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iPad Launches, FCC Teardown Leaked
Apple's much-awaited iPad officially launched today, and iFixit has gotten their hands on photos from the FCC teardown. They've done an analysis of the internals and provided directions on doing it yourself, if you're so inclined. Predictably, it's a hot topic in the media. Cory Doctorow wrote about why he won't be getting an iPad, complaining about the closed, hacker-unfriendly design and what he calls the "Wal-martization of the software channel." Daring Fireball's John Gruber disagrees, pointing out that enthusiasts — even kids exercising their curiosity — are still quite capable of playing around with the iPad through app creation, and with much more of a chance to compete with big companies than in the Apple ][ days. Similarly, others are referring to it as the "bedtime computer" — technology that has a reasonable shot at expanding into completely new areas of use, like bedtime reading for kids. Such a device was predicted in 1972 by Alan Kay, the PARC scientist credited with the epigram "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." His hypothetical DynaBook bears striking similarity to what Apple finally came up with. So, those of you who have picked up or received an iPad already: how do you like it?
Don't you have homework to do?
If you really think the jump from 95 to XP is too large for a computer illiterate to make, but the jump from 95 to an ipad is perfectly easy, then I'm afraid you might be in danger of drowning. Always make sure to take breaths between your gulps of kool-aid.
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
You can do those things with just about any electronic device on the market in the past 10 years...
WRONG. These devices are all about consumption, not creation.
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
[Alan Kay's] hypothetical DynaBook bears striking similarity to what Apple finally came up with.
Except that the Dynabook would have been end-user programmable, with Kay intending to invest substantial research into designing a programming system simple enough for almost anyone to use.
Yes, MS should have hidden it in a shell company that was hard to trace back. Then they could get a loft and hire some trendy interior decorator to design the layout. Then they'd need to hire a 20-something male model who can talk technology to be the "founder". Kind of a "Jobs" the next generation.
i bought one today but after a few hours, took it back. i see no reason or purpose for it. I have a droid, best phone/os combo ever. i have a win7 laptop that is faster than any mac laptop. all cost significantly less than apple products. it just doesnt do anything that my droid and laptop dont already do. why waste $800 for something that wont be used? windows tablets never caught on for same reason, they are not needed.
I believe you are actually identifying more people who "THINK" they understand the technology alternatives, many of the people who look at the whole picture and are able to look past "features" and into engineering and design often choose Apple products.
Everyone who owns an iPhone is not quite as ignorant of the alternatives as you seem to believe.
> Dutch IT consultant Hans Schoenmakers, 49, proudly declared himself the first person from the Netherlands to own the shiny gadget: "It's better than I thought. I will use it for email while on the couch -- and Internet and reading books."
Ok. Let's go to work:
> "It's better than I thought. By buying this, I feel affirmation as an Apple consumer. I will use it for email while on the couch - though I shall spurn any application - communictaions or otherwise - offered by third-party developers like Google unless they have the blessing of Cupertino -- and Internet -- something I could never before -- and reading books -- approved by Cupertino - purchased at an approved iStore with all the necessary DRM. Truth is, I'm lousy at choice so I appreciate Cupertino doing all the hard work for me."
http://www.smh.com.au/digital-life/digital-life-news/apples-ipad-hits-the-market-20100404-rl3x.html
*snort* +5 deluded.
The Ipod was market leader, therefore the Ipad will be? Please, go back to school and learn basic logic. Do you think:
"Windows and IE were market leaders, therefore the Zune will be"?
this is a big-ass iPod
Yes, because obviously making mp3 players bigger is just what people want. Let's go back to the 80s, so that people can walk around showing their Istales off, carrying them around on their shoulders blasting out music.
If they make money, it'll just be the classic Apple model of making money by selling expensive products to a niche, and getting large amounts of free hype and advertising for it. That's how it is for all other Apple products - the Macs, their PCs, the Iphones. It won't be anything remotely near the success of their one hit wonder, the Ipod.
Please quit this homophobia. It's offensive to suggest that gay people would want to use Apple products.