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Apple almost got there with this one, copying someone else’s interface for iBooks. But then it hit me again, only one app at a time! I listen to music while I read.
> The Daily Show, Castle, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother: Annoying workaround, but Air Video can stream from your desktop.
"Even past the fact that the iPad does not have a camera, it cannot run two applications at the same time. Meaning: talking to my girlfriend, I could not look up a train time while we talked. Result: have to use my iPhone while we video chat. All that in a device that commands a price premium." How do you video chat using an iPhone, which has a camera on the back? "Again, we run into a software problem. From what I h…
He's saying that even if it (the iPad) had a camera for video chat, he would have to use his iPhone to look up the train times because there is no multi-tasking on the iPad.
Is it really single tab browsing? Ugh.
It allows for multiple windows, which is somewhat similar.
With the iphone's touch interface this is painless and I can't imagine it'll be any worse for the ipad.
iPad is really good at doing what it's designed to do, and really bad otherwise. It's not a satisfy all device, as we've seen in the response to it so far.
> The Daily Show, Castle, The Big Bang Theory, How I Met Your Mother: Annoying workaround, but Air Video can stream from your desktop.
I've always envisioned watching TV on a TV while I have the iPad on the couch doing other stuff.
This guy is a complete idiot, and has obviously never even used and iPhone or iPod Touch. Apple almost got there with this one, copying someone else’s interface for iBooks. But then it hit me again, only one app at a time! I listen to music while I read.