iPad usefulness?
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From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 18:20 Rod <polygonum(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > On 31/03/2010 14:44, Woody wrote: > <> > > > > I suspect not external areas, no. But that is just speculation, there > > are no file explorers on the iPad simulator! > > > > > iPad simulator? You got one? Yes, it is part of the iPad SDK (or iPhone 3.2 sdk) > I was just working my way through this > rather large thread in case someone had mentioned such a thing. There isn't much to mention really! > In common with several other posters, I have been considering an iPad > for my mother - who is really feeling that computers have passed her by > - or should that be the other way around? Actually playing with a > virtual iPad would be an excellent way to start evaluating it - and > maybe even providing longer term support. Unfortunately you have to be in the iPhone developer connection to get it, and not the free one! someone (who obviously didn't read their sdk agreement!) put a video on youtube: <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej1_jJIZKXI> no, I don't know why these people have to add music either -- Woody www.alienrat.com
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 31 Mar 2010 18:30 On 31 Mar 2010 21:11:11 GMT, zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: >Also; it will mean people will buy it and return it when they realise >they can't use certain features. Yay - refurb store time! What did you think of my list nearby in thread? I'm sure I've missed things that a computerless iPad user will bump up against, but not sure what. Cheers - Jaimie -- "The problem is not that the world is full of fools, it's that lightning isn't being distributed correctly." - Mark Twain
From: Rod on 31 Mar 2010 18:34 On 31/03/2010 23:20, Woody wrote: > Rod<polygonum(a)ntlworld.com> wrote: > >> On 31/03/2010 14:44, Woody wrote: >> <> >>> >>> I suspect not external areas, no. But that is just speculation, there >>> are no file explorers on the iPad simulator! >>> >>> >> iPad simulator? You got one? > > Yes, it is part of the iPad SDK (or iPhone 3.2 sdk) > >> I was just working my way through this >> rather large thread in case someone had mentioned such a thing. > > There isn't much to mention really! > >> In common with several other posters, I have been considering an iPad >> for my mother - who is really feeling that computers have passed her by >> - or should that be the other way around? Actually playing with a >> virtual iPad would be an excellent way to start evaluating it - and >> maybe even providing longer term support. > > Unfortunately you have to be in the iPhone developer connection to get > it, and not the free one! > > someone (who obviously didn't read their sdk agreement!) put a video on > youtube: > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ej1_jJIZKXI> > > no, I don't know why these people have to add music either > Well that really explored the features, didn't it? Was that five or ten minutes of changing keyboard layout? But thanks, yep, would like to play with that myself. -- Rod
From: Peter Ceresole on 31 Mar 2010 19:14 Tim Streater <timstreater(a)waitrose.com> wrote: > > Do I get Sigourney Weaver with that? In that case I wouldn't even mind > > an AGA. > > No, you get Alan Rickman and consider yourself lucky. Oh well... That'll be a Belling hob then. -- Peter
From: Peter Ceresole on 31 Mar 2010 19:14
"Graham J" <graham(a)invalid> wrote: > For a beginner, the idea of using a tiny screen and virtual keyboard is a > non-starter. > > Further, if she's old enough to have son-in-law, she probably needs reading > glasses, and without them any sort of PDA is virtually unuseable. It's a fair bit bigger than a PDA, I think. That's what makes it useable- as opposed to an iPhone/iTouch, which takes a rare dedication to use for email. And she's a handy old bird. Anyway, first she needs to see a real one. -- Peter |