The lack of an App Store is one reason the PC sucks. I get annoyed that Apple hasn't implemented a version for Mac OS. It works so much better than Googling, visiting a million random sites, downloading and installing something you don't know if you can trust, and paying for each app in some different way.
I for one hope the iPad is a step towards the PC OS evolving to actually be user-friendly. The windows/desktop metaphor is so outdated and it certainly doesn't work for either noobies or power users. My mom has trouble with her computer because it doesn't do a couple things at once well. I have trouble with my computer because it doesn't handle doing many complex things at the same time well.
If they don't want to be just another crappy also-ran platform. Android phones so far have sub-par hardware, the OS is still unpolished, the lack of a controlled app store environment makes things confusing, and phone makers and carriers do whatever the heck they want which just makes it even more confusing for consumers.
Programming for Android is overall easier since many more programmers know Java, you don't have to own a Mac, and the cost of developing is less. They should be kicking the iPhone's ass but instead they are just an also-ran. Taking a bit more control and adding some polish they could probably take the number one spot. I'd love to see that kind of real competition (which I think would also pressure Apple to loosen up a bit).
I'd rather not use AT&T but the iPad data plan seems a pretty good deal and I like the lack of a contract or the device being locked. I'll probably jailbreak it just so I can share the connection though. It's pretty lame that it won't allow connection sharing by default. To bad Mifi is so expensive and on a contract.
Revolutionary is usually bad. It's better to take what is known to work and polish it and make incremental improvements.
Courier looks completely unusable and it has an ugly bar through the middle of the screen. And the hinging part will be the first part to break. Will you need two hands just to hold it? Looks like the gag iPod tablets that just had a touchscreen top and bottom instead of a screen and keyboard. Like an oversized Nintendo DS. That and it'll have crappy Microsoft software on it - ugly and a pain to use. Apple waits to enter the market until they can do something well. Microsoft waits to enter the market until they see a market and then convince the masses that their crap product is just as good as the real thing for two thirds the price. Of course people who just want cheap go for it. Then they use their existing business connections to bully all competition out of the market.
So yeah you all buy your Microsoft stuff and think you're saving a few bucks and being revolutionary and I'll sit back and enjoy being paid to fix your systems. I wonder if it'll get infected as fast as Windows laptops.
Absolutely. It's exactly what I wanted (well if they'd included the camera). I could have bought a PC tablet or a Mac tablet anyway (and have had a Linux tablet in the past) but chose not to because they aren't what I wanted.
No Flash is a feature. I'm glad to see that somebody is willing to stand up against bad standards. Throwing the kitchen sink into every product doesn't make sense.
And you're comparing SSD to a hard drive. Most people care more about speed and reliability than amount of space, that they aren't using anyway, available. Same reason my laptop has an 128GB SSD instead of a 1TB hdd (about the same price). I got sick of drives dying and data loss. I have a couple multi-TB NAS devices that have RAID and I use those for additional space and backup devices. I'm sure I'll do the same with my iPad. SSD is especially important for mobile devices.
Yeah, nothing at all how Microsoft essentially stole DOS, OS Warp, and Internet Explorer outright. Apple comes out with a product similar to another product that was an obvious concept and it's theft but making a contract that is completely deceptive and screws the rightful creator of the product out of the revenues well that isn't so bad.
I thought of the same thing the second I laid eyes on the iPhone. I'm sure Apple did too. Like it's obvious to make an iPad case with built-in keyboard. I've been trying to purchase, to resale, iControlPad's for months without luck so it's not like Apple is competing with a real product. There is probably room for more than one product in this area too. Lots of people use non-Apple branded headphones.
I had something that was sort of a cross between XML, CSS, and scripting (a web oriented variant of LISP - WISP). A generalized HTML-like container for specifying document structure and applying style and behavior to it. I had vector graphics and animation. I could use wav files for sound and bmp files. I had a lame early 90's 3D engine integrated. I used my MUD as an interactive web server that let me integrate back-end scripting and db. Lots of stuff that browsers still don't do well. Of course back then it worked over my 2400 baud modem. Now most websites suck at DSL speeds.
Yes, Microsoft essentially stole an existing browser and forced it on the world. It was crap ugly and didn't work well but because they were willing to break everything to add poorly thought out features that would eventually cost millions of man hours of work to keep in check and abuse their monopoly to give it all away as part of their OS they were able to crush Netscape.
I ordered the 64GB 3G model so I have to wait. Shouldn't the people who paid the most get theirs first? Of course I'd have paid $100 more for a video camera built-in.
Chrome sucks when you have 40 or 50 tabs open. Uses craploads of resources. Still doesn't seem to let me treat different tabs as different sessions (logged into two different GMail accounts at once).
If not for Internet Explorer the web would be years ahead. Before IE even existed I was doing things with the web that Flash didn't offer for years. The IE took over and everything went stale because nobody was willing to cut off the 90% of Internet users to stupid to use a real browser. I liked it better in the days when we blocked users from our sites for being logged in from AOL, Prodigy, etc. We let the idiots in and it all went to hell just as we imagined.
The problem with Flash is that it's a crap implementation that is buggy, a security risk, leaks memory, and is non-compatible with many systems. Probably if it were made a real standard with opensource code base it could be a lot better. The vast majority of stuff people use Flash for could be done without Flash if IE didn't suck so badly. You could almost say Flash is the only thing keeping Internet Explorer alive.
Plug-ins are a bad idea anyway. At least the way they are commonly implemented. It'd be better if they would more tightly integrate Java and force all plug-ins to be written for the JVM. At least then it'd be more compatible and sandboxed. Then you wouldn't have to install anything and it'd be more likely to work on your iPod or Nintendo.
Let's all tell them where to stick it by voting Pirate Party for all our elections. 50,000 people is a lot to piss off. If each had a couple friends that felt sympathetic or likewise threatened and all would vote Pirate then we could possibly at least show up on the charts. THAT should make the MPAA/RIAA crap their pants if the public could get mobilized to fight back.
Which state has the lowest population? Everyone move there and let's make a data haven. Only half kidding.
You can always remote connect to a system and run anything you want. Or jailbreak your iPhone. Or sign up as a developer. Many options exist but everyone complaining is to lazy to bother. A device that doesn't suck in it's default configuration is just beyond some people to understand. The kind of people that buy a discount HDTV from walmart and are surprised that it has a bad picture and sound and dies two weeks after the warranty expires.
If I felt like it I could probably get OpenOffice running on my iPod, the Mac version could probably be adapted pretty easily, but what would be the point? Installing every app you ever saw on a device is a bad measurement of how useful that device is.
Duplicate functionality is confusing to consumers. If you want more options then take 5 minutes to jailbreak your device or pay $100 to be a developer and you can compile and run whatever you want. Android is a mess because they allow anyone and everyone to do whatever the freak they want and it ends in a confusing, and bad, consumer experience. If you aren't smart enough to jailbreak your iPhone or compile a program then you shouldn't be running those apps anyway. The PC concept sucks because it is confusing and degrades into chaos quickly. I've seen grown men break down crying because of their Windows experience. I can't say I've ever seen anyone cry because they couldn't use OpenOffice or Opera on their iPhone.
I want to create a free movie lending library that streams to Roku boxes and only allows one person to watch a movie at a time per disc owned but legalities make it difficult. It's probably legal to do but to do it would require removing the DRM, to transcode the content into the right format, which is illegal.:p
What would be the point of USB anyway? It has WiFi and Bluetooth. I just wish they'd gotten rid of the dock port on the iPad and went for totally wireless. Maybe with induction charging. A completely sealed unit would be great.
I do think that if it is anything like the iPod Touch it'll be much more rugged than most laptops and portables. Add a screen protector and a case and it'll take a lot of abuse.
I don't understand people that claim somehow the iPad isn't real computing. It certainly isn't a dual six core Xeon with 128GB RAM but it's way more functional than the desktop computer I had ten years ago and you can compile and run any kind of program you want for it if you sign up as a developer.
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The lack of an App Store is one reason the PC sucks. I get annoyed that Apple hasn't implemented a version for Mac OS. It works so much better than Googling, visiting a million random sites, downloading and installing something you don't know if you can trust, and paying for each app in some different way.
I for one hope the iPad is a step towards the PC OS evolving to actually be user-friendly. The windows/desktop metaphor is so outdated and it certainly doesn't work for either noobies or power users. My mom has trouble with her computer because it doesn't do a couple things at once well. I have trouble with my computer because it doesn't handle doing many complex things at the same time well.
If they don't want to be just another crappy also-ran platform. Android phones so far have sub-par hardware, the OS is still unpolished, the lack of a controlled app store environment makes things confusing, and phone makers and carriers do whatever the heck they want which just makes it even more confusing for consumers.
Programming for Android is overall easier since many more programmers know Java, you don't have to own a Mac, and the cost of developing is less. They should be kicking the iPhone's ass but instead they are just an also-ran. Taking a bit more control and adding some polish they could probably take the number one spot. I'd love to see that kind of real competition (which I think would also pressure Apple to loosen up a bit).
I'd rather not use AT&T but the iPad data plan seems a pretty good deal and I like the lack of a contract or the device being locked. I'll probably jailbreak it just so I can share the connection though. It's pretty lame that it won't allow connection sharing by default. To bad Mifi is so expensive and on a contract.
Revolutionary is usually bad. It's better to take what is known to work and polish it and make incremental improvements.
Courier looks completely unusable and it has an ugly bar through the middle of the screen. And the hinging part will be the first part to break. Will you need two hands just to hold it? Looks like the gag iPod tablets that just had a touchscreen top and bottom instead of a screen and keyboard. Like an oversized Nintendo DS. That and it'll have crappy Microsoft software on it - ugly and a pain to use. Apple waits to enter the market until they can do something well. Microsoft waits to enter the market until they see a market and then convince the masses that their crap product is just as good as the real thing for two thirds the price. Of course people who just want cheap go for it. Then they use their existing business connections to bully all competition out of the market.
So yeah you all buy your Microsoft stuff and think you're saving a few bucks and being revolutionary and I'll sit back and enjoy being paid to fix your systems. I wonder if it'll get infected as fast as Windows laptops.
Absolutely. It's exactly what I wanted (well if they'd included the camera). I could have bought a PC tablet or a Mac tablet anyway (and have had a Linux tablet in the past) but chose not to because they aren't what I wanted.
No Flash is a feature. I'm glad to see that somebody is willing to stand up against bad standards. Throwing the kitchen sink into every product doesn't make sense.
And you're comparing SSD to a hard drive. Most people care more about speed and reliability than amount of space, that they aren't using anyway, available. Same reason my laptop has an 128GB SSD instead of a 1TB hdd (about the same price). I got sick of drives dying and data loss. I have a couple multi-TB NAS devices that have RAID and I use those for additional space and backup devices. I'm sure I'll do the same with my iPad. SSD is especially important for mobile devices.
I will lay odds on iPad outlasting Flash.
Yeah, nothing at all how Microsoft essentially stole DOS, OS Warp, and Internet Explorer outright. Apple comes out with a product similar to another product that was an obvious concept and it's theft but making a contract that is completely deceptive and screws the rightful creator of the product out of the revenues well that isn't so bad.
It's not as if we'd all prefer vendors not add common requests and features people are obviously looking for. Doh.
I thought of the same thing the second I laid eyes on the iPhone. I'm sure Apple did too. Like it's obvious to make an iPad case with built-in keyboard. I've been trying to purchase, to resale, iControlPad's for months without luck so it's not like Apple is competing with a real product. There is probably room for more than one product in this area too. Lots of people use non-Apple branded headphones.
I had something that was sort of a cross between XML, CSS, and scripting (a web oriented variant of LISP - WISP). A generalized HTML-like container for specifying document structure and applying style and behavior to it. I had vector graphics and animation. I could use wav files for sound and bmp files. I had a lame early 90's 3D engine integrated. I used my MUD as an interactive web server that let me integrate back-end scripting and db. Lots of stuff that browsers still don't do well. Of course back then it worked over my 2400 baud modem. Now most websites suck at DSL speeds.
Yes, Microsoft essentially stole an existing browser and forced it on the world. It was crap ugly and didn't work well but because they were willing to break everything to add poorly thought out features that would eventually cost millions of man hours of work to keep in check and abuse their monopoly to give it all away as part of their OS they were able to crush Netscape.
Didn't seem to work for what I need last time I tried. Guess I'll try again. Usually end up just using different browsers which is annoying.
Just proving you're to ignorant to even participate in this discussion.
I ordered the 64GB 3G model so I have to wait. Shouldn't the people who paid the most get theirs first? Of course I'd have paid $100 more for a video camera built-in.
So get married and go without. You get to take the wrapper off but you have to eat the same candy every day.
I just got a Roku. $60 and you can watch on a tv. No Silverlight required.
Chrome sucks when you have 40 or 50 tabs open. Uses craploads of resources. Still doesn't seem to let me treat different tabs as different sessions (logged into two different GMail accounts at once).
If not for Internet Explorer the web would be years ahead. Before IE even existed I was doing things with the web that Flash didn't offer for years. The IE took over and everything went stale because nobody was willing to cut off the 90% of Internet users to stupid to use a real browser. I liked it better in the days when we blocked users from our sites for being logged in from AOL, Prodigy, etc. We let the idiots in and it all went to hell just as we imagined.
The problem with Flash is that it's a crap implementation that is buggy, a security risk, leaks memory, and is non-compatible with many systems. Probably if it were made a real standard with opensource code base it could be a lot better. The vast majority of stuff people use Flash for could be done without Flash if IE didn't suck so badly. You could almost say Flash is the only thing keeping Internet Explorer alive.
Plug-ins are a bad idea anyway. At least the way they are commonly implemented. It'd be better if they would more tightly integrate Java and force all plug-ins to be written for the JVM. At least then it'd be more compatible and sandboxed. Then you wouldn't have to install anything and it'd be more likely to work on your iPod or Nintendo.
What about the computer savvy that have to fix the computers for the other 99% of people stupid enough to install Flash?
Let's all tell them where to stick it by voting Pirate Party for all our elections. 50,000 people is a lot to piss off. If each had a couple friends that felt sympathetic or likewise threatened and all would vote Pirate then we could possibly at least show up on the charts. THAT should make the MPAA/RIAA crap their pants if the public could get mobilized to fight back.
Which state has the lowest population? Everyone move there and let's make a data haven. Only half kidding.
You can always remote connect to a system and run anything you want. Or jailbreak your iPhone. Or sign up as a developer. Many options exist but everyone complaining is to lazy to bother. A device that doesn't suck in it's default configuration is just beyond some people to understand. The kind of people that buy a discount HDTV from walmart and are surprised that it has a bad picture and sound and dies two weeks after the warranty expires.
If I felt like it I could probably get OpenOffice running on my iPod, the Mac version could probably be adapted pretty easily, but what would be the point? Installing every app you ever saw on a device is a bad measurement of how useful that device is.
Duplicate functionality is confusing to consumers. If you want more options then take 5 minutes to jailbreak your device or pay $100 to be a developer and you can compile and run whatever you want. Android is a mess because they allow anyone and everyone to do whatever the freak they want and it ends in a confusing, and bad, consumer experience. If you aren't smart enough to jailbreak your iPhone or compile a program then you shouldn't be running those apps anyway. The PC concept sucks because it is confusing and degrades into chaos quickly. I've seen grown men break down crying because of their Windows experience. I can't say I've ever seen anyone cry because they couldn't use OpenOffice or Opera on their iPhone.
I want to create a free movie lending library that streams to Roku boxes and only allows one person to watch a movie at a time per disc owned but legalities make it difficult. It's probably legal to do but to do it would require removing the DRM, to transcode the content into the right format, which is illegal. :p
I wonder how DRM would work out with this sort of concept. If the game tries to keep itself from passing from user to user.
What would be the point of USB anyway? It has WiFi and Bluetooth. I just wish they'd gotten rid of the dock port on the iPad and went for totally wireless. Maybe with induction charging. A completely sealed unit would be great.
I do think that if it is anything like the iPod Touch it'll be much more rugged than most laptops and portables. Add a screen protector and a case and it'll take a lot of abuse.
I don't understand people that claim somehow the iPad isn't real computing. It certainly isn't a dual six core Xeon with 128GB RAM but it's way more functional than the desktop computer I had ten years ago and you can compile and run any kind of program you want for it if you sign up as a developer.