The Apple iPad Thread - Page 5

**Hugh** · 28-01-2010, 20:33

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Originally Posted by Thomas T

I wonder what the accesibility is like. If it has a decent zoom and screen reader I'll be happy

I do like the look of the mac zoom and screen reader.

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My dad has an iPhone and an iPod touch - go figure

I used to have an iPod, an iTouch, and an iPhone

(a friend gave me the iPod 80GB as a thank you gift, I won the iTouch, and got the iPhone as a work phone).

Used to have - my son has the iPod, and my daughter the iTouch.

Lew · 28-01-2010, 20:35

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Originally Posted by ZrByte

Yes but isnt the iphone OS so heavily cut down cmopared to OSX Its like comparing windows mobile 5 to windows 7. I meant more like the slightly cut down tablet editions and netbook editions of windows and some linux distros.
And yes I do agree about microsoft, I'm still waiting for the windows desktop thingy to become standard hardware, I think they predicted a 2010/2011 release and from what I hear that's nowhere near likely (Though It was nice to see it have a cameo in Quantum of Solace).

Having used a tablet PC (admittedly running XP Tablet Edition) for me the standard desktop UI doesn't work very well on a touch-oriented device. While I believe the iPad definitely has room for improvement (I'm interested to see what's to come when iPhone OS 4 arrives; the iPad is running v3.2 apparently, just the standard iPhone OS with a few tweaks for the new features) I think it's a better fit for this type of device than the desktop OS X GUI would have been. Manipulating normal windows and controls would just be too fiddly with a touch interface, whereas the restrictions of the iPhone interface has made developers to come up with some very intuitive ways of interacting with the software.

Raistlin · 28-01-2010, 20:42

All I'm gonna say is this.....

If it is running the same OS as the iPhone for your own sake please don't put anything important on it

Lew · 28-01-2010, 20:43

An iPad-enabled version of this game could be quite fun.

CycoSymz · 28-01-2010, 20:48

ipadphone.jpg

This made me laugh

**Damien** · 28-01-2010, 20:50

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Originally Posted by Rob M

All I'm gonna say is this.....

If it is running the same OS as the iPhone for your own sake please don't put anything important on it

Why?

handyman · 29-01-2010, 00:21

Well the launch is 2 months off and a lot can change in that time. I do like all the apple bashing though it's quite funny. Just because the sony netbook sized laptops used to be Â£2k plus never stopped me wanting one. After using an iphone since the launch of the 2g I think I could definitely find a use for this. I could leave my Laptop for proper work and configure it as such and then have this for pootling on the web down stairs on the couch. I was pondering a tv for the bedroom as I quite often watch iplayer on the iphone in bed on cold hungover mornings and this would improve that no end. (Yes I know I could go hunt my laptop and wait 5 minutes for it to boot and then go hunt the charger etc..). Going to be plenty more 'meaty' apps for this come launch and a lot more productivity stuff. I can see me doing tech calls with this and wandering round like I'm in Star Trek ;-).

Jimmy-J · 29-01-2010, 02:57

Hitler responds to the iPad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0...layer_embedded

MadGamer · 29-01-2010, 10:18

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Originally Posted by Product 13

Hitler responds to the iPad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0...layer_embedded

handyman · 29-01-2010, 11:24

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Originally Posted by Product 13

Hitler responds to the iPad

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0...layer_embedded

Very funny :-)

**Chris** · 29-01-2010, 11:46

Brilliant.

Some good points, though. It's clearly designed for consuming the web - so why no Flash? That means no Youtube and none of the nonsense Mrs T loves to play about with on Farcebook. That one single omission renders the thing useless in our house. Otherwise, at anything under Â£400 we would almost certainly have bought one at some point.

Lew · 29-01-2010, 11:53

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Originally Posted by Chris

Brilliant.

Some good points, though. It's clearly designed for consuming the web - so why no Flash? That means no Youtubeâ€¦

Becauseâ€¦

1: Steve Jobs is a control freak.
2: Flash is a buggy, insecure piece of crap.
3: Adobe couldn't code a decent version of Flash on non-Windows platforms if their lives depended on it.

As for the no YouTube problem, they're beta-testing an HTML5/h.264 version at the moment, which works fine. That, plus the YouTube app that comes as standard on every iPhone and iPod Touch and iPad.

http://www.apple.com/uk/ipad/features/

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YouTube

The YouTube app organises videos so theyâ€™re really easy to see and navigate. To watch one, you just tap it. When youâ€™re watching in landscape, the video will automatically play in full screen. And with its high-resolution display, the latest YouTube HD videos will look amazing on iPad.

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BTW, the Apple UK site now has an iPad page.

Unfortunatelyâ€¦

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Please note, pricing is in US dollars. International pricing will be announced at a later date.

**Maggy** · 30-01-2010, 11:10

Has everyone seen all the very funny youtube productions and blogs around the web..There is one youtube I loved but can't link to because it is so tasteless...

danielf · 30-01-2010, 11:18

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Originally Posted by Maggy J

Has everyone seen all the very funny youtube productions and blogs around the web..There is one youtube I loved but can't link to because it is so tasteless...

I'm guessing a google for Itampon will bring it up though

**Maggy** · 30-01-2010, 13:10

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Originally Posted by danielf

I'm guessing a google for Itampon will bring it up though

Could be..but I suspect there maybe more than one..