I'm looking down the track. They obviously intend this to replace laptops eventually.
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I'm looking down the track. They obviously intend this to replace laptops eventually.
Kanda
Diving wanker
They've actually said otherwise. They're pitching it as something in between.
Crispy
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Yeah maybe. Fingers just aren't as precise as mice or pens though - for some stuff (esp. the software I use in my job, CAD etc), a touchscreen will never be good enough.
I can see tablets as general-purpose devices for office use, sitting in keyboard docks and then whisked off to meetings, but not for workstation power-user stuff
teuchter
je suis teuchter
If they could be used with a stylus though, then they would be great.
I am waiting for the day that I can do CAD stuff and similar on a big touchscreen tablet using a stylus just like you can with a graphics tablet.
Crispy
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Yes, a pen interface would be good for CAD. Wake me up when there are A1, 300dpi screens
(might finally convince my boss that computers are better than paper)
Crispy
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no, it's very basic
Kanda
Diving wanker
You can already can't you? Am sure I've seen one my flatmates were after.
teuchter
je suis teuchter
I think such things already exist but are very expensive; too expensive to be generally adopted in drawing offices.
Also, I don't know what the biggest size available is but it's probably considerably smaller than a reasonably affordable large desktop screen.
But I'm assuming things will change over the next few years.
Once an A2-ish sized tablet is fairly affordable, I'm sure they will become very popular.
Meanwhile I am also waiting for A2 (or even A3) sized foldable digital paper that can be taken onto building sites and the like.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
50% of engadget people (including me) said they didn't want it, and if you count fence sitters its rises to nearly 70%. Its just a net book in a nice package and a stack of limitations and Apples dictator control of what goes onto it.
How that is causing the storm that it has so far is entirely down to the iPhone and it being Apple. Its no more than a blip in the sea of net books.
How that is causing the storm that it has so far is entirely down to the iPhone and it being Apple. Its no more than a blip in the sea of net books.
editor
hiraethified
The amount of press it's currently generating is nothing short of preposterous, and completely out of proportion.
As you know, I have to scan all the tech news stories every day, and there's been an endless torrent of iPad 'stories'. It's insane.
grit
an ugly force for good
I know what your getting at, but I've seen click and drag emulated with touch pretty well.
Tap->hold->drag, just saying.
Also to gabi, why the fuck would you want to put yourself through the pain of trying to compose on a tablet?!
i think indesign could work - placing pics, resizing text boxes etc... could be kinda fun using your fingers...
not PS/illy tho. that way lies pain methinks.
Sunray
Its sunny somewhere.
Shall we have a competition on the most ludicrous use of an iPad?
I shall start with silicon chip design for the hard working chip designer. When Cadence finally get their arses into gear and write an iPad application (tsk), it should be as fully featured as the main multi-million application and allow for full front to back design for silicon chips and if its more than a few quid, people should moan like its the end of humanity.
I shall start with silicon chip design for the hard working chip designer. When Cadence finally get their arses into gear and write an iPad application (tsk), it should be as fully featured as the main multi-million application and allow for full front to back design for silicon chips and if its more than a few quid, people should moan like its the end of humanity.
grit
an ugly force for good
FridgeMagnet
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OmniGraffle has been released for the iPad - http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle-ipad - though they seem to have made the decision to charge a similar price for it as they do for their desktop app.
editor
hiraethified
Here's my nomination for the most piss weak iPad 'news' story of the day:
OMG! The wallpaper looks like a scratched screen to stupid people!!!!!
http://www.macworld.co.uk/ipod-itunes/news/index.cfm?RSS&NewsID=3219431
It's not such a ridiculous idea in some areas.
For example, in the studio my digital camera back already has a remote server app for the iphone, that can send an image direct from the camera to an iPhone (ie: a clients) that is logged on via wifi for hi res viewing purposes.
If you could also grab a small jpg on the viewing device & then drop it into a page layout, that would be very handy for myself & on set art directors, as we compose images to fit very specific copy layouts a lot.
grit
an ugly force for good
If you have requirements to do rough work ups on the fly I see how it would benefit. I wasn't considering the niche areas, more so I had visions in my head of people trying to draw vectors in illustrator using a tablet.
Structaural
in Chatsubo
ipad wifi isssues already
and the important stuff:
I wonder why YouTube doesn't get its official icon, just that crappy Apple old tv icon. Another poke in the eye of google?
I know for a fact that I wouldn't do any reading with this device, I'd be straight on the internet all the time, the good thing about books is that's all they do.
and the important stuff:
I wonder why YouTube doesn't get its official icon, just that crappy Apple old tv icon. Another poke in the eye of google?
I know for a fact that I wouldn't do any reading with this device, I'd be straight on the internet all the time, the good thing about books is that's all they do.
editor
hiraethified
So that's a mainstream UK newspaper reporting on the wi-fi issues of an Apple product that isn't even available in the UK and won't be for several weeks at least.
I'd say it was a tablet.
grit
an ugly force for good
so?
I think editor is commenting on the awesome power of the apple PR machine. which i believe they've now brought back in house rather than using an external agency. it's certainly effective.
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Apple iPad is announced
And reporting on something all new gadgets have when first released, a few bugs/glitches etc...
editor said:
And reporting on something all new gadgets have when first released, a few bugs/glitches etc...
elbows
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Yes. The only way that with hindsight it will not seem out of proportion, is if it really does end up significantly altering the way we interact with certain sorts of computers, and makes a success of the tablet form factor.
Even if it fails massively I consider Sunrays notion that it is nothing more than a blip on the sea of netbooks to be very silly- even if it fails it will be a huge story and could be an important nail in the coffin of the tablet formfactor, or would have implications for Apples methods of control and app store etc.
Another reason not to compare it to a netbook is that there is a proven market for those that is quite large, not so for tablets.
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