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Curious how google streetview is working w/o flash?
Google streetview also works on the iphone. Drop a pin and touch the little man.
Google maps app on iPhone is not a web app. iPhone has OpenGL.
Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event
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#92I have observed a Law of Steve Jobs. If he hypes it, it will suck. If he says nothing, it will rock. The iPhone he said nothing about. Before today, he was hyping the iPad as the most important thing he's ever done.
Let's call this Rob's Corollary:
If it gets hyped before it gets unveiled, consumers will get disappointed.
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#93No "wow" event? Big deal. The thing will still sell like hotcakes, be easy to use, and be the best thing to happen to the tablet/pad/slate computer market (by way of legitimizing said market), full stop.
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#94Normally 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 ess…
Why is writing with a stylus imperfect... I have been using a tablet for a year and used it exclusively for note taking during my last semester in school last year... I was on Vista and onenote and it worked out great! The handwriting recognition was good and the reaction time of the one note page was as good as a real pen and paper. With a pure tablet like ipad (no physical keyboard) I would expect the stylus to be…
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#95Apple A4? I smell a renewed deal with Motorola...
Probably a beefed-up ARM11 or Cortex A9 derived CPU.
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#96First 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.
Me neither! I was holding my iPad right now and totally using it, and my thoughts were, like, now that I've actually physically held this thing I can't imagine who would use it. I'm imagining you're not liking your physical copy either?
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#97I have to joke. It just seems so overblown. Because of the over-hyped nature of this event, I think the wags are more interesting than the event itself.
"Just like a iPhone. Except bigger so we'll make even more money!"
"Last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it"
And still a locked-down platform? Color me not impressed.
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#98I don't understand some of the negativity here. My credit card is already tingling in my pocket ready to pre-order at the first opportunity. The proof will be in the pudding - but a device with a decent screen size, with 10 hours battery life, that I can use for browsing the internet from the bed/living room is great. I have an iphone, I have an MBP, I have an Acer Aspire One (running Linux) But all of these are not…
I bought a Toshiba Portegé TabletPC and it was killer to surf the Internet and read books on the couch or in bed. I will buy an iPad for reading alone. Throw in the ability to watch my collection of movies that are already in my iTunes, read my books that are already in pdf...
I'm an early adopter, so "The plural of anecdote is not data." But I don't need much more to want one.
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#99Waiting for the price. I see it as more of a toy than a tool, so a want than a need. Consumers are likely more price sensitive on toys.
I can see an amazing play for the casual gaming market and taking a cut on the distribution with the app store.
Edit: The $499/629 seems appropriate, not too high.
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#100I don't understand some of the negativity here. My credit card is already tingling in my pocket ready to pre-order at the first opportunity. The proof will be in the pudding - but a device with a decent screen size, with 10 hours battery life, that I can use for browsing the internet from the bed/living room is great. I have an iphone, I have an MBP, I have an Acer Aspire One (running Linux) But all of these are not…
If you're halfway smart and not just one of the 'I got it first' crowd I'd advice your credit card to solidly cling to the inside of your pocket for the next 6 months. Let others deal with the inevitable 1.0 bugs. When dealing with new technology second best is best.
Apple's history with the iPhone/iPod though is that the hardare is generally pretty good at launch and all bugs are in the software/firmware which can be fixed.
It won't be a business critical tool for me - I will happily deal with some of the teething issues.
Still want one ;-)