Official iPad Thread

[SuperGreg]

Originally Posted by LeMansX5

Do you still have your old one?

Nope, sold

[LeMansX5]

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[E61Silver]

Originally Posted by Thunder22

That pretty much sums it up. Our end user computing group sees new devices months before they're available for general release (with the exception of Apple products)

Is that why you are a hater?

[Thunder22]

Originally Posted by E61Silver

Is that why you are a hater?

Seriously dude? You really want to keep coming at me?

Give it a rest. You have no clue.

(I have an iPad and a Macbook pro)

Being crticial of something does not mean "hate", but then again, why am I bothering to explain it to you, it's like singing a song to a deaf man.

[Thunder22]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

As an IT professional surley you must have a program to educate the blind. The iPad certainly does. In fact there is no barrier to blind folks using the Apple iPads touch screen. Would you believe that security doesn't even factor into it's use. I guess Apple thought it was important enough to bother.

In fact; The Apple iPad is one hundred percent accessible straight out of the box. Like many other products that require the blind to install third-party software in order to use them successfully, which requires more money to be spent, the iPad has Voiceover technology integrated into the device that enables all aspects of the iPad to be utilized.

Still standing by your statement "It's a solution in search of a problem"?
Man this is fun. Hope your smiling?

You mean like Windows XP in 2001?

Nice job though, it only took you a year to come up with an example of a use for an ipad beyond surfing and as a bigger iPhone.

[Quicksilver]

I believe we are talking about the iPad correct? Not XP 2001.

If you are talking Windows Eye's for $895.00? Nice job. You just suggested a program that cost more than the iPad. No wonder the Blind are ecstatic to get their hands on an intuitive iPad.

I did find some information regarding how the ipad has and will shape the future for the blind. This is just one of the few uses I've highlighted that the iPad can be used for. Of course it will not be be everyone.

The fact that your company has provided you with the hardware to test I believe is an indicator of the iPad's importance. Why not tell us what your testing involves and what some of the results have shown.

The iPad could be the best mobile accessibility device on the market

[Thunder22]

Originally Posted by Quicksilver

I believe we are talking about the iPad correct? Not XP 2001.

If you are talking Windows Eye's for $895.00? Nice job. You just suggested a program that cost more than the iPad. No wonder the Blind are ecstatic to get their hands on an intuitive iPad.

I did find some information regarding how the ipad has and will shape the future for the blind. This is just one of the few uses I've highlighted that the iPad can be used for. Of course it will not be be everyone.

The fact that your company has provided you with the hardware to test I believe is an indicator of the iPad's importance. Why not tell us what your testing involves and what some of the results have shown.

The iPad could be the best mobile accessibility device on the market

once again you show your serious lack of IT knowledge.

Look up Windows Speech Recognition Engine (SRE) for Windows Xp Barry. It's free.

And yes, the thread is about the ipad, but you insinuated that its technology is new and unique, when it is clearly not, in fact speech recognition has been available as part of Windows for a long time.

Your "belief" that because something is tested is a sign of its importance is also misguided. All kinds of technology are evaluated by companies every day, it has nothing to do with importance but rather "suitability for task" and "completeness".

Educate yourself on VDI, data security and device security if you want, and then we can discuss testing results. Or I can just tell you now that it's not suitable for task yet.

And just for the record.... speech recognition and screen readers have been available for the blind on Windows since Windows 98.

COMPUTER PRODUCTS AND PUBLICATIONS FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED

[Quicksilver]

All that you say may be true. Some of it may be free but some of it cost exactly what I quoted. Remember though not everyone cares about IT knowledge or it's implementation regarding VDI, data security and device security. The average joe just wants a device that works simply, easily and without complications and apparently what you describe isn't the most intuitive platform available for the Blind.

If you had read the information I provided and additional information thats available perhaps you would admit that when people see the way new hardware and software is being brought to the general public then even you would have to admit that the way it is being used and the devices that are being used to run it "is new and unique".

What may be required for IT professionals is to simplify their viewpoint to understand what the public views as "new and unique". Common people don't spend their time looking at changes in technology from an IT perspective and honestly I don't think the average persons cares. So my suggestion to anyone who may be stuck in the IT closet is to try to see and understand what people in general are getting at when they say from their perspective that something is "is new and unique"

Regarding your comment "once again you show your serious lack of IT knowledge." I don't think I made any effort to impress anyone with whatever IT knowledge I may have. All I'm respectfully asking is that you consider that the opinions of others regarding the use of this technology for the everyday person. Many of my friends who have been in IT for well over 20 years see the future as heading in the consumer direction (hence the iPad debate).They understand the necessity of a broadened perspective regarding how to view where technology is headed. In that regard may I suggest that you give this article i've posted another read and see if you can find something positive about the way this technology (the iPad in this case) is being presented and share those positive comments in this thread.

The iPad could be the best mobile accessibility device on the market



Like many people who are into IT they forget what the average person would
like to accomplish

[Weasel]

Jeez, one would usually need to visit the politics forum to find this type of heated, two sided argument....

[chrgosselin]

Anyone here willing to ship a BLACK AT&T iPad 2 3G 64Gb to a poor Canadian who doesn't want to wait 'til the end of March (if we're lucky)? PM me if you'd be willing to do that for a fellow Apple fanboy!