Mac GUI City :: iTablet Thread

cactus · **Citizen** Topic Starter

Dog Cow wrote:

Quote: Sorry to hear about the hand. A few years ago I sprained my right hand/wrist and had a devil of a time with the mouse for a week or two.

Off topic, so I'll refrain from the obvious comment, but I'd have thought you guys would have been sufficiently versatile to use either hand. In fact I swap hands every so often (monthly) to reduce the chance of repetitive strain injury. Which isn't nice when you get it, so better to take preventative action.
The first time I tried, it took less than a day to be up to full speed with my left hand. Now I can swap hands freely. That means using my coffee cup with the other (non-mouse) hand too. Ninja

Christopher · **Citizen**

Does anyone feel underwhelmed by the release of the iPad? I thought that this thing would have it's own custom OS, but a modified iPhone OS. And will this have a stupid $10.00 upgrade fee when the new OS comes out? Or will the higher end models not have to pay since they have the AT&T monthly data plan?

*Off topic* nice avatar Cactus. Smile

m8trix · **Citizen**

A little underwhelmed but not so much to turn me off. I have the 16GB iPod and love it for just reading and quick look around the web when I am at home or away. iPad is just a bigger version of that. Remember the iPhone , iPod, and even OS X all started with people saying it could use a little bit more. I predict in three years time that all those features missing now will be all in it then and probably more.

you guys would have been sufficiently versatile to use either hand. In fact I swap hands every so often (monthly) to reduce the chance of repetitive strain injury

I have tried that with disastrous results. It may that I am totally dominant righty.

As to intellectual property of Microsoft (iPad.exe) or Cognium Systems who make this application: http://www.ipadeln.com/index.html
one has to assume hope the lawyers already looked into it

I did not know that. But speaking with my wife she brought up a good point . It may have been that Apple did a bundle trademark when they did the iPod, iPhone etc.......... and iPad is in there. It should be interesting to see the fall out from it.

cactus · **Citizen** Topic Starter

Well, it's easy to list features it doesn't have. No camera, no Mac OSX, etc.
But I still think it's very nice and with the usual product enhancement path that Apple follows this product line has the potential of being fantastic for ..... um, well, ....... posing in coffee shops. Poseurs need a camera to reflect in though. I think absence of a camera is a mistake.

Dog Cow wrote:

Quote: Yeah the name took me by surprise. I was expecting either iSlate or iTablet.

But the evil axis of Microsoft /HP has already bagged "Slate" so I guess that froze out "iSlate" for Apple.

Christopher wrote:

Quote: *Off topic* nice avatar Cactus. Smile

Thanks.
Temporary avatar as I was going to reload a plain cactus now the ice has melted, but then found it was larger than Moof! Dogcow!

's default size.

Dog Cow · **Mayor**

m8trix wrote:

Quote: A little underwhelmed but not so much to turn me off. I have the 16GB iPod and love it for just reading and quick look around the web when I am at home or away. iPad is just a bigger version of that.

I can see how the larger screen would be nice. It's so annoying to have to constantly scroll horizontally because the web pages are too wide for the iTouch's screen. Even rotating it landscape-wise doesn't help much-- there's still more vertical scrolling!

cactus wrote:

Quote:

Dog Cow wrote:

Quote: Sorry to hear about the hand. A few years ago I sprained my right hand/wrist and had a devil of a time with the mouse for a week or two.

Off topic, so I'll refrain from the obvious comment, but I'd have thought you guys would have been sufficiently versatile to use either hand.

Well I am left-handed so I write and feed myself with that hand. But I use the mouse with my right hand probably because:
a.) I first used a Mac in primary school and that's where the mouse was.
b.) The mouse pointer points to the left, so it throws me off when I switch hands.

cactus wrote:

Quote:

Christopher wrote:

Quote: *Off topic* nice avatar Cactus. Smile

Thanks.
Temporary avatar as I was going to reload a plain cactus now the ice has melted, but then found it was larger than Moof! Dogcow!

's default size.

It should resize automatically.

cactus · **Citizen** Topic Starter

Dog Cow wrote:

Quote: I can see how the larger screen would be nice. It's so annoying to have to constantly scroll horizontally because the web pages are too wide for the iTouch's screen. Even rotating it landscape-wise doesn't help much-- there's still more vertical scrolling!

I can't imagine reading a real book on any medium that didn't display a whole line. It would be just too tedious to scroll horizontally for every line. In fact I worry slightly that the immediate effect of electronic books in general will be to dumb down literature to fit the screen. And it's going to be so tedious to read a book with lots of footnotes.

In fact dumbing down is the way things are going. Sound bites and headlines. No depth. No background information. No attention span. After 140 characters people's eyes start to glaze over.

Dog Cow wrote:

Quote: It should resize automatically.

It just didn't update. Didn't bother to consider the point, just loaded something smaller.
Maybe a quirk of your system to check out.

cactus · **Citizen** Topic Starter

Dog Cow wrote:

Quote: It should resize automatically.

cactus wrote:

Quote: It just didn't update. Didn't bother to consider the point, just loaded something smaller.
Maybe a quirk of your system to check out.

Sorry, ignore that. Just tried it again and it worked this time.

cactus · **Citizen** Topic Starter

A word from the Bunker, Berlin Argentina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4

Laughing

Christopher · **Citizen**

Well, there's been reports of 120k in the first day of pre orders starting.

cactus · **Citizen** Topic Starter

I'm thinking that Apple have another winner, despite the pundits.

Dog Cow · **Mayor**

cactus wrote:

Quote: despite the pundits.

Ha! You should read the newsgroups; they're absolutely sickening. Stare

cactus · **Citizen** Topic Starter

Apparently Apple will replace the entire iPad for $99 when the battery eventually fails. Which it will.
Macworld article

The key condition being that the iPad has to be in good condition. I presume that returned iPads are to be refurbished and recirculated, although that's not entirely clear. So any scratches or wear and you presumably can't get a new battery on this programme.

There are so many issues about this. For a start, if your iPad has "died" you may not be able to wipe it clean and are presumably handing over all your pawn data to Apple for scrutiny or whatever they or their staff may chose to do with it.
Do they erase data on a recycled iPad before it is given to someone else ? You can bet that even if that is policy, there will be occasional "accidents" where it doesn't happen or data can in some way be recovered. Am I being paranoid ?

Dog Cow · **Mayor**

cactus wrote:

I presume that returned iPads are to be refurbished and recirculated, although that's not entirely clear.

I don't think that's the correct conclusion to draw.

I don't think that the iPads are going to be recirculated; rather it's a preventive measure to keep people from scuffing up their iPads and getting a new one for cheap.

cactus · **Citizen** Topic Starter

New for Old doesn't entirely make sense to me. Plus if they are not refurbishing and recirculating, why would they care about scratches as long as the battery had verifiably died ?

Without a refurb scheme, Apple would be "giving away" iPads for a fraction of the (current) cost of a new one. In three years time when the battery dies, your once-amazing iPad posing icon will be outdated, under-engineered and obsolete and will make you a laughing stock with the geek-chicks you presumably hoped to attract by buying it. (OK, I'm making that bit up.)

If the plan is to give "new for old" they would be better off giving a $99 discount on the purchase of an upgraded model. Apple that is, not a geek-chick.

Personally, I wish Apple made the thing so it was easy to open up a flap, slide out the battery and put in a new one. How hard could that be ?

m8trix · **Citizen**

Personally, I wish Apple made the thing so it was easy to open up a flap, slide out the battery and put in a new one. How hard could that be ?

Probably not to hard for them. The question is how profitable is it to them to do such a thing? How many are willing to even if the number of a certain % is small goes out and buys a new one just because it is easier to do then sending the iPod or iPad to Apple or the local MacAuthority or Apple Store. I think Apple really does not want to make some things easy on the consumer for reasons of prophet.