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finger prints everywhere, illegible in sunlight, poor ebook selection, too heavy for extended use, miserable typing experience...seems like these points would a

by blehn 17y ago

finger prints everywhere, illegible in sunlight, poor ebook selection, too heavy for extended use, miserable typing experience...seems like these points would apply to "Everyone Else" as well, no?

j_b_f 17y ago
Less space than a Nomad.
- shaddi 17y ago
  I think some of those points, if serious enough, might break the overall experience.
- blehn 17y ago
  you missed my point. "less space than a nomad" was precisely a "techie" criticism of the iPod. That the Nomad had a 6GB capacity and the iPod 5GB was irrelevant to most people. Conversely, not being able to type comfortably or hold the device for more than 10 minutes without getting cramps--these are major usability issues that will affect everyone. iPad proponents seem to think people won't need to type on these things. Aren't they for casual web use? How do you write emails, blog posts, comments, usernames and passwords, URIs, google queries, tweets, IMs, etc. without typing? These tasks are trivial on regular keyboards, I'm not sure that will be the case on the iPad (I know it's not the case on my iPhone).
  - 10ren 17y ago
    His third-last paragraph nails it: It's a "consumer device", not a producer device. This particular issue hasn't hurt the iPhone... BTW: "Nomad" was so appropriate, being appealing to techies but not to normal people.
  - j_b_f 17y ago
    All I know is that I love being part of a community that gets that joke.
jsz0 17y ago
They're a bit on the nit picky side. Could certainly be deal breaker for some people but we know lots of technology is sold with finger print loving touch screens, lots of it weighs more than 1.5lbs, most everything except e-ink is hard to read in sunlight. Amazon's Kindle app kind of makes the ebook selection thing invalid. Typing is probably the big one here that is going to apply to "everyone else" but, then again, lots of these people are slow typers anyway. I think he's trying to make the point that "everyone else" wouldn't consider those things absolute deal breakers since they already buy technology that fits some, most or all of those categories. At the same time I wouldn't go out of my way to convince anyone they should settle on those issues if they feel strongly about them.

by blehn 17y ago

finger prints everywhere, illegible in sunlight, poor ebook selection, too heavy for extended use, miserable typing experience...seems like these points would apply to "Everyone Else" as well, no?

j_b_f 17y ago

Less space than a Nomad.

shaddi 17y ago
I think some of those points, if serious enough, might break the overall experience.
blehn 17y ago
you missed my point. "less space than a nomad" was precisely a "techie" criticism of the iPod. That the Nomad had a 6GB capacity and the iPod 5GB was irrelevant to most people. Conversely, not being able to type comfortably or hold the device for more than 10 minutes without getting cramps--these are major usability issues that will affect everyone. iPad proponents seem to think people won't need to type on these things. Aren't they for casual web use? How do you write emails, blog posts, comments, usernames and passwords, URIs, google queries, tweets, IMs, etc. without typing? These tasks are trivial on regular keyboards, I'm not sure that will be the case on the iPad (I know it's not the case on my iPhone).
- 10ren 17y ago
  His third-last paragraph nails it: It's a "consumer device", not a producer device. This particular issue hasn't hurt the iPhone... BTW: "Nomad" was so appropriate, being appealing to techies but not to normal people.
- j_b_f 17y ago
  All I know is that I love being part of a community that gets that joke.

jsz0 17y ago

They're a bit on the nit picky side. Could certainly be deal breaker for some people but we know lots of technology is sold with finger print loving touch screens, lots of it weighs more than 1.5lbs, most everything except e-ink is hard to read in sunlight. Amazon's Kindle app kind of makes the ebook selection thing invalid. Typing is probably the big one here that is going to apply to "everyone else" but, then again, lots of these people are slow typers anyway. I think he's trying to make the point that "everyone else" wouldn't consider those things absolute deal breakers since they already buy technology that fits some, most or all of those categories. At the same time I wouldn't go out of my way to convince anyone they should settle on those issues if they feel strongly about them.