{"id":954,"date":"2010-01-30T21:59:13","date_gmt":"2010-01-30T21:59:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chocobeam.me\/playground\/2010\/01\/insert-obligatory-ipad-thoughts\/"},"modified":"2010-01-30T21:59:13","modified_gmt":"2010-01-30T21:59:13","slug":"insert-obligatory-ipad-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2010\/01\/insert-obligatory-ipad-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"<insert obligatory iPad thoughts>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Via The Daily What via Fark of course<\/em> <\/p>\n

On the keyboard<\/strong><\/p>\n

It\u2019s the first thing I thought about: the angle for your wrist reading your iPad on your thighs is the worst ever to type something. The only way to type easily on a flat surface is to have it laying.. Flat on a desk. In this situation, having the screen on a flat position is awful for reading. I don\u2019t see a lot of that comment on the web (actually beside L\u00e2m<\/a> I didn\u2019t see this comment often).<\/p>\n

On the multitasking, relation with the processor<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yeah I don\u2019t think it\u2019s a big deal either. I prefer being able to multitask for sure but in a casual setting, when I\u2019m not working I don\u2019t use three or four applications, I usually use only one: media player, game, etc. I don\u2019t close everything because I can on a laptop but in all fairness, I\u2019m monotasking in these cases. <\/p>\n

What I find crazy is reading an article on Engadget saying <\/p>\n

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\u201cThere’s no multitasking at all. It’s a real disappointment. All this power and very little you can do with it at once.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

If it\u2019s blazing fast with just one application, be sure that it\u2019s not the same experience on multitask. It\u2019s linked that it\u2019s fast and not flexible. Android does more vs the iphone therefore is not providing the exact same seemingless UI flowing because with widgets and 7 screens refreshing together while downloading an app and tweeting yeah, it\u2019s not perfect on the old smartphones based on it (though the 2.1 update makes it much better).<\/p>\n

I mean a tech blog this size not understanding how Apple thinks, how they always put the user experience joy bells and whistles first, doing the teenager geek who wants everything is not what I expect from a professional article on a new device hands-on.<\/p>\n

If you want to multitask, buy another tablet computer<\/a>. It exists since 2001. <\/p>\n


Same<\/em> <\/p>\n

On the noiseless experience<\/strong><\/p>\n

People focus on the mobility of this \u201cnew\u201d<\/em> device but I like to point out that it\u2019s also about the noise: smartphones, tablets are totally noiseless computer. If they were doing a little spinning annoying noise while on use, I\u2019m pretty sure everybody would rather be on a desk with a big screen to read emails. With noise too but at least your sight thanks you.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s awesome to be in the silence of a bedroom and reading without being disturbed by the \u201ccomputer noise\u201d. It\u2019s not just about the portability (because of course, you lose a lot going from 24\/17\/15\u201d to 4,5 or 9,7\u201d for reading). It\u2019s also about ears freedom.<\/p>\n

On games<\/strong><\/p>\n

The iPad seems to be a perfect game machine we were I think, a lot dreaming about. And yet Apple doesn\u2019t care more than just bringing a fucking car race and a fps on stage. They have the same pattern all the time: do a device focused on experience delivery, contact publishers. Of course they go for EA and Gameloft, making so much money on iPhone.<\/p>\n

But the iPhone is pretty popular in the game industry and in the geek\/tech culture not because it\u2019s cool to develop for (it\u2019s not), but because the device is awesome and made super weird and unique games some major hits. The day these indie devs quit for another platform providing more support and more openness, the Apple touch device serie is going to be much less trendy.<\/p>\n

I still can\u2019t believe how Apple reacts about games. Steve must have a problem with them. Computer games made Microsoft in the 90s (DirectX). Computer games made Apple since 2007 (iPhone). Computer games made Commodore in the 80s (Amiga). Computers get popular in the mass market with games since always. They don\u2019t with iWorks or Excel.<\/p>\n

Pushing about how it\u2019s cool to read books on a multitouch device in 2010 is more than meh. It\u2019s kind of dumb.<\/p>\n

On Apple politics<\/strong><\/p>\n

No camera, closed system.. I have no problem with people getting crazy and wanting to buy it like they want to pee so bad even if they know the 2G is going to have a camera. It\u2019s business. But I\u2019d rather have Apple be sure that I would not buy a 1G without camera because I know that every fucking netbook has one since day one. I\u2019d rather have Apple be sure that I have some brain you know. The same with accessories sold at insane prices.<\/p>\n

For Flash, I don\u2019t care as a user. I hate Flash as a user. On the other as a developer I know how Adobe\u2019s product is pretty neat, allowing fast prototyping and stuff like that. And I know that HTML5 is totally not ready yet<\/a>, so the web without proprietary plug-ins is still a dream.<\/p>\n

Some people<\/a> think that it\u2019s sad that the iPad is a closed platform (I guess they beefed up the protection against jailbreaking?) and that if they were starting their career today, they may not because they could not code and hack their computer like they want.<\/p>\n

Well, I guess a teenager today who wants to code would buy two netbooks for the price of the iPad, install Linux\/7\/OS X and would play with them and learn to code. I\u2019m not worried about how future generations are going to produce software because the world is full of computers.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s amazing how in a week like this you almost end up thinking that no, there\u2019s only one computer company in the world.<\/p>\n

And they are launching a product with which \u201cyou can browse the web with it\u201d<\/em>. <\/p>\n

Saying that without laughing out loud in 2010, only Steve Jobs can.<\/p>\n

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