You can be as negative as you like, point in fact is that the iPhone works very, very well for what it does. Yes, one can say it is "cool", but more importantly, functionally it just works. And I'm not generally an Apple fan as I would for example never buy one of their Macs or Notebooks. But let's give credit where it is due. And I predict the same for the iPad as it is building on an already successful story.
>From a development perspective on the other hand I would far rather support Android due to the relative openness of the platform. But that is another story. -----Original Message----- From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Jolyon Smith Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 2:32 PM To: 'NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List' Subject: Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT > for a large chunk of the population it could replace > laptop/desktop. Many people just use computers for > web/email and some casual gaming. ... and managing their music collection, organizing/uploading photos, videos etc etc ... If people only wanted a device for the limited things you suggest, then in the days even before email/the web etc were things that people might do at home on a PC, the *home*computer* would never have been supplanted by the IBM PC. As for the iPad itself, anything that requires more than trivial text input (like, emailing, naming/tagging/describing photos etc) is going to be unbearable on an iPad unless you attach a keyboard (sold separately) and a "mount"/stand (also sold separately) to hold it at an angle whist you type, at which point you've negated the mobile appeal and added to the cost. The "middle space" is defined by "devices not adequately equipped for general purpose use, but not small enough to be carried in your pocket or used handheld for decent periods". There *is* a "space" defined by such devices, that's for sure. But is there any real *use* for such devices? At the price point likely to be hit by the iPad, it's not going to be much more expensive to "step-up" to a device that does everything an iPad can *and more*. But yes, the iPad will sell in droves. Just as Avatar has sold a metric bucket-load of tickets despite the overwhelming view being that the story is pedestrian, obvious and in many ways boring, but YOU HAVE TO SEE IT COS IT'S SOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOL !!! WOOT !!!!! Colour me unconvinced. (coming soon the "Google tablet" ... even COOLER THAN AN IPAD!!! Cos it's like, ya know, an iPhone which is like, WAY COOL **AND** IT'S GOOGLE, which is like, ya know, even WAY WAY COOLERER!) (and yes, it'll be WAY COOLER even if, technically, it actually sucks, cos Google don't do evil <pant> <pant> <drool>) _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe
