> Chris, you're wrong or misleading on many of your criticisms of the > iPad. First, it's not "a midsize touchscreen", it's a large size > multitouch screen, one of the largest to be readily available. You > have to have some experience with multitouch devices, particularly > Apple's, to really have the basis to appreciate how natural, useful > and downright fun they are.
David, sorry, but I have plenty of experience with multitouch devices. Of the two I have now, the SMALL one is 12" (and they're both 16:9, by the way, not 4:3 like iPad). The iPad's touchscreen is incontrovertibly midsize. > Regarding the lack of HD output, I'd really like it if someone would > establish how important it really is for any mobile device. I think it's silly to bring out any non-toy video device in 2010 without HD capabilities. > The tech specs page says that the 3G iPad has assisted GPS, > and the TomTom kit for the touch should work for the non-3G > model, so you DO have GPS on all of the iPads, should you want > it. Extra cost for GPS either way. >As for Apple's <<horrrrible>> > app restrictions, I have to say that if they have allowed 140,000+ > applications ranging from useless and/or disturbing apps like iFart > and Fishbate (you don't really want to know) to things like Google > Voice, then those restrictions can't be too severe. Well, I didn't say anything about "horrible" app restrictions. But it IS a restriction, and a significant one, in my view. I can't write an iPad app, post it on the web, and let everyone use it. Nobody else can either. All I can do is submit it, wait, and hope. If Apple doesn't like the app, for whatever reason, that's it, that's all she wrote. I don't like that one bit, either as a developer or as a consumer. > Finally, it is untrue to say that iPhone OS devices don't multitask. > To specifically address Reid's gripe earlier in this thread > (responding to a similar blanket statement by Mike), you CAN > listen to music while you are in any other app that doesn't > take over your headphones for its own use. I routinely listen to > music while surfing the web, composing a note or reading a book, etc. > (btw, the Free Books app for books out of copyright is fantastic). > While doing this, Mail and Calendar are working in the background > as well. Now, it would be true to say that the Touch, etc. don't have > unlimited multitasking. But that isn't the whole story either, because > you can functionally have multitasking in many other cases, in the > sense that if the app is well-written and you have to switch your attention > to a different app, then everything is written to memory so you return > to exactly the same state where you left off. Sorry, but I don't consider either of these to be multitasking. Unless you can have two arbitrary apps both RUNNING at the same time, it's not multitasking. ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
