Ipad

[kishy]

Oh that's awesome then.

I'm not one to keep up with the most modern stuff mainly because I just don't like immersing myself in technology too much, but that's a product I would actually consider owning and using. I can see numerous ways it would be helpful at college.

[itlnstln]

Oh that's awesome then.
 
I'm not one to keep up with the most modern stuff mainly because I just don't like immersing myself in technology too much, but that's a product I would actually consider owning and using.

Same here.  I haven't bought a new computer in years, but something like the Courier might just get me to open up my wallet.

[hyperlinked]

It was the "Courier."  Here is a vid (there are a ton, and some with live usage).

The courier was not the device I had my hands on some years ago... Remember, this was somewhere around 8 years ago. The device I tried was basically a PC laptop with no keyboard and a touch screen running some modified version of Windows.

Anyway, the Courier demo makes the device look absolutely lust worthy, but like the iPad, I'm not sure if I'd have a solid use for it.

BTW, I think the video is a simulation instead of live usage.

Kinda bugs me that it's a Microsoft product, but I'll give credit where credit is due.

Man, is there any company that you like? :flypig:

[erricrice]

Yeah, I think the Courier is one new product that I might buy and actually use!

[itlnstln]

BTW, I think the video is a simulation instead of live usage.

The video I linked to is, but there are others floating around that show live use.

[kishy]

Man, is there any company that you like? :flypig:

Dell, Ford, AMD, Creative, Western Digital
Apparently Atmel too if that USB controller is going to be as easy as it looks.

[onowak]

i would buy the Courier if MS released it.

if it had multi-touch + the stylus that would be even better...

OneNote would absolutely rule on that platform.

-0.

[erricrice]

How's your AAPL going? :cheer2:

Ooh.

Ouch.

[jaybee]

How's your AAPL going? :cheer2:

Ooh.

I don't own any, but it's up 100% over the past year, vs 25% for the S&P 500 and 37% or so for NASDAQ. Record quarterly results in the middle of a recession.

A friend of mine just sold his for a $20k gain.

[itlnstln]

Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor

OK, that one's for me.
 

Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence

Ripster's covered under this one.
 

Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes
Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content or Nudity
Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References

And, then, there's Webwit.

[itlnstln]

BTW, Ripster, why do you have an app called "Freeballin'?"

[itlnstln]

Ha!  Did somebody post that here in the Desktop Pics thread?

[itlnstln]

Damn, that would be pretty funny.  Don't know how I missed that one.

[itlnstln]

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There's something very wrong with this picture.  Well, maybe not, both Idris Elba and Dominic West are from the UK.

[itlnstln]

I sure hope so, knitting needles just don't do it for me.  At least the iPad will be easy clean-up.  No more wiping in between keys.  The only problem is, you won't be able to watch those Flash-based movies.

[ricercar]

an app called "Freeballin'?"

Is it about the guy I knew in college who wore too-short cutoff jeans and no underwear?

[itlnstln]

Well, at least there's some truth in advertising there.

[itlnstln]

Never play rugby with a True Scotsman.

I'd be worried if during a scrum, somebody yelled, "wrong ball, fool!"

[jaybee]

It's down since the iPad announcement and it will go down more if the stock holders are not convinced that Steve has not lost it. The iPad has no position since without 3G it is a brick, but the kids don't want another service plan. Also the competition is fiercer than anytime before but now they are early adopters. Danger, danger, extreme danger..

Everything is down this week, as you might have noticed.

Here's a snip from BusinessWeek today:

FAILURE WOULD HURT APPLE HOW?
But what if consumers never get it? Apple hasn't had a hands-down failure (the PowerMac G4 Cube) for about a decade, and let's just say for the sake of discussion that this turns out to be one, and that Apple shuts down the iPad line at the end of, say, 2011.

Apple would still be an astonishingly strong company. At the end of 2009, Mac shipments had nearly doubled to 10.4 million from 5.3 million in 2006. Mac revenue nearly doubled, too. In Apple's most recent quarter, iPhone unit sales doubled from a year earlier, while a change in accounting rules caused revenue from that device to nearly quintuple. Apple's $39.8 billion in cash is the highest among tech companies. If the iPad failed, little about that would change.

And a snippet from Fortune

At least six analysts — Reitzes, Munster, Reiner, Fidacaro, Craig and Bailey — have raised their AAPL targets since the unveiling (to $285, $284, $265, $260, $250 and $240, respectively).

But if you're that sure, then you should short the stock. Great opportunity.

[itlnstln]

Ha!  The markets falling yesterday was the ultimate in irony.  Supposedly, one reason they fell is that investors thought countries took on too much debt when they initialized their economic stimulus plans.  You know, the plans that were supposed to counteract... hey, wait...

[jaybee]

Steve looked old and not cool to the kids, the language was almost desperate.

I haven't seen the kid survey data on their reaction to having watched the presentation (or was it a focus group?), so I'll have to take your word on it.

But you're right, it's all about the kids.

Just maybe not this one:

I went back for a second helping of Avatar this Sunday. There’s a scene early on in the movie where one of the scientists walks across the lab carrying the “mobile computer slab of the future.” We’ve seen one of these in almost every sci-fi movie of the last 50 years. It comes free with a jetpack, I suppose. Except this time, one month later, my 12 year old son turns to me and whispers “Look Dad, it’s an iPad.”

[Oqsy]

Some people use everything to sell evil stuff. She's a player.

mmm, labia spreaders.  almost as good as a front-thong.
as far as truth in advertising, i'd still sue for false advertising because it looks less like a camel toe and more like sloth toe.  to each his own though, right?

[vils]

For our german reading friends:
Frankfurter Allgemeine: Die Politik des iPad.

[itlnstln]

Rupert Murdoch.  Say what you want of Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, or whoever, but that guy is evil.

[itlnstln]

Netflix did turn on very quietly HD streaming in December for a few titles. Supposedly not quite BluRay quality but the big problem remains no 5.1 sound yet.

Check it. I read several articles on this very topic.  Hopefully, they'll have something soon.

[ch_123]

An alternative viewpoint on the Flash debacle.

What particularly amused me was Adobe's response to the claims -

However, soon after the launch, Steve Jobs was reported as saying that Adobe is lazy and that Apple doesn't support Flash because it's so buggy. He also opined that Flash will eventually become obsolete as the world moves to HTML 5, which aims to render rich content plug-ins like Flash unnecessary.

Adobe CTO Kevin Lynch indirectly responded to Jobs' disses in a blog post. In it he pointed out that Flash is used by 85 percent of the top websites, is installed on 98 percent of PCs, and is used for the majority of casual games, video and animation on the web.

[itlnstln]

And then there's this...

[itlnstln]

Exactly right.  I would be better serviced by having Flash now, than HTML5 later. Having Flash now doesn't mean I still couldn't have HTML5 support later, it just means I can do more of what I want when I want it.

[kishy]

Not difficult for MS to destroy any chance of HTML 5 ever becoming BROADLY used...

Simple: Internet Explorer.

There are still people running 2k...some even with 98...these people can't go beyond IE6 as far as IE goes, so if they aren't using a more modern browser (and we know at least some aren't) those people will hold the rest of the world back (contrary to popular belief, yes, the world will wait for them, even if impatiently).

[hyperlinked]

There are still people running 2k...some even with 98...these people can't go beyond IE6 as far as IE goes, so if they aren't using a more modern browser (and we know at least some aren't) those people will hold the rest of the world back (contrary to popular belief, yes, the world will wait for them, even if impatiently).

I don't tightly catering to people who are sticking with Windows 2000 and 98 really makes a lot of marketing sense because we could probably put those people into one of three categories:

• Low income: can't upgrade, can't buy anything from your website anyway
• Hobbyists: likely have other options if they absolutely need to use your site
• Crazy people: GeekHackers... need I say more?

Actually, there's a fourth category I forgot about... the Institutional users, but I guess that's just a different kind of crazy. These are people whose organizations have mission critical apps that were made to run within IE6.

The other thing is that most things work ok in IE6. The complaint that we Web developers have with IE6 isn't that our sites don't work at all in IE6. It's that they're glitchy and they look a bit off, but oftentimes they're usable.

Dropping IE6 support doesn't mean that sites will stop working in IE6. It just means that we stop devoting 5-10% of our project time to bastardizing CSS and JavaScript so that it'll be compatible with IE6 without messing up other browsers. The end result is a site that probably isn't any worse than your typical handheld browser experience on a typical site.

[kishy]

Organizations...geez. I was in a government office and their workstations were all running XP w/IE6...how'd I know this? Because the interface for them to access your records - yes, government office - depends on IE6.

The really stupid thing is how those same computers have internet access. Better be one mother of a hardware firewall on that connection...

[kishy]

I dunno about you but there's something about the tactile experience of holding a newspaper/book...I won't, for as long as possible at least, replace a proper paper copy with an e-anything.

Thus, I'd pay $0 for an online subscription, and I think it's actually worth approximately the same.

[ricercar]

we stop devoting 5-10% of our project time to bastardizing CSS and JavaScript so that it'll be compatible with IE6 without messing up other browsers.

Wait, wait, wait. Did we time travel back to 1997?

[hyperlinked]

Wait, wait, wait. Did we time travel back to 1997?

Is that why I sense the distinct smell of COBOL? And why's everyone referring to Prince as "The artist formerly known as Prince" again?

[hyperlinked]

Organizations...geez. I was in a government office and their workstations were all running XP w/IE6...how'd I know this? Because the interface for them to access your records - yes, government office - depends on IE6.

The Space Shuttle runs on old PCs because they know it works for what they need it to do and it's too risky and expensive to upgrade something that isn't broken.

The last Shuttle flight is coming soon. That must mean we can finally retire IE6!

[itlnstln]

IE6?  They're probably running Mosaic on the shuttle.

[kishy]

The real money is in iPad domain name selling.

$21M. Or make a offer.

iPad = "Clicky" Keyboards

For some reason I found the inclusion of "DELL" more humourous.

[hyperlinked]

IE6?  They're probably running Mosaic on the shuttle.

No way! There's no Web on the shuttle! They Gopher and WAIS.