iPad usefulness?
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From: J. J. Lodder on 31 Mar 2010 08:30 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Graeme <Graeme(a)greywall.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > > The description claims it needs a computer running a minimum of Snow > > Leopard! Rules it out for me as I have a PPC :-( > > Really? In that case forget it- it's dead. I'd point her at a netbook. That would be most unkind. > But Apple are too smart to get caught that way. Wait and see. The iPad is just an oversize iPod. No more, no less. And they'll make some billions with it. Smart eh? Jan
From: R on 31 Mar 2010 07:31 Ben Shimmin <bas(a)llamaselector.com> wrote: > Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net>: > > [...] > > > I think I have never seen any website requiring Flash to buy things. > > Check out Adobe's store (I'm not even joking)! Well, that's Adobe. They eat Flash for breakfast.
From: Jochem Huhmann on 31 Mar 2010 07:34 peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) writes: > 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. From a pure technical POV I'd agree. But from a marketing angle the limitations are a feature, not a bug. You don't get at simplicity by adding features. > As I said, I think it's a matter of waiting. Or, of course, persuading > her to get a Macbook. I think you should try and find out what she really *wants* to do with whatever she will use and how much money and time she wants to invest. Jochem -- "A designer knows he has arrived at perfection not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away." - Antoine de Saint-Exupery
From: Ben Shimmin on 31 Mar 2010 07:39 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk>: > Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: >> So you *really* think people who don't want the full panoply of a >> computer would want to do a (partial) backup by copying some files and >> folders to an USB-stick and to restore from that? > > Partial backups are plenty; I use a Firelite, and just back up my > mailbase, iTunes library, my text files and my picture files. Whatever > happens to the iG5 or Anne's MBP, they (and the system and app disks) > are perfectly sufficient to get me back to where I was. > > I realise that other people have much more extensive requirements, but I > don't. And neither do most people- certainly not those who would be > using an iPad as a sole machine. Ordinary people don't have any backup requirements at all. They don't understand about backup, and they don't bother with it (even when it's really easy with Time Machine). The idea will be that the iPad will back up everything automagically to the cloud (hosted in that gigantic datacentre Jochem mentioned), so when you have some sort of failure, you can just get do a full restore (to a new iPad if necessary) from what's stored in the cloud. But we're not there yet. b. -- <bas(a)bas.me.uk> <URL:http://bas.me.uk/> `Zombies are defined by behavior and can be "explained" by many handy shortcuts: the supernatural, radiation, a virus, space visitors, secret weapons, a Harvard education and so on.' -- Roger Ebert
From: Woody on 31 Mar 2010 07:42
Andrew Templeman <andy(a)templeman.org.uk> wrote: > Woody <usenet(a)alienrat.co.uk> wrote: > > > Andrew Templeman <andy(a)templeman.org.uk> wrote: > > > 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. > > Is this visible from the iPad? The little I've seen mentioned indicate > that it shows up as a folder on the host computer when you plug in to > sync, a bit like photos from the camera roll of an iphone are available > in image capture and notes are in mail. Yes, but it is also available to iPad applications, so yes, to the iPad. There isn't a 'file manager' application as such on the iPad as such, but someone will write one. > I would just expect a 'ipad Documents' share to be mounted on the Mac > while the ipad is connected and you can copy files in and out. that happens too. -- Woody |