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Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event

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Re: Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event

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Post by awa »

sliverstorm wrote: post #35

Normally I don't get excited about apple products. I wasn't super excited about this one either, but I was looking forward to seeing apple 'fix' tablets- that is to say, fix text entry and make a tablet computer more viable. Tablets can keep up with regular computers on everything, except text entry. Writing with a stylus is still imperfect, and so are touchscreen keyboards. Long emails, command prompt usage, and ess…

Why is writing with a stylus imperfect... I have been using a tablet for a year and used it exclusively for note taking during my last semester in school last year... I was on Vista and onenote and it worked out great! The handwriting recognition was good and the reaction time of the one note page was as good as a real pen and paper.

With a pure tablet like ipad (no physical keyboard) I would expect the stylus to be more useful especially for tasks like writing emails.

Re: Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event

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Post by noodle »

timmaah wrote: post #44
aresant wrote: post #31

Waiting on that wow moment, still basically just a huge ipod touch . . .

Nice and locked down with only Apple approved apps. Do not want.

i can only hope that either because this isn't a phone, a more robust modding community will develop around it, or that a more developer-friendly tablet will be released shortly.

Re: Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event

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Post by orangecat »

phren0logy wrote: post #23

Interesting detail: Runs custom Apple silicon, the "A4" chip at 1Ghz. Seems pretty capable based on the demo. But then, everything seems capable in a controlled demo.

If it's running existing iPhone apps by emulating the ARM CPU, that's pretty impressive.

Re: Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event

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Post by TheBranca18 »

DenisM wrote: post #19
sker wrote: post #18

The engadget live feed is pathetic. They're saying "Wow" to any regular feature that doesn't really have anything impressive. What is their agenda here?

Their agenda is to make their readers excited.

Engadget definitely has a severe bias towards Apple compared to say Sony or Microsoft.

Their readers are technophiles who can figure out whether to be excited on their own unless it's not obvious. Seeing some of the stuff on the iPad isn't terribly exciting for me. They haven't shown the eReading capabilities yet though.

Re: Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event

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Post by sandGorgon »

sharms wrote: post #6

The funniest part about all of this is I have yet to purchase an apple device (I run Ubuntu myself), but I can't not watch these presentations. It would be great if there were other tech companies with such well presented products and ideas that really made you say 'wow'.

that goes hand in hand with your package.

I run only linux in all my machines - but I think that until KDE can get a decent network manager up and working or UVC webcams start working out-of-the-box, I dont see an Apple like presentation.

Re: Live from the Apple 'latest creation' event

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Post by thaumaturgy »

aresant wrote: post #31

Waiting on that wow moment, still basically just a huge ipod touch . . .

Hmm. So, we've got a handheld device with a slick UI, that can be used for video, audio, email, games, and reading, has a long battery life, and reasonable performance ... the first iteration of the mythical "tablet" that everyone's been talking about for two years now ... and the general reaction is that it's too much like a fancy Walkman?
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