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From: nospam on 1 Apr 2010 01:00 In article <eric-B786AF.14364601042010(a)news.iinet.net.au>, Eric <eric(a)ericlindsay.com> wrote: > In my view, Apple have played a bit fast and loose with the USB standard > by making an iPod Dock Connector to Camera and Dock Connector to SD > adaptor. how it interfaces to the ipad is not yet known. the connectors could be a usb host then interface via some custom protocol, or it all could be usb otg. > They also played with the USB standard with their external > optical drive for the MacBook Air. This drive (like all optical drives) > requires more power than allowed under USB to spin up the drive. Apple > do a software negotiation while in 100mA connection mode, and then allow > the drive to draw more than the 500mA maximum permitted by the USB > standard. nope. it doesn't require any additional power. what they did was use a custom bridge chip that checked to see if it's a macbook air, and not work if it isn't. replace the bridge chip and it will work on anything. it's pointless and a waste of engineering resources.
From: Andrew Templeman on 1 Apr 2010 04:58 <BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net> wrote: > The thing is that, at least as far as my iPhone goes, it > displays H.264 video far better than my netbook. There's > no reason to think it couldn't display other video formats > perfectly adequately. I think that H.264 is the main format supported by hardware acceleration -- Andy Templeman <http://www.templeman.org.uk/>
From: -hh on 1 Apr 2010 07:07 On Apr 1, 12:15 am, BreadWithS...(a)fractious.net wrote: > -hh <recscuba_goo...(a)huntzinger.com> writes: > > BreadWithS...(a)fractious.net wrote: > > > As I said, it's probably not a big deal for most people. > > > But it does certainly suggest, as you say, that the iPad > > > be treated more like a peripheral than as a central, primary > > > computing device. I don't believe that, if that's the case, > > > Apple's taking the best view for their own sake. > > My point, again, above, is that there's a huge potential > market for folks who want iPads who don't have or want > computers or the administration which comes with them. > They should have an easy way to back up the devices. > I hope Apple sees this. I understand your point, since what you're really saying is that their requirement for a "host" PC/Mac represents a marketplace 'barrier to entry' for the consumer. However, how much of a barrier is it? Given that this barrier also technically exists for every iPod (not just the Touch) that Apple sells, and Apple has sold 150+ million of these in the past three years, it would appear that there isn't pragmatically a meaningful marketplace barrier for the first ~50M/year of iPads that Apple wishes to sell. For sales in excess of 50M/year, they have the luxury of crossing that bridge when they come to it and when they're better able to accommodate that amount of business growth. > > First, sure, we can say that its "Not All That It Can Be" > > technologically, but in counterpoint, in roughly 2.5 years, the iPhone > > + iPod Touch ecosystems have sold at least 75 million units, including > > I've no doubt that the iPad will sell like hotcakes. And the > sales of iPods and iPhones are clear evidence that end consumers > want the kind of seamless, easy-to-use, doesn't crash experience > that these devices afford them. Moreover, I can see how the > ability to plug in an external storage device to an iPad would > either require making the users experience more complex or it > would require Apple to come up with additional device management > software which would have to run on the iPad. I hope they do > that rather than just continuing to assume they're all going to > have PCs or Macs or just trust the cloud. > > For me, it's no big deal. I can't forsee a time when I no > longer have desktop machines around. But for, say, my mom, > there's just no need for it. I'd like the iPad to be a > no-brainer for her, rather than just an addition to some > other machine I need to administer for her. Regardless of we like it, I'm afraid that the future is indeed going to be "Trust The Cloud". And in the meantime, if the networking & security abilities are done right on the iPad, I think that it should be possible for you to host your Mom's iPad on your PC/Mac, basically as her 'cloud'. > > > http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/2000/06/14/quoting > > > Broken link? > > So it seems - I hadn't checked it in a while. Guess it's > time to strip it out of the .sig and give up hoping that > folks will learn to play nicely on usenet... > Thanks for pointing that out. Just checked - its still online at the Wayback Machine; you could decide if you wanted to host it yourself and contact the original author for copyright permission for reproducing it. -hh
From: JEDIDIAH on 1 Apr 2010 17:01 On 2010-04-01, Andrew Templeman <andy(a)templeman.org.uk> wrote: > > ><BreadWithSpam(a)fractious.net> wrote: > >> The thing is that, at least as far as my iPhone goes, it >> displays H.264 video far better than my netbook. There's >> no reason to think it couldn't display other video formats >> perfectly adequately. > > I think that H.264 is the main format supported by hardware acceleration For SoC stuff perhaps. The sorts of gear that is in stuff like the JooJoo supports more. Although once you get past a certain point in terms of CPU power, the extra acceleration options aren't that critical. h264 is what's the real CPU hog (especially the high bitrate HD stuff). The rest can be decoded on much more meagre hardware. Purevideo type B does MPEG2 and h264. Type C does divx too. -- It's a great paradox. ||| / | \ Mac users aren't supposed to be capable of organizing their own files with the Finder or browse the storage on a digital camera yet they can be expected to track down their own QT extensions with no real help from Apple.
From: ed on 1 Apr 2010 22:18
On Mar 28, 5:36 am, -hh <recscuba_goo...(a)huntzinger.com> wrote: > ed <n...(a)atwistedweb.com> wrote: > > nospam <nos...(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > > > > when i see people using laptops, they rarely, if ever, have something > > > plugged into a usb port. the few times they do, it's usually a 3g data > > > card, which is built into the ipad (and has substantially cheaper usage > > > fees). > > > i would guess external storage is the most common (usb drives). then > > mice. then 3g cards. i have my phone plugged in most often. > > While I'm on the road, the only things that I see plugged into laptops > are: > > a) 3G cards ... while in mobility mode(s) > > b) USB thumb drives ... at the end of the meeting where everyone would > swap data. This is on the decline, however, due to Windows-based > security issues which have prompted a lot of businesses to lock them > down to varying degrees. The main group that I'm in now has gone back > to having the Secretary burn CD-Rs...which ironically makes for better > record-keeping. > > Sitting around in these meetings, there's _never_ an external drive, > and virtually never any USB mice. About the only mouse that I can > recall seeing in the past ~5 years was a miniature Bluetooth one about > the size of a matchbox car. how often are you on the road? ;D my experiences are very different. i continue to see usb thumb drives everywhere, and mice often. even in the airline lounges people bust out mice. aircards i see, but not that often compared to usb drives an mice. |