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You can't convince fanboys that lack of features will eventually lead to pain for the users.
"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…
Why make people pay when there's FREE games out there online if only flash were supported. Flash support means opening up to a whole world of preexisting games, rich internet applications, and porn sites.
But not allowing flash creates an artificial monopoly that is the app store.
Woz is on the board of advisors.
You can't convince fanboys that lack of features will eventually lead to pain for the users.
After all, doing six things at once while remembering the state of a bunch of invisible stateful objects -- tabs, background apps, file hierarchies -- is the nerd core skill.
Meanwhile, I would note that Apple has apparently sold about 35 million iPod Touches:
http://theappleblog.com/2010/01/28/ipod-touch-now-outselling...
... which exhibit the exact same set of "missing features" as 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.
Really? What the fuck was it supposed to be really good at doing? Running the iphone OS?
I don't really get why everyone is talking about Flash and its relation to porn. If the the number of non-Flash playing devices grows, couldn't these porn sites just go to HTML5?(this applies to all other video sites, actually)
I don't really get why everyone is talking about Flash and its relation to porn. If the the number of non-Flash playing devices grows, couldn't these porn sites just go to HTML5?(this applies to all other video sites, actually)
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I've always envisioned watching TV on a TV while I have the iPad on the couch doing other stuff.
That may be, but in the Keynote they did push the 'you can watch 10 hours of video on a single charge' so they are pushing this as a device to watch video on. If it fails at video, then it's a failure of the device if that is one of its goals.
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It allows for multiple windows, which is somewhat similar.
I didn't understand his objection here. Is it the inconvenience of hitting the "windows" button? With the iphone's touch interface this is painless and I can't imagine it'll be any worse for the ipad.
His example of having (AT LEAST) 8 tabs open is not the same as eight windows. Searching through all of them can be quite the inconvenience. I, for example, currently have 14 tabs open, and six applications running. I do not want to search through all of those to get to what should be "another tab." I understand what he's talking about...