Here’s the latest effort to make the internet one big self-promotion machine. With one simple click you can hide all comments so you won’t be tempted to discuss what you are reading! Pretty soon we’ll all just be posting to ourselves…. shutup.css is a custom user stylesheet stylesheet that can be applied to your browser to hide comments on many popular web sites without user intervention.
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Right on Dan, good article! Imagining the IPad: It’s Easy If You Try |
That doesn’t mean we should dismiss the iPad as “just a big iPod touch.” The two devices are running the same OS, so they present similar interfaces. But the iPad’s screen is so much bigger than the one on the iPhone and iPod touch that you’re going to get a much different experience, in terms of both what you can see and what you can do–different enough that dismissing the iPad as just a larger version of the iPod touch is like dismissing a full-size keyboard keyboard as just a larger version of the tiny buttons on a Blackberry. The iPhone OS was made for the iPad. Sure, we saw it on the iPhone first, and–in retrospect–made do with the limitations of the iPhone’s much smaller screen, but with the iPad we’re going to see what it can really do. |
| Surfing on the couch or bed |
| Educating and entertaining the kids |
| Controlling our home audio system |
A post of mine from January 24th expressing my concern with the lack of Web 2.0 tools for group discussion. I hope Amplify is becoming the answer! URL: howlongtoretire.posterous.com
Thought Update: Saying that the iPad is just a big iPod Touch is like saying a cello is just a big violin.
Hello, giant iPod TouchCommentary: Apple’s ‘revolutionary’ iPad leaves fans wanting
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BERKELEY, Calif. (MarketWatch) — Now that the fizz has dissipated regarding the Apple Inc. iPad, we can objectively look at the device and conclude that it probably will not have the impact on the market that the iPhone had. It’s cool, but no cooler than it’s progenitor, the iPod Touch.
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| First of all there is no stylus |
It won’t run Mac apps, but instead run iPhone apps which were invented for the sole purpose to run on a hand held machine such as the iPhone.
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The tablet market has only succeeded as a niche market over the years and it was hoped Apple would dream up some new paradigm to change all that. From what I’ve seen and heard, this won’t be it.
Read more at www.marketwatch.com |
This is a great video by Daniel Eran Dilger of Roughly Drafted. His point that the iPad is not “just” a big iPod Touch, and as usual he has the facts to back up his assertions. But I just love the line that I put in the title. What ARE the pundits impressed with? What tablet is more capable? Anyone? (insert cricket sounds here) Everyone with nothing interesting to say is just chiming in to inform us that they were underwhelmed by the iPad. Yes, thank you for your arrogant indifference, it’s very impressive that you casually shrug off something nobody has been able to bring to market before. The thing is, nobody really predicted anything cool that Apple didn’t deliver. It’s all just the typical initial response to anything Apple introduces: waaa, I wasn’t sufficiently entertained. |
Remember how excited many of these same tools were when Microsoft blew the vaporware smoke that was Courier? Yeah, nice looking renderings of an impossibly expensive concept that will never be delivered. Or how about that Surface? We couldn’t escape the excitement of a bathtub kiosk that people could touch to play what amounted to a visualization loop. Who cares that some hotels ended up installing these $10,000 do-it-yourself kits? And the Zune HD? It was tiny, unfinished and played an ad before opening Chess. Gadget morons loved it. Read more at www.roughlydrafted.com |
Thought Update: "Post Thought?" OK I will, and my thought is this: When was this feature added to Amplify? I'm going to push this to Friendfeed and see what it looks like. Interested to see how it is incorporated here as well. Can people comment on it? We shall see!
Ethan is spot-on here, the iPad will be a big hit with people who do not want to hassle with computers. They just want to get to the content. Mini vans were selling like hotcakes while all the auto mags were blasting them. Why? Because they were the best way to get the job done. Be sure to read the full article… The Internet is a funny place. After Apple announced its new iPad, I cringed at the hate being directed its way on sites such as Slashdot and Digg. Even the guys at Penny Arcade, whom I normally agree with, said “that iPad presentation had to be the worst thing I’ve even seen on on the Apple stage” and that Apple had failed to make a case for the device.
If you believe them, the iPad is going to be a massive flop.
Well, the unwashed masses on the Internet also predicted that the iPod would be a failure. They were wrong then, and they are wrong now.
The iPad is a computer for people who don’t like computers. People who don’t like the idea of upgrading their 3D drivers, or adjusting their screen resolution, or installing new memory. Who don’t understand why their computer gets slower and slower the longer they own it, who have 25 icons in their system tray and have to wait ten minutes for their system to boot up every day. |
Doesn’t really get any clearer than this. Be sure to check out the whole article. | About Adobe: They are lazy, Jobs says. They have all this potential to do interesting things but they just refuse to do it. They don’t do anything with the approaches that Apple is taking, like Carbon. Apple does not support Flash because it is so buggy, he says. Whenever a Mac crashes more often than not it’s because of Flash. No one will be using Flash, he says. The world is moving to HTML5. |
On Google: We did not enter the search business, Jobs said. They entered the phone business. Make no mistake they want to kill the iPhone. We won’t let them, he says. Someone else asks something on a different topic, but there’s no getting Jobs off this rant. I want to go back to that other question first and say one more thing, he says. This don’t be evil mantra: “It’s bullshit.” Audience roars. Read more at www.wired.com |
Meanwhile, the companies surrounding this thing — the component makers in Taiwan, the publishers of books, magazines and newspapers that Apple’s been talking to — have made this particular secret leakier than the Titanic. As always with Apple rumors, nobody knows which of the following points are real and which are speculation, but some of them are probably right on: |
But my gut tells me that, as usual with these overheated Apple hypemonsters, we’re all missing something important. There are some aspects, some angles, that nobody has guessed. We’re like the blind men who encounter an elephant in the ancient legend, where each guy feels only one part of the beast and nobody puts it all together. |
Oh, what’s the use? The only thing we know for sure about the Apple tablet is that we don’t know anything for sure. Robbie Burns would surely have agreed. Read more at pogue.blogs.nytimes.com |
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