On May 10, 2010, at 6:00 PM, RA Brown wrote: Bruce Martin wrote: >> As I understand it, an iPAD is a hand held MP3 player. This is not to be >> confused with an iPAQ, made by Hewlett-Packard. The latter device is a PDA >> that uses Windows Mobile as an O.S. and links on windows with MS Outlook, >> amongst other things. The capabilities of the latter are much more than the >> iPAD as far as I know, but the price is also accordingly much more. > > An iPAD is the newest release from Apple. It is basically a table PC with a > touch screen or an advanced book reader. It uses WiFi to connect to the > Internet for web browsing.
Optionally, it can use 3G in addition to WiFi. > It can connect to a Mac using firewire to sync files. USB, not Firewire, and it can connect to Windows, too. (It uses a traditional iPod/iPhone cable.) > I am not sure what other apps can be loaded. Pretty much any iPhone or iPod Touch app that is not directly dependent on specific hardware requirements (for example, only the iPhone has full telephony) will run on the iPad. Many developers for iPhone OS are now upgrading their apps to have iPad modes (which basically means nothing more than recognizing and taking advantage of the much larger screen). Mac OS X and iPhone OS, on the other hand, are not compatible. To begin with, Mac OS X runs on Intel x86 or x64 (or PowerPC, but not anymore), while iPhone OS runs on ARM. But there is a large overlap of function at the source level, iPhone OS being pretty much a proper subset of Mac OS X when it comes to things like strings and encoding, date and time handling, localization, and file and memory management. At the GUI level, Mac OS X and iPhone OS are not compatible, but they are generally analogous. -- John W Kennedy A proud member of the reality-based community. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
