iPad usefulness?
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From: Jim on 31 Mar 2010 08:01 On 2010-03-31, Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: >> Well, there are some printing apps on the iPhone, but I would think >> printing is much more of an issue when you have something like an iPad, >> especially as you can get iWork for it. > > Printing is clearly a requirement here (and surely not rocket science). > But I fear as with the iPhone getting copy&paste only later this will > take a while. Although printer _drivers_ for the iPad might prove interesting. 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: Peter Ceresole on 31 Mar 2010 08:00 Jochem Huhmann <joh(a)gmx.net> wrote: > 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. Certainly, yes. This is just what has been passed on to me after Anne had a long conversation with her on the phone. I'll be seeing her in Geneva in a few weeks; that's the time for a serious talk. Well, not *too* serious. She's a nice woman. -- Peter
From: R on 31 Mar 2010 08:22 zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote: > Well, not always the iPad - but nevertheless I reckon "uncomputers" - > computers that feel like appliances - will become the norm, and real > computers will become the thing that only "specialists" use, or the > thing you're forced to use at work and hate with a passion. This seems like nothing less to me than a concerted attempt to control the consumer and as such is a terribly retrograde move. In effect, we are being told we are too dumb to use the liberating technology known as the computer and we should use devices made for the passive consumption of content produced by others.
From: J. J. Lodder on 31 Mar 2010 09:38 Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote: > J. J. Lodder <nospam(a)de-ster.demon.nl> wrote: > > > > So maybe I'm missing something, or Apple really have screwed up. > > > > So people said when the iPod was introduced, > > It took a while for the iPod to catch on, and it rapidly developed into > something useful. But the iPad is definitely a big step up from the > iPod, and too expensive to be a vanity purchase. It needs to be at least > *basically* capable. Complete nonsense. The first iPod could do next to nothing (except play mp3) and it sold at 399 $, which is more than today's devalued 499 $, Jan
From: Chris Ridd on 31 Mar 2010 08:46
On 2010-03-31 12:53:27 +0100, Peter Ceresole said: > It's just that being able to use a machine in a spanner-like way can be > very useful if things go wrong. On *my* desktop, I sometimes need to be > able to look on the floor underneath for things that have fallen down. > Not often, but useful. So some basic capabilities are necessary, like > Terminal in OS10. I do hope there'll be some equivalent, or that > somebody will make a mini Finder available. How often have you *needed* to do that on your iPod Touch? For me, the answer is never, and even though I'm a Unixy tinkerer, that suits me fine. -- Chris |