iPad usefulness?
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From: Chris Ridd on 9 Apr 2010 07:46 On 2010-04-09 10:40:26 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: > Pd <peterd.news(a)gmail.invalid> wrote: > >> I may have missed the bit where you mentioned this bit of info, but will >> she be physically proximate to someone who could provide Mac syncing the >> few times it might be necessary, such as for updates? > > We have a good friend in Geneva, who was at school with Anne [1] and has > been close ever since, who has an iMac and a broadband connection. This > friend also has a friendly and fairly devoted Mac techie who handles her > updates and seems to know what he is doing. That may be enough. My wife's iPod Touch only gets synced with my Mac every blue moon and that seems to be OK. If she configured it with her iTunes account it would be even more self-sufficient. -- Chris
From: Sak Wathanasin on 9 Apr 2010 07:47 On 9 Apr, 12:00, pe...(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > I'd hope that they will find a way of installing one driver for one > printer- after all, most printers (all the ones I've seen lately come > with a CD including a driver), or maybe even a simple driver, low on > features and fonts but good for simple letters. That used to be > possible. If it means getting the keyboard dock to have a USB port, well > that would be fine. I'd want a proper keyboard anyway. So how would you read from a CD in a hypothetical standalone iPad? You'd have to have drivers for that, and a Finder appl or some way to interact with it. A standalone device is not as simple a proposition as you may think. One reason for the iPhone/iPad UI's simplicity is that they've deliberately limited their ambitions. To make a standalone device would mean introducing some of the complexity that we're used to on the desktop. It will happen eventually, but it needs careful thought or you end up with something like the Windows-tablet PCs.
From: Jaimie Vandenbergh on 9 Apr 2010 08:00 On Fri, 9 Apr 2010 04:47:23 -0700 (PDT), Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: >On 9 Apr, 12:00, pe...(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote: > >> I'd hope that they will find a way of installing one driver for one >> printer- after all, most printers (all the ones I've seen lately come >> with a CD including a driver), or maybe even a simple driver, low on >> features and fonts but good for simple letters. That used to be >> possible. If it means getting the keyboard dock to have a USB port, well >> that would be fine. I'd want a proper keyboard anyway. > >So how would you read from a CD in a hypothetical standalone iPad? Nah - recall how Rosetta gets installed from the 'Net in 10.6. Cheers - Jaimie -- "If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth. Particularly if the thing is cats." - Lemony Snicket, "The Wide Window"
From: Peter Ceresole on 9 Apr 2010 08:12 Sak Wathanasin <sw(a)nan.co.uk> wrote: > To make a > standalone device would mean introducing some of the complexity that > we're used to on the desktop. It will happen eventually That's what I'm hoping. But installing *a* printer driver could surely be done from the Net? -- Peter
From: zoara on 10 Apr 2010 04:45
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Howard <Howard.not(a)home.com> wrote: > > > I do not believe for one moment that most people think of it as a > > computer. In fact the vast majority think of it as a large iPhone > > kind > > of thing. > > > > Any anyone who thinks that a netbook is remotely related or > > comparable > > as a device has juts lost it ! > > This is simply nonsense. It makes you into one of those neanderthals > who > believe that the customer is wrong and that they have to be bludgeoned > into Correct Thought. They won't wear it, and *they* are right, not > you. Of course, we don't actually know yet whether people will think of this as a "computer" or a "big iPod touch". -z- -- email: nettid1 at fastmail dot fm |