iPad mini • Hacker News Board

Re: iPad mini

#351

Post by Tyrannosaurs » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 3:31 PM UTC

dagw wrote: post #344

Tyrannosaurs wrote: post #257

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Another option: it's a niche issue. Not saying they won't look at it in the future but We have a family iPad and its no problem. My wife can see my email but she's my wife so I honestly don't care. Our neighbours have two between six of them and similarly have no issues. People with a tech background worry about this more than most people but they also tend to be the sort of people who have their own devices. For nor…

I'm not mainly 'worried' about my girlfriend, but my daughter. Having a locked down account where internet is permanently off , only certain programs are shown, and where she can't delete icons would be great.

General > Restrictions will give you most of what you want (deleting icons, stopping changes to contacts and so on). Set up a profile in there which you enable when you hand the phone over.

I also tend to enable Airplane mode by default when I hand my phone or iPad to my daughters.

Re: iPad mini

#352

Post by sneak » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 4:19 PM UTC

niels_olson wrote: post #242

mark_l_watson wrote: post #230

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think the 1024x768 screen resolution is probably a smart move: same as my old iPad 2, but smaller. Not retina display quality, but not adding a retina display allowed the iPad mini to be less than half the weight. That said, my Samsung Galaxy S III has 1280x720 resolution which makes it really nice for watching Netflix, TED videos, etc. And the Galaxy phone is very light weight. I have decided to not buy anymore Ap…

> not adding a retina display allowed the iPad mini to be less than half the weight do the pixels weigh more? Seriously, would faster graphics weigh more? Or are you saying juicing the graphics would eat more battery, and therefore, it would weight more?

The retina display is significantly less translucent, requiring a greater backlight for the same brightness on the front of the panel than a non-retina.

The backlight being the lion's share of the battery consumption, this requires a significantly larger battery.

Re: iPad mini

#353

Post by boh » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 6:20 PM UTC

I'm surprised there's so little talk about the new iMac. It's pretty amazing.

Re: iPad mini

#354

Post by mikeash » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 6:59 PM UTC

MatthewPhillips wrote: post #348

mikeash wrote: post #228

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That depends on context. A often comes with an implied, "underwhelming for everybody and thus it won't sell well."

No, it doesn't. You are inserting that implication so that you can poison-the-well on like-opinions later.

Please. While I'm sure people just talk about their own opinions in many cases, it also happens all the time that people criticize the specs or other attributes of a new product precisely because they think it won't appeal to the masses.

Re: iPad mini

#355

Post by GoyGenius » Thu, Oct 25, 2012, 12:54 PM UTC

wlesieutre wrote: post #263

sixothree wrote: post #250

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I find not having user accounts drastically reduces how much the iPad gets used in my house. In my case, I'm sure this affects sales in the app store.

Maybe this is cynical of me, but I think the preferred solution (from Apple's perspective) is to buy more iPads.

It isn't cynical in the slightest. That is simply the game.

Re: iPad mini

#356

Post by treskot » Thu, Oct 25, 2012, 1:17 PM UTC

So now with iPad Mini here, what do you think of "Apple's Contradictions" : Think different each time? - http://blog.cloudmagic.com/2012/10/25/ipad-mini-steve-jobs-a...

Re: iPad mini

#357

Post by JakeSc » Thu, Oct 25, 2012, 10:16 PM UTC

Joeri wrote: post #95

AlexMuir wrote: post #19

How underwhelming. At 7.9 inches, it’s perfectly sized to deliver an experience every bit as big as iPad What does that even mean? Either it's perfectly sized, and the iPad is the wrong size. Or it's not. There can surely only be one perfect size to deliver an iPad experience??? Either it's 10" or it's 7.9". I think Apple's marketing has always been the same - it's just that for a while they were ahead of the curve a…

Underwhelming is the operative word. Apple's product iterations get more boring with each upgrade. Classic innovator's dilemma. The iDevice line-up sells too well to change the formula, but there's no wow factor anymore. I always figured at some point they would slap a proper navigation UI on the ipad (the icon grid offers a really poor ux), but i suspect they'll stick with evolutionary steps for years to come. I'm p…

> I always figured at some point they would slap a proper navigation UI on the ipad (the icon grid offers a really poor ux)

Do you have any suggestions for something better than the canonical icon grid?

Re: iPad mini

#358

Post by thedufer » Fri, Oct 26, 2012, 5:25 AM UTC

aes256 wrote: post #182

thedufer wrote: post #160

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Hardware control has basically nothing to do with it. Far fewer people have been motivated to create two (phone/tablet) versions of Android apps than iOS apps. Its almost certainly a volume issue.

Why aren't developers motivated to do that? Hardware control. Look at the top-selling Android tablets. Every single one has a different screen resolution/pixel density; Nexus 7 has 1280x800 (216 ppi), Kindle Fire HD has 1024x600 (169 ppi), Nook HD has 1440x900 (243 ppi), Galaxy Tab 7.7 has 1280x800 (197 ppi), etc. It's an absolute nightmare for developers, and this is just tablets. The Android smartphone market is ev…

If that was the case, the smartphone apps wouldn't have come about either. But they did, as evidenced by the made-for-smartphone apps that look silly on tablets, which is what this whole conversation is about.

The fragmentation in smartphones is incomparably worse than the tablet market. But Android has nice ways of dealing with it in display-independent ways, and they work.