A British fashion magazine has reportedly dubbed its iPad issue "the Iran edition" due to the requirement to remove nipples and other body parts to get content on Apple's tablet computer.---
Steve Ballmer from the Microsoft Corporation is ticked off at Jobs too.You wouldn't expect him to like it. Apple if focusing on making a great user experience, while with android, Google is focusing on Developers, Developers, Developers.
OK, I'm pretty thinly read (little bits of lots? am I using that correctly, Eddie Izzard fans?) across the blogoverse, and I don't really have a handle on how seriously the individual or collective Gawker departments take themselves. But I look at this and I see some schmuck down in subsector 7G of the Gawkerdrome who just avowedly & unabashedly engaged in a liquor-fueled pissing contest in print with a major-league CEO whose people are, as we speak, actively pursuing legal action against Gawkerdom Itself.I don't think there's any legal action going on against gawker itself, just against the guy who found the phone.
ain’t goin’ down to no race trackYes, he'd have a different view of revolution, but he'd still be a cranky weirdo who might care more about the fate of immigrants in Arizona or fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico than whether Wired can ship a Flash version of their magazine on the iPad.
See no sports car run
I don’t have no sports car
And I don’t even care to have one
I can walk anytime around the block
If you make Steve Jobs look like less of an asshole than you, you have a serious asshole problem. -- dirigiblemanWhat are you talking about? If this guy is an "asshole" because of those emails, then so are 90% of the people who post on metafilter.
Yes, and the iPad, that giant iPod Touch (psst, that's not a bug, it's a feature when you already know the OS of a new device), is definitely leading the way. Whether it stays the leader is anyone's guess at this point, we'll se what other tablets come out this year. But there's no question of it's impact. Like it or hate it, the iPad is put the revolution on the map and only a fool would deny that. -- Brandon BlatcherYES, A NEW TOY IS REVOLUTION IN HUMAN ACHEVMENT. Seriously, the ability to pay money to a giant corporation to so you can play with a computer that’s slightly cooler then some other computers is a the soviets getting kicked out of Poland. Steve Jobs is the George Washington of touch screens!
Wow. Open-source is still the computer version of the guy in the back of every rally to the left of the Illinois Nazis holding up a "legalize pot" sign. -- DoctorFedoraBecause obviously marijuana should be illegal. Freedom from the munchies!
Well HuffPo bothers the shit out of me too. It's a lack of vigor and concern for what is true. A good HuffPo example would be their embrace of quackery.Well most paper media was crap too, why should it be any different on the internet?
Yes. The iPad turned the computer into something you don't tinker with, it's something you use and don't have to tinker with, it just works.Oh come on, mac users have been saying the same thing for 20 years. Were they all full of crap the entire time?
Well, look lets review:Were they [mac users who said macs 'just worked'] all full of crap the entire time?Obviously I don't think so, don't know what else to say to you. You think it's a toy, I think it's good tool (with definite issues, sure) because it strips away a lot of extra trappings and just let's people get work (or play).
I said: I didn't think the iPad was revolutionaryThe problem is that Either macs just worked, in which case the iPad is not revolutionary, OR iPads are revolutionary in which case Macs didn't "just work".
You said: "The iPad turned the computer into something you don't tinker with, it's something you use and don't have to tinker with, it just works."
I Said: Mac users have been saying their systems "just worked" for a long time, were they full of crap?
You said: "Obviously I don't think so"
I never claimed the business model was revolutionary, so I have no idea why you're mentioning that. -- Brandon BlatcherBecause their "Just works" mantra is enabled by their business model. If anyone could write and distribute apps for the iPad, there would be same problem with malware, spam, etc. Locking down the applications like a video game system is a big part of what the iPad is. Otherwise it would just be a touch screen Macintosh with an updated finder, not really different then any laptop, except not having a keyboard. And it wouldn't be getting 1/10th the hate.
Macs just worked all those years compared to the competition, the iPad just works compared to the competition today. -- furiousxgeorge
It's not an either or thing. Macs tended to just work, better than PCs -- Brandon BlatcherOh come on. Something either "Just works" or it doesn't. You're basically saying "Oh, the Macintosh is free of problems! I mean except for these problems that don't exist on the iPad! But the iPad is definitely free of problems (Except...)"
Eh, software bugs, it happens.Uh huh. And is the average user going to be able to figure out why they can't get online and just reason through that obviously they need to reduce their screen brightness first? No? But the iPad "just works" except for the software bugs that prevent it from working.
Why not? It's one thing for a 1.0 product to have issues, it's another for 10.0 versionThat's ridiculous mobile flash for android is obviously beta. They're not even giving it out yet. And you're comparing it to a hardware device that's been sold to millions of people.
By this logic nothing could be described as just working as long as a superior design is ever to exist.Not at all. You can say that two things "Just work". I mean, my first digital camera "just worked" and my current one "Just works". They both just worked! But one is better because it takes sharper pictures.
The problem is that Either macs just worked, in which case the iPad is not revolutionary, OR iPads are revolutionary in which case Macs didn't "just work".Soupisgoodfood wrote:
But they can't both be true, it can only be one or the other.
They sure can be if you stop taking a marketing tag-line as an unbreakable rule and take other things into consideration. --Well, the problem is that if "Just works" is "Just a tagline" then it's actually just completely meaningless. Vacuous hype. And there's nothing revolutionary about hype. Especially when it's the same tagline they've been using for over 20 years, I mean come on.
You're basing the potential of a platform on some bit of mainstream consumer marking? Think Different. I can think of many serious business and academic uses for an iPad. That you can't says more about you than the iPad or iPhone OS.Oh come on. If someone writes a serious business app for the iPad, then you'll be able to do "Serious business" with it. What you won't be able to do, though, is share information between apps directly on the device. That's a huge weakness on the device itself. You could put data "on the cloud" but since there is no 'standard' way of doing that right now, it means more effort and work in configuring apps. Each app would need it's own configuration, and some apps might not work with different cloud providers, etc.
That completely depends on the task at hand, surely? Do you think smartphones are poor business tools, too?Well, you can't make calls on the iPad, which is mostly how phones are used in business. Phone calls and quick emails on the go. The iPad is actually not as portable for quickie emails.
Having spent a good bit of time playing with an iPad, watching others play with it and talking to an Apple sales rep at the local Best Buy, i think the iPad "just works" in the sense that people almost immediately pick up to use it and enjoy using it. It allows them to interact with their data in new way, seemingly directly. The focus for the user is on using their data not a a computer, although they clearly are. In that sense, how I mean it just works, someone picks it up, quickly grabs how to use it and then starts using it without having to worry where their files or apps are stored. The Finder/Explorer metaphor is now longer needed. That's revolutionary.Well, the finder/explorer metaphor isn't needed because you still need another computer to manage your iPad. You have to upload songs and movies and pictures to it with iTunes, right? Running on a PC or Mac?
Have you forgotten the years of "I'm a PC/I'm a Mac" advertising or are we just ignoring it because it is inconvenient to the argument?The problem I have is the idea of using a marketing slogan as a factual assertion, and then calling something revolutionary because of that slogan. I mean, if we're just talking about a marketing slogan, that's not revolutionary. Again, especially since it's the same slogan they've been using for decades!
The "It just works" slogan was always part of anti-pc ads in their campaign to get people to switch formats. It was always "It just works" compared to PC. -- furiousxgeorge
Integrating digital devices into hospitals is well known to be a hard problem, and proper sterilisation is one of the main reasons. You don't want to have to throw away your keyboard after every surgery, after all, especially if it's inseparably attached to a $1000 laptop. But if somebody designed a nice touch-based tablet that was easily sterilised, it could do some magic.Someone needs to invent the iPad condom, STAT.
in order to support our active and growing revMobile customer base, we submitted an in-depth proposal to Apple that we create an iPhone-only product ... Steve Jobs has now rejected our proposal and made it clear that he has no interest in having revMobile available on the iPhone or iPad in any form.posted by me & my monkey at 3:06 PM on May 17, 2010
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