iPad usefulness?
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From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 07:07 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > As for Flash, it's just that I always have it enabled and everything > Just Works- and two of my most visited sites are the Radio Times site, > and the iPlayer. I suppose if it came to it, even on those sites she > would use the iPod version- not for video streams, obviously, as she's > abroad, but radio would be useful for her. Can't she just get the radio on iTunes or something? I used to spend my time listening to online radio but never used a web page for it -- Woody
From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 07:07 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > > > But to *really* support solo use it would also need some way for doing > > backups without a computer and this requires more than just some > > software changes in the OS. > > But people will be using it who really don't want the full panoply of a > computer. > > Backups of vital stuff should be easy; you can get low cost 4GB thumb > drives- just copying text and mail folders should do it. However, > looking rapidly at the specs there doesn't seem to be any way to connect > a USB device to it, even with a dock. The iPad seems horribly, horribly > limited. There is a keyboard dock with a USB, a USB only dock, or a camera dock with a USB. Take your pick. I would have thought wireless is better for that sort of device anyway, or at least the apple way. YOu can back it up to .me. -- Woody
From: Peter Ceresole on 31 Mar 2010 07:09 Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > > Would it connect with a wireless keyboard? > > Yes. Well I'd have hoped so, but this isn't for me, and the more I look at the iPad specs, the crummier they appear. Quite shocking in fact. As I said, I think it's a matter of waiting. Or, of course, persuading her to get a Macbook. -- Peter
From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 07:09 Andrew Templeman <andy(a)templeman.org.uk> wrote: > Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > > > > > But to *really* support solo use it would also need some way for doing > > > backups without a computer and this requires more than just some > > > software changes in the OS. > > > > But people will be using it who really don't want the full panoply of a > > computer. > > > > Backups of vital stuff should be easy; you can get low cost 4GB thumb > > drives- just copying text and mail folders should do it. However, > > looking rapidly at the specs there doesn't seem to be any way to connect > > a USB device to it, even with a dock. The iPad seems horribly, horribly > > limited. > > > > So maybe I'm missing something, or Apple really have screwed up. > > You know when people said that it's like a big ipod touch? They were > very nearly right. It has a few more things, like you can get 3G data > card included, and attach a keyboard, and has Apps and UI better tuned > for the bigger screen. But basically it is a big ipod and needs a > computer for the syncing with itunes. > > It doesn't have Finder (or a user visible file system) so you can't just > copy your mail folders and so on to anywhere. It's all done by syncing > with iTunes. No, you can, it has a shared file space for transfering files between applications. -- Woody
From: David Kennedy on 31 Mar 2010 07:09
Peter Ceresole wrote: > > No, but plenty of my friends have. The ones that are good cooks have all > bought proper cookers as well- they had to. Not if they actually were good cooks... Maybe they just need to read the instruction manual. -- David Kennedy http://www.anindianinexile.com |