New Apple Lust Objects for 2010 and onward

Same here, I prefer realbooks and realtunes; the web browsing looks really incredible, I'm surprised Jobs didn't go more into all the finger gestures used for web browsing, it's very intuitive and a huge selling point. That said, not sure if it's worth getting as I'm still going to use my MacBook Pro for more demanding tasks.

Also, this is OTM:

I'm also getting a kind of 'nintendo wii' vibe from this where people are quick to dismiss it, but within 5 minutes of playing with it they'll be bowled over.

(xpost)

Surely the curved back means it'll move about when you try to put it down on a table and use it?

It's pretty much flat, isn't it? Just bevelled at the edges? And there'll be SO MANY PRODUCTS SO FAST that angle it 'just so'...

We've got an iMac and 2 iPhones; I think this would fit perfectly in with that.

I also keep thinking that this would absolutely be the perfect web browser experience / games machine for my mum.

You can also, when not using it, stick it on it's dock on your mantlepiece and hey presto, best ever digital photo frame.

best != most expensive

Best = it'd fit with my decor.

you've designed your house to look like an Apple store????

I make my bed in the genius bar

nick's bedroom:

http://www.supernaturalwiki.com/images/6/6e/2001_Space_Odyssesy.jpg

thing at foot of bed is iBoard, due 2013

You asked for it.

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VLC needs to release an iphone app

but how would you even get your divx files onto the ipad?

after removing shoes, guests are given turquoise t-shirts and lanyards

btw i am getting one, just still having mixed emotions. i can see where it would be useful in my life. just don't know if 3G is necessary?

/VLC needs to release an iphone app/

but how would you even get your divx files onto the ipad?

presumably it would be allowed to sync a la the way stet described above?

I don't like how this thing will require a standing case if you take it on an airplane

3g will be useful to read ilxnyt on the subway

like, if i'm out and about and really need to use the internet, that's what my iphone is for, right?

there is no service on NYC subways

oh, hah; hk has 3g in subways/tunnels </braggin>

but how would you even get your divx files onto the ipad?

right now, itunes will import anything quicktime will read (which is a lot if you install perian), and it will sync that to any device. question is whether that device can play it.

you live in hk dyao?

yeah, munich too xxp

dyao does the thread of crazy hong kong t-shirts, right?

yerp

just occurrd to me that if bolted to the dashboard of your car this would be an awesome gps nav system/way to watch pr0n on the highway

it doesn't have the GPS that the iphone 3GS has though, right?

i was thinking of strapping it to the handlebars of my road bike

huh, you're right no gps chip. i just kinda assumed they would include one

that's some bullshit, right there

3g version has aGPS; wifi version doesn't

we demo for you this awesome maps application... which will be completely useless? ( I'm assuming the assisted gps listed on the specs page for the 3g model uses cell tower location to ballpark your position)

just occurrd to me that if bolted to the dashboard of your car this would be an awesome gps nav system/way to watch pr0n on the highway

― i'm with stupid ☞ (dyao), Thursday, January 28, 2010 10:45 AM

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no wait agps is a real gps system

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assisted_GPS

crisis averted

We've got an iMac and 2 iPhones; I think this would fit perfectly in with that.

Ditto. We also have an aging laptop that has about 1/2 the functionality of the iPad (too slow for streaming videos and there's a huge flaw in the middle of the screen anyway) that we only use to browse the web/check email from the couch, while seated in the same position as the fancy-jeaned fellow in the demo, even. We probably won't get 3G, however. The iPhone works better for me as a portable internet accessing device, and if I take the iPad with me on my commute, it will probably be as an e-book reader, which is a device that I also do not own yet was planning to buy when the right one came along. So it's kind of perfect for us.

OK so the good:

nice screen
good battery life
good to have both the 3G and Wifi options
There will be some awesome apps for this

and the bad:

No webcam is boneheaded in the extreme
No multitasking, I'm not asking for much but the ability to VOIP and browse at the same time or watch a video and make notes at the same time
VGA out and not HDMI
No 720p out
No Stylus (ok so this may come as third party but the killer app for me is PDF annotations)
No Inkwell - I'm hoping both stylus and inkwell come as a future update. I can understand a strategic move of not wanting handwriting recognition to be a major feature initially, but Apples HW recognition has come a long way since the newton and this thing has more than enough power to make it work
No ability to use this a a secondary display or control surface for the mac, although hopefully there will be an app for that soon
I'm hoping that the USB dock connector will allow more than just mass storage devices because there could be some cool peripherals

http://www.tnr.com/article/the-pc-officially-died-today

RIP technology journalism

okay, I have a friend who is a tech analyst prone to rapturous all-or-nothing pronouncements and even he would find this article retarded, mostly because of the furious backpedaling in the second half

No webcam is boneheaded in the extreme

I think they probably realise this. I'm sure it will be added later, as happened on iPhone. Actually, I think a lot of your list of bad things is not structural and will be fixed by software or later iterations.

The really bad thing is not going to change, and that is http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/ipad.

No Stylus (ok so this may come as third party but the killer app for me is PDF annotations)

yeah, this.

HW annotation + Papers = swoooon

Scik Mouthy's pics remind me of

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ieEFh3dE9cI

also there is no way in hell "the computer" is going away anytime soon. scientists and intensive media production both <3 unix/apple and i srsly doubt anyone wants to make avatar on the iPad

the return of a division between "home" computing and "workstations" does not seem that farfetched to me, although i got one sentence into that article

I don't agree with that article that it's merely a matter of Jobs' desire for control. What's clear is that the App Store's way of distributing content, like Xbox Live, is severely threatened by piracy, esp. since piracy is nearly as easy as buying (or in the case of books, infinitely easier). That threatens content producers' business models, obviously. But these closed "ecosystems" like xbla and the App Store change this, by eliminating things like access to the file system. And for a lot of people the ease of xbla or the app store makes up for that loss of freedom. So I can see why this is a possible future, even if it's not my personal preference.

"that article" = the one caek linked to, not the crazy one before

yeah, I don't by his inference of _why_ apple are doing this

by = buy

oh if you put it that way, yeah. xp to caek

but dude was saying that he wouldn't be surprised if apple phased out OS X in favor of iPhone OS and did away with "computers" completely and isn't that horrible for democracy because they rule the app store with an iron fist

What's clear is that the App Store's way of distributing content, like Xbox Live, is severely threatened by piracy

this is equally true of windows and os x. i'm not buying it as the reason either.

ill be happy if were alive in 10 years tbh, whether or not we have computers