About the iPad
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f4f3Well, obviously, I hate the name. But I'm over that now.
I'm reserving all sorts of judgement until I get my hands on one (and I will, or F4F3 is not a limited company with a pressing need for an electronic...thing) but for the moment it seems like we've got here is your basic magic mirror.
Access to a world of information without mediation through a keyboard - just pointing and dragging. I think that could be incredibly powerful.
I'll buy one for the ebook capability, and mobile browsing. I'm very interested to see how the Guardian's app works on it (hopefully v2 of the app - the current version is an interesting place to start, but pretty bare bones). I'm sure there will be cases with built in stands, and these, along with blue tooth headphones, will make it an excellent mobile video device.
My gripes are mostly misdirected, I think. This seems to be a device aimed at people who want to consume content, rather than create it, and I'm used to generating content - here, on review sites, at work, I use computers to create documents, rather than read them. I think that's the case for most of the folk reviewing the iPad so far - no one is really reviewing it as a consumer device. Remember what the reviews said about the iPod and the iPhone? I'm looking forward to getting my hands on one, hopefully around the time the street finds its own use for it...
I'm reserving all sorts of judgement until I get my hands on one (and I will, or F4F3 is not a limited company with a pressing need for an electronic...thing) but for the moment it seems like we've got here is your basic magic mirror.
Access to a world of information without mediation through a keyboard - just pointing and dragging. I think that could be incredibly powerful.
I'll buy one for the ebook capability, and mobile browsing. I'm very interested to see how the Guardian's app works on it (hopefully v2 of the app - the current version is an interesting place to start, but pretty bare bones). I'm sure there will be cases with built in stands, and these, along with blue tooth headphones, will make it an excellent mobile video device.
My gripes are mostly misdirected, I think. This seems to be a device aimed at people who want to consume content, rather than create it, and I'm used to generating content - here, on review sites, at work, I use computers to create documents, rather than read them. I think that's the case for most of the folk reviewing the iPad so far - no one is really reviewing it as a consumer device. Remember what the reviews said about the iPod and the iPhone? I'm looking forward to getting my hands on one, hopefully around the time the street finds its own use for it...
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Date: 2010-02-03 11:47 am (UTC)I'm not precious about the name, I've been writing on a notepad since I learnt to write. Same deal, really. I think the 'association' issue is a bit 10 year old sniggering school kid. At least it makes more sense as a name (ie., describes brand and function) than the goddamned JoyBook range of notebooks, and it's not pink. :)