“I can see this thing being marketed to adults.”
[future iPads] “…less of a giant iPhone for old people.”
Well…somebody’s kid; publishing their review–574 views and counting.
Another millenial’s view.
Comment. Them younger peeps want me some robust gadgets and they want it all now!
iPad will be a big hit. However, as an Apple user for 25+ years, and as a casual observer of Apple, I know enough to wait for the second generation to arrive. This will happen in 12-18 months. I haven’t checked out the full specs, so I’m hoping that its flash drive storage can be augmented via USB. The only other requirement for me personally would be that it can display Adobe Acrobat. This would allow me to read scholarly papers while horizontal. I don’t know why Apple hasn’t licensed Adobe Flash, although I could go and find out. Maybe some combination of dollars and security figure into this odd deficit.
The scene used here has been redeployed many times in other parodies. Still, this works for me and is headed to viral heights.
Whereas the following video has already made rounds years ago.
I’ve never owned an Apple product in my life. I did watch the hype on this one and, being a lover of all gadgets, am inclined to be impressed. I could think of it as my second Kindle. Of course, I could just buy a second Kindle but what fun is that. I want to buy an Ipad. Now I have have to figure out why.
Simon
As I stated, an iPad would start to be attractive if it could read acrobat files imported from a computer. Kindle allows this.
I’m not much into gadgets and tend to be a very late adaptor. Actually, I’m a cheap skate too. So, my house isn’t littered with gadgets, devices, implements, which once had a rationale. This noted, when my town had a roundup of old computer equipment, I filled a station wagon with cpus, monitors, printers.
(I didn’t know they would likely be crated and sent to asia where their disassembly would fuel pollution and health problems such as lead poisoning.)
I learned today that Apple’s refusal to implement Flash used to have to do with the power/bandwidth of the mobile processor used in the iPhone and iPod Touch. But, the fact is, the Flash implementation on OSX–on its PCs– has always been crappy. The workaround is to download and convert video, but this is ridiculous. Speaking of flash, the other flash, as in flash memory, helps with the iPad’s profitability. The difference in price between a 16gb iPad and a 64gb iPad is $200. I’d guess this ends up contributing $100 to the margin of the 64g iPad.
Simon, I did find a logical argument against the IPad though:
http://www.buzzfeed.com/dinoi/a-comparative-chart-between-two-tablets-dj0
That’s funny.
You shouldn’t advocate logic with me. I’m a lawyer. We don’t need no stinkin’ logic.
Unlike Hoon I am a hopeless early adapter, which leads to me having lots of useless stuff. I want an Ipad so that I can caress it. It is a gadget, it is stylish and it is new. I don’t think I can live without it.
I suppose you could read a pdf on the kindle. I am fairly sure I never will. I use pdf’s at work all the time. When I lay back in my bed with my Kindle, the work day is over.
I am reading The Manuscript Found in Saragossa by Jan Potocki. It is the greatest book I have read since Melmoth the Wanderer. Hey, if I don’t read these books, who will? Answer me that.
-Why? i said. i think tersely.
-Because i can sit here in this chair in front of the tv and read newspapers in the internet, and play games right here too, and play with it….
i note that we have three tvs in the house already, so he doesn’t need to sit in front of one in particular, but then, there are the comfy chairs there. also, we are now connected by ethernet via some new system here where you can run it through the power lines in the house. this in turn is connected to the digital tv/DVD recorder and website player (new to this neck of the woods), so we can play this and that to this computer to that tv screen…ad nauseum… even so, we may need an iPad….( oh, and he doesnt play computer games anyway…methinks gadgetaophilia at work here too).
-how much? i asked. again i think tersely.
-$500. not much. why are you against it?
-OH, me, i am not against it, i know nothing about it… (only i think it will be a mobile phone too…)
and then we already have telstra’s mobile roaming devcie which allows us to connect to the internet wherever in australia we happen to be – even kangaroo island (shh! there are times i do not wish to be able to connect to the internet). so mobility upkeep there, and the 3G network here is notoriously expensive for the iphone, so we have not caved yet….
Now that is my kind of house. I love my stuff being connected to my other stuff. I am fifty-eight years old and still love my video games. Borderlands is the one I am currently playing–finished Modern Warfare II a while back. So my PS3 feeds off the WiFi to bring me all the media on the upstairs computer as well as my Netflix movies and BluRay. My netbook sits close by so that I can watch television and write emails, or, for for that matter, look at web pages on both at the same time. I seldom do these thngs, but it gives me some sort of infantile comfort to know that I can.
A guy keeps coming by telling me I should dump my cable service and get his over the air internet that will revolutionize my life and allow me to travel to the store and surf the web while shopping for shoes, but I am hesitant because I don’t want to disconnect all the connections I have already made.
I don’t have an Iphone but I want one. I want one because they are so cool and I can hold it and caress it. The only reason I don’t get one is that if I do, people will be able to call me. I don’t like that part. Can you disable the phone part, or does that defeat the purpose.
also, as for the iphone, mmm, it is cute, and all those apps are to die for. but, like you simon, i do not want people to be able to call me. aaah, you can avoid that, say my friends. but then they leave messages and complain if you do not have the phone truned on. but what i do not like so much is that they then expect you to call them too, wherever you are. oh, just give me a call when you are on your way. or if you get lost… so we are still mobile phone refusniks. but i sense P is weakening….
Ah, my love of gadgets does not stop at the door to the internet. Out in the garage is my Stihl chainsaw. When I cook I do it on the theory that there is nothing I can do that something electric (or terribly clever) cannot do better. So I have my Kitchenaid mixer (capable of small batches of cement if called upon), my rice maker, my food processor, my Unicorn pepper grinder, my Thermapen instant read thermometer (as well as my laser point and shoot thermometer) and a cupboard full of devices to numerous to mention. All of this to go with my online subscription to Cooks Illustrated. (The most recent issue of which has two different recipes for which I was a test cook/evaluator prior to publication).
Must run. Have to check my no-knead sourdough baking in the dutch oven.
Whole Wheat Spaghetti with Italian Sausage and Fennel
Our goal was to create a light sauce to complement the nuttiness of whole wheat pasta, while keeping the aggressive earthiness of the pasta from dominating the overall flavor of the dish.
Whole Wheat Spaghetti with Italian Sausage and Fennel
Serves 4
Note: Cut the basil at the last possible moment to prevent it from discoloring. Our favorite brand of whole wheat spaghetti is Bionature’s 100% whole wheat pasta.
¼ cup extra-virgin olive oil
6 medium garlic cloves, minced or pressed through garlic press (about 2 tablespoons)
1/2 teaspoon red pepper flakes
Table salt
1 pound whole wheat spaghetti (see note)
8 ounces sweet Italian sausage, removed from casing
1 medium fennel bulb, halved, cored, and sliced thin
1/2 cup pine nuts, toasted and coarsely chopped
1/2 cup coarsely chopped fresh basil leaves (see note)
2 tablespoons juice from 1 lemon
1 ounce grated pecorino Romano (about 1/2 cup)
1. Combine oil, garlic, red pepper flakes, and 1/2 teaspoon salt in small bowl; set aside.
2. Bring 4 quarts water to boil in large Dutch oven. Add pasta and 1 tablespoon salt to boiling water, and cook until al dente. Reserve ¾ cup pasta cooking water, drain pasta, and return pasta to Dutch oven.
3. Meanwhile, heat sausage in 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium-high heat; cook, stirring to break sausage into ½-inch pieces, until browned and crisp, 5 to 7 minutes. Using slotted spoon, transfer sausage to paper towel-lined plate, leaving rendered fat in skillet. Return skillet to medium-high heat, add fennel and ¼ teaspoon salt; cook, stirring frequently, until fennel is tender, about 5 minutes.
4. Push fennel to sides of skillet to create 3-inch clearing; add oil-garlic mixture and cook, stirring constantly, until fragrant, about 1 minute. Stir to combine garlic mixture into fennel and cook for 1 minute longer. Remove skillet from heat and stir in pine nuts, basil, lemon juice, and reserved pasta cooking water.
5. Add sauce to pasta and toss to coat. Season with salt to taste. Transfer to large serving bowl, sprinkle with cheese, and serve immediately.
[btw, looks like we've reached the limit of our replying nests - i had to reply to myself here rather than simon]
anyway, because we dont eat sausages in this house, and rarely is there any meat from land animals either, as P does not consume it, we may need to substitute something else… we do eat sea creatures. i’m wondering whether i might substitute tuna for the sausage, and add some capers as well to offset the fish? ah, but fresh tuna, cooked to a crisp, hmmm, some other fish perhaps….experimenting is called for!
Use a protein of your choice plus the spice combination found in Italian sausage–fennel, paprika, garlic and pepper. This, however, may not be necessary. The whole bulb of fennel in the recipe probably overpowers the fennel in the sausage–but I can’t say for sure. Seafood or tofu seems like they would work fine. Being omnivorous, I test the recipes exactly as provided.
I love it, what phone?
Here’s some general chatter plus comments, there are several variations on a theme on this site and Wilcox is generally criticized as a shallow flame baiter in more and more instances like when he declared MS Office obsolete and looked forward to its eventual demise.
http://www.betanews.com/joewilcox/article/12-reasons-why-I-wont-buy-an-Apple-iPad/1264697715
Disclosure: I do have an IPhone 3GS complete with its $70 a month plan but I am unable to scratch more than 1/3rd of my capacity even in a busy month.
One can roll back in tech history to just about any Apple instigation since the arrival of OSX, and find the naysayers all roiled up about the smug Apple fanboys. ‘Who wants a fancy GUI on top of Unix?’ ‘Who wants to pay 5 grand for an intel workstation?’ ‘Who wants an overpriced mp3 player?’ ‘Who wants an overpriced smart phone?’ ‘Who wants a mono task tablet?’
As the saying goes, Steve Jobs responds by laughing all the way to the bank.
The funniest thing to me is two fold: first, the iPhone ends up to be the hater’s first choice smart phone. Second, as I’ve observed for about two decades, the Wintel true believers always have a cheaper alternative they’re willing to extoll. As if…
I read a similar thread of thoughts at hackaday. It’s revealing in slightly new ways about very old battle lines.
Over at Slash dot the current top fiver comment, in whole:
Yeah go somewhere else indeed. But, here we have good ol’ projective identification. I’ve seen command line jockeys revel in the sheer inefficiency of their open systems. Gimp? Fine. I have not spent one second in 24 years worrying about Apple riding over me.
Sure, if you imagine all the ways Apple always seems to drop the ball, the only remaining move is to explain why they’re so successful in not ever giving the naysayers everything they want.
Yet, this means they end up being late adapters, when they go out and buy their iPhone, iPod. It is true enough the naysaying legions tend to hold onto to their non-Apple boxes–as long as they’re not serious creative types.
Interestingly from my personal perspective, I’ve had to use both Windows and Apple. This has been my combo for 20+ years. It’s amusing to read fanboys of either stripe in light of this.
The tablet space may get crowded soon enough. It will be interesting to see fully featured tablets eventually go after the iPad.
I started with an Amiga in 1985, ten years before Win95. AmigasOS was a 32bit pre-emptively multitasking operating system running on a custom chipset of gfx and I/O co-processors which profoundly changed my way of thinking and interacting with computers. Commodore died in 1994, so Windows had a clear inside track with their product.
I never did Mac. I did Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and even more Linux. I still do AmigaOS with a much faster processor several generations behind Intel’s offerings but its days of heavy lifting are over, 933MHz just doesn’t throw 20M files around in great quantities like a 2.4GHz quad core/8G.
I do Win7 now. Not because of any hue and cry on the net. I use it because it has a small footprint, is thrifty using system resources and stable. The other thing it does is support my software.
I bought a second or third generation IPhone, depending on how you tally these things, because it could connect me to the net, upgrade me from my pay as you go hulk and show me a nice screen.
I feel that by the time it comes to the end of the contract it will most likely be a throwaway compared to what the new technology will offer.
Apple, it seems, breaches a market with a simple, elegant offering then with each successive release adds in those features that many pundits felt should have been there all along. It seems like a successful strategy. If you are in a good market position and have cash to last through a misstep or two.
I believe the phone has won the convergence race, it does most of everything a laptop or tablet could accomplish. All it needs is more powerful processors, a little more shrinkage and a heads up
display. The only thing that could make a tablet/notebook better is a scroll. You know where you pull out a thin sheet that you can access as a touch screen and keyboard and pull hi-res pictures and maps and broadcasts in.
I am making a change. I used to buy computers by calling the shop–or going in–and picking out the parts. I want this processor, that motherboard, this soundcard, that videocard, etc. The reason I never went Apple is because I couldn’t do that. Then the on-board sound got good enough that who had to worry about a sound card. Now onboard video–my gaming has gone over to PS3–is good enough so who needs to worry about that. So I want to upgrade my three work computers to Windows 7. Most of the little shops are out of business–at least the ones where I knew somebody are. Windows 7 upgrade is $120. I can get an Acer box that is no bigger than my cable box with windows 7 for $420. (Amazon, Acer AX1301-U1312). My current computers may struggle with Windows 7. For three hundred more than the operating system, I am good to go for the next round of operating systems.
I may give up on the local shop. I suppose that is why they are going out of business.
It’s not amazing to me anymore to find out how much somebody uses a computer yet also doesn’t know their way around it to any substantial degree.
Yet, this means that this kind of user is employing minimal, pragmatic heuristics–aimed to support only the end products of their computer use. So, if a DVD is slid into the computer and it doesn’t automatically do its thing, then having to ‘run’ the DVD is beyond them.
It would be the same thing with using google. There’s a powerful boolian set one can utilize. But, many people–don’t know how many–simply plug in search strings and are done with it.
This is one reason why clamoring for features exists in the wider context of usability.
Google scholar has a search engine for legal cases that I prefer over the expensive one the Oregon State Bar pays big bucks from my annual dues to provide me.