Waiting on that wow moment, still basically just a huge ipod touch . . .
Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event
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#32I don't know about others, but iPod launch was a truly jaw-dropping event. iPad, for me at least, is nothing more than a yawn.
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#33First thoughts: - Looks like a giant iPod touch - I'm not convinced the email is phenomenal
I'm not convinced anything is phenomenal on this. Between my desktop, macbook and iPhone, I can't think of any use cases for it. Is it just a bigger, faster iPhone? I don't get it.
It's possible that touch makes a huge difference. People who never held an iPhone don't understand what's so special about touch, but pretty much all new owners spend first two days not being able to let go of the device poking it with a finger.
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#34No Flash, a web site with a missing plugin icon was demonstrated probably on purpose.
Curious how google streetview is working w/o flash?
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#35Normally I don't get excited about apple products. I wasn't super excited about this one either, but I was looking forward to seeing apple 'fix' tablets- that is to say, fix text entry and make a tablet computer more viable.
Tablets can keep up with regular computers on everything, except text entry. Writing with a stylus is still imperfect, and so are touchscreen keyboards. Long emails, command prompt usage, and essays are frustrating without a physical keyboard. Apple is good at simplifying UI and interaction, so wouldn't they be the one to tackle this problem?
And what do you know, they didn't even try. This isn't a tablet. It's just an big iphone with more focus on media.
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#36Apple A4? I smell a renewed deal with Motorola...
Well, remember that they bought PA Semiconductor last year, so they might well be developing their own stuff now...
EDIT: Ahem, it's 2010 now, so that would be two years ago ;)
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#37Apple A4? I smell a renewed deal with Motorola...
I don't know much about chips, but:
It's supposed to be an ARM chip. Motorola did PPC, no?
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#38Apple A4? I smell a renewed deal with Motorola...
Motorola doesn't do semiconductors anymore, they spun that off to Freescale.
Also, Apple bought chipmakers PA Semi a few years ago. The Apple A4 CPU is probably built by the former PA Semi.
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#39Its exactly what we should have expected. A giant iPod Touch, nothing revolutionary, but still cool. I'm sure I won't be able to afford it, but maybe one day...