Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
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Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
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Re: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
#2No mention (yet) of changes to iOS. Clearly they haven't changed the home screen or added widgets, only the hardware seems to have significant upgrades.
If Honeycomb is going to excel this year, it will be because they can surpass Apple in the UI. We'll see...
(posting this mid-presentation, it's possible iOS changes will come soon)
Re: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
#3The auto-refresh on this page is rather annoying. I was attempting to skim the whole thing, and in the middle, the entire page was replaced by a connection-refused error (I imagine they're getting some heavy load, but I don't know why they wouldn't use some sort of AJAX refresh). Here's a link with that parameter removed:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/live-from-apples-ipad-2-e...
Re: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
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Re: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
#5No mention (yet) of changes to iOS. Clearly they haven't changed the home screen or added widgets, only the hardware seems to have significant upgrades. If Honeycomb is going to excel this year, it will be because they can surpass Apple in the UI. We'll see... (posting this mid-presentation, it's possible iOS changes will come soon)
He's talking about 4.3 now. No apparent huge updates, but things like making the mute/rotation lock switch a preference will be appreciated. Improved AirPlay support (can work with websites now), shared hotspot on iPhone, etc etc.
Probably the biggest news for this crowd is Safari's JS boost with the Nitro Javascript Engine.
Re: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
#6The auto-refresh on this page is rather annoying. I was attempting to skim the whole thing, and in the middle, the entire page was replaced by a connection-refused error (I imagine they're getting some heavy load, but I don't know why they wouldn't use some sort of AJAX refresh). Here's a link with that parameter removed: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/live-from-apples-ipad-2-e...
Why they aren't using custom minimally impacting XHR reloads: Automated ad impression inflation.
Re: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
#7You can watch it on delay http://edition.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stre...
Re: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
#8The auto-refresh on this page is rather annoying. I was attempting to skim the whole thing, and in the middle, the entire page was replaced by a connection-refused error (I imagine they're getting some heavy load, but I don't know why they wouldn't use some sort of AJAX refresh). Here's a link with that parameter removed: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/live-from-apples-ipad-2-e...
The aren't using an AJAX refresh because this way they can pretend they got xx pageviews/visit.
Re: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
#9The auto-refresh on this page is rather annoying. I was attempting to skim the whole thing, and in the middle, the entire page was replaced by a connection-refused error (I imagine they're getting some heavy load, but I don't know why they wouldn't use some sort of AJAX refresh). Here's a link with that parameter removed: http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/02/live-from-apples-ipad-2-e...
For live update, you might prefer Ars Technica's AJAX driven liveblog : http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/ipad-2-event-liveb...
Re: Live from Apple's iPad 2 event
#10Love the faster processor, HDMI out and better Safari performance. However, the main reason I'd upgrade my iPad would be for better resolution. Going from my iPhone 4, the iPad's screen just looks like crap. I primarily use the iPad for reading websites and Instapaper, and my guess is that I'm not alone.