http://blog.dancatchpole.com/archives/2010/02/02/ipad/ welcome to danblog Fri, 05 Feb 2010 03:55:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 http://blog.dancatchpole.com/archives/2010/02/02/ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-2915 Dan Catchpole Wed, 03 Feb 2010 19:07:35 +0000 http://blog.dancatchpole.com/archives/2010/02/02/ipad/#comment-2915 <p>I agree about the chat thing, and I've seen some clever mockups for how to deal with it, in addition there are few novel jailbreak solutions, so hopefully they'll figure out how to handle it. Apparently yesterday it came out that Apple has a new patent for 'hotspots' on the bezel of the tablet, maybe where you could pull up widgets, like a chat widget or something. For a first effort, the iPad isn't bad, but it wasn't very ambitious, either.</p> I agree about the chat thing, and I've seen some clever mockups for how to deal with it, in addition there are few novel jailbreak solutions, so hopefully they'll figure out how to handle it. Apparently yesterday it came out that Apple has a new patent for 'hotspots' on the bezel of the tablet, maybe where you could pull up widgets, like a chat widget or something. For a first effort, the iPad isn't bad, but it wasn't very ambitious, either.

]]> http://blog.dancatchpole.com/archives/2010/02/02/ipad/comment-page-1/#comment-2914 adam Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:06:50 +0000 http://blog.dancatchpole.com/archives/2010/02/02/ipad/#comment-2914 <p>I think the only real problem with the iPad is the way in which it was presented. Mr. Jorbs touted it as a thing to replace netbooks and, as presented, it really doesn't do that. If it had even a dumbed-down version of OSX on it, something that didn't require you to quit browsing to chat, say, then I think they'd have a winner on their hands.<br><br>I look forward to seeing the second and third generations of the iPad because I think they'll be more robust and do a better job of bridging the iPhone/laptop gap that Apple seems to be targeting. Perhaps the iPhone/iPad OS4.0 will provide further improvements to what I presently see as a solution looking for a problem.</p> I think the only real problem with the iPad is the way in which it was presented. Mr. Jorbs touted it as a thing to replace netbooks and, as presented, it really doesn't do that. If it had even a dumbed-down version of OSX on it, something that didn't require you to quit browsing to chat, say, then I think they'd have a winner on their hands.

I look forward to seeing the second and third generations of the iPad because I think they'll be more robust and do a better job of bridging the iPhone/laptop gap that Apple seems to be targeting. Perhaps the iPhone/iPad OS4.0 will provide further improvements to what I presently see as a solution looking for a problem.

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