Comments on: Are Most Looking at the iPad With the Wrong Perspective? http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/ Thu, 23 May 2013 18:15:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Dish Network Questions http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/#comment-380509 Fri, 19 Feb 2010 19:35:11 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40343#comment-380509 Ah, This is exactly what I was looking for! Dispells
a few contradictions I’ve read

]]> By: Indu S Das http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/#comment-380508 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 15:35:03 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40343#comment-380508 Tell me one thing: it’s not obviously not a smartphone/pda/handheld and it can’t even replace your laptop/netbook, then what exactly is that ?

Didn’t Apple just create one more category of gadgets ? If you think from customer’s perspective, we need less categories, like how phone/PDA/camera etc is merging, not more.

]]> By: cc http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/#comment-380507 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:05:58 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40343#comment-380507 Alex, they are for totally different tasks.

Ask yourself, can you hold your MacBook Pro in bed over your head with one hand, while reading the screen??? Maybe you like weight lifting, but I don’t.

Do you get it now? The IPad is a ultra light and portable device for reading ebooks and cruising the web.

]]> By: cc http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/#comment-380506 Fri, 05 Feb 2010 00:00:04 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40343#comment-380506 “the actual device is quite a let-down from what is possible”

And is the price? They have to make it affordable and they did. The PC naysayers said it was going to be over 1000 buck, and now they are bashing it because it has no camera or OLED screen. Can’t win with them.

As soon as there is competition more features will show up.

]]> By: MisterK http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/#comment-380505 Thu, 04 Feb 2010 01:29:31 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40343#comment-380505 Game board, recipe book, digital picture frame, alarm clock, wireless tv you can hang anywhere (with slingbox), magazines, electronic whiteboard, casual games (crosswords, soduko, Peggle, and more intense games) better than gameboy DS, newspapers while standing up in a subway or bus, mapping for geocaching and sailing enthusiasts, using a computer lying down, point of sale device, controller for a home media center, any sort of home automation, richer 3rd party hardware guaranteed from iPhone/iPod heritage (wifi, bluetooth, and iPod cable help also), can use all iPhone/iPod applications, kids multimedia bedtime story book, security system interface, survey giving device.

Form factor makes it more like carrying a book than a laptop. And this is all for a little more than an iPod Touch.

]]> By: andrew http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/#comment-380504 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:00:11 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40343#comment-380504 i think most of the complaints come from the user’s existing experience. That is, people expect to use computers to ‘make things’ or behave in the way computers have traditionally worked. Those things may only be e-mails or blog posts in real life, but they are afraid they can’t do ‘real work’ on iPad. Never mind that it is unlikely they’ll do ‘real work’ on their netbooks most of the time, they think they do. They expect to navigate file structures, and run multiple apps in the background even if they can’t use them all at the same time.

I’ve also heard people complain that the iPad won’t output 1080P. While it would be nice, how many people are hooking up their netbooks to a 46″+ 1080P TV and sitting more than 8′ feet away? Sure it’d be nice to not have ‘only 720P’ (and not real 720P at that given the iPad’s native resolution), but only a niche user like me would care.

I will agree that some things like a proprietary connector is something I loathe and is unnecessary from a tech standpoint. I’m sure Apple uses it for a competitive lock-in much like the SIM card seems to be. Another sore point for me is no multi-tasking for 3rd party apps. I would like to be able to run a third party player like Pandora while reading a book or surfing the web. I understand Apple’s reasoning, but I don’t have to like it.

I’d like to see more on how the iPad integrates with other desktops or laptops. A device that uses an arguably new paradigm may gain better traction by associating it with how it affects people’s current workflows and use. It is a difficult thing to pull off, but I suspect Apple has more user testing and experience in this arena than either I or most detractors possess.

]]> By: Henk Duivendrecht http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/#comment-380503 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:29:41 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40343#comment-380503 But isn’t it contradictory to see the iSlab as a productivity device, when it really isn’t very capable as a serious workstation?
I think I’ll go completely bonkers when I have to open and close my apps just to copy an email address from Mail to iWork, or worse, a picture from a website!
Even when I succeed at that, I won’t be receiving skype calls, google chats, or listen to webradio.
I honestly think that the iSlab cannot be used for actual work without multitasking.

]]> By: TQ White II http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/#comment-380502 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 05:01:17 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40343#comment-380502 Did anyone in Star Trek walk up to a conversation, open a clamshell laptop and use a trackpad?

The future is not shaped like a laptop. It’s shaped like a slab of plastic that has access to all the info in the world. Once all of us old people are dead, qwerty will go the way of the buggy whip. People will be using T9 (the old phone keypad text standard when they don’t want to just tell the computer what to do (NB, voice control on iPhone is incredible!).

Is the iPad the fruition of computing? The best think since sliced silicon chips? No. It’s merely the beginning of computers as they actually will be.

I’ll buy one. I’ll complain about it’s drawbacks. I’ll love it. I’m really glad I don’t have to wait until the year 2400 for a cool slab of intelligence connected to the info resources of the world.

]]> By: Jeff http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/#comment-380501 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 04:17:40 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40343#comment-380501 Uhm….have you checked the soon to be available accessories? Like the iPad keyboard dock? There is your precious keyboard. It’s right on the tech specs page on Apples iPad site…An iPhone sized PHYSICAL keyboard suitable for 2 hands? Maybe if you’re a munchkin. Who wants to type with their thumbs? I own a Blackberry and it’s a pain in the ass.

]]> By: Oli http://gigaom.com/2010/02/02/are-most-looking-at-the-ipad-with-the-wrong-perspective/#comment-380500 Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:23:52 +0000 http://theappleblog.com/?p=40343#comment-380500 I wonder if the perception of a lot of (short sighted) people in the tech sphere is partially Apple’s fault. If I remember the keynote properly, one of the first things they showed was how the iPad could run all of the iPhone apps from the App Store, either in the middle of the screen or stretched.

I wonder if the perception had been different if they’d started with the amazing iWork demo, and close the keynote by saying and showing: “Oh and by the way, it also run those 140,000 apps available on the store!”.

The iPad, which is closer to an appliance than a full blown PC (e.g. no 2-3min boot time, etc) will be a little revolution for several groups: mobile workforce, tech illiterate folks, etc.

I can’t wait to see what comes out of it!

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