Apple iPad and related items

[elbows]

Well if Steve Jobs comments on the earnings conference call are anything to go by, rumours of a smaller iPad in the not-too-distant future are balls:

He also forecast that would-be rivals to Apple's iPad tablet computer would struggle to make a mark because many were offering screens only 7" diagonally – "which is only 45% of the area of the iPad," Jobs said. "We think these 7" tablets will be DOA – dead on arrival. They'll learn the painful lesson that they're too small and have to expand them next year."

Asked whether rival tablets so far announced – which will run Google's Android 2.2 software, and have 7" screens – posed a threat, Jobs was scornful. "You might think a 7" screen would have 70% of the size of a 10" screen, but that measure is diagonal. In fact it's only 45% of the area of an iPad screen. If you take an iPad and draw an imaginary horizontal line halfway along, that's the size of a 7" tablet display."

He added: "The only way they're going to sell is if they come with sandpaper, because you're going to have to sand peoples' fingers down so they can work it. You can't run the software you need on a screen that small."

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/oct/19/apple-profits-rise-ipad-mac

Of course his comments about sanding peoples fingers down to use them are silly given he sells iphones. Software can be made to work well with a range of screen sizes. The question is whether the sort of apps that people want on a tablet are ok at the smaller size, and we will just have to wait and see how competitors do to find out.

 

[paolo]

The remark which I thought "nod", was...

"We've now passed RIM [which sold 12.1m phones in the comparable quarter], and I don't see them catching up with us. It's going to be a challenge for them to become a competitive platform and to persuade developers to develop for a third platform after iOS and Android."

It's all about Android and iPhone now. Ultimately Android by volume. RIM? Too big to fail? Remember Netware?

 

[elbows]

Im really very happy with the way music software is progressing on this platform. Here is the latest.

http://www.korg.com/ims20

Hellooooo baby!

 

[electroplated]

Wicked!

 

[Crispy]

Nice!

 

[elbows]

Ha it seems ReBirth for iPad came out yesterday too

 

[electroplated]

bloody hell... didn't need to build that 303 after all

 

[Crispy]

Just need Reason now

 

[gabi]

Does anyone know when the next gen iPad is due? not sure i can wait much longer but i need it to have a cam

 

[editor]

"I'm too sexy for my iPad!"

The print edition of Esquire’s November issue, featuring the newly crowned “sexiest woman alive,” Minka Kelly, hit newsstands in mid-October — yet four weeks after it was submitted to Apple for approval, the iPad edition of the issue has yet to appear in the App Store.

The problem? The issue is simply too risque for the App Store, one source familiar with the matter told Mashable. The publication has submitted a revised version it expects to be approved in the next few days, around the time the December issue is slated to hit the App Store.

An executive at Hearst said that Apple has not, in fact, communicated at all to Esquire since the issue was submitted to the App Store, despite multiple entreaties — nor that the publication has submitted a revised version.


....Yet apps from bigger brands tend to slide by. Playboy’s iPhone app, which features dozens upon dozens of photographs of scantily clad women, is on display in the App Store, as is Sports Illustrated’s annual swimsuit issue.

When the Times asked Schiller why that particular issue had made it into the App Store, he claimed that “the difference is this is a well-known company with previously published material available broadly in a well-accepted format.”

http://mashable.com/2010/11/16/esquire-sexiest-woman-alive-app-store

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Apparently Damon Albarn is making the new Gorillaz album solely on his iPad...which is er interesting...

 

[editor]

Apparently Damon Albarn is making the new Gorillaz album solely on his iPad...which is er interesting...

I'm sure it will sound very good and do a great job of showing off the iPad's abilities, but it all seems a bit gimmicky. Perhaps Apple are throwing him a big wedge to do it?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I'm sure it will sound very good and do a great job of showing off the iPad's abilities, but it all seems a bit gimmicky. Perhaps Apple are throwing him a big wedge to do it?

Before the Times adverts I'd said he seems like the kinda artist that likes to innovate but now...?

 

[skyscraper101]

Does anyone know when the next gen iPad is due? not sure i can wait much longer but i need it to have a cam

^This.

I need to have full skype functionality and unfortunately if there's no camera then its not good enough.

 

[Kanda]

iPad wins Stuff Magazine's gadget of the Year awards 2010.

 

[TitanSound]

Apparently Damon Albarn is making the new Gorillaz album solely on his iPad...which is er interesting...

Sounds like when all those superstar DJ's lent their names to mix CD's that were done in some studio by a pro tools engineer i.e. rubbish

 

[Crispy]

Dunno, there's some damn powerful audio apps on it now. He'll mix and master on PT, I'm sure, but using the ipad to generate/record/manipulate all audio? Totally doable.

 

[beesonthewhatnow]

Totally doable.

Still fucking pointless though

 

[skyscraper101]

Some of the DJ apps look very cool - if a little too gimicky to consider replacing tracktor with at the moment.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Heh just come on here to post this! Been playing with the Mac version the last few days, great fun. And man I'm so getting an iPad when 2.0 comes out!

 

[elbows]

Havent used much of the stuff in 4.2 yet, but oh thank heavens for finally having home screen folders, its been a long wait.

Must get camera connection kit USB port so I can see if the new USB midi support works with any of the apps Ive got.

 

[Crispy]

Multitasking is the big yay for me

 

[Winot]

And a bonus is that you can now deploy orientation lock from the screen cf iPhone - good for iPads in cases which make the physical button difficult to get to.

 

[elbows]

Yeah I think the physical button sets mute now instead.

 

[Crispy]

Yeah I think the physical button sets mute now instead.

Except this "mute" only mutes alarms/alerts, not music, websites, games, videos etc.
Useless. I'd much rather have orientation lock.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

New acer duel screen tablet. Shades of the Courier anyone?

 

[Crispy]

In hardware, yes. The courier was exciting due to its very interesting software and interface.

 

[Gingerman]

Thinking of getting an iPad for Xmas,can I Bluetooth stuff from my HTC desire onto it or dos it only accept data from other apple products

 

[paolo]

In hardware, yes. The courier was exciting due to its very interesting software and interface.

Did it exist? I thought it was a video.

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It had an exciting mockup video