The Apple Ipad
Posted by: Peter Dinh on 03 April 2010
What do you think of it? I like it but for now I would not buy it until it is a really a full-blown computer.
Posted on: 06 April 2010 by JAB
heh, happily i'm still young enough to see the iphone without istrain!
Posted on: 06 April 2010 by connon price
not me, I'm fecked. 41 and getting to the age where bifocals might make sense. I'm hyperopic.
But with the little screen on the iPhone when using the web or maps, my fingers get a little tired with all the pinching and expanding movements. That is probably old age too.
I think it is going to be a huge success.
But with the little screen on the iPhone when using the web or maps, my fingers get a little tired with all the pinching and expanding movements. That is probably old age too.
I think it is going to be a huge success.
Posted on: 06 April 2010 by connon price
Hey dave, have you used it with the DAC? Does it dance that way?
I noticed no digital out on the headphone jack.
I noticed no digital out on the headphone jack.
Posted on: 07 April 2010 by BigH47
quote:Originally posted by connon price:
not me, I'm fecked. 41 and getting to the age where bifocals might make sense. I'm hyperopic.
But with the little screen on the iPhone when using the web or maps, my fingers get a little tired with all the pinching and expanding movements. That is probably old age too.
I think it is going to be a huge success.
So you are going to walk around the street with it?
What are you going to store it in,it's not exactly pocket sized is it?
No I see it an iManbag, that will be £250 please?
Yes man bag no need for a girley version they ain't going to buy it, no phone.
Posted on: 09 April 2010 by connon price
Dude, I have big pockets. And I actually think the weight of it will help me achieve a more righteous sag.
No I won't be carrying it around town but I will be using it at the shop to control HDX, Uniti/Qute, Naimnet systems, Sonos, Squeezebox, iTunes. And then surf out to the Web to read a bit of this forum and such.
On road-trips or demos and installs the maps should be fantastic to help me navigate. Or hand it back to one of my kids and let them navigate.
Have you seen the Periodic chart app? Or the star app? The reader is cool but I can see that for actual novel length reading, something more like the Kindle would be better.
It is a new category, I think.
I do wish it had a phone in it so I could walk around with it up to my ear, but no.
No I won't be carrying it around town but I will be using it at the shop to control HDX, Uniti/Qute, Naimnet systems, Sonos, Squeezebox, iTunes. And then surf out to the Web to read a bit of this forum and such.
On road-trips or demos and installs the maps should be fantastic to help me navigate. Or hand it back to one of my kids and let them navigate.
Have you seen the Periodic chart app? Or the star app? The reader is cool but I can see that for actual novel length reading, something more like the Kindle would be better.
It is a new category, I think.
I do wish it had a phone in it so I could walk around with it up to my ear, but no.
Posted on: 10 April 2010 by Kevin-W
I went to see someone at Google yesterday, and there were a couple of iPads laying around. I tried one and within a minute I was utterly transfixed. Typing anything longer than a short email or forum post is a bit of a pain with that virtual keyboard but aside from that it's amazing. Reading mags and newspapers on it is a remarkable experience.
It's not a (conventional) tablet or a giant iPhone/iPod touch and I think that a lot of complaints about what it doesn't do kind of miss the point. This isn't a computer in the conventional sense, it's a new category of device optimised for content consumption as opposed to content creation.
Can't really justify buying one at the mo' but I think I will buy one a couple of years hence.
I agree with Connon, I think it'll be a massive (if slower burning than the iPhone) hit.
It's not a (conventional) tablet or a giant iPhone/iPod touch and I think that a lot of complaints about what it doesn't do kind of miss the point. This isn't a computer in the conventional sense, it's a new category of device optimised for content consumption as opposed to content creation.
Can't really justify buying one at the mo' but I think I will buy one a couple of years hence.
I agree with Connon, I think it'll be a massive (if slower burning than the iPhone) hit.
Posted on: 10 April 2010 by connon price
Kevin, typing on it is a pain for me, but a customer of mine came into the shop today and blew me away with his rapid and accurate use of the landscape keyboard. He was typing accurately what might have been 60 words a minute. He's about my age and works at Microsoft. English guy. Guess I need to practice.
the portrait keyboard is too small for two hands and to wide for thumb typing without a lot of stretching and excessive movement. Also, for thumb typing the Pad is too heavy and wants to tip forward onto the ground. My suggestion for a keyboard in portrait is one that is qwerty split right and left and about half way up so the Pad balances on the fingers holding it on the backside. Make it the right size for fast and hot thumb action (could be scaleable), somewhat translucent to screen underneath and make a quick icon or gesture to have it come and go. Too much to ask? A bad idea? Lots of changes coming through software.
But why no calculator?
And I was practicing typing in "notes" but then put the Pad under my arm while I talked to a customer for a couple of minutes. Went back to my note and it was completely gone, replaced by something like "bn bnn kdjkejjjkm :::';jijkjkj".
I thought "wow! that predictive typing is working wonders!"
Actually did misspell "touch" as "youch" and the three suggestions it had were "couch", "ouch" and something else, but not "touch". Seemed a likely substitution to be in its predictive dictionary, considering they have a product called a touch and all. Hmmm.
the portrait keyboard is too small for two hands and to wide for thumb typing without a lot of stretching and excessive movement. Also, for thumb typing the Pad is too heavy and wants to tip forward onto the ground. My suggestion for a keyboard in portrait is one that is qwerty split right and left and about half way up so the Pad balances on the fingers holding it on the backside. Make it the right size for fast and hot thumb action (could be scaleable), somewhat translucent to screen underneath and make a quick icon or gesture to have it come and go. Too much to ask? A bad idea? Lots of changes coming through software.
But why no calculator?
And I was practicing typing in "notes" but then put the Pad under my arm while I talked to a customer for a couple of minutes. Went back to my note and it was completely gone, replaced by something like "bn bnn kdjkejjjkm :::';jijkjkj".
I thought "wow! that predictive typing is working wonders!"
Actually did misspell "touch" as "youch" and the three suggestions it had were "couch", "ouch" and something else, but not "touch". Seemed a likely substitution to be in its predictive dictionary, considering they have a product called a touch and all. Hmmm.