Official iPad Thread

[hayaku]

wtf... iphone os 4.0 doesn't do true multi-tasking? only allowed for a few select apple apps to multi-task while others are still using the suspend-restart method, just presented on a fancy screen to switch?

lame-o

iPhone OS 4.0: The Multitasking Myth

[rayxi]

I'm no fan of Flash either. I'll shed no tears if Flash gets left in the dust in favor of HTML5. At least developers can choose whether or not to use it. The point here is that the direction taken is up to a larger stakeholder community, not a single vendor bent on total control.

[Quicksilver]

It could be that Apple has their mind on something that precludes the use of Adobe.

Six months ago an Apple analyst told me he thought the company’s long-term goal was to become the internet’s cable TV company. I didn’t get it then. I really get it now. Most think of Apple as a computer or consumer electronics company. I think that’s becoming a means to a much bigger end: becoming a giant news, entertainment and communications network with Googillian ambitions.

Most of its money still comes from selling computers, iPhones, iPods and iPads. But with its move into advertising, the spike in revenue from selling iPhone aps (four billion downloads and counting), as well as its move to take a percentage of book and other content sales on the iPad have NEW MEDIA COMPANY written all over them. It is moving to build the self-perpetuating effects that come with such a platform with astonishing speed.

The portals like Yahoo tried this. Their mistake? They didn’t make iPhones or iPads. Turns out, desktop and laptop computers and existing cell phones are lousy at consuming content. Everyone keeps running into the “lean forward lean back” problem. Computers are lean forward devices, but lousy entertainment machines. TVs are great to watch a movie on but lousy at doing email or web surfing.

The iPhone and probably the iPad are the first devices that truly solve this fundamental problem of media convergence. Probably because of their portability and touch screen, we are just as happy to do email and web surf as we are to lean back and watch a video or a movie with handheld, touch-screen devices.

I’ll leave the goodness or badness of Apple’s ambitions to others. What is not debatable however is that what Apple is doing has the potential to be a colossally huge business.

Cable TV companies’ are always constrained by their capital costs (laying and maintaining all that cable). Apple has none of those worries. I appears that for the moment all it has to do is keep making killer devices and software and the rest will take care of itself.

Devices like the iPad and iPhone generate audience, which attracts advertisers (a business Apple just said it was plunging into), which attracts content. It doesn’t hurt that Apple has proven to be one of the few online platforms capable of charging for digital content.

We can debate the pros and cons of Apple’s proprietary standards — as we have, and are — endlessly. As a matter of principal I don’t like them. Practically, they make things so easy that I’m not sure I care. Maybe Google’s model — control the software and let everything else take care of itself — will prove to be a better model.

But that was Microsoft’s model too, and we all know how happy we were about that. Maybe in the long term Apple’s platform will be popular enough, the content good enough and devices usable enough that it won’t have to lock us in.

What is clear is that with each passing day Steve Jobs is looking less and less like Sony’s co-founder Akio Morita and more and more like CBS’s Bill Paley — the man credited with inventing network television.

That is a very big deal indeed.

Fred Vogelstein is writing a book about the intersection of media and tech in Silicon Valley.



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[AzX5]

Apple says iPad demand is far higher than co predicted and will likely continue to exceed its supply over the next several weeks.

The co says "Although we have delivered more than 500,000 iPads during its first week, demand is far higher than we predicted and will likely continue to exceed our supply over the next several weeks as more people see and touch an iPad. We have also taken a large number of pre-orders for iPad 3G models for delivery by the end of April. Faced with this surprisingly strong US demand, we have made the difficult decision to postpone the international launch of iPad by one month, until the end of May. We will announce international pricing and begin taking online pre-orders on Monday, May 10. We know that many international customers waiting to buy an iPad will be disappointed by this news, but we hope they will be pleased to learn the reason--the iPad is a runaway success in the US thus far."

[princemoe2m]

YouTube - iPad in Car, Pt. 1, First Ever, SoundMan Car Audioi
havent read all this threat but here is something

[FSETH]

Originally Posted by princemoe2m

YouTube - iPad in Car, Pt. 1, First Ever, SoundMan Car Audioi
havent read all this threat but here is something

That is actually pretty sweet.

[R8DX5]

Originally Posted by FSETH

That is actually pretty sweet.

Would be pretty slick if they worked out the kinks.

[R8DX5]

AAPL

[SuperGreg]

Originally Posted by R8DX5

AAPL

Yup, bought a whole lot when it was at $92.00 WOO HOO

[Quicksilver]

Microsoft's Courier tablet was a real product under consideration by Microsoft, but that the company has since ended the project.
Now comes a report from TechCrunch claiming that HP no longer plans to offer its upcoming Windows 7-based "Slate" tablet.

Another One Bites The Dust? HP Reportedly Kills Windows 7 Slate Project - PCWorld