A couple of years ago, I saw a reference to an MRI study that showed German men, when shown pictures of tools, lit up the same brain areas that lit up in other men when shown pornography. I think that's what's going on here. Jony Ive has a thing for Stahlwille and Hazett wrenches, sorry, spanners. So do I.
Research has shown that a male's search for perfect tools is as old as his search for the perfect sex partner. Another test has shown that male test subjects who are shown a photo of a Vista "Start" screen have an involuntary tightening of the sphincter muscles.
I can't read through all this right now, so I hope somebody points out that Eddy Cue was right about this size.
It's a thing all to itself, a size all to itself, and it had to be made, competition or not. This is apparent when you first pick it up. I am glad they are showing how it should be done, no compromise on quality or on price. Make it obvious that you get what you pay for.
The non-retina screen will be seen by the tech press chihuahuas as a compromise, but any realistic person knows that it would be too heavy, pricey and too short in supply at this stage of the technology.
I can't read through all this right now, so I hope somebody points out that Eddy Cue was right about this size.
It's a thing all to itself, a size all to itself, and it had to be made, competition or not. This is apparent when you first pick it up. I am glad they are showing how it should be done, no compromise on quality or on price. Make it obvious that you get what you pay for.
The non-retina screen will be seen by the tech press chihuahuas as a compromise, but any realistic person knows that it would be too heavy, pricey and too short in supply at this stage of the technology.
I've referred to Edy's email in previous posts, but without a competing product for him to have used he never would've made the suggestion.
i think this 8" 4:3 tablet form factor is the true "sweet spot" for all tablets, period, and certainly the best for mid-size tablets, defined as tablets you can easily hold with one hand. it delivers the best "reward" - screen area and map/web viewability in particular - for the "effort" required - physically holding the thing. it kicks 7" 16:9(10) tablets conclusively in the butt in these regards.
Yes. I think Apple essentially maximized the amount of screen you can hold in one hand spanning grip. This captures 80% of the screen feel of the bigger iPad but in half the weight. It blows the teeny 7" narrow screen tablets out of the way.
I expect the Mini will be Apples top selling iPad this quarter. But the big one still has a compelling feature in it's retina screen, but when the Mini gets Retina, I think the full size becomes a much harder sell. Hopefully Apple has something to make the bigger iPad desirable when the Retina Mini arrives.
24 Hours With The iPad Mini: This Is The Real iPad
My take after spending a bunch of the weekend with the iPad mini: This is the real iPad. With the exception of screen sharpness, everything about it is better than the bigger, “classic” iPad — and screen sharpness won’t be a deal breaker for the vast majority of people.
I'd love to. I plan to at the nearest opportunity. But I already know how large the keyboards are. That doesn't change my view.
"keyboards". There is already a scanner so you could swipe a suitably coded driver's license card. Heck I paid for a couple of meals at 10K in The California Sierra that way this past summer. Received an email receipt on my phone before I could reach the door. Okay out of staters might be different unless there was a cross- state standard, but there's precedent for that as well with the toll RFID: EZ-Pass. IIRC Apple stores use a similar pad-scanner system.
Yes. I think Apple essentially maximized the amount of screen you can hold in one hand spanning grip. This captures 80% of the screen feel of the bigger iPad but in half the weight. It blows the teeny 7" narrow screen tablets out of the way.
I expect the Mini will be Apples top selling iPad this quarter. But the big one still has a compelling feature in it's retina screen, but when the Mini gets Retina, I think the full size becomes a much harder sell. Hopefully Apple has something to make the bigger iPad desirable when the Retina Mini arrives.
yup, agree. i think people will only buy the full size 10" iPad after that next year for some specific good reason. like "real work" for example, photo/video editing, and many business purposes. the mini will become the most popular consumer tablet. which is why Apple is going to maintain its typical profit margin prices for it @ $330 price.
There is only the Kindle Fire 7" which doesn't seem to be making many waves. Their 8.9" version doesn't come out until probably after the cellular version of the iPad mini is released. We can surely talk about the potential of the Kindle Fire but it appears to me there was more buzz about it last year and it didn't amount to much. At this point I'd think the Surface was more of a threat.
If the Kindle Fire 8.9" actually comes with a cheap data plan (which AMZN has touted, that might make a huge difference). The smaller version has gotten good reviews.
yup, agree. i think people will only buy the full size 10" iPad after that next year for some specific good reason. like "real work" for example, photo/video editing, and many business purposes. the mini will become the most popular consumer tablet. which is why Apple is going to maintain its typical profit margin prices for it @ $330 price.
I can't read through all this right now, so I hope somebody points out that Eddy Cue was right about this size.
It's a thing all to itself, a size all to itself, and it had to be made, competition or not. This is apparent when you first pick it up. I am glad they are showing how it should be done, no compromise on quality or on price. Make it obvious that you get what you pay for.
The non-retina screen will be seen by the tech press chihuahuas as a compromise, but any realistic person knows that it would be too heavy, pricey and too short in supply at this stage of the technology.
Apple has been making Retina display for a while, and just announced another product (the MacBook Pro) with it. If they are still having trouble making it, that's not a good sign. Not having the best display in the market will hurt Apple in the long run, since it damages their "best of breed" rep, in my opinion.
people like me who still have a camcorder to shoot videos while on vacation that are a little better than a smartphone clip. and want to make a simple home movie in the evening back at the motel/tent. iMovie is good enough for that. i'll have to get a new lightning/USB adapter tho.
I think they are completely out of sync. For example they have six notebooks now
and the new management shake up did not look well planned to say the least. All I see is chaos. As stylish as the new iMacs are, they seem impracticably thin so much so that they had to put the SD card reader on the back. They have totally left the Mac Pro out to pasture and screwed up the Maps app. They also abandoned a large portion of their users when ML would not boot with 32 bit kernel. Yep, sounds like a smooth running machine alright. I'm not criticizing anyone, it just seems to me that everything is sort of falling apart, like iOS 6 needing a new updater app because it couldn't update over the air. Everything is just a patchwork of temporary fixes and placeholders. I'm still upgrading to all the new products except the iPad 4 since I recently purchased the new iPad. I already have the iPhone 5 and the Retina MBP. I've been ready for a new Mac Pro for awhile and also over due for another iMac. Even with all the confusion, they still make the best stuff in my opinion.
Actually, they have three notebooks: Macbook Air, Macbook Pro and Macbook Pro/Retina. How are you counting six?
The only problem I have with the management shakeup was that it didn't happen sooner. It makes perfect sense to have both operating systems under one general manager, and I think Federighi is the best choice. Putting Ive in charge of the overall experience for all platforms also makes a lot of sense. I can only assume you believe that a management shakeup of this nature can be organised overnight. Well, I can tell that it takes time, careful negotiation and a hell of a lot of money, especially when you want to dump someone and at the same time keep them out of the hands of the competition.
The Mac Pro market is just not big enough to warrant as much attention as the iMac, which most prosumers are happy with. Still, the MacPro is being upgraded next year. I have no idea what it will be like, but I'm pretty sure you won't like it ...
You say they abandoned a large portion of their users when ML wouldn't boot with a 32bit kernel. That statement can be pretty much ignored as you have no idea how many were affected.
Maps? Well, for every comment I read that said it was a disaster, I read at least comment that said the problems were exaggerated. I imagine the truth is somewhere in the middle.
And the position of the SD card? Yes, what a disaster. That'll sink 'em for sure. . They moved it to the back because everything else is on the back, and it keeps the lines clean. Is it a problem, well, no more than having all the USB ports on the back, and that hasn't been a deal breaker, has it?
You've listed a couple of small edge cases (aside from the Maps) in an attempt to justify your main beef: Apple hasn't updated the Mac Pro as promptly as you'd like. Against these small problems, you've had the successful rollout of the Mountain Lion update, the new iPhone, the new iMac, and the new Macbook Pro. The shops are doing a roaring trade and they are working very hard to dump Samsung as a supplier.
Any company of that size that doesn't have any problems is not doing anything of note.
If the Kindle Fire 8.9" actually comes with a cheap data plan (which AMZN has touted, that might make a huge difference). The smaller version has gotten good reviews.
I think that was a brilliant move by Amazon. It hides the cost of the cellular components and they get a great deal on bulk data from the carrier.
people like me who still have a camcorder to shoot videos while on vacation that are a little better than a smartphone clip. and want to make a simple home movie in the evening back at the motel/tent. iMovie is good enough for that. i'll have to get a new lightning/USB adapter tho.
people like me who still have a camcorder to shoot videos while on vacation that are a little better than a smartphone clip. and want to make a simple home movie in the evening back at the motel/tent. iMovie is good enough for that. i'll have to get a new lightning/USB adapter tho.
I have a friend who is a high-level executive at one of the major broadcast networks. When FCP X was announced, I asked for an opinion of how it would fit into their video editing process. I was surprised by a portion of the response (emphasis mine):
Quote:
"FCP is actually a powerful program but I still think iMovie does the job for most less than 10 minutes productions. Its real value is revealed when using After Effects or Motion, integrated tight in the production. Content is still king and video 'direction' makes a video look pro... not really the 'editing' tools in most cases.
If you ever travel to NY I would love to give you a tour of some of the edit suites and see how the product is integrated in the workflow. FCP is not the main edit tool, however as a FCP fan you will see its value when connected to graphic virtual sets and tapeless video ingest servers. Pretty amazing in capable hands. But you will also see how simple on & off-line systems (equiv. to iMovie) does the bulk of the work."
This was referring to iMovie on the Mac, but there are instances where you are out and about and all you have is a camera and an iPad. It is fairly simple to put together an effective, quick-turn-around short video and upload it to the web. Things like news and sports highlights (full story on News at 11:00)... or, as others have posted, vacation highlights, personal experiences, etc.
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Originally Posted by Flaneur
A couple of years ago, I saw a reference to an MRI study that showed German men, when shown pictures of tools, lit up the same brain areas that lit up in other men when shown pornography. I think that's what's going on here. Jony Ive has a thing for Stahlwille and Hazett wrenches, sorry, spanners. So do I.
Research has shown that a male's search for perfect tools is as old as his search for the perfect sex partner. Another test has shown that male test subjects who are shown a photo of a Vista "Start" screen have an involuntary tightening of the sphincter muscles.
It's a thing all to itself, a size all to itself, and it had to be made, competition or not. This is apparent when you first pick it up. I am glad they are showing how it should be done, no compromise on quality or on price. Make it obvious that you get what you pay for.
The non-retina screen will be seen by the tech press chihuahuas as a compromise, but any realistic person knows that it would be too heavy, pricey and too short in supply at this stage of the technology.
I've referred to Edy's email in previous posts, but without a competing product for him to have used he never would've made the suggestion.
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Originally Posted by Alfiejr
i think this 8" 4:3 tablet form factor is the true "sweet spot" for all tablets, period, and certainly the best for mid-size tablets, defined as tablets you can easily hold with one hand. it delivers the best "reward" - screen area and map/web viewability in particular - for the "effort" required - physically holding the thing. it kicks 7" 16:9(10) tablets conclusively in the butt in these regards.
Yes. I think Apple essentially maximized the amount of screen you can hold in one hand spanning grip. This captures 80% of the screen feel of the bigger iPad but in half the weight. It blows the teeny 7" narrow screen tablets out of the way.
I expect the Mini will be Apples top selling iPad this quarter. But the big one still has a compelling feature in it's retina screen, but when the Mini gets Retina, I think the full size becomes a much harder sell. Hopefully Apple has something to make the bigger iPad desirable when the Retina Mini arrives.
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Seems odd that you know exactly what the future's like. And for more reasons than the aleph-null minus one number of possibilities of futures.
Ah, but it doesn't. If you need to do any work, the regular iPad is the one to get.
So the 13" MacBook Pro's keyboard(s) are of different sizes than the 15" MacBook Pro's keyboard(s)?
Throw a Mini in one pocket and Folding keyboard in the other.
http://www.amazon.com/Verbatim-Wireless-Bluetooth-Folding-Keyboard/dp/B004L9LT2E
Still more mobile than a fullsize iPad and a wider more normal spaced actual keyboard.
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24 Hours With The iPad Mini: This Is The Real iPad
My take after spending a bunch of the weekend with the iPad mini: This is the real iPad. With the exception of screen sharpness, everything about it is better than the bigger, “classic” iPad — and screen sharpness won’t be a deal breaker for the vast majority of people.
http://www.splatf.com/2012/11/ipad-mini/
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I'd love to. I plan to at the nearest opportunity. But I already know how large the keyboards are. That doesn't change my view.
"keyboards". There is already a scanner so you could swipe a suitably coded driver's license card. Heck I paid for a couple of meals at 10K in The California Sierra that way this past summer. Received an email receipt on my phone before I could reach the door. Okay out of staters might be different unless there was a cross- state standard, but there's precedent for that as well with the toll RFID: EZ-Pass. IIRC Apple stores use a similar pad-scanner system.
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Originally Posted by Snowdog65
Yes. I think Apple essentially maximized the amount of screen you can hold in one hand spanning grip. This captures 80% of the screen feel of the bigger iPad but in half the weight. It blows the teeny 7" narrow screen tablets out of the way.
I expect the Mini will be Apples top selling iPad this quarter. But the big one still has a compelling feature in it's retina screen, but when the Mini gets Retina, I think the full size becomes a much harder sell. Hopefully Apple has something to make the bigger iPad desirable when the Retina Mini arrives.
yup, agree. i think people will only buy the full size 10" iPad after that next year for some specific good reason. like "real work" for example, photo/video editing, and many business purposes. the mini will become the most popular consumer tablet. which is why Apple is going to maintain its typical profit margin prices for it @ $330 price.
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There is only the Kindle Fire 7" which doesn't seem to be making many waves. Their 8.9" version doesn't come out until probably after the cellular version of the iPad mini is released. We can surely talk about the potential of the Kindle Fire but it appears to me there was more buzz about it last year and it didn't amount to much. At this point I'd think the Surface was more of a threat.
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yup, agree. i think people will only buy the full size 10" iPad after that next year for some specific good reason. like "real work" for example, photo/video editing, and many business purposes. the mini will become the most popular consumer tablet. which is why Apple is going to maintain its typical profit margin prices for it @ $330 price.
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I can't read through all this right now, so I hope somebody points out that Eddy Cue was right about this size.
It's a thing all to itself, a size all to itself, and it had to be made, competition or not. This is apparent when you first pick it up. I am glad they are showing how it should be done, no compromise on quality or on price. Make it obvious that you get what you pay for.
The non-retina screen will be seen by the tech press chihuahuas as a compromise, but any realistic person knows that it would be too heavy, pricey and too short in supply at this stage of the technology.
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Apple has been making Retina display for a while, and just announced another product (the MacBook Pro) with it. If they are still having trouble making it, that's not a good sign. Not having the best display in the market will hurt Apple in the long run, since it damages their "best of breed" rep, in my opinion.
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Who does video editing on an iPad?
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Who does video editing on an iPad?
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people like me who still have a camcorder to shoot videos while on vacation that are a little better than a smartphone clip. and want to make a simple home movie in the evening back at the motel/tent. iMovie is good enough for that. i'll have to get a new lightning/USB adapter tho.
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I think they are completely out of sync. For example they have six notebooks now
and the new management shake up did not look well planned to say the least. All I see is chaos. As stylish as the new iMacs are, they seem impracticably thin so much so that they had to put the SD card reader on the back. They have totally left the Mac Pro out to pasture and screwed up the Maps app. They also abandoned a large portion of their users when ML would not boot with 32 bit kernel. Yep, sounds like a smooth running machine alright. I'm not criticizing anyone, it just seems to me that everything is sort of falling apart, like iOS 6 needing a new updater app because it couldn't update over the air. Everything is just a patchwork of temporary fixes and placeholders. I'm still upgrading to all the new products except the iPad 4 since I recently purchased the new iPad. I already have the iPhone 5 and the Retina MBP. I've been ready for a new Mac Pro for awhile and also over due for another iMac. Even with all the confusion, they still make the best stuff in my opinion.
Actually, they have three notebooks: Macbook Air, Macbook Pro and Macbook Pro/Retina. How are you counting six?
The only problem I have with the management shakeup was that it didn't happen sooner. It makes perfect sense to have both operating systems under one general manager, and I think Federighi is the best choice. Putting Ive in charge of the overall experience for all platforms also makes a lot of sense. I can only assume you believe that a management shakeup of this nature can be organised overnight. Well, I can tell that it takes time, careful negotiation and a hell of a lot of money, especially when you want to dump someone and at the same time keep them out of the hands of the competition.
The Mac Pro market is just not big enough to warrant as much attention as the iMac, which most prosumers are happy with. Still, the MacPro is being upgraded next year. I have no idea what it will be like, but I'm pretty sure you won't like it ...
You say they abandoned a large portion of their users when ML wouldn't boot with a 32bit kernel. That statement can be pretty much ignored as you have no idea how many were affected.
Maps? Well, for every comment I read that said it was a disaster, I read at least comment that said the problems were exaggerated. I imagine the truth is somewhere in the middle.
And the position of the SD card? Yes, what a disaster. That'll sink 'em for sure.
You've listed a couple of small edge cases (aside from the Maps) in an attempt to justify your main beef: Apple hasn't updated the Mac Pro as promptly as you'd like. Against these small problems, you've had the successful rollout of the Mountain Lion update, the new iPhone, the new iMac, and the new Macbook Pro. The shops are doing a roaring trade and they are working very hard to dump Samsung as a supplier.
Any company of that size that doesn't have any problems is not doing anything of note.
I think that was a brilliant move by Amazon. It hides the cost of the cellular components and they get a great deal on bulk data from the carrier.
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Who does video editing on an iPad?
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Me.
Edited a short safari piece on it.
Nothing professional though.
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people like me who still have a camcorder to shoot videos while on vacation that are a little better than a smartphone clip. and want to make a simple home movie in the evening back at the motel/tent. iMovie is good enough for that. i'll have to get a new lightning/USB adapter tho.
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Fair enough.
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people like me who still have a camcorder to shoot videos while on vacation that are a little better than a smartphone clip. and want to make a simple home movie in the evening back at the motel/tent. iMovie is good enough for that. i'll have to get a new lightning/USB adapter tho.
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Fair enough.
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Just to add a little legitimacy...
I have a friend who is a high-level executive at one of the major broadcast networks. When FCP X was announced, I asked for an opinion of how it would fit into their video editing process. I was surprised by a portion of the response (emphasis mine):
Quote:
"FCP is actually a powerful program but I still think iMovie does the job for most less than 10 minutes productions. Its real value is revealed when using After Effects or Motion, integrated tight in the production. Content is still king and video 'direction' makes a video look pro... not really the 'editing' tools in most cases.
If you ever travel to NY I would love to give you a tour of some of the edit suites and see how the product is integrated in the workflow. FCP is not the main edit tool, however as a FCP fan you will see its value when connected to graphic virtual sets and tapeless video ingest servers. Pretty amazing in capable hands. But you will also see how simple on & off-line systems (equiv. to iMovie) does the bulk of the work."
This was referring to iMovie on the Mac, but there are instances where you are out and about and all you have is a camera and an iPad. It is fairly simple to put together an effective, quick-turn-around short video and upload it to the web. Things like news and sports highlights (full story on News at 11:00)... or, as others have posted, vacation highlights, personal experiences, etc.