iPad usefulness?
in [UK Mac]
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From: Chris Ridd on 1 Apr 2010 03:35 On 2010-04-01 08:34:31 +0100, Jim said: > On 2010-04-01, Chris Ridd <chrisridd(a)mac.com> wrote: >>> >>> where as I am liking the idea of the ipad more, it is just a large ipod >>> touch but thats the idea of it and one I'm warming too. >> >> Apple's quoting "late April" for them in the UK... >> > > There's a MacBreak Weekly special up as of this morning with Andy Ihnatko's > impressions of using one for a week. A *week*?! Lucky sob :-) > > It boils down to: basically very good indeed, but no printing is a bummer. You can print from iPhones, so I can imagine you'll be able to from iPads real soon now. Especially if apps can share files (eg PDFs) with each other. -- Chris
From: Peter Ceresole on 1 Apr 2010 03:37 Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > It boils down to: basically very good indeed, but no printing is a bummer. That does sound a bit bad, but also sounds eminently fixable if you have a dock. And if somebody provides the drivers... I can't imagine that they wouldn't. -- Peter
From: J. J. Lodder on 1 Apr 2010 03:40 Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > 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 :-( After upgrading Quicktime and iTunes to the latest version on Tiger G5 Mini iTunes is full of iPad mentions too. So it will probably work. iSteve is just trying to tell you that you really shouldn't want too, Jan
From: Jim on 1 Apr 2010 03:43 On 2010-04-01, Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Jim <jim(a)magrathea.plus.com> wrote: > >> It boils down to: basically very good indeed, but no printing is a bummer. > > That does sound a bit bad, but also sounds eminently fixable if you have > a dock. And if somebody provides the drivers... I can't imagine that > they wouldn't. Andy's of the same opinion as me: Apple doesn't want the stability of the device compromised by large numbers of badly written device drivers. I like the idea of having a server app running on your Mac/Windows box that acts as a print server. Removes the need for drivers on the iPad entirely. (Note: if anyone thinks that the iPad isn't going to be a tethered device in the same way as the iPod is, or at least a device that works best when tethered then, well, you're going to be disappointed.) 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: Geoff Berrow on 1 Apr 2010 04:11
On Thu, 1 Apr 2010 01:33:43 +0000, NEWS(a)sarlet.com (Roger Merriman) wrote: > >I hardly use flash in that the iphones lack is no issue and in the past >when it broke on the mac it took me a very long time to notice.... I suspect that a lot of educational/revision material uses Flash. A lot of younger people like the Flash games that are available. My gut reaction is that this will mean that the ipad will not be so appealing to younger users BICBW -- Geoff Berrow (Put thecat out to email) It's only Usenet, no one dies. My opinions, not the committee's, mine. Simple RFDs www.4theweb.co.uk/rfdmaker |