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I am in the target market for this and something disturbs me. It looks so great and neat that I wonder what will happen to the noise to signal ratio. I am not e
by todayiamme 16y ago
I am in the target market for this and something disturbs me. It looks so great and neat that I wonder what will happen to the noise to signal ratio. I am not exactly the Buddha in terms of concentration and the last thing I want is to be plugged into an interactive environment (the app itself and the iPad). I'll play around, have urges to read a million things at a time; do quizzes; watch videos; write notes to share instead of writing them to learn and in general do everything on it, but learn. What makes it even more dangerous is the fact that it looks like I am learning something.
That's the problem with a lot of products I see. It's not that I don't have a use for them. It's the fact that I don't want to get used to them. Sometimes, the bare bones is just how things should be. Of course, it's awfully convenient to have things in this package, but it won't serve the purpose that well.
This is why I plan to buy the color kindle someday, if they come out with a decent system to take annotations. It scratches my itch for books with an occasional physics/ math/ computer text, while offering me an environment I can curtail. Hopefully, someday I will have more fine tuned control over myself, but until then I plan to stay away from such things.
- scott_s 16y agoThis is a legitimate problem, but not unique to this product. Anyone who uses a computer to get work done already deals with this.
- xtacy 16y agoI haven't tried it; can people comment about iPad screen resolution and how readable it is? I've seen those magnified pictures, but how easy is it on the eye?
- ptomato 16y agoFar better then a desktop/laptop, not quite as good as a kindle for text, though very usable, much better than a kindle for graphics.
- muhfuhkuh 16y agoI can literally stare into the thing for hours: reading books/articles, surfing, watching video. It's makes no further strain on my eyes than does an LCD monitor (though, full disclosure: I use a P-MVA screen, which is supposedly "better quality" as LCDs go), and I _have_ to look at that for hours a day for my work. I think the people who don't like looking at the iPad screen for more than a few minutes base their patterns on personal or ideological beliefs, or are personally invested in another platform like OLED or e-ink (i.e., fanboys).
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