cubicgaren.com will always be down :)
Its cubicgarden.com and its up trust me.
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Butterworth
Sent: 28 January 2010 17:47
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] iPad
Ian,
I don't know where you host cubicgaren.com (at home, perhaps) but it's
very often down, as it is now...
2010/1/28 Ian Forrester <[email protected]>
I tried calling him but he wouldn't take my call. Something
about a blog entry I wrote about the ipad?
:)
http://cubicgarden.com/wordpress/2010/01/27/the-apple-ipad-underwelming-but-not-a-bad-price/
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Manchester, M60 1SJ
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brendan Quinn
Sent: 28 January 2010 16:15
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [backstage] iPad
heh, we have a "virtual steadicam" system in R&D that
could address this problem (the motion sickness thing)...
has anyone got Steve Jobs' phone number?
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From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Kraskin
Sent: 28 January 2010 13:49
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] iPad
I'd agree to a gentleman's wager that the second
generation will have a front facing camera and a native application just for
this purpose.
----- Original Message -----
From: [email protected]
<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thu Jan 28 08:37:23 2010
Subject: RE: [backstage] iPad
I can see why they didn’t put a camera on it.
Who’s going to be bother holding the thing still enough
to enable decent chat?
It would be a nightmare to try and hold it out in front
of your face and even worse for the person getting motion sickness on the other
end.
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Michael Kraskin
Sent: 28 January 2010 13:28
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [backstage] iPad
Re camera, I want it for the exact same reason every
single apple laptop has one. Not point and shoot, but video chat.
And if developers do change because of this, that's
great, and perhaps then it will make sense to buy one.
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From: [email protected]
<[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
<[email protected]>
Sent: Thu Jan 28 07:56:06 2010
Subject: Re: [backstage] iPad
On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 12:20, Michael Kraskin
<[email protected]> wrote:
> I think the no-Flash means that it a seriously
crippled web browser. Hardly
> the "best way to browse the internet," and thus will
be a serious
> disappointment, not only to power users, but to
casual internet surfers as
> well.
As a user, the lack of Flash won't affect me much, if
at all. fewer
ads, and that's about it. The kids won't get near it,
as CBeebies
appears to be built almost entirely in Flash (much the
same with Club
Penguin), but I can't say I'd consider them not wanting
to get their
grubby fingers on it a bad thing (though there are
plenty of games in
the App Store they'd like instead).
As a web developer, I can't remember the last time web
developers
influenced browsers and not the other way around. Can't
see that one
changing any time soon: if the iPad is successful,
websites will stop
relying on Flash being ubiquitous (either degrading
where Flash isn't
present, or doing something else entirely), assuming
they and the iPad
share customer demographics.
> The no-camera thing just screams "wait for the second
generation before you
> buy one"
Why on earth would you want a camera on a device whose
form factor is
utterly opposed to the hold-up-point-and-shoot
facilities in mobile
phones which made digital photography mainstream? Not
saying you're
wrong, just that I can't fathom it.
M.
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