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From: J. J. Lodder on 31 Mar 2010 10:18 Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > > > J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > > > > > > > So maybe I'm missing something, or Apple really have screwed up. > > > > > > > > So people said when the iPod was introduced, > > > > > > It took a while for the iPod to catch on, and it rapidly developed into > > > something useful. But the iPad is definitely a big step up from the > > > iPod, and too expensive to be a vanity purchase. It needs to be at least > > > *basically* capable. > > > > Complete nonsense. > > The first iPod could do next to nothing > > (except play mp3) and it sold at 399 $, > > which is more than today's devalued 499 $, > > I bought the second iPod (after slagging off the first!) after using it. > Yes, all it did was play mp3s, it was fantastic. Right. So the iPad, which does much more and is cheaper too (in real terms) will be fantastic too. Jan
From: Chris Ridd on 31 Mar 2010 10:25 On 2010-03-31 14:36:22 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > >>> I do hope there'll be some equivalent, or that >>> somebody will make a mini Finder available. >> >> How often have you *needed* to do that on your iPod Touch? For me, the >> answer is never, and even though I'm a Unixy tinkerer, that suits me >> fine. > > I have to say that the iTouch is so extremely limited that I hardly ever > use it. I admit that it was a 'gadget' impulse purchase, and a mistake. > It's basically like a piece of jewellery. It's sweet, but unnecessary. > And I find the interface irritating. If I needed to do anything much, > I'd carry a laptop. Really? I do recall you gushing when you'd just got it. > > BUT... I hate music on the move- it spoils the music and spoils the > move. Like Black Velvet, described to me in a pub in Dublin as 'a waste > of Guinness and a waste of champagne'. The guy was right. I never tried > it again. Same with the iTouch. As I never want to look at video on a > train again... So I'm not exactly iPod fodder. Music on the move, or at least away from home, is just fine for me. I'm also happy enough watching video on a train... > But the iPad seems to me to have promise as a primary second machine, or > even a primary first machine for someone like my sister in law. The Touch would be OK for a primary machine for people like my wife/children if it was bigger. Damn, I've just talked myself into an iPad :-) -- Chris
From: Chris Ridd on 31 Mar 2010 10:26 On 2010-03-31 15:16:50 +0100, Ben Shimmin said: > Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com>: >> On 2010-03-31 12:29:06 +0100, Ben Shimmin said: > > [...] > >>> The prices aren't great either. (I was disgusted last night when I >>> saw the pricing for Flash Builder...) >> >> Well you can now encode three things at once [1], can't you? So paying >> 3 times the price seems perfectly reasonable :-) >> >> [1] all I've seen is a sentence about it on macnn. I/they could be >> mistaken about this. > > I think that's for the Flash Media Encoder (the application you use > for making FLVs, mainly). > > Flash Builder is the new name for what used to be called Flex Builder -- > basically an Eclipse IDE with some drag-and-drop GUI bits for easily > generating MXML. I think about twenty quid would be a fair price. Them paying you, or you paying them? :-) -- Chris
From: Jim on 31 Mar 2010 10:39 On 2010-03-31, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: > > Music on the move, or at least away from home, is just fine for me. I'm > also happy enough watching video on a train... Music in the car is about the only thing that keeps me sane(ish) during my hour-long commutes each morning/evening. Well, that and podcasts. 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: Nancy on 31 Mar 2010 10:38
On 3/31/2010 7:22 AM, R wrote: > zoara<me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > >> Well, not always the iPad - but nevertheless I reckon "uncomputers" - >> computers that feel like appliances - will become the norm, and real >> computers will become the thing that only "specialists" use, or the >> thing you're forced to use at work and hate with a passion. > > This seems like nothing less to me than a concerted attempt to > control the consumer and as such is a terribly retrograde move. > > In effect, we are being told we are too dumb to use the liberating > technology known as the computer and we should use devices > made for the passive consumption of content produced by others. http://xkcd.com/662/ |