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I really like the last paragraph: "I promised a verdict, so here it is. With the caveat that it's after one day and I reserve the right to change it at any tim

by Osiris 17y ago

I really like the last paragraph: "I promised a verdict, so here it is. With the caveat that it's after one day and I reserve the right to change it at any time: Today's iPad, the one that I just bought, is just a demo of something that could be very nice and useful at some point in the future. Today it's something to play with, not something to use. That's the kind way to say it. The direct way: It's a toy. " That seems spot on to me. I think it'll take a few hardware and OS revisions to really make this kind of product shine. I'm curious to see how it'll be used in business settings, it seems like it could have a lot of potential for businesses to run internal apps on, but how could they install them?

ojbyrne 17y ago
Most notable omission is a camera. Skype video is the killer app for this machine.
- mos1 17y ago
  people keep saying this, and i keep thinking it'll be shot from a truly horrible angle and will be really unflattering.
  - ojbyrne 17y ago
    If you're talking to a close friend or family member (that's the use case), it doesn't matter.
  - deleted 17y ago
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  - grinich 17y ago
    And a wobbly image. I'd like to see some good image stabilization using face-tracking.
    - celoyd 17y ago
      Apple’s photo software already has face recognition and its video software already has good image stabilization. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were spin-offs of work towards precisely this.
  - electromagnetic 17y ago
    Bad angle, really? This is freaking Apple we're talking about if Jobs can't resolve something as simple as a camera angle (hello dozen phones that came out last year with a swivel mounted camera to directly resolve this problem) then he should resign as an incompetent fool. He managed to bring Apple back from the brink and revolutionize the industry, if he can't resolve a camera angle issue he's a complete fraud with more luck than Jesus crossed with that air stewardess who fell from flight altitude crossed with the bastard child of Anakin Skywalker and Yoda. I'm sorry, bad camera angle is the biggest piece of piss poor excuse I've ever heard. I'd honestly be more appeased if Apple simply said "sorry, things got missed out that we wanted to implement, shit happens - that's life".
- bmalicoat 17y ago
  Andy Ihnatko mentioned something about this the other day. Since the device is orientation-less (for the most part), Apple could make an iSight that plugged into the dock connector and you just held it upside-down. They probably won't, but it is possible.
KC8ZKF 17y ago
The "Enterprise" developer program includes in-house deployment capabilities.
- umjames 17y ago
  I really wish Apple didn't require a 500-employee headcount and a D&B number to be an enterprise customer. They should relax the constraints so that small businesses can start making internal apps.
  - aristus 17y ago
    That would become a backdoor app economy. If any little company could install apps on their employee's phones, I'd start making apps to sell them without the 30% cut to Apple.

by Osiris 17y ago

ojbyrne 17y ago

Most notable omission is a camera. Skype video is the killer app for this machine.

mos1 17y ago
people keep saying this, and i keep thinking it'll be shot from a truly horrible angle and will be really unflattering.
- ojbyrne 17y ago
  If you're talking to a close friend or family member (that's the use case), it doesn't matter.
- deleted 17y ago
  [deleted]
- grinich 17y ago
  And a wobbly image. I'd like to see some good image stabilization using face-tracking.
  - celoyd 17y ago
    Apple’s photo software already has face recognition and its video software already has good image stabilization. I wouldn’t be surprised if they were spin-offs of work towards precisely this.
- electromagnetic 17y ago
  Bad angle, really? This is freaking Apple we're talking about if Jobs can't resolve something as simple as a camera angle (hello dozen phones that came out last year with a swivel mounted camera to directly resolve this problem) then he should resign as an incompetent fool. He managed to bring Apple back from the brink and revolutionize the industry, if he can't resolve a camera angle issue he's a complete fraud with more luck than Jesus crossed with that air stewardess who fell from flight altitude crossed with the bastard child of Anakin Skywalker and Yoda. I'm sorry, bad camera angle is the biggest piece of piss poor excuse I've ever heard. I'd honestly be more appeased if Apple simply said "sorry, things got missed out that we wanted to implement, shit happens - that's life".
bmalicoat 17y ago
Andy Ihnatko mentioned something about this the other day. Since the device is orientation-less (for the most part), Apple could make an iSight that plugged into the dock connector and you just held it upside-down. They probably won't, but it is possible.

KC8ZKF 17y ago

The "Enterprise" developer program includes in-house deployment capabilities.

umjames 17y ago
I really wish Apple didn't require a 500-employee headcount and a D&B number to be an enterprise customer. They should relax the constraints so that small businesses can start making internal apps.
- aristus 17y ago
  That would become a backdoor app economy. If any little company could install apps on their employee's phones, I'd start making apps to sell them without the 30% cut to Apple.