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Quote: Originally Posted by g3pro 1. Dual microphone to cancel background noise? 2. Voice input for all text entry fields? 3. Higher resolution screen? 4. Larger screen dimensions? 5. Multi-tasking? 6. User-replaceable batter…
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Quote: Originally Posted by anantksundaram The average cost of a new hardcover is $26 (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/we...ew/17rich.html). At least as applied to new books, assuming the price is, say, $15, that's more than 40% off. That $11 d…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta No one has yet made a convincing argument to Apple that it's worth while. It means extra programming, extra debugging, reduced battery life (even if you're not using it, the code's there and has to be used), a…
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Quote: Originally Posted by icyfog I think this whole lack of multi-tasking issue is FUD. I call bullshit. For instance on my iPod touch, I can pause the recording app and still play chess. That's multi-tasking. You haven't read a lot of the…
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Quote: Originally Posted by Avidfcp I still think if Apple plays there cards right and sees all the negative press, they can make a lot of changes to the OS. You're crazy if you do t believe they have a flash, multitasking, stylus, voice to text …
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Quote: Originally Posted by extremeskater I wonder if maybe Jobs is having Newton flashbacks. Perhaps, though wasn't the Newton something they came up with while Jobs wasn't there? I don't know what his involvement was, if at all with that. …
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Okay you "multitasking kills the battery" pundits, hear it for yourself, straight from the mouth of Steve Jobs: http://kara.allthingsd.com/20100128/...ve-jobs-cameo/ Watch the video, at about 2:50 - 3:30 in the video. Mossberg is grilling Steve…
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Quote: Originally Posted by ascii I don't think it's indefensible. One of the worst things on a portable device would be getting invected with a virus, but if programs aren't allowed to stay running once you quit them, that limits the chance of s…
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Quote: Originally Posted by nikon133 Scrapped already..? My apology for being clueless - what language or languages are being used in India? Hindi is the official language. Google it, but there seems to be about a dozen other recognized…
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Quote: Originally Posted by stevegmu If there were no trade-off, why, then has multi-tasking for 3rd-party apps been excluded? Surely the Apple engineers know what works best with the products they developed, no? If the best you can do is thro…
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Quote: Originally Posted by stevegmu I'm sure there are tradeoffs for allowing multitasking, which I would rather not have to accept for the tiny minority who want it, so they can listen to Pandora, who will probably never buy an iPad in the 1st …
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I just can't believe the religious-like fervor that those who don't care about multitasking take when defending Apple's decision to not let us multitask the apps we want. What is the harm to you who don't want to multitask if it's an OPTION for tho…
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Quote: Originally Posted by NickLW Don't get me wrong - I love Apple ... BUT ... I couldn't believe it when I saw Steve Jobs' keynote demo of the iPad. He banged on for ten minutes saying how it offered the best ever internet experience - bett…
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Too many people defending Apple's decision to not let us multitask 3rd party apps in mobile devices to respond to any particular post, but I thought I'd point out that despite all the assertions that multitasking is an unnecessary drain on the devic…
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Quote: Originally Posted by AsianBob The reason some of us here call it a "beta" is that it seems to be Apple's way for the first generation of a product they make. Take the iPhone for example. No 3G, no MMS, no multitasking of third-party …
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Quote: Originally Posted by iGenius That is irrational. The rational perspective is that iSteve knows better than you do what you should be doing. Well then, I stand corrected.
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Quote: Originally Posted by Firefly7475 Remember this is iPad beta, not a final product. The true kindle-killer screen may find its way into iPad gen 2 or 3. That's right...every new hardware release by Apple is "beta"...NEVER buy a first run,…
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Quote: Originally Posted by rebelmusik It is not a kindle-killer, for two very simple reasons: 2) This screen (LED backlit, high gloss) will not facilitate easy, comfortable and prolonged reading. I don't buy that argument. I stare at m…
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Quote: Originally Posted by jragosta The iPhone (like the iPad) multitasks just fine. It is limited and will not multitask multiple third party apps, but no one has given a rational reason why it would be worth the sacrifice in performance and ba…
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Quote: Originally Posted by applebook Kindle loving upper-middle-class wasps will love this thing, but I am not neither upper-middle-class nor a wasp. Wow, you managed to roll class, ethnicity and religion into one bigoted sentence there. …