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IPad screenshots make this thing seem less like a giant iPhone

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Re: IPad screenshots make this thing seem less like a giant iPhone

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Most people that have handled an iPad dismiss that it's just a larger iPod Touch - the old axiom a picture is worth a thousand words certainly applies here.

For education / gaming / medicine / industrial / etc etc the apps we see for this format are going to be incredible.

Re: IPad screenshots make this thing seem less like a giant iPhone

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post #3

Not being dreadfully slow will also make it unlike an iphone.

I can attest to this. It seems that the new OS updates are really rather demanding, and my meagre 2G iPhone lags and stutters constantly.

I had to disable shake-to-shuffle, because the poor little thing would lag for 5 or 10 seconds, and seemed to condense accelerometer input during that time, making it think it had been shaken when it had actually just been sitting in my pocket.

I'm switching to Android next month hopefully, but that has little to do with hardware quality.

Re: IPad screenshots make this thing seem less like a giant iPhone

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post #6

"People thought Apple will revolutionize tablets, but they got an iPad. But to make a revolutionary tablet Apple just needed to increase the size of the iPhone." I don't remember where I read it but that line is awesome.

Increasing screen real-estate has a non-linear effect on lots of UIs.

Re: IPad screenshots make this thing seem less like a giant iPhone

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post #6

"People thought Apple will revolutionize tablets, but they got an iPad. But to make a revolutionary tablet Apple just needed to increase the size of the iPhone." I don't remember where I read it but that line is awesome.

Increasing screen real-estate has a non-linear effect on lots of UIs.

Example?

Re: IPad screenshots make this thing seem less like a giant iPhone

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Brushes is going to be a big deal among people who can draw. The iPhone version is incredible, and the larger screen will make it more so.

kind of like a cintiq, only without pressure sensitivity

… and for half the price.
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