"7 inch tablet ideal reading devices" (Dick)
In my mind, not true if you read PDFs (books, articles, paper) - you
need 10 inch tablet for this.
"iPad 2 not powerful enough for retina display" (Joe)
Rumors suggest that iPad 2 will have twice the CPU power and 2-4 times
the graphic power of iPad 1. So while this is probably not enough to
drive a retina screen, I think availability of screens is a much
bigger hurdle. Apple will sell north of 20 millions iPad 2 this year,
and nobody can produce that many high resolution screens (2048x1528 on
9.7 inch) at acceptable yields and therefore with acceptable costs.
Look at Samsung's comparatively small AMOLED screens - HTC used them
for a while and then had to switch to LCD last summer because Samsung
couldn't make enough of them. Now even Samsung switches back (Nexus S
will supposedly launch with LCD in Germany). Apple announced recently
that they'll spend $3.9 billion over the next years to buy production
capacity in advance (like they did with Flash in 2005), and most
analysts think this is for displays.
"Honeycomb is as simple as (current) iPad UI" (Tor)
Honeycomb has widgets and live wall papers and 3-4 soft buttons (and a
system bar, but that may be the soft buttons). iPad has just a list
of apps and one "get me out of here" button, so to me, that is a lot
simpler. I guess that folders and "home button double click" are
power user features that most of the iPad users don't use. Now I think
we'll see widgets and improved notifications in iOS 5, but I bet that
Apple still tries to keep it as simple and as similar to iPhone as
possible. As Steve Jobs once remarked, Apple trained millions of users
on how to use the iPad - the "boring wall of icons" is well-
understood. I find it fascinating to watch which approach (Android or
Apple) will be more successful.
JavaFX discussion (Tor)
Even leaving aside the unmitigated disaster that is "JavaFX Mobile", I
think Sun followed the wrong strategy for JavaFX by chasing the
consumer ("all the screens of your live") and Flash. Sun just didn't
get the consumer (if you ever read the "What is Java" description in
the JRE installer, you know what I mean), and Flash was ubiquitous on
the desktop, which even Microsoft couldn't touch. I didn't get the
priorities either - there was a chart library, but no data grid or
tree control, and the graphic stack was re-written, but the tool
support was insufficient and "not production quality" until late. That
Apple and Android both put mobile apps and HTML 5 on the developer's
agenda, didn't help either. Now it seems Oracle does what Sun should
have done from the beginning - making it easier to write more
attractive, more connected Swing applications. After all, corporate
applications are Swing's stronghold.
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