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From: JF Mezei on 1 Feb 2010 01:34 Stephen Fry (the british actor) is a member of the Church of Apple. He has a very good blog entry about the ipad. http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/#more-1965 He was there are the launch, and confirms the "wait until you've touched the thing before you pass judgement".
From: Jochem Huhmann on 1 Feb 2010 05:16 Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> writes: > In article <000e7ddc$0$2284$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, > JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > >> But a computer, it is not. > > Agreed, and Apple/Jobs said so. And still, people were using computers with comparable CPU power and screen resolutions for serious work not that many years ago. Once there're more details known about the hardware it would be interesting to set a similar powered desktop computer with a 1024x768 15" CRT next to an iPad in its keyboard dock... I think it will depend on the software what this thing really is to you. And there are not many classes of software that couldn't be ported to it. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Charles on 1 Feb 2010 09:50 In article <0045aa04$0$28535$c3e8da3(a)news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot(a)vaxination.ca> wrote: > He was there are the launch, and confirms the "wait until you've touched > the thing before you pass judgement". This all reminds me of the launch of the Mac. I thought the Mac was the future and wanted one right away but many could not understand it or why anyone would want a GUI. I think this device or something like it is the future. I want one. But many are not going to understand right away. -- Charles
From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Per_R=F8nne?= on 1 Feb 2010 12:00 Michelle Steiner <michelle(a)michelle.org> wrote: > In article <1jd83li.kyozejxpczctN%per(a)RQNNE.invalid>, > per(a)RQNNE.invalid (Per R�nne) wrote: > > > Most private individuals have never been in a need of anything more than > > a works suite - and this is exactly what iWork is, a works suite. It > > should, though, include Bento too ... > > Although Filemaker, Inc. is wholly owned by Apple, it is a separate company > with its own P&L statement. Apple would have to pay Filemaker a fee for > every copy of Bento they put in the iWork package. > > Of course, with the iPad, that's not an issue because the modules of iWork > are sold separately, so there's really no iWork product as such for the > iPad. Bento already exists for the iPhone, so it does already exist for > the iPad as well. And in the iPad case, the three iWork applications will be sold separately. I just wanted to state that in the Works Suite perspective, the database part is missing. And that the missing database part in reality is - Bento. Personally, i have no use for Bento. It isn't even possible to search in the details part of a master-detail. So if you have something as simple as a music database with tables Composer and Work, you would have no way to find out who actually wrote Die Zauberfl�te ;-(. I do, however, wonder when Filemaker, Inc. will make a FileMaker Pro version for iPhone OS with full synchronization to FileMacer Pro on Mac and Windows, and of course in the Mac case including the information from the Sync Services - Address Book and iCal. It already exists with Bento, and the 'solution' I have found, FMTouch, is faulty. -- Per Erik R�nne http://www.RQNNE.dk Errare humanum est, sed in errore perseverare turpe
From: Fred Moore on 1 Feb 2010 13:28
In article <tom_stiller-36710F.13570631012010(a)news.individual.net>, Tom Stiller <tom_stiller(a)yahoo.com> wrote: > As Niels Bohr said "Prediction is very difficult, especially if it's > about the future." Ah, yes, my favorite physicist. Too bad he's so much in Einstein's shadow. |