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I, however, much prefer and will definitely utilize the Wi-Fi and run calibre server as I currently do - it's actually really easy to view your calibre library from within the Stanza app (on the current iPhone) and download books from your computer, or, if you want, from J. Random Hosting Provider. Quote:
For folks complaining about no multi-tasking, does any other ereader on the market support true multi-tasking? Also, what would you really get out of it while doing anything someone might want to buy the tablet for? I have push notifications from my instant messaging, facebook, and any other social thing I might want to see while reading or watching a movie, so I just really don't understand why people are worked up about it. For those complaining about a closed OS, it's certainly no more closed than Windows XP/7 will be on the HP Slate! And much much easier to find apps that have interfaces tailored to a touchscreen without a keyboard due to the app store. For those complaining about a mobile OS, one of the other biggest failures in tablet history was microsoft's initial tablet idea. In many analysts' opinions, the reason it failed was because it wasn't a complete interface rewrite from the ground up - it was a hodgepodge of poorly thought out desktop conversions. Apple rewrote the OSX frontend from the bottom up to provide the marvelous interface the iPhone presents. It's widget toolkit is vastly superior to similar offerings simply because it is designed to make people UIs that are not dependent on a keyboard. I'm not going to say that leaving out multi-tasking is the best idea in the world. I think it might even be useful sometimes - and I certainly can buy that it is not in the released iPad SDK simply because they didn't have time to reinvent the threading model while also rewriting every other major productivity application using Cocoa Touch (Pages! iCal! Address Book! etc). For those suggesting a netbook, I'm not going to deride netbooks and say that they are a bad ereader, obviously they work just fine for some people. I would personally rather prefer to have as much of the device as possible presenting me with usable reading space, not keyboards and motherboard areas. For this same reason, prior to the iPad announcement I eschewed the Kindle DX in favor of the iRex DR800SG that never presented. I do however like the idea of the dockable tablet/netbook combo that Acer presented at CES...and if it or something like it was released, powered by Android, and about $500, it would be an exceptionally worthy competitor to the iPad. To sum up, I can understand your fears - until we see whether or not Apple will block other ereading apps, I can't quell them entirely, even though I don't believe this will happen since the apps were already approved on the app store for the iPhone. I also would like to recognize the incredible amount of work the apple team put into making a tablet that can work for you without a keyboard and mouse. I can only thank the job market that I never applied to work at Apple during the last few years, because it would have been hell on earth. Last edited by nikkie; 01-29-2010 at 01:21 AM. |
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One more thing - it sounds like a lot of the haters hate anything from Apple on general principle. I can understand this, somewhat...
But I think most of this hate is really just jealousy that they haven't been able afford to own the devices in the past. In this case, I don't think you are paying much of an apple tax. $500 is *cheap* for a device with a screen this size with multi-touch and an app store. (Are there even any competitors at this level yet?) They are setting the bar here for everyone else to live up to. No one else will seriously be able to release a tablet of this size for more than $500 without including the moon and three monkeys in the offering. For that...thanks Apple. No matter what else you do. |
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01-29-2010, 01:52 AM | #20 | |
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I'm surprised that you wouldn't want, or feel the lack of such a basic component as USB (knowing that you take photographs and the iPad might have served as a great way to preview those photographs out in the field). I think USB has to be the most glaring omission from this whole device, and I can't see any technical, or even marketable reason to leave it out. A lot of the design decisions Apple took on the iPad absolutely baffle me, from interior (using phone components such as their A4 which are rumoured to power the next gen of pods and phones) to the overlarge black bezel (surely the programmers could make a full screen smart enough to differentiate between wanted and unwanted gestures). Next stop, Asus with wireless HDMI, massive hard drive, plenty of usb ports, and swivel screen so it can act as a tablet |
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There's plenty of competitors, they're called Netbooks, they cost significantly less, do significantly more, and some of them have swivel top screens that turn them into tablets, with more than 10 hours battery. P.S. The App store is not a selling point to a lot of people, it's a hindrance. |
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Out of curiosity - how is your wimo's battery life? And how is browsing the internet on a small screen without multi-touch treating you? My previous experience with phone operating systems made me hate everything but the iPhone...when I tried to use wimo phones I couldn't stand them either. The lack of attention to usability drove me batty. But I'm one of those people who can't stand things that don't make any fuggin sense. A perfectionist. And someone who takes delight in the beauty of the aesthetics of most apple devices. I'll of course admit that not everyone is like me, and for some people, freedom is more important. Honestly, it used to be for me. I was a Gentoo user for 5 years. I had my freedom there, oh yes. And then I got busy and had no time to compile a new kernel whenever I wanted my new toy to work. And I bought an apple. A big compromise, yes. But there's always gentoo if I really need it. Or Android. |
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Which isn't to say I wouldn't use the device to display my photos later to others in portable form, but that would be after they're culled, organised, Apertured and occasionally Gimped, and then their "rating" and tagging is automatically syncing selected photos (assuming the same way the iPhone does it) via iTunes. I wouldn't miss it, and I wouldn't buy the card dongle either (even assuming it could display raw photos). It's just not how I work, nor want to (like the iPad, I'm not an adept multitasker , and so I tend to need simplicity, focus, and a lack of distractions that aren't photogenic ). As previously, of course...my requirements. Others photographers may find that item you specify a significant lacking. I'm just not one of them. Cheers, Marc Last edited by montsnmags; 01-29-2010 at 02:28 AM. |
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" And just when did Microsoft start dictating what programs could or couldn't be made available on Windows (any version)? "
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1. Lack of at least 1 USB port. 2. The closed OS and the need to go to Itunes in order to get applications (which are censored by Apple) The third I haven't heard anything about yet: how can you charge it? At least I can make my own programs for any window version without anybody knowing about it... |
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I'm not really defending them on this point though. I think it's stupid too. Not that they have the app store - but that you *can't* install apps other than through the app store. I think having the app store is a fantastic way for developers to get visibility for their apps, I just don't likely that you can't give people a link to your app and have it automatically install, like on Android. It's lame, but makes sense for Apple. They're quality and control freaks. I still think, in spite of some decisions not everyone will agree with, the iPad is best in its class. Or perhaps, for now, the only thing in its class. |
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Sorry, I think this is a big assumption, don't you believe? And it's the same (at the other side) that people say a lot in my country: "El iPhone es para pijos" (iPhone is only for posh).
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The thing that is annoying me about the iPad is this statement - and I would presume Adobe know if they've licensed their DRM to Apple:
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To me, that looks like there's a risk of fracturing the ePub world, rather than expanding it. |
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01-29-2010, 06:22 AM | #30 |
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This has always been a significant weakness of ePub, the fact that the standard does not specify the DRM mechanism, hence anyone is free to bolt their own DRM onto a ePub file and still, quite legitimately, call the resulting file "ePub".
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