IPad screenshots make this thing seem less like a giant iPhone

http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/27/new-screenshots-of-ipad-apps-start-to-make-this-thing-seem-less/

by Flemlord • 16 years ago

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aresant2• 16 years ago

Most people that have handled an iPad dismiss that it's just a larger iPod Touch - the old axiom a picture is worth a thousand words certainly applies here.

For education / gaming / medicine / industrial / etc etc the apps we see for this format are going to be incredible.

paulgb2• 16 years ago

> For education / gaming / medicine / industrial / etc etc the apps we see for this format are going to be incredible.

I wonder how long Apple will be able to sustain the advantage though. In a year or so when Android tablets are available, I'd predict that any new medicine or industry projects would be more inclined to use an open-source tablet.

If I were building, say, an e-ticket redemption system for events, and I decided to use off-the-shelf hardware, I would much prefer to build it on Android than iPhone or iPad simply because I would have more control of the devices and not be stuck with a single hardware supplier.

callmeed• 16 years ago

"I'd predict that any new medicine or industry projects would be more inclined to use an open-source tablet."

Really? What % of those industries have done that with operating systems and other past decisions?

zephjc2• 16 years ago

"Most people that have handled an iPad dismiss that it's just a larger iPod Touch"

Is that a typo ("have handled" -> "haven't handled")? Because reports of actual hands-on use I've read have been glowing.

First example I found from google:

    The iPad is something to be held and experienced,
    because so many of its advantages are tactile:
    how it feels in the hand, of course, but also how
    the software responds. (Where our opinions differ,
    we break them out.)

- http://db.tidbits.com/article/10960

aresant2• 16 years ago

To clarify what I meant was: "dismiss the perception that it's just a larger iPod Touch"

As in I've heard multiple times the iPad is just a big iPad touch, when in fact, it's quite a bit more.

tel• 16 years ago

A friend of mine at JHU is working on iPad integration in health system informatics. It's a great device and all, but the first thing doctors ask:

Can this thing be autoclaved?

I don't think Steve Jobs is thinking about that one. Android might be better off.

JoeAltmaier• 16 years ago

Very interesting observation. This thing will be useful for "commercial/industrial" clients with a job to do e.g. people who already go around holding a clipboard. Its NOT a wanna-be IPod/IPhone/Kindle/Laptop.

johnrob• 16 years ago

Not being dreadfully slow will also make it unlike an iphone.

iamcalledrob• 16 years ago

I can attest to this. It seems that the new OS updates are really rather demanding, and my meagre 2G iPhone lags and stutters constantly.

I had to disable shake-to-shuffle, because the poor little thing would lag for 5 or 10 seconds, and seemed to condense accelerometer input during that time, making it think it had been shaken when it had actually just been sitting in my pocket.

I'm switching to Android next month hopefully, but that has little to do with hardware quality.

commieneko• 16 years ago

Brushes is going to be a big deal among people who can draw. The iPhone version is incredible, and the larger screen will make it more so.

aaronblohowiak• 16 years ago

kind of like a cintiq, only without pressure sensitivity

ugh• 16 years ago

… and for half the price.

wollw• 16 years ago

When the iPad was first announced it seemed like it could be a great digital sketchbook... until I found out it lacked pressure sensitivity. I know a lot of people have shown off the drawing abilities of the iPhone/iPod Touch but as long as it lacks this Apple is pretty much snubbing artists.

ARR• 16 years ago

"People thought Apple will revolutionize tablets, but they got an iPad. But to make a revolutionary tablet Apple just needed to increase the size of the iPhone." I don't remember where I read it but that line is awesome.

stcredzero• 16 years ago

Increasing screen real-estate has a non-linear effect on lots of UIs.

sumeeta• 16 years ago

Example?

davidedicillo• 16 years ago

I also think that given the size we'll start see many more apps supporting more than 3 fingers at the same time

amatriain• 16 years ago

It's still crippleware. A lot of people have serious problems with the concept of "single-channel only" software.

vetinari2• 16 years ago

This is something I also don't understand. Many people were opposed to introducing DRM, TC etc into Windows and PCs by Microsoft, Intel & co. But when Apple comes and takes the trusted computing much further than the original TC alliance dared to go (they didn't even think about not allowing running unsigned executables or being the only entity with root certificate), it makes eveything allright? Makes me wonder what happened to thought process of techies during last years.

yellowbkpk• 16 years ago

On the contrary: I've heard nothing but criticism from "techies" about Apple's trusted computing model, but it doesn't matter: the majority of the people that pay for Apple products don't care because it Just Works(tm) for them.

IPad screenshots make this thing seem less like a giant iPhone

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