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My verdict after one day of using the iPad

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Re: My verdict after one day of using the iPad

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

kvs wrote: post #6
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #4

"The usual fanboy rebuttal is that [the iPad] is not designed for what I do." How does stating _a fact_ like this make one a fanboy? This re-reminds me why Dave Winer irritates me. Yes, the iPad does not offer a development environment. Yes, the iPad lacks file-system access. So what? Dave also invokes the classic 'my mom's going to love this' line. I think my mother will too. And I cannot wait to replace her Windows…

Yes. iPad is for consumption not for production. Don't know when some of these guys will realize it and stop making a big fuzz. I don't see the point of it.

Don't get me wrong: it would be awesome if the iPad was just as good for production as consumption.

My girlfriend (a university professor) is in the process of finishing her first book, and would love to do the rest of her writing and revising on the iPad in Pages, but she doesn't see it as being realistic. She's still really excited about being able to watch Battlestar Galactica on the iPad. (regarding BSG: yes, I am lucky.)

I spend all of my time writing code in Ruby and Objective C. I'd love to be able to get access to MRI, the Rails gems, MySQL and TextMate on the iPad in order to do my work there, but it's just not realistic. And that's ok: because I am unbelievably excited about the web browsing experience and the games on the iPad.

Edit: I amend my comments above with a Tweet from the author of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air: http://twitter.com/stevenbjohnson/status/11564792495

Re: My verdict after one day of using the iPad

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Post by KC8ZKF »

Osiris wrote: post #7

I really like the last paragraph: "I promised a verdict, so here it is. With the caveat that it's after one day and I reserve the right to change it at any time: Today's iPad, the one that I just bought, is just a demo of something that could be very nice and useful at some point in the future. Today it's something to play with, not something to use. That's the kind way to say it. The direct way: It's a toy. " That s…

The "Enterprise" developer program includes in-house deployment capabilities.

Re: My verdict after one day of using the iPad

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Post by [deleted] »

kvs wrote: post #6
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #4

"The usual fanboy rebuttal is that [the iPad] is not designed for what I do." How does stating _a fact_ like this make one a fanboy? This re-reminds me why Dave Winer irritates me. Yes, the iPad does not offer a development environment. Yes, the iPad lacks file-system access. So what? Dave also invokes the classic 'my mom's going to love this' line. I think my mother will too. And I cannot wait to replace her Windows…

Yes. iPad is for consumption not for production. Don't know when some of these guys will realize it and stop making a big fuzz. I don't see the point of it.

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Re: My verdict after one day of using the iPad

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Post by webwright »

kvs wrote: post #6
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #4

"The usual fanboy rebuttal is that [the iPad] is not designed for what I do." How does stating _a fact_ like this make one a fanboy? This re-reminds me why Dave Winer irritates me. Yes, the iPad does not offer a development environment. Yes, the iPad lacks file-system access. So what? Dave also invokes the classic 'my mom's going to love this' line. I think my mother will too. And I cannot wait to replace her Windows…

Yes. iPad is for consumption not for production. Don't know when some of these guys will realize it and stop making a big fuzz. I don't see the point of it.

Everyone realizes it. I think the contention is (right or wrong) that a pure-consumption device isn't what people want or need (given the other things that they have in their lives). It's redundant. It doesn't replace anything.

I think if they had multi-tasking it'd go a long way to shutting up this criticism.

Re: My verdict after one day of using the iPad

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Post by KC8ZKF »

ojbyrne wrote: post #2

"I could have loved the way news works on this thing, if the NY Times and been willing to ship a beautiful reverse-chronologic view of their whole news stream. They chickened out with a little mini-dip-into the stream. It's like sipping the news from an espresso cup when I want to be inundated by Niagara Falls." It seems clear that big media sees this as the last chance to provide news "samples" in the hopes of rolli…

I don't think the general public is interested in a reverse-chronological view of the entire news stream to begin with.

Re: My verdict after one day of using the iPad

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

webwright wrote: post #15
kvs wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes. iPad is for consumption not for production. Don't know when some of these guys will realize it and stop making a big fuzz. I don't see the point of it.

Everyone realizes it. I think the contention is (right or wrong) that a pure-consumption device isn't what people want or need (given the other things that they have in their lives). It's redundant. It doesn't replace anything. I think if they had multi-tasking it'd go a long way to shutting up this criticism.

Hey Tony - Pity that seemingly everyone in Seattle is staying in tonight. Crappy weather... Two things:

1. You've probably forgotten more about this sort of data than I'll ever know, but I look around at folks on laptops in cafes and see nothing but Facebook or Gmail on Netbooks. I think we, as a class of users, are the exception: most people on computers spend the bulk of their time consuming information instead of producing it.

2. Rumor has it that iPhone OS 4 will be announced at WWDC 2010 (big shock) and will feature multi-tasking.

Re: My verdict after one day of using the iPad

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Post by mos1 »

ojbyrne wrote: post #9
Osiris wrote: post #7

I really like the last paragraph: "I promised a verdict, so here it is. With the caveat that it's after one day and I reserve the right to change it at any time: Today's iPad, the one that I just bought, is just a demo of something that could be very nice and useful at some point in the future. Today it's something to play with, not something to use. That's the kind way to say it. The direct way: It's a toy. " That s…

Most notable omission is a camera. Skype video is the killer app for this machine.

people keep saying this, and i keep thinking it'll be shot from a truly horrible angle and will be really unflattering.

Re: My verdict after one day of using the iPad

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Post by mhb »

aaronbrethorst wrote: post #4

"The usual fanboy rebuttal is that [the iPad] is not designed for what I do." How does stating _a fact_ like this make one a fanboy? This re-reminds me why Dave Winer irritates me. Yes, the iPad does not offer a development environment. Yes, the iPad lacks file-system access. So what? Dave also invokes the classic 'my mom's going to love this' line. I think my mother will too. And I cannot wait to replace her Windows…

He doesn't say his mother's going to love it. He says: ...although her Mac is terribly inadequate and confusing, with so many layers of contradictions.... Too bad this product is so far from being able to replace it for her.

Re: My verdict after one day of using the iPad

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Post by aaronbrethorst »

mhb wrote: post #19
aaronbrethorst wrote: post #4

"The usual fanboy rebuttal is that [the iPad] is not designed for what I do." How does stating _a fact_ like this make one a fanboy? This re-reminds me why Dave Winer irritates me. Yes, the iPad does not offer a development environment. Yes, the iPad lacks file-system access. So what? Dave also invokes the classic 'my mom's going to love this' line. I think my mother will too. And I cannot wait to replace her Windows…

He doesn't say his mother's going to love it. He says: ...although her Mac is terribly inadequate and confusing, with so many layers of contradictions.... Too bad this product is so far from being able to replace it for her.

FTA: "I expect to wow her with the map application."

Consider it to be an example of paraphrasing.

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