iPad

Technology and Gaming
#1

Is that seriously what apple called it?

Live twitter feed here:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/26/apple-tablet-twitter-upda_n_437265.html

And liveblog here:
https://www.macworld.com/article/145805/2010/01/apple_event.html?lsrc=twt_danfrakes

Looks like it’s a 9.7 inch screen, 16-64 HDD, one a half pounds, half an inch thick. Works like the ipod touch and iphone in the sense that you have to get apps for it. It’s very similar to a big ipod touch with a bunch of extra features. No camera. Uses wireless n. You can run iphone apps on it though. 10 hours of battery life, has an accelerometer and a compass.
Costs between $600-$800.

Thanks, but no thanks for this one Steve.

#2

:facepalm:
God apple needs to come up thith new names.

#3

I’m going to wait on it until I find out how/if it works with Photoshop. Price is OK though, if that’s correct.

#4

So it’s like the iPod touch…except less portable.

#5

Basically this.
It has a better processor, same amount of storage, bigger screen, but not that much else.

Looks like some game developers or going to have fun with this, but I don’t think it’s super innovative.

I think I’d rather go for this:
https://www.archos.com/products/nb/archos_9/index.html?country=us&lang=en

#6

GAH FUCK YOU NINJA

Apple, I am extremely disappoint. It’s pathetic in so many ways.

edit: Some updates here, it’s not as bad as it seemed at first. There are a lot of nice apps, keyboard dock, it’s not as expensive you might expect, etc. Still no way I’m getting it, though.

It starts at $500 for 16GB, goes to $700 for 64GB. Getting 3G costs $130 extra plus the monthly fee. It also has an ebook reader.

#7

Really? I just got back from classes, I saw someone in my Economics class looking at it on his netbook.

Seriously though? I mean, everyone here should know by now I hate Apple as a company, but seriously this is the best they could put out? an iTouch with a huge screen?

Reading Engadget, I find it has no multitasking…so did Apple forget how many people were BEGGING for multitasking on the iPhones? They put in more CPU horsepower compared to their phones, but forgot about multitasking? So much for it being touted as the laptop/netbook killer. Seriously, my Samsung Rant cell phone (hardly even a smart phone) has multitasking.

No camera, not even a front facing one? El Oh El.

Still, No Flash support.

Steve Jobs’ turtle neck has cut off the circulation to his brain.

Have fun reading books and browsing the web on an over sized iPhone.

Don’t call it a computer unless it runs a real OS.

#8

Needs a more ‘dedicated graphics tablet’ angle, not some jumped up blown up iPod shit :expressionless:
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#9

Dude looks ashamed of his own product.

#10

Yes, Apple have lost their minds and the general public are seeing the light.

TBH, I seriously don’t get why they think it will be a netbook killer, it’s larger than most netbooks and it’s name makes it sound like it’s a sanitary towel for women on their periods.

#11

I expected a lot more from it, initially. But if you look at what Apple has done in the past, it’s obvious this was going to be the new thing. They’re taking a fresh market that has potential, has a few small fish swimming around, and they release something that completely revolutionizes that market, setting a standard that every other company will strive to achieve, and over a certain period surpass.

Of course it has its flaws, like the lack of flash (again) and multitasking (again), but it fills a niche for those that don’t want an iPhone nor a laptop, just something to take on the road and use as a little notepad, on which you can do more advanced tasks.

As with everything Apple has released in the past, I’ll wait quite a while before thinking about getting one, see how the reviews and bugreports come in, then decide whether it’s worth the relatively low cost (compared to another tablet, the Kindle (which only does books in black and white). If it turns out to be a cheap Wacom Cintiq with additional options, I’ll most certainly get one, if the initial defects (if present) are fixed.

Also, I wouldn’t really call it a bigger iPod Touch or iPhone. It does use the iPhone OS, and the keynote presentation did focus on the iPhone apps being compatible, but once it’s released and developers kick in with the SDK, the iPad will take a whole new life of its own, a life the iPhone won’t be able to follow in.

Imagine, for example, what if Adobe releases Photoshop or Illustrator for this tablet. That alone makes it VERY worth it for me and for anyone in the graphical business. And even right now, with the default Paint app, it’s a great tool for illustrators to use on the road.

#12

This really doesn’t seem to be marketed towards graphics professionals. There’s no reason for us not to use a desktop for that kind of work. I’m curious to see how painting apps would work on it - with a stylus - but I’m not really holding out much hope for it comparing to a Cintiq.

#13

Maxi-Pad, amirite?

To be honest, I’d much rather have a kindle for reading, the screen is just so much nicer to look at for extended periods than the iPod/iPhone’s.

#14

Seriously, whats the main use of these? That is nothing more than a big iPod Touch. That was big enough.

Apple, whats the point of this??

#15

I thought apple might do the smart thing and go with intel Atom, seeing as it has been tested with OSX and it works perfectly, but no they went with the shitty non-x86 approach yet again… I wonder how they manage to keep making profit by making every new product a ripoff of the last.

I bet photoshop won’t ever get released for it.

#16

Just saw the video. Why are they switching back to there own hardware again! Didn’t they learn anything?

#17

I didn’t really say that it was marketed towards graphics designers, but there’s enough options for that tablet to become a nice tool. I, for one, love to doodle around while sitting on a train. In have about 12 300-page sketchbooks laying around in a closet, filled with doodles. But a sketchbook is rather meh to drag around all the time (and the cost is meh as well, like $12-15 per) and it doesn’t offer me the option to put color on it, unless I drag some markers with me, which is another meh on the road).

Give me a tablet like that, and I have an advanced sketchbook in my hands, even without fancy programs like Photoshop (the default app Brushes looks like it’s quite capable of creating doodles), for one fixed cost, less space and weight and direct compatibility to my computer. Then add to that the option to have your photos on the road, music, movies and any other app that exists and will exist in the future (+ a nice big quality screen to go with it), and you have a pretty decent piece of hardware, and something the iPod Touch or iPhone can’t achieve due to their small sizes.

Apple -will- make money off this. This one fills an actual gap in a market that didn’t have any standards. Apple now created that standard for that market, and the first waves of users will go for the iPad, regardless of how it looks so much like the iPhone or iPod. Unlike the Macbook Air, which tried to compete in a market that already sucked, and didn’t do very well in it either.

#18

Whose to say that it’ll be targeted towards graphics design? I can see it being jailbroken and some amazing stuff coming from it. But the point is, we shouldn’t have to do that!

#19

Why is everyone always taking my one regular example of a possible scenario, and then make it sound as if I’m claiming that the product is specifically aimed at that audience and that audience only >_>

I’m a digital designer, I design stuff, when I see things like this, the first thing that comes to my mind is the possibilities for designing on the road. But I didn’t say that it was targeted and the graphics industry at all! >_>

#20

I don’t get why everyone thinks this is such a new thing. The only thing new about it is the fact that it has a capacitive screen/multitouch.

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