iPad usefulness?
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From: Ben Shimmin on 31 Mar 2010 05:04 Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net>: [...] > I think I have never seen any website requiring Flash to buy things. Check out Adobe's store (I'm not even joking)! I'm tempted to encourage my parents to get an iPad. They really enjoy using the MacBook I gave them, permanently hooked up to a 20" display with an external keyboard and mouse -- it's just they find it all a bit complicated: you know, all these applications and windows and the Dock and all that multitasking nonsense... But I'm not sure moving to a smaller screener (and a completely different user interface metaphor, even if it is much simpler) is really a good idea for them. However, the lack of Flash would be the least of my concerns. The iPad will do just fine without it. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 05:28 Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net>: > > [...] > > > I think I have never seen any website requiring Flash to buy things. > > Check out Adobe's store (I'm not even joking)! Yes, that is the only place I have seen a store that needed it! Mind you, that is a horrible store, and not just because of flash. > I'm tempted to encourage my parents to get an iPad. They really enjoy > using the MacBook I gave them, permanently hooked up to a 20" display > with an external keyboard and mouse -- it's just they find it all a > bit complicated: you know, all these applications and windows and the > Dock and all that multitasking nonsense... But I'm not sure moving > to a smaller screener (and a completely different user interface > metaphor, even if it is much simpler) is really a good idea for them. If my mum didn't already have the iMac I would be considering pushing her that way, but she loves printing things, and there is an unknown about the printing. Presumably with a wireless printer it is possible, but its unknown at the moment. -- Woody
From: Jim on 31 Mar 2010 05:42 On 2010-03-31, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > >> Unfortunately it is hard to answer that one at the moment as the iPad >> isn't out. There is a risk that you won't be able to update it without >> plugging it in, but until someone actually has one, there isn't a way to >> say for sure, everything is just speculation > > Okay, thanks Woody. I was wondering about updates if she didn't have > another machine, but I presume that Apple will have sorted that out, as > the iPad is much more of a 'computer' than an iPhone, and people are > much more likely to have it as their sole device. While that is true my gut feeling is that it _will_ be treated as being a big iPod, and it _will_ need a host machine to be tethered to for updates. But we should start to hear about all that next week - it's out in the States on Saturday. Jim -- Twitter:@GreyAreaUK "[The MP4-12C] will be fitted with all manner of pointlessly shiny buttons that light up and a switch that says 'sport mode' that isn't connected to anything." The Daily Mash.
From: Graeme on 31 Mar 2010 05:47 In message <1jg7rhe.yazdi91jdy3xtN%peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Unfortunately it is hard to answer that one at the moment as the iPad > > isn't out. There is a risk that you won't be able to update it without > > plugging it in, but until someone actually has one, there isn't a way to > > say for sure, everything is just speculation > > Okay, thanks Woody. I was wondering about updates if she didn't have > another machine, but I presume that Apple will have sorted that out, as > the iPad is much more of a 'computer' than an iPhone, and people are > much more likely to have it as their sole device. The description claims it needs a computer running a minimum of Snow Leopard! Rules it out for me as I have a PPC :-( -- Graeme Wall My genealogy website <www.greywall.demon.co.uk/genealogy/>
From: David Kennedy on 31 Mar 2010 06:02
Jim wrote: > On 2010-03-31, Peter Ceresole<peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: >> Woody<usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: >> >>> Unfortunately it is hard to answer that one at the moment as the iPad >>> isn't out. There is a risk that you won't be able to update it without >>> plugging it in, but until someone actually has one, there isn't a way to >>> say for sure, everything is just speculation >> >> Okay, thanks Woody. I was wondering about updates if she didn't have >> another machine, but I presume that Apple will have sorted that out, as >> the iPad is much more of a 'computer' than an iPhone, and people are >> much more likely to have it as their sole device. > > While that is true my gut feeling is that it _will_ be treated as being a > big iPod, and it _will_ need a host machine to be tethered to for updates. > That would be a BIG own goal for Apple. I'm sure that, as in Peter's case, many non computer users will be attracted to the device; either as a type of net book and organiser or in lieu of a Kindle etc. or, most probably, as a combination of these things. If Apple require a computer to keep things up to date then this will [IMHO] reduce sales considerably. There are already people who see that side of it as a drawback with the iPhone as there is really no reason for the device to be tethered to a computer. With internet access it could - if iSteve allowed it - manage things solo. I know that to do things as decreed you need access to iTunes etc. but [and there is some prejudice against iTunes] it could be managed simply from downloads. And, on that subject, surely to a limited degree, Apple are losing sales by restricting the availability of tracks to iTunes users, surely there should be a simple access path for mobile device users - which would also pull in owners of other mobiles as well as Windoze weenies who abhor anything Apple? > But we should start to hear about all that next week - it's out in the > States on Saturday. > > Jim Any reviews yet that cover this type of thing? -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com |