iPad Progress Report 374
Now that the 300,000 early adopters have had a few days to play and work with their iPads, we're moving beyond the "first impressions" articles (but here's a video of a 2-1/2-year-old's first encounter with the device). The detailed reviews aren't out yet. The largest source of early complaints is a complex of problems with Wi-Fi reception. Apple has posted a technical support note implicitly acknowledging the problems and suggesting some work-arounds — specifically, changing SSIDs or encryption methods on base stations that offer both 2.4-GHz and 5.8-GHz signals. Finally, here's a detailed look at the gratuitous pain Apple imposes on those desiring to get iWork files transferred from and to the iPad.
early adaptor? (Score:5, Funny)
WTF is that?
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Even for kdawson that is bad.
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Early Adapter: (n.) Someone who can actually bend his mind around why this thing might be useful, and then buy one, and then show how useful it is to those who can adapt to the Apple Way (taking whatever it is they put out and making it the most useful piece of one's collection. Yes, every Apple iProduct is the most useful one to an early adapter). Anyone else will be unable to see what good can come of this, and they will continue to make whatever jokes they can about the iProduct (in the case of the iPa
Re:early adaptor? (Score:4, Funny)
It's apple. You have to change to fit its model of the interface between a human and a computer. Losing 40 lbs and putting on a turtleneck sweater wouldn't hurt.
Re:early adaptor? (Score:5, Funny)
Losing 40 lbs and putting on a turtleneck sweater wouldn't hurt.
Won't somebody think of the turtles?
Re:early adaptor? (Score:5, Insightful)
I think the grandparent post was commenting on kdawson using "early adapter" instead of "early adopter" in the post. Presumably, an early adapter is someone who is among the first to adapt to the revolutionary new world that the Jesus Tablet brings us.
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Re:early adaptor? (Score:5, Funny)
What an early adaptor might look like:
http://rocky.digikey.com/weblib/Altera/Web%20photos/PL-BYTEBLASTER2.jpg [digikey.com]
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at first I thought it was a typo too....but then realized that "adapter" is more fitting that "adopter"....as ppl who do buy 'em will have to "adapt" to using it (and later deciding not to use it)
Other solutions to the wifi problem (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Other solutions to the wifi problem (Score:5, Informative)
From your link Apple suggests:
1. update your router's firmware
2. change your router's location
3. set your router to operate on one 802.11 standard
4. change your router's security
5. rename your networks
In the reported cases only the newly released iPad is having problems, but according to Apple the problem is with your router.
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Aww... it was funnier when I thought his link was a disguised recommendation to “buy a PC”.
(Yes, I know that “Macs are PCs too”. No need to tell me...)
Re:Other solutions to the wifi problem (Score:5, Insightful)
Nonsense.
There is very little barrier to running whatever OS you want to on your Mac. The fact that the "BIOS" allows for this is not different from the fact that the BIOS on any other PC supports booting up Windows, Linux, FreeBSD or Solaris.
A Mac comes with what you need to get it running something other than MacOS.
That's a bit different from needing to hack the device in some way to achieve this (ipod, appletv).
Although once you hack an AppleTV you will see that it too is pretty much just a PC.
The only reason I don't have more Macs running Linux is that the PC market in general caught up and now the price and feature advantages of a mini aren't there anymore. This will happen with tablets too soon enough. Although the ipad will gain a lot more traction by that time when compared to minis.
It's not really accurate to call Apple a computer company anymore...
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You deserve to be modded down for that tripe.
Bootcamp exists only to help Windows play nicely with an installed OS X. You can simply erase the hard drive and install either Windows or Linux as a fresh install and never touch Apple software again.
The rest of your post is just inane trolling, and not worth commenting.
Re:Other solutions to the wifi problem (Score:5, Funny)
In the reported cases only the newly released iPad is having problems, but according to Apple the problem is with your router.
Well, obviously. If you have two devices, one of which is perfect, and a problem, obviously the device that is not perfect is the problem.
What do they teach you kids in logic these days?
Re:Other solutions to the wifi problem (Score:5, Informative)
A while back, the girlfriend bought a Macbook, which was the first Apple device that ever tried to connect to my router over WiFi. Even 6" away from the router, the Macbook would not connect; any PC we tried would work all (15 feet) across the apartment.
I was prepared to chalk it up to shoddy Apple networking hardware, but on a whim tried a firmware upgrade. Lo and behold, after the router rebooted the Macbook immediately recognized it and connected without issue.
I have no idea what/where the actually problem was, but if Apple had suggested the exact same list of steps to me they would've been right on the money.
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There were some problems with older routers dealing with 802.11g devices when those first came out. I ran into that myself. The entire network would lock up shortly after a G device was connected to it. Since my router was pretty old (802.11 b I think) I just picked up a new one anyway.
Re:Other solutions to the wifi problem (Score:5, Insightful)
You do realize, of course, that many peripheral manufacturers not only test against Windows ONLY; but also silently program around bugs in Microsoft's implementations of standards in general.
Quite aware.
Apple is absolutely correct to follow the published standard to the letter.
In most situations yes, I would agree. However in any situation where one (e.g. Apple) is deploying your minority of hardware into an established environment, the onus falls on them to ensure their hardware works in that environment.
Afterall, isn't that why it's called a STANDARD?
In an ideal world sure. In the world in which I live I can update the firmware in my Mac so that it copes with a flawed router at starbucks or my hotel or a clients office, I can't update the firmware at starbucks, the hotel, or a clients office.
My laptop is only valuable and useful if it works in these places. And so far, its been pretty hit and miss. So far, I've had to replace my home router to satisfy my newest mac; I had to downgrade a friends mac from snow leopard back to leopard so that it would work on an office network he did not control, and I've had to suffer through unbearable internet at a hotel on multiple occasions, while my wifes pc worked flawlessly.
Finally, all this assumes Apple actually followed the standard and its all these vendors with horrific buggy systems. Quite bluntly, Apple is not perfect, and it would be absurd to presume they got everything right, and its all these other vendors who keep getting it wrong. Some of the technical blame lies at apples feet.
And some of the blame that genuinely lies at the feet of other vendors COULD be resolved by Apple if it were so inclined. And it SHOULD take ownership of solving these issues when it can. Customers want laptops that 'just work'; that's what they keep promising.
And above all, in my experience, a lot of the problems could be resolved within a subset of the standard. Often a standard specifies behavior X, and a device doesn't implement this properly, and windows isn't affected because it never requests behavior X. If that's the case, Apple could make their software work too with all these devices, by simply avoiding feature X. Note that by doing this Apple would STILL be following the standard to the letter.
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even when all you have to do is update the router firmware so that it follows the standard again while still working with Windows.
"all you have to do is" ??
Let ME get this straight. All I have to do is update the router firm ware at the airport / hotel / starbucks / client site / friends house / etc...? Easy as pie right, I'm sure they'll all just let me update the firmware on their equipment to get my obviously 'perfect mac' working. Easy as pie. In fact, I'm surprised I still have issues... you'd think th
Re:Other solutions to the wifi problem (Score:4, Insightful)
I'm no fanboi, but I would hazard a guess that the issues you encountered were because the Mac followed the spec more precisely than the Windows boxes.
Look, I'm a /. reader. The router I had to replace to satisfy my new Macbook Pro worked fine for years. It was fine with my XP box, my fathers dell laptop with Vista, my toshiba laptop running ubuntu, and the unit I was running the Windows 7 beta on. It also ran fine with my Nintendo Wii and my wife's blackberry. (I have an iphone, but I don't use its wifi since I have far more data via 3G than I need, so I have wifi off.)
But no, your probably right, the reason the Mac choked up and constantly lost connection was that it "followed the spec more closely" than all these other units, several of which are not even based on windows. ;)
I honestly believe you when you say your no fanboi, but when you have a set of disparate devices that all work together fine, and then you add a new device in and the new device doesn't work, frankly its absurd to presume as your default starting point that the new device "must follow the specs better".
of course it's a problem with your router (Score:3, Interesting)
My Apple product is brand new.
My router is old and dusty.
Maybe I should get a new shiny router.
Maybe Apple could sell me a shiny new router?
Wi-Fi problems (Score:5, Interesting)
Our neighbor picked up an iPad on launch day, and he has definitely experienced the Wi-Fi problem. His Acer Aspire One in his basement can connect to his wireless G Linksys router on his top floor with a good, strong signal. His iPad can BARELY connect while he is on his ground floor, and in his basement you can forget about it. His Aspire One can also see our wireless network as well as the network belonging to folks on the other side of him, but even if he shoves his iPad against the wall dividing our town homes, he still can't even see our router, much less connect to it.
Re:Wi-Fi problems (Score:5, Funny)
How exactly is this a problem? Just buy an apple airport wireless extender and problem solved.
Re:Wi-Fi problems (Score:5, Funny)
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Re:No problem. (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:No problem. (Score:5, Informative)
You cant just buy your own graphics card, more hardware, or even a damn battery for iPhone. You have to buy everything from Apple, from an Apple store, with high Apple prices. This just follows the same lead.
Buying RAM for a Mac: http://www.newerram.com/ [newerram.com]
Buying a new graphics card for a Mac (Mac edition of graphics cards): http://www.nextag.com/mac-graphics-card/compare-html [nextag.com]
Pretty much everything you need to upgrade the hardware of a Mac: http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/site-map/ [macsales.com]
These aren't Apple sites, but you can upgrade your Mac with their parts. Just because its harder to do, doesn't mean it can't be done.
Re:No problem. (Score:5, Insightful)
Except how many Macs these days have user replacable graphics cards for example?
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The only reason it's "harder to do" is because Macs don't really advertise their internal specs. When you buy a PC, they go around boasting "DDR3 this, Quickpath that". PC marketing is atrocious, but at least you have a list of jargon that says what's inside the plastic box.
It certainly doesn't help that Apple often revises the hardware without changing the name. They've been selling Mac Pros for nearly four years, but the earliest ones were Socket 771 with DDR2 FB-DIMM memory, while current models are S
Re:No problem. (Score:5, Informative)
That is such a tired, untrue, cliched argument. Granted, you can't easily go to Best Buy and purchase a battery for the iPhone, but I assure you I can find one online in about 1 minute.
Apple doesn't even make graphic cards, so yes, you actually can go buy a third party graphic card and put it in a Mac (granted, only the Pro is expandable these days, but my G4 has had all kinds of 3rd party stuff inside).
"More hardware"? What does that mean? I've purchased all kinds of non-Apple hardware over the years: USB and wireless mice, keyboards, hard drives, wireless routers, wireless USB adapters, USB hubs, monitors, printers, and so on.
The only Apple hardware I own other than the computers is Airport Extreme and a video adapter. Yeah, the Extreme costs $100 more than some random junk at Best Buy, but Time Machine worked instantly out-of-the-box, which was well worth the extra $100 I spent.
Next argument.
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Definitely true.
If you take a look at the iPad Teardown [ifixit.com], you'll see the WiFi antenna (step 24, bottom), which can only peer out of the Apple logo. There's no use thinking otherwise - it's just that one antenna out the spot in the back. The rest of the case is metal, and the screen probably has a metal backing on it, making the only place for signals to escape is that little patch of plastic.
I'm surprised you get any signal at all without having to "aim" the back of the iPad at the AP.
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I'd be willing to bet a dumptruck full of Gnutella that the reason why this design decision was made was to maintain the overall look of the device.
Huzzah for form over function!
Re:Wi-Fi problems (Score:4, Funny)
Is Gnutella like a free Nutella?
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I have an iPad and I've been sitting in the opposite corner of my 2,000 sq. foot house, through 6 walls, an elevator shaft, and numerous electronic devices, and have had no problems with wifi whatsoever. In fact, I downloaded 1GB of music and it was fast, easily maxing out my 20 megabit cable Internet connection, while sitting in the opposite corner of the house from my wifi router.
I'm using an Airport Extreme base station (the original, not improved new version), with WPA2, wireless-N enabled, so YMMV. M
Wait, what? (Score:2)
Come on people, get on the ball...
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Re:Wait, what? (Score:5, Informative)
It's been hacked: http://www.tuaw.com/2010/04/05/the-ipad-has-been-jailbroken/ [tuaw.com]
root (Score:5, Insightful)
Yes, hacking. (Score:5, Insightful)
So, in true Slashdot spirit:
It's a sad day when getting root on my own device requires 'hacking'
FTFY.
Document work sounds just awful (Score:3, Insightful)
Doing anything with documents on an iPad sounds awful. You apparently have to "sync" with a Mac using iTunes. In any business environment, you'd want to talk to some server.
Apparently the iPad is incompatible with Google Docs, although this may just be a bug.
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Dropbox
http://forums.dropbox.com/topic.php?id=18663 [dropbox.com]
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Apparently the iPad is incompatible with Google Docs, although this may just be a bug.
I think Apple would call it a feature...
Why buy this junk? (Score:2, Insightful)
Before I become modded down to an oblivion, I would like to point out that on an Asus AEEE or even on a XO I can run abiword or openoffice and have a FULL OS with REAL software that is used by the rest of the world on desktops. Not a DRMed cell phone os with large amounts of resources being used to lock me into a jail with specifically designed office apps that have been made crippled.
I was hoping to run MacOSX when I heard Apple was going to make a sub netbook. Instead it reminds me of WinCE where Microsof
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See, actually, I do want a device and not yet another computer. Why? Well, less maintenance for one. Also, being instant on is nice (on computers you just don't get a weeks worth of standby on a battery). And without a keyboard, it is a better ereader. I like the whole concept.
You make it sound like a bad thing that Apple didn't come out with another netbook like the rest. I understand the desire for something cheaper than their current models, but I have to think the whole anticipation of Apple slaug
Why did they not wait for 4.0? (Score:4, Interesting)
It sure seems strange to me that Apple, who sell themselves as the "complete" and "it just works" experience would release the iPad before the next version of iPhoneOS comes out. This sounds like the kind of giant pay-to-beta-test sort of thing that Apple is known for NOT doing.
As someone who uses an iPhone and would like an iPad, Thursday will be very interesting.
Is anyone else reminded of the 10.0 release of OSX?
But Apple is known for screwing up from time to ti (Score:4, Interesting)
Sometimes Apple has a period of greatness and then they have a period of... well, not so greatness. Maybe it is time again?
Personally, I don't know. The Wifi problems sound odd, but then again, who exactly thought putting an metal shield on an antenna was a good idea? But surely Apple would have tested that.
I think what we are finding is that a lot of people are putting this device under an intense microscope, determined to find any and all flaws and blow them up out of proportion. High trees catch a lot of wind, especially if they fail to fall in previous gusts of hot air. Anyone remember people scoffing the iPod and iPhone? They must be getting desperate for Apple to have one of its famous screw-ups again.
I think Apple had a simple reason to launch the iPad now. One of its uses is to go outside and use it. Who is going to go outside in the winter? And soonish they will have to announce a new macbook pro anyway (core 2 duo is getting very long in the tooth) and that makes more sense later in the year, and two must have's should be seperated so the victim eh customer has time to recover from the bloodletting that is called buying an Apple product.
Frankly, I have seen all this negativity before. I don't put much stock in it. If someone were to introduce fire in this day and age, people would find plenty of stuff wrong with it and claim that nobody really needs it.
Re:But Apple is known for screwing up from time to (Score:5, Funny)
Requires sticks. Dimmer than the sun. Lame.
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Sometimes Apple has a period of greatness and then they have a period of... well, not so greatness. Maybe it is time again?
Apple sold 300,000 iPads on the first day. Their market cap just passed Wal-Mart making them the 3rd most valuable company traded in US markets, behind only Microsoft and Exxon-Mobil. Regardless of particular views on the merits of the iPhone or the iPad, they are re-defining their markets and forcing competitive innovation just by their very existence. This is almost by definition a "great" period for a company.
"Market Cap" Is Virtually worthless... (Score:3, Insightful)
as a means of ranking one company against another. Or did we learn nothing from Enron and Worldcom? Look instead at sales, at product diversification, licensing and pipelines, and at past performance relative to market performance in terms of alpha/beta. Back in the early 1980s, when Apple launched the Lisa/Mac and Microsoft was launching Windows 1.0, Apple's employee number, market cap *and* sales were literally hundreds of times larger than Microsoft's at that time. Look where they went, and where they ar
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I'm not going to venture a guess as to what Apple is REALLY worth as a company, but when something is so extremely hyped in the media, it's stock is almost guaranteed to be overvalued.
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Actually this is par for the course. iPhone 1.0, OSX 10.0, iPod 1.0, etc. They all were beta sold as release.
Re:Why did they not wait for 4.0? (Score:5, Insightful)
Think about that. Apple released a new product on an older but proven OS. iPhone OS 3.2 is a version of iPhone OS specifically modified for iPad. It was released in beta back in Jan 2010. You're advocating that they should have released a brand new product on a new, unproven OS (4.0 which hasn't been released outside of Apple yet). Sounds like Apple is trying to avoid the beta-testing you're accusing them of doing.
Also this week they will announce/release the beta version of 4.0 to developers. It will be at least a few months after release before the OS moves from beta to final. That would have to delay the launch of iPad for a few more months.
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Plus this will give them a chance to see what other things might be missing from the iPad OS and fix those issues in version 4.0 of the OS.
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Is anyone else reminded of the 10.0 release of OSX?
That's a little harsh.
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No, not sarcasm. What examples are you thinking of?
Arbitrary eBook reading? (Score:3, Interesting)
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Re:Arbitrary eBook reading? (Score:5, Informative)
What I'm really interested to know is will the iPad allow me to write a book, save in unencrypted ePub format, and upload it to my own device, to be read by iBooks?
Yes. Drag your ePub file into iTunes, sync with the iPad, done. Or publish your book via smashwords (free), get it into the iBooks store this way and install it right from the iPad ;-)
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I don't believe Pages will save to ePub, but iBooks can read third-party non-DRM ePub files. So, you can always type it up as a Pages file, export it to your computer as a Doc, and use some other program to convert it to ePub, and then move it back to your iPad, but ugh.
As for getting your book onto the iBookstore for others to buy, currently only Amazon allows individuals to self-publish ebooks for their store.
However, you can publish with SmashWords, who offers none of the editing/marketing assistance of
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What kind of pinko communist are you? Writing your own content is communist, and no better than stealing from all the people working hard to provide you good corporate-produced content.
On the 2.5 YO (Score:3, Interesting)
The little girl had obviously spent a lot of time playing with an iPhone or iPod Touch. While cute, I don't think it really qualifies as much of a First-Encounter-type UI experiment.
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my son is the same age and he can get around my iphone pretty well. i have 2 pages of apps just for him. i've noticed that if i change their position or the page they are on, he can still find the app he's looking for. his current favorite is a Thomas the Train puzzle game.
and thanks to video download helper on firefox, i can download train videos for him from youtube. and sometimes he just likes to explore, try playing the music i have, change the position of my apps, etc
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"My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment."
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Probably not 300k (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Probably not 300k (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm not really bothered by the 300k number. I'm sure there's nearly that many Apple zealots waiting to get their hands on one to begin with. What I'm curious about is how many of those 300k people are people who are just going to buy the next Apple gadget on launch day vs. those who bought it out of genuine interest. Also, I'm curious if this will drive up the sales of iPod Touches when people go out to get an iPad but realize they can save a few hundred dollars and basically have the same functionality + portability. Personally, I hope it flops...we don't need Apple dictating, shaping, and propriatizing yet another format...but that's just an off topic rant.
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I was at the Palo Alto store at 6am. I wanted to get hands on an actual device for our app, which was going on sale by the grand opening. Surely enough, about 1/3 of the people in line were other developers in the same situation, and another 1/3 were marketing consultants doing the rounds for attention and clients. I bet the number of typical Apple fans was higher in other stores, though.
The Real test. (Score:2)
Is after 1 month after purchase. When the Gee Wiz is out... The back has a few scratches... Do they put it on a shelf and forget about it or will they use it in their daily lives. I remember back in the 90's when I got myself a Palm III I when I first go it I was playing with it and it was all cool and I downloaded apps for it and everything else... But after a month I kept on forgetting to use it, leaving it at home and not really using it for anything useful. I didn't get myself an iPad not because I
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For myself, getting a Palm Pilot (m100, represent!) in high school was a freakin' life saver. My hand writing has always been horrible, and the easy-to-learn recognition alphabet it used made my note taking actually worth while.
I know a lot of people that got PDAs that didn't really use them for much, but note taking and keeping track of my homework alone made mine indispensable for me.
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If you’d just do what he wants, you wouldn’t be standing here complaining about terminating parentheses.
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Wait for Service Pack 1 (Score:2)
This is looking like a "wait for Service Pack 1" or "wait for version 2" situation.
This could be a nice little device in a year, when the software is debugged, the cellular interface is in and works, the cellular networks have provisioned enough capacity to serve video to the thing, there's decent support for business documents, and the price has dropped by 50% or so.
Wait for the 2nd gen... (Score:2)
Apple make a great product. But never first time round. If I did want one of these, I would wait for the next revision at least.
My rant (Score:2)
Are developers out of their freaking minds? Do they seriously thing that Things is worth paying $19.99? I mean, I can see the utility, but given all the alternatives, do they seriously believe that people are going to pay that much?
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Actually, I would pay $19.99 for it.
Not a whole lot more than that, though... my current laptop services me fine and doesn’t impose as many silly rules about what I can and can’t install on it.
Coming in iPhone OS 5.0... (Score:2, Funny)
Next year Apple will announce iPhone OS 5.0 with an innovative new idea that they're calling "iFile". With this new service all of your applications can share documents by storing them in a common location. iFile will include an innovative system of organization called "Folders". Folders will allow you to group related documents together in a single location. You will even be able to create Folders within Folders.
And coming in iPhone OS 6.0, "iFile Share". Share your iFiles over any network connection.
Sucks outside in bright light (Score:5, Interesting)
especially sunlight. Sorry but with this type of device I was really hoping I could use it outdoors without fearing the light. No go. Sorry its abysmal. It also has the problem of not being viewable in page format with polarized lenses, landscape was fine. When I borrowed my friends Kindle I found I could read outside just fine. Let alone the weight, sorry but it really amazes me how much it gets to you over time.
I don't need another device that is trapped indoors. Summer is almost upon us and I don't want something I fear leaving in the sun, let alone using with the sun out. I guess I can sit under the umbrella but really, my marine GPS is beautiful in sunlight, why can't we have an iPad for the outdoors instead of basement dwellers?
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The reason the iPad looks so poor outdoors is because it uses your typical LCD screen. The Kindle, on the other hand, uses the e-ink screens which have a much higher contrast ratio (and, I have noticed, reduce glare) which makes it much easier to view them. Of course, the Kindle's screen gives up a lot as well, so there is a bit of a trade-off depending on what you're looking for.
How long, baby, how long? (Score:2)
Will one out of every three stories from every newspaper, magazine, website, radio and TV station for the next 18 months really be about the iPad?
I need to know right now so I can prepare myself by drinking a large glass of neurotoxin, with a bullet to the brain chaser.
Tell ya what... (Score:2)
A Young Lady's Illustrated Primer? (Score:3, Insightful)
Where have I heard about that before?
The future is now :)
Bah, Apple. (Score:3, Informative)
I wanted a tablet, but wasn't looking to get anything by Apple or something Windows based. Linux's touch support seems pretty dodgy, so I ended up settling on an Entourage Edge. It looks pretty horrible asthetically, but has been incredibly useful/fun. It's an android-based ereader/tablet with two screens, a WACOM-stylus eink on one side, and a typical touch screen LCD on the other. After using it for a about a week now, I definitely recommend it to others. www.entourageedge.com
Re:The baby (Score:5, Funny)
Detailed review of the iPad [youtube.com]
No thanks - I'm waiting for the next gen (Score:2)
Apple To Introduce iPDA [slushdot.com]
I don't need to stream scaled-down "used-to-be-hi-definition" video in 1024x576, so I'll get the iPDA instead of the iPad.
Re:The baby (Score:5, Insightful)
Literally nobody who's interested in buying an iPad will be surprised that the other side does not contain a second screen (or a second iPad) -- don't be ridiculous. And saying that it's designed to "look like" some MS vaporware product that nobody has ever heard of so far is just as silly. I'd say the case looks a bit odd to me, plasticky; but I've never been one for protective cases, anyway.
Re:The baby (Score:4, Insightful)
How is selling ~300,000 units in one day disappointing?
Re:The baby (Score:5, Insightful)
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I know that's the question that's been on My mind!
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with a Jailbreak [slashdot.org].
Yay! Give Apple a big chunk of your money, then immediately invalidate the warranty.
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Exactly! These devices have a great potential, but as a Linux fan, I'd love to get a (preferably atom) tablet with a Wacom touchscreen. While I will be using KDE >4.4.0 on the sucker (it needs some processing juice), Xournal and Inkscape will be perfectly epic :) ... and a hell of a lot cheaper ^^,
Re:Free The iPad Of Apple Domination (Score:5, Funny)
Soon? My first Linux tablet was in the mid 80s.
That's impressive. Especially since Linux was created in 1991.
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In ten years, linux will have a support for the kernel operation time_travel which allowed someone to bring a penguiny-tablet to 1985. Hence GP's comment!
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that figure includes those that WorstBuy bought and has sitting on their shelves. Are they sold to end losers yet?
look on Craigslist or eBay to see all the "end losers" that bought them thinking they could flip them.
I wonder what percentage of sales were made up by those?
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