I Just cant get past the fact that it doesn't have a front camera for video chat.
Think I might spend my money on a new imac and/or iphone4 this year.
Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event
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Re: Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event
#172Waiting on that wow moment, still basically just a huge ipod touch . . .
FYI live streaming of event . . . http://www.ustream.tv/
I am quite surprised how poor the showing is for live coverage.
Fox news had a very delayed high quality video feed which dropped several times. CNN had a feed which went to "back soon" as soon as I joined it. Ustream had a feed which was solid up to 16,500 viewers with good quality audio and awful video until it collapsed.
Ars Technica had a "LiveCoverage" plugin thing which fell over all the time, their IRC server timed out twice. Even Engadget who are by far the best site I found failed to load several times.
Twitter stayed up, but wasn't quite what I was looking for.
I ended up with a Leo Laporte laptop/webcam stream restreamed via justin.tv with unusable video and near unusable audio. They claimed 90-150,000 viewers at times, so well done to them.
What happened to 2010, broadband, P2P, multicast, memcached, cloud scalability? How can IRC crash with too many users? People have been shunting text around for several decades.
If multimillion dollar media press companies can't do this properly what hope does everyone else have?
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't TM by category though? Here's the Fujitsu TM: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4004:kb... And here's the likely Apple: http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4004:kb...
Absolutely, but they are very close in functionality so I expect a lot of fuss to be made about this. If the difference between two devices is screen size and preferred user interface (touch screen vs buttons) then I think one will have to yield.
But there's not a conflict about the trademark. Fujitsu's TM is only for retail purposes. They certainly could have trademarked other uses if they wanted to. The iPad is pretty much everything but retail (i.e., search the "Apple" link for any mention of retail use cases).
EDIT: I thought those were permalinks. Sorry. If you go to the USPTO and search for iPad among the Live uses you'll soon see the Fujitsu one and one with many, many markets (along with one for bras, one for a medical device, etc). Though, check out iSlate. Similar filing info as the iPad but not as broad. Seems like if they were worried at all about Fujitsu they could have just used iSlate.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
Nice and locked down with only Apple approved apps. Do not want.
Another wave of developers trying to make it rich by going through the AppStore. Let the nightmares begin? The minute there is no middle man on a competent mobile device (Android is getting there), Apple could lose a lot of business.
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Re: Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event
#175I 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.
he was hyping the iPad Where?