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I'd guess playing movies uses less battery power than using the internet.
Yep. Hardware decoding for H.264. The radio (3G, Edge, or GPS) is the number one battery killer.
More than the screen?
David Pogue’s Review of the iPad from 2 Angles
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
He's 100% correct too. Personally, the iPad isn't for me. I want less screen time in my life, not more - and the iPad doesn't fill any gaps that warrants me purchasing one for myself. That being said, I did order one for my grandmother. She's been pestering me about getting the Internet and I felt like it would be a device that was less daunting for her than a mouse/keyboard combination.
The thing that most troubled my grandmother when she got her computer wasn't the filesystem or the mouse/keyboard combination; it was the fact that the computer knew which emails she had looked at and which she hadn't. She found it very unnerving. Apologies if I've drifted off topic.
Not off topic, my grandmother just cannot use a mouse. She's sat in front of my PC and is absolutely baffled by it.
I might as well have asked her to do Differential Calculus.
However, I think the iPad will be different. If she's playing say, solitaire and wants to move something - she touches it with her finger and moves it. Easy.
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#33"U.S.B. jacks" Ugg, NYT style guide.
Yeah, I heard you can get those from I.B.M. :-P When your style guide requires you to misspell proper names, that's when you know it's total crap.
I.B.M. is the correct style for the company's name. Their official name is still International Business Machines. Therefore, it is an acronym and should be shown as such. "IBM" isn't the proper name of the company. You could argue that it's a marketing term (it's certainly a trademark). From my limited USPTO search, it looks like "IBM" wasn't even registered as a mark until 1990.
U.S.B. is in the same boat... it's an acronym. If they really want to get the NYT on board, they'll have to change the name.
Side note: this isn't the case with AT&T (anymore) as that is the company's official name. AT&T doesn't actually stand for anything (officially).
I know it's pedantic, but if the New York Times stops caring about such things, who will?
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#34"The bottom line is that the iPad has been designed and built by a bunch of perfectionists. If you like the concept, you’ll love the machine. The only question is: Do you like the concept?" Love the concept- But I'll wait until HTC/Google come along and give it some missing features (webcam, expandable storage) and the extra oomph that the geek in me appreciates (multi tasking, maybe a keyboard (maybe a sliding one l…
You say you love the concept but then you show that you completely don't get the concept.
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#35finger prints everywhere, illegible in sunlight, poor ebook selection, too heavy for extended use, miserable typing experience...seems like these points would apply to "Everyone Else" as well, no?
Less space than a Nomad.
I think some of those points, if serious enough, might break the overall experience.
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#36finger prints everywhere, illegible in sunlight, poor ebook selection, too heavy for extended use, miserable typing experience...seems like these points would apply to "Everyone Else" as well, no?
Less space than a Nomad.
you missed my point. "less space than a nomad" was precisely a "techie" criticism of the iPod. That the Nomad had a 6GB capacity and the iPod 5GB was irrelevant to most people.
Conversely, not being able to type comfortably or hold the device for more than 10 minutes without getting cramps--these are major usability issues that will affect everyone. iPad proponents seem to think people won't need to type on these things. Aren't they for casual web use? How do you write emails, blog posts, comments, usernames and passwords, URIs, google queries, tweets, IMs, etc. without typing? These tasks are trivial on regular keyboards, I'm not sure that will be the case on the iPad (I know it's not the case on my iPhone).
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Yeah, I heard you can get those from I.B.M. :-P When your style guide requires you to misspell proper names, that's when you know it's total crap.
I.B.M. is the correct style for the company's name. Their official name is still International Business Machines. Therefore, it is an acronym and should be shown as such. "IBM" isn't the proper name of the company. You could argue that it's a marketing term (it's certainly a trademark). From my limited USPTO search, it looks like "IBM" wasn't even registered as a mark until 1990. U.S.B. is in the same boat... it's an…
AT&T doesn't actually stand for anything
Too bad they dropped the name completely; they could have just changed "telegraph" to "[wire]tap" and they would have been totally up to date.
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#38Pogue claims there will be 1,000 apps in the iPad app store on day one. If Apple will hurry up and finish reviewing my game, mine will be one of them.
If that number is true -- only a measly thousand -- then I'm pretty excited. Based on the buzz I've heard in the blogosphere, and the chatter on Apple's own dev forums, I would have guessed more like ten thousand. At that number, competition for eyeballs is pretty fierce. But if it's really only a thousand, then I stand a real chance of making some money.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, I heard you can get those from I.B.M. :-P When your style guide requires you to misspell proper names, that's when you know it's total crap.
I.B.M. is the correct style for the company's name. Their official name is still International Business Machines. Therefore, it is an acronym and should be shown as such. "IBM" isn't the proper name of the company. You could argue that it's a marketing term (it's certainly a trademark). From my limited USPTO search, it looks like "IBM" wasn't even registered as a mark until 1990. U.S.B. is in the same boat... it's an…
(Shrug) The company doesn't write it that way, so neither should the New York Times.
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Yep. Hardware decoding for H.264. The radio (3G, Edge, or GPS) is the number one battery killer.
More than the screen?
I assume you're talking about the backlight.
I don't have hard numbers, but my experience says yes. However, it's not really in the same category. Developer's can't directly control the screen brightness, and the device is essentially unusable when the screen is off (except for the case of playing music).