use of AirPlay to wirelessly present video on an HDTV, in a quickly paced presentation follows the same style as previous iPad ads.
The 30 second spot (shown below) highlights AirPrint, multitasking features, and shows of the use of AirPlay to wirelessly present video on an HDTV, in a quickly paced presentation follows the same style as previous iPad ads.
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But they don't seem very interested in showing their devices doing things. And that's pretty much all Apple does.
Apple is promoting new features of the iPad enabled by the free iOS 4.2 update in a new commercial named "iPad is Amazing."
What would have been even more amazing is if Apple wouldn't have disabled the shared printer option just before they released iOS 4.2
Still, you have to figure they're trying to make sure everything turned on works well and that more printers and AirPlay apps will be coming.
It just shows that the true old-school visionaries of our time were the garage tinkerers the likes of Jobs/Woz, Hewlett & Packard, and even Bill Gates himself. All those Ivy-league CEO's running tech companies nowadays really do not have the grass-roots insight to know what it's like to start from an idea with zero funding and turn it into a multi-billion dollar corporation.
I suspect Apple products will be wrapped and waiting under a lot of trees.
I presume Santa has a corporate credit-line with Apple?
What would have been even more amazing is if Apple wouldn't have disabled the shared printer option just before they released iOS 4.2
There is an easy workaround for airplay and nonsupported printers, at least for macs. I'm still holding out for the forward facing camera.
I guess it is amazing when compared to HP's effort - is that windows on a tablet - AGAIN
However, I just can't go past an 11" screen that runs OS X and has a
K E Y B O A R D
C'mon Apple I ordered my Air yesterday - I want it yesterday.
Apple did in seven months what an entire PC industry in 20 years could not deliver successfully - a portable, well-built, user-friendly tablet that is actually pleasant to use, and its success still shows no end in sight.
I don't profess to have any inside information, but I'm sure it took Apple longer than seven months. If I recall correctly, Apple worked on the Newton some 15-20 years ago. The Newton aside, the iPad isnt so magical that it invented itself.
I don't profess to have any inside information, but I'm sure it took Apple longer than seven months. If I recall correctly, Apple worked on the Newton some 15-20 years ago. The Newton aside, the iPad isnt so magical that it invented itself.
I'm not referring to R&D time. But by all means, what other tablet form-factor that has been introduced, sold to the extent that the iPad did? I'm only guessing but I would think that if we combined all sales of other tablets for the last 20 years, it would not reach what the iPad has done since it was introduced. If so, it would be a slim margin.
I don't profess to have any inside information, but I'm sure it took Apple longer than seven months. If I recall correctly, Apple worked on the Newton some 15-20 years ago. The Newton aside, the iPad isnt so magical that it invented itself.
One of my inside sources told me a tablet was coming out in 2001, this was probably around August. Subsequently my understanding is that the tablet wasn't considered good enough but it was essential to get a handhold device in to the market to build the platform ready for when the hardware was capable of handheld computing. Steve had the previous year expressed interest in building a phone but again I understand Apple didn't feel capable of correcting enough of the defects with phones at the time. iPod was of course what we got and at first a bit of a bodge, of all things Apple licensed the OS!
When Steve Jobs said If I were running Apple, I would milk the Macintosh for all it's worth -- and get busy on the next great thing" read the quote as he said it and understand what he means when he speaks. Most commentators and pundits including some who post here interpret that as a negative thing to say but most dictionaries have several definition for the verb to milk and the pundits chose that which suits their purpose best. Use leverage in place of milk and it becomes proper business language, which is why Steve didn't use leverage. Milk = get all possible advantage from. Leverage = the power to influence a person or situation to achieve a particular outcome.
So Steve was working on the iPad long before he was iCEO.
Why do you think Gates (boss of the lawyer company pretending to be a software company) kept on coming out and saying the tablet was going to be the next big thing? Because Steve told him and he always copies Steve.
If you still can't work it all out and want to go and read what Steve said about not watching video on PMPs and why the iPod video wasn't a contradiction.
"You know, I've got a plan that could rescue Apple. I can't say any more than that it's the perfect product and the perfect strategy for Apple. But nobody there will listen to me."
-- Fortune, Sept. 18, 1995
(Yeah I know it's considered bad form to reply to oneself but think different, sometimes anyway.)
Or enabled AirPlay for more apps.
Still, you have to figure they're trying to make sure everything turned on works well and that more printers and AirPlay apps will be coming.
Airplay works great with all the third party apps I've tested, especially Safari. Here's a video I made using Safari:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDKuYlHEB8A
Or enabled AirPlay for more apps.
Still, you have to figure they're trying to make sure everything turned on works well and that more printers and AirPlay apps will be coming.
You can share YouTube videos from the phone... you can share Pandora or iHeartradio... you can share alot actually.
There is a new 60 Minutes app that has video... if you find a segment in there that you like... you can send it to your new appletv...
very useful...
Oh, I just tried the Fox News app on the iphone... it has a video section... I started a video and was able to send it to the appletv... again, very cool...
Apple did in seven months what an entire PC industry in 20 years could not deliver successfully - a portable, well-built, user-friendly tablet that is actually pleasant to use, and its success still shows no end in sight.
It just shows that the true old-school visionaries of our time were the garage tinkerers the likes of Jobs/Woz, Hewlett & Packard, and even Bill Gates himself. All those Ivy-league CEO's running tech companies nowadays really do not have the grass-roots insight to know what it's like to start from an idea with zero funding and turn it into a multi-billion dollar corporation.
I suspect Apple products will be wrapped and waiting under a lot of trees.
I presume Santa has a corporate credit-line with Apple?
Can't argue with that.
It would be cool if the video about iPad ran inline on an iPad.
This article's over a year old? And you can't even get to it, so I can't show you that you CAN view it on an iPad?
iPad was outdated when it came out since it was a 10" iPod Touch. It is getting better with software, but from the very beginning I felt that v2 of the iPad was going to be better. I am still waiting for the "better". It is worth the wait to me.
I feel the same way sometimes, there is however really great software on the iPad that defiantly makes it worth while. That being said I really hope Apple makes the iPad more like my Macbook Air. I got a Asus Slider over Christmas and the OS is defiantly more traditional and powerful then Apples offering. Well here's hoping that Apple makes a Macbook tablet.
I feel the same way sometimes, there is however really great software on the iPad that defiantly makes it worth while. That being said I really hope Apple makes the iPad more like my Macbook Air. I got a Asus Slider over Christmas and the OS is defiantly more traditional and powerful then Apples offering. Well here's hoping that Apple makes a Macbook tablet.
Question:
What does your Asus Slider do/offer that the iPad 2 does not?
Question:
What does your Asus Slider do/offer that the iPad 2 does not?
Well like I mentioned before the OS is more traditional like OSX or Windows. The home page is much more customizable, I can put icons on top of each other making a apps folder. Lots of widgets to display just about anything, plus custom widget makers. I can uninstall any app by simply dragging it to the trash can. I can completely theme the Desktop, icons and all.
Multitasking is much better on the Asus, I'm always running a torrent client, music stream, web server in the background not to mention about 10 - 20 apps at any giving time and it still runs like a champ. Doing this on my iPad will bring it to it's knees. The live task viewer is a must, to close a app all I have to do is right click over the app in the live view or swipe my finger to the left.
There is a real filemanager that can access every directory and file on the internal drive. You can mount network drives and external drives via the command line or filemanager without any additional apps. Out of the box I was able to mount my storage appliance in under 1 minute without having to download or buy any additional apps. Out of the box I can connect to my company's VPN and mount it as a directory. Apps can save it's data where I ever I choose, for instance I prefer to save my movies and music to the miniSD drive and my office data to the cloud.
The CLI or command line is NIX so I can use commands like, cp, mv, rm, awk, ps, ssh ect. There is support for many scripting languages like Python, Ruby, PHP and soon Pearl. Which means I could write a script that logins into a server grabs an entire directory, use RAR, GZIP, ZIP, TAR to compress it and download it to a local directory. Then explode the directory, put some files in one directory and some into others and I can do all of this with a crontab.
Media codecs, I can play just about anything I want out of the box. I still use DIVX to convert my DVD's and Blueray Disks to files. I can stream any media to my TV, cell phone or tablet wireless with DLNA, very, very cool. There is no Airplay but I do have a very cool Creative Labs speaker with subwoofer that connects via bluetooth.
I got one year free for Asus Webstorage, it's unlimited online storage with cloud software. I have uploaded my entire DVD collection, over 600 GB. I can watch them directly online, the interface converts the DIVX files to Flash on the fly. Now that is amazingly cool or I can stream the movie to my media player. It also has a online Word Processor to edit your Office files, it's very close to Microsoft's online offering. I can also backup my internal drive. There's many other features like online eBook reader and virtual desktop support where I can manipulate my tablet online. So far Apples iCloud offering doesn't come close to what Asus offers but Apples iCoud is new and that will change.
I run X11 to display my Linux desktop on my tablet. Yes you can do this with the iPad but with Android I can save the remote apps data to my local machine and not to just one folder either, anywhere. This is the same with Citrix.
I can back up the entire tablet and turn the backup into a rom, so if anything ever goes wrong with the machine all I have to do is get a replacement and flash the rom to the new machine and I will have an exact copy. I can even create backup times to run in the background.
Hardware wise the iPad is much thinner and lighter but the Asus Slider does have a keyboard, a full size USB and miniSD. I thinks that's the biggest fail with Apples iPad, no miniSD, if Apple is seriously about iBooks they better include one in the new iPad3. These books take up a lot of room. I also have a dual boot system running Android OS 4.0 and Ubuntu 11.10 on my Asus, how cool is that.. The Asus is also more stable, I have a app crash at least 5 times a week on my iPad, more if I'm doing serious audio editing. I've only had two in the last two months with my Asus. I think this has a lot to do with memory, 512mb vs 1gb.
There are many more things but you get the point. I love my iPad because of the looks and it's apps. The music creation apps are awesome and I have invested way to much money in accessories for those music apps that I will rock a iPad for a long time. I just hope that the iPad OS get's a little more powerful for it's next revision.