"Same device but bigger" is the ignorant's reply. Do you run your PC using 640x480 resolution? Why not? Do you feel the bigger area of e.g. 1280x1024 lets you do more? Why shouldn't the same hold for the iPad?
Bigger screen for a touch interface gives more options, and more screen "pixel real estate" opens the way for other applications as well.
Now go and laugh at people who bought HD TVs or cars that can go faster than the speed limit.
So do you have any alternatives that does not enforce this control? Even Android phones are lock-in at the phone companies' behest until you root the device. Windows Phone 7 is moving in that direction as well.
Also: You can always make a HTML 5 webapp, complete with client storage and Apple will have no complaints and no need to go through the store. That remains an option and was, before the release of the SDK, Apple's suggested way of writing apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
The fact that there were closed systems in the 80s does not justify the closed nature of the iPad
It does not need to "justify" it, that is entirely Apple's decision. Because they made it. And people who do not want to bother with "tinkering" buy it because it just works.
If you want a tinkerable device, buy one. If they do not exist (a heavy hint that there is no market for them), start a company to make them. Just don't expect - or even demand - that Apple will do it for you. If your real gripe is about the lackluster sales of "open" devices (OpenMoko, GP32 etc.), then your gripe is with their lack of marketing and/or that you fail to realize people do not want the complexity of those devices.
Do you have a newer Ford? With Windows-based Ford Sync? Would you feel smart if you managed to install Linux on it? Would you whine to Ford when, after you "hax0red" the system, it no longer operated as advertised?
... because noone makes a decent alternative to it so they will also end up buying one anyway.The JooJoo? A $500 web browser which runs Flash for a short while. The 50 rumored Android tablets? Only a fraction will reach market, and they will divide their fraction so much none of them will make money. Microsoft Courier? The name has previously been assigned to two other canceled projects in Redmond, not a good sign.
People who have actually used the iPad are claiming the increased surface area means more gestures are possible, and the increased size means more complex apps are possible (like the ported iWork apps). The "garden" is exactly what Microsoft is proposing for Windows Mobile 7 and what phone companies with Android are trying to enforce unless you root your phone.
(What you are doing is sort of like complaining that a 1080p HD TV is just an enlarged "normal" TV, and that the jokes in "Two and a Half Men" are not going to be funnier on the bigger screen...)
You went after the phrasing rather than the intent in the statement. That was the pedantic part.
For all practical purposes there was not a significant market for "mobile" music before the iPod; Walkman does not count because that "re-used" music stored on media originally intended for stationary enjoyment; and portable record players existed back in the 1960s if you want to insist on your mis-application of the Walkman as an example.
Er, there is a SD card adapter for those who need it. Apple chose the "non-replacable battery" in order to get more juice out of it compared to a mattery that needed to give up room for the replacable compartment - everything is a tradeoff. And Flash SUCKS BALLS on every other platform than Windows. If you had ever used any Flash app on e.g. Mac OS X you would know.
One could abolish law after law but eventually companies will find that they actually benefited from a few of them, like the Government-granted monopolies called "copyright", "trademarks" and "patents", none of which exist without laws. "Intellectual property" is just a fiction.
- Hi we are Sun and we have this portal. You want to buy a commercial license for it? *buys* *six months pass* - Oh hi we decided to drop that portal and switch to this Liferay-based Webspace solution none of our techs really know anything much about? *grumble* *a year passes* - Oh hi again, we were just bought by Oracle and will be abandoning Webspace, would you like to switch to this WebLogic-based monstrosity instead? *curses*
People buying the technology tells the manufacturer: "We do not need to improve this". People NOT buying the technology tells them: "We need to improve this". Which of these brings improvement?
I was hoping you would actually name a company other than Apple who has done anything to popularize the tablet, since you state it will be false to say Apple will do so.
Look, it's not as much iPad getting "free publicity", it's EVERY other tablet PC manufacturer doing CRAP ALL to market their devices. Who outside of the people stumbling randomly onto the manufacturer website has even HEARD of the Archos 9 for instance?
You cannot complain about "absurd amounts of hype and free publicity" whan it is the competitor's job to try and at least approach a FRACTION of the effort Apple are making in marketing their products.
"Waah, we are not selling as much as Apple, it's their fault!" No it is not, it is the fault of people making devices with less battery life, no centralized app distribution, and who use the bastard child called Windows for Tablet instead of an OS/GUI specifically written for such devices. And then don't even TRY to sell them to the public.
The iPhone/"iTouch"/iPad's lack of Flash support is already making many sites ABANDON Flash, because they are learning they don't need it. They can get what they want to say across using HTML + CSS + Javascript.
Flash is only needed for crap-laggard Internet Explorer which has held web design back by a decade, soon.
Apple once sued Microsoft on the theory that Windows infringed on the "look and feel" of Mac OS
Why are you pushing that old myth? Apple sued Microsoft because of a contract dispute, where they had licensed technology to Microsoft under the understanding that Windows should not be released until a given time after the launch of the Macintosh, whereas Microsoft interpreted the contract to mean that given time after the tech transfer, and thus Windows came out earlier than Apple expected.
I bet if poor widdle Microsoft had claimed Sun's contract dispute over Java had used "preventing innovation" you would have sided with them against "evil" Sun as well?
Anyway, Apple and Microsoft became relatively good friends later on, and Excel for instance started its life on the Mac.
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"Same device but bigger" is the ignorant's reply. Do you run your PC using 640x480 resolution? Why not? Do you feel the bigger area of e.g. 1280x1024 lets you do more? Why shouldn't the same hold for the iPad?
Bigger screen for a touch interface gives more options, and more screen "pixel real estate" opens the way for other applications as well.
Now go and laugh at people who bought HD TVs or cars that can go faster than the speed limit.
The latest update of the Kindle app said it was made iPad compatible at least.
... and paper's is measured in infinity. BFD.
The "eye strain" argument is funny coming from people who spend ten hours a day in front of LCD screens, by the way.
So do you have any alternatives that does not enforce this control? Even Android phones are lock-in at the phone companies' behest until you root the device. Windows Phone 7 is moving in that direction as well.
Also: You can always make a HTML 5 webapp, complete with client storage and Apple will have no complaints and no need to go through the store. That remains an option and was, before the release of the SDK, Apple's suggested way of writing apps for the iPhone/iPod Touch.
The fact that there were closed systems in the 80s does not justify the closed nature of the iPad
It does not need to "justify" it, that is entirely Apple's decision. Because they made it. And people who do not want to bother with "tinkering" buy it because it just works.
If you want a tinkerable device, buy one. If they do not exist (a heavy hint that there is no market for them), start a company to make them. Just don't expect - or even demand - that Apple will do it for you. If your real gripe is about the lackluster sales of "open" devices (OpenMoko, GP32 etc.), then your gripe is with their lack of marketing and/or that you fail to realize people do not want the complexity of those devices.
Do you have a newer Ford? With Windows-based Ford Sync? Would you feel smart if you managed to install Linux on it? Would you whine to Ford when, after you "hax0red" the system, it no longer operated as advertised?
... because noone makes a decent alternative to it so they will also end up buying one anyway.The JooJoo? A $500 web browser which runs Flash for a short while. The 50 rumored Android tablets? Only a fraction will reach market, and they will divide their fraction so much none of them will make money. Microsoft Courier? The name has previously been assigned to two other canceled projects in Redmond, not a good sign.
People who have actually used the iPad are claiming the increased surface area means more gestures are possible, and the increased size means more complex apps are possible (like the ported iWork apps). The "garden" is exactly what Microsoft is proposing for Windows Mobile 7 and what phone companies with Android are trying to enforce unless you root your phone.
(What you are doing is sort of like complaining that a 1080p HD TV is just an enlarged "normal" TV, and that the jokes in "Two and a Half Men" are not going to be funnier on the bigger screen...)
You went after the phrasing rather than the intent in the statement. That was the pedantic part.
For all practical purposes there was not a significant market for "mobile" music before the iPod; Walkman does not count because that "re-used" music stored on media originally intended for stationary enjoyment; and portable record players existed back in the 1960s if you want to insist on your mis-application of the Walkman as an example.
Why not? They already have a Photoshop "light" for the iPhone (free, even).
Wait, is this another Linux (Android) vs. BSD (iPhone OS) thread?
The Microsoft one? I thought that was going to use their "moving target" Courier name?
How do I show YouTube clips on my television? While I am on the bus?
Oh wait I don't. Your example just sucked that was all.
Er, there is a SD card adapter for those who need it. Apple chose the "non-replacable battery" in order to get more juice out of it compared to a mattery that needed to give up room for the replacable compartment - everything is a tradeoff. And Flash SUCKS BALLS on every other platform than Windows. If you had ever used any Flash app on e.g. Mac OS X you would know.
That was the worst case of pedantic nit-picking as a substitute for arguing that I have ever seen.
Dickens used fiction to describe reality.
One could abolish law after law but eventually companies will find that they actually benefited from a few of them, like the Government-granted monopolies called "copyright", "trademarks" and "patents", none of which exist without laws. "Intellectual property" is just a fiction.
- Hi we are Sun and we have this portal. You want to buy a commercial license for it?
*buys*
*six months pass*
- Oh hi we decided to drop that portal and switch to this Liferay-based Webspace solution none of our techs really know anything much about?
*grumble*
*a year passes*
- Oh hi again, we were just bought by Oracle and will be abandoning Webspace, would you like to switch to this WebLogic-based monstrosity instead?
*curses*
That is in addition to the OpenSSO/IDM kerfuffle.
SingStar, Buzz!, Rock Band etc. (OK not Sony themselves but...)
Before the Wii, the PS2 was the king of casual console games.
People buying the technology tells the manufacturer: "We do not need to improve this". People NOT buying the technology tells them: "We need to improve this". Which of these brings improvement?
I was hoping you would actually name a company other than Apple who has done anything to popularize the tablet, since you state it will be false to say Apple will do so.
My hopes were futile.
Someone is jealous!
Look, it's not as much iPad getting "free publicity", it's EVERY other tablet PC manufacturer doing CRAP ALL to market their devices. Who outside of the people stumbling randomly onto the manufacturer website has even HEARD of the Archos 9 for instance?
You cannot complain about "absurd amounts of hype and free publicity" whan it is the competitor's job to try and at least approach a FRACTION of the effort Apple are making in marketing their products.
"Waah, we are not selling as much as Apple, it's their fault!" No it is not, it is the fault of people making devices with less battery life, no centralized app distribution, and who use the bastard child called Windows for Tablet instead of an OS/GUI specifically written for such devices. And then don't even TRY to sell them to the public.
The iPhone/"iTouch"/iPad's lack of Flash support is already making many sites ABANDON Flash, because they are learning they don't need it. They can get what they want to say across using HTML + CSS + Javascript.
Flash is only needed for crap-laggard Internet Explorer which has held web design back by a decade, soon.
Well, if he signed away copyright to it the right will revert to him after 30 years or so, but that's a log way off still.
Did anyone expect anything else from "International Business Machines"? They are not "American Business Machines".
Congratulations, you just described a Scrum Master.
Apple once sued Microsoft on the theory that Windows infringed on the "look and feel" of Mac OS
Why are you pushing that old myth? Apple sued Microsoft because of a contract dispute, where they had licensed technology to Microsoft under the understanding that Windows should not be released until a given time after the launch of the Macintosh, whereas Microsoft interpreted the contract to mean that given time after the tech transfer, and thus Windows came out earlier than Apple expected.
I bet if poor widdle Microsoft had claimed Sun's contract dispute over Java had used "preventing innovation" you would have sided with them against "evil" Sun as well?
Anyway, Apple and Microsoft became relatively good friends later on, and Excel for instance started its life on the Mac.
If there was a desire for open hardware and related software I guess they would thrive in the market.
You know, as opposed to flounder and fail, at best securing a small niche. Which is what they seem to be actually doing...