And just why would that be unfortunate? Within a month or two the USERS of the network would probably think that was the most fortunate thing that's ever happened to their computing experience.
Bingo! Been waiting for someone to point out the obvious flaw in this unscientific research.
The resident teen here types so fast on her iPhone that the feedback clicks sounds like a woodpecker. Once I asked to see what she had typed and saw no typos (but several abbreviations). Hand her a Blackberry and I'll guarantee that her results would be the opposite that obtained by the keyboard scientist.
"There's no way I'll be buying the locked down tablet-like iPad when this is coming up."
Well at least MS scored a direct hit with one sucker. Announcing a product still in its initial concept phase has one and only one purpose: to prevent you from buying a competitor's product long enough for them to develop something that might compete.
Some day your dreams may come true. I wish you luck.
I had almost forgotten what a pop-up ad was. Like many of you, I have my own hosts file and I haven't even seen a pop-up in I-don't-know-when. Why doesn't the OP use one also? (No, I didn't read all TFA. Too many words.)
tgd, you won't get any traction here trying to explain anything to the/. Apple haters. They would find a way to pound Apple into the ground even if they patented anti-gravity paint.
"... is there a widespread need for this product ?"
Depends on what you mean by widespread. Obviously Apple thinks there is enough of a need to warrant making one. And since you're just pollin, I can tell you the results of my own poll, where 2 people out of maybe 10 that I've talked to about the iPad are going to get one. One of them is my wife, who borrows my MacBook fairly often to take to work to use when it's a slow day. She already has an iPhone 3GS but wants a bigger screen for light browsing, email, youtube, texting, etc. Looks like Apple designed this for her, not you. So just wait for the tablet running Win7 mobile, and then make yourself like it.
If software has anything to do with battery charging it can kill a battery in short order simply by overcharging. If you charge a Li-Poly battery above 4.2 volts for any length of time, it's about the same as driving a screwdriver through the battery pack.
In a cosmic nanosecond or two (couple hundred years or less), kids will be learning in history class how the ancients (us) used radio to communicate. We'll be moving on to gravity wave communications pretty soon, and radio will be history, forever. That's why we're not hearing anything. No one in the cosmos is using radio any more.
I knew it. Most of the anti-iPad slashdotters naturally assume the OP is suggesting that the ONLY reason to get an iPad is for board games (that don't even exist yet). Don't they realize that their anti-iPad rhetoric is simply their anti-Apple bias shinning brightly?
If the iPad isn't for you, fine. You probably were never in Apple's sights anyway, and probably never will be. It does seem though that you can at least realize who it IS for. It's for my wife and people with her needs/wants, who lugs my MacBook off to work now & then to do some browsing, facebook, and email during the slow times. Who knows, when she gets her iPad she may even strike up a game of checkers with one of the other employees, over half of which own iPhones & iPods.
"Completely ignoring users which want to have a background web-radio music player or alerts for IM"
Never used an iPhone, right? You can stream internet radio and get IM alerts while running other apps.
And Apple's reasoning behind not allowing 3rd party background apps isn't because they deemed that users don't need it (and most don't - i can count on one hand the number of times I wanted that in my 2 years as an iPhone user), it was so you could have a respectable battery life. Now you can agree with that or not, but in their quest for a good user experience they decided that longer battery life outweighed multitasking.
And considering the number of apps available in the app store, how many apps would you want to install that aren't already available via the store? One? Two? Or is it that just knowing that you can is really what you want?
No, I'm really talking about sending DTMF over CDMA & GSM. That's what we're talking about here, sending DTMF TO a cellphone, not FROM a cellphone. To send DTMF to a phone, it's CDMA or GSM audio from the tower to the phone and is carried over the voice channel (really bad quality for decoding DTMF). When you're sending DTMF FROM a phone, then yes, it's a digital button-down signal from the phone to the tower, and then DTMF audio the rest of the way.
I doubt that. Sending DTMF over CDMA or GSM distorts the living daylights out of it. You'd be lucky if your decoder can detect with 80% reliability. Been there, done that... or tried to.
"No brand of smart phone is as popular as the Blackberry line, which still far out-sells the iPhone."
If your yardstick for "popular" is market share then you are correct, as of today. If you mean the most happy customers then you've mentioned the wrong brand.
Anyway, it will only be a few months until your statement will need to be reversed. In 2nd Qtr BB had 18.7% market share, up from 17.3% the prior year. iPhone, on the other hand, was at 13.3%, up from 2.8% the prior year. With growth like that, or even a fraction of that, it won't be long before you can say iPhone "far out-sells" the Blackberry line. So hurry and repeat it as many times as you can.
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If you can hold off until June-July when iPhone OS 4.0 is released, then you'll be in.
And just why would that be unfortunate? Within a month or two the USERS of the network would probably think that was the most fortunate thing that's ever happened to their computing experience.
Agree 110%. I stopped reading the article as soon as I saw his name, knowing that anything I read from anyone who quotes him is garbage.
/. comments. :)
But I did read a few
Maybe you need to watch it on an iPhone. :)
When I play it on mine, full screen, it plays as smooth as it does on my MacPro V8.
Bingo! Been waiting for someone to point out the obvious flaw in this unscientific research.
The resident teen here types so fast on her iPhone that the feedback clicks sounds like a woodpecker. Once I asked to see what she had typed and saw no typos (but several abbreviations). Hand her a Blackberry and I'll guarantee that her results would be the opposite that obtained by the keyboard scientist.
"There's no way I'll be buying the locked down tablet-like iPad when this is coming up."
Well at least MS scored a direct hit with one sucker. Announcing a product still in its initial concept phase has one and only one purpose: to prevent you from buying a competitor's product long enough for them to develop something that might compete.
Some day your dreams may come true. I wish you luck.
I had almost forgotten what a pop-up ad was. Like many of you, I have my own hosts file and I haven't even seen a pop-up in I-don't-know-when. Why doesn't the OP use one also? (No, I didn't read all TFA. Too many words.)
tgd, you won't get any traction here trying to explain anything to the /. Apple haters. They would find a way to pound Apple into the ground even if they patented anti-gravity paint.
I notice that all these products are from quite a few years ago. They couldn't find anything recent?
"... is there a widespread need for this product ?"
Depends on what you mean by widespread. Obviously Apple thinks there is enough of a need to warrant making one. And since you're just pollin, I can tell you the results of my own poll, where 2 people out of maybe 10 that I've talked to about the iPad are going to get one. One of them is my wife, who borrows my MacBook fairly often to take to work to use when it's a slow day. She already has an iPhone 3GS but wants a bigger screen for light browsing, email, youtube, texting, etc. Looks like Apple designed this for her, not you. So just wait for the tablet running Win7 mobile, and then make yourself like it.
If software has anything to do with battery charging it can kill a battery in short order simply by overcharging. If you charge a Li-Poly battery above 4.2 volts for any length of time, it's about the same as driving a screwdriver through the battery pack.
In a cosmic nanosecond or two (couple hundred years or less), kids will be learning in history class how the ancients (us) used radio to communicate. We'll be moving on to gravity wave communications pretty soon, and radio will be history, forever. That's why we're not hearing anything. No one in the cosmos is using radio any more.
I knew it. Most of the anti-iPad slashdotters naturally assume the OP is suggesting that the ONLY reason to get an iPad is for board games (that don't even exist yet). Don't they realize that their anti-iPad rhetoric is simply their anti-Apple bias shinning brightly?
If the iPad isn't for you, fine. You probably were never in Apple's sights anyway, and probably never will be. It does seem though that you can at least realize who it IS for. It's for my wife and people with her needs/wants, who lugs my MacBook off to work now & then to do some browsing, facebook, and email during the slow times. Who knows, when she gets her iPad she may even strike up a game of checkers with one of the other employees, over half of which own iPhones & iPods.
http://www.intomobile.com/2009/06/16/iphone-os-30-can-stream-internet-radio-in-the-background.html
"Completely ignoring users which want to have a background web-radio music player or alerts for IM"
Never used an iPhone, right? You can stream internet radio and get IM alerts while running other apps.
And Apple's reasoning behind not allowing 3rd party background apps isn't because they deemed that users don't need it (and most don't - i can count on one hand the number of times I wanted that in my 2 years as an iPhone user), it was so you could have a respectable battery life. Now you can agree with that or not, but in their quest for a good user experience they decided that longer battery life outweighed multitasking.
And considering the number of apps available in the app store, how many apps would you want to install that aren't already available via the store? One? Two? Or is it that just knowing that you can is really what you want?
So power hungry that it gets 10-hour battery life. Geeez
"I don't mind Apple trying new things, but I fail to see what this device has going for it that is essentially "New"."
Ya think that may be because you haven't even seen it yet?
No, I'm really talking about sending DTMF over CDMA & GSM. That's what we're talking about here, sending DTMF TO a cellphone, not FROM a cellphone. To send DTMF to a phone, it's CDMA or GSM audio from the tower to the phone and is carried over the voice channel (really bad quality for decoding DTMF). When you're sending DTMF FROM a phone, then yes, it's a digital button-down signal from the phone to the tower, and then DTMF audio the rest of the way.
Yeah, what he said. :)
I doubt that. Sending DTMF over CDMA or GSM distorts the living daylights out of it. You'd be lucky if your decoder can detect with 80% reliability. Been there, done that... or tried to.
"No brand of smart phone is as popular as the Blackberry line, which still far out-sells the iPhone."
If your yardstick for "popular" is market share then you are correct, as of today. If you mean the most happy customers then you've mentioned the wrong brand.
Anyway, it will only be a few months until your statement will need to be reversed. In 2nd Qtr BB had 18.7% market share, up from 17.3% the prior year. iPhone, on the other hand, was at 13.3%, up from 2.8% the prior year. With growth like that, or even a fraction of that, it won't be long before you can say iPhone "far out-sells" the Blackberry line. So hurry and repeat it as many times as you can.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601204&sid=aOx3BCCWAaes
Tie a rope around the crew module and the lander. Separate them by a few hundred feet and start them orbiting each other. Instant gravity.
Borrow a superconducting magnet from the LHC and place it at the center of the 2 modules. Shields up.
Now what's the problem?
A better link:
http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/10/24/informed_players_say_apples_mac_mini_still_kickin.html
Not robust enough? I think the people running this server farm might disagree.
http://www.dannychoo.com/post/en/13019/Mac+Mini+Server+Farm.html
"... but the fact this has dual screen with multitouch makes me want to wait for this one"
Fact? What fact? This is a cartoon! Regardless, it certainly had the intended effect... "want to wait for this one".