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charybdis

sunny2004 wrote: »

for me it needs a USB port, so more than likely I will wait for version 2...

I'm fairly certain the iPad will never have a dedicated USB port.

Promac wrote: »

It's really just a platform for Apple to sell apps. They charge 30% of all sales for all apps.

As is a Windows PC a platform for Microsoft to sell apps and development tools. Also, according to many Mac developers, a 30% cost for distribution costs and infrastructure is actually pretty good compared with the percentage cost of doing it themselves, particularly because it scales very linearly so you don't need to set up a complex infrastructure to sell a handful of specialised applications and don't have to worry about changing it if you sales suddenly increase.

sunny2004

charybdis wrote: »

I'm fairly certain the iPad will never have a dedicated USB port.

I dont understand ? why ?

Promac

charybdis wrote: »

I'm fairly certain the iPad will never have a dedicated USB port.



As is a Windows PC a platform for Microsoft to sell apps and development tools. Also, according to many Mac developers, a 30% cost for distribution costs and infrastructure is actually pretty good compared with the percentage cost of doing it themselves, particularly because it scales very linearly so you don't need to set up a complex infrastructure to sell a handful of specialised applications and don't have to worry about changing it if you sales suddenly increase.

I didn't say anything about windows and I didn't say the app store wasn't great for small developers - it is. Stop trying to get people into an argument will you?

5uspect

Forget the ipad. Say hellp to the Eee Pad.

TinyExplosions

sunny2004 wrote: »

I dont understand ? why ?

Because it's not the way Apple do things... they have their dock connector, and I can't see them moving away from that

charybdis

sunny2004 wrote: »

I dont understand ? why ?

The vast majority of USB devices and peripherals won't work with it without a major overhaul of the concepts behind the iPad and Apple won't want to invite the criticism of putting a USB port in the iPad when you can't use it with so many things. The Camera Connector Kit effectively adds a USB port, but specifically states it is for use with cameras and memory cards, and although USB microphones apparently work with it, you can't use it for much else as the driver's don't exist.

5uspect wrote: »

Forget the ipad. Say hellp to the Eee Pad.

I'll be more than happy to say hellp to it when it's more than a 3D render; right now I'd put it in the same boat as Microsoft's Courier and the HP Slate that Ballmer's CES keynote was dedicated to.

Ballyman

I reckon the iPad is a piss take from Apple to see how many people will buy anything with the Apple logo stuck onto it.

5uspect

charybdis wrote: »

I'll be more than happy to say hellp to it when it's more than a 3D render; right now I'd put it in the same boat as Microsoft's Courier and the HP Slate that Ballmer's CES keynote was dedicated to.

They've demoed a barely working version of the 10" model and shown a mock up of the 12". It's early days yet.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcPUhvT2TSA

charybdis

5uspect wrote: »

They've demoed a barely working version of the 10" model and shown a mock up of the 12". It's early days yet.

I know, and Ballmer had a working prototype of HP's slate on stage during his CES keynote.

I suspect many people will have had iPads for a year or more before Asus can actually launch a v1.0 product, and "Windows Embedded Compact 7" isn't exactly a stable and proven OS yet.

DotOrg

i'm confused about why there's all this comment and arguing about whether you can plug your camera into the ipad or install some version of photoshop onto it

the ipad is a device for regular averge people to consume media, such as books, games, the web, their photos. it's not trying to be any more than that. It's for normal folk to look at pictures of their friends, browse online newspapers, play an occasional game and read and read and occasional book whilst lying on the sofa.

for the forseeable future, apple and other computer makers, make laptops and desktops for people to create video, edit photos etc

ozymandius

Since HP's aquisition of Palm the Slate (at least a Windows-based model) is looking unlikely. And the Courier has been cancelled.

charybdis wrote: »

I'll be more than happy to say hellp to it when it's more than a 3D render; right now I'd put it in the same boat as Microsoft's Courier and the HP Slate that Ballmer's CES keynote was dedicated to.

PJ.Harte

Can someone answer my question


Why can't I upload a photo on Boards with my iPad, and it's not just Boards it won't let me on any site.

Is there an app to do this as well :-)

PJ

PaulieC

DotOrg wrote: »

i'm confused about why there's all this comment and arguing about whether you can plug your camera into the ipad or install some version of photoshop onto it

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=66111576&postcount=2

Borderfox

Cant believe the Ipad has no USB connectors??

Damian Duffy

DotOrg wrote: »

i'm confused about why there's all this comment and arguing about whether you can plug your camera into the ipad or install some version of photoshop onto it

the ipad is a device for regular averge people to consume media, such as books, games, the web, their photos. it's not trying to be any more than that. It's for normal folk to look at pictures of their friends, browse online newspapers, play an occasional game and read and read and occasional book whilst lying on the sofa.

for the forseeable future, apple and other computer makers, make laptops and desktops for people to create video, edit photos etc

I completely agree with you. The problem I have with some people regarding the iPad is that they always go on about what it can't do when these are these things that it is not trying to do. It is for viewing photos in a nice, clean, user friendly environment. Nothing more, nothing less.

I'm sure the day will come when iPad and other tablets can be used with Photoshop but that day is not now. I'd hesitate to suggest that any person buying an Ipad has a laptop or desktop computer anyway, and definitely in the case of people interested in photography. If you already have this, why would you want your iPad to do those things? The first thing it asks you to do is connect it to a computer!

Most people who buy an iPad (at least now) are going to be people who can afford a luxury item, are interested in the above things you mentioned (movies, casual browsing etc), love apple products, interested in new technology but there are others who have an advanced knowledge of computers who are interested in one because it does the simple things well. I don't have one but have seen one and it is beautiful and great to use. If I have spent hours on photoshop editing my photos, to then show them to people on an iPad would be great and that's what Apple wants you to do.

Damian Duffy

PJ.Harte wrote: »

Can someone answer my question


Why can't I upload a photo on Boards with my iPad, and it's not just Boards it won't let me on any site.

Is there an app to do this as well :-)

PJ

The photobucket app although I'm not entirely sure if it will work

Promac

The flickr app for the iPhone lets you upload pics to your flickr account. You can then link from there to boards as a URL.