iPad - Page 8

iCraig · 29-01-2010, 16:44

Browse the web is a bit misleading though. You can browse the web as long as you don't mind having no flash. People say it's no loss, but normally on a desktop browser with flash very much installed. With the iPad you'll be browsing in the exact same way you browse on the iPod, you'll just have to scroll less. Why that's considering revolutionary web browsing I don't know.

It's around more than a lot of people realise. BBC News for example, you can browse it as long as you're happy to only read the articles. The inline flash video which accompanies a lot of reports will just sit on the page, broken.

Glaucus · 29-01-2010, 16:46

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Originally Posted by iCraig

Browse the web is a bit misleading though. You can browse the web as long as you don't mind having no flash. People say it's no loss, but normally on a desktop browser with flash very much installed.

I agree like most things it is crippled by the apple way, no memory card slots will be another. Which is why it'll be nice to see what is out in the next few months by other companys as they are planned.

A lot of people don't seem to get such a device, there certainly is a market and demand for one. Tablet pcs have been around a while, but this will push them into the main stream.

Wossi · 29-01-2010, 17:08

If another company pulls their finger out and makes a similar device, but with a hell of a lot more features, then I'd be tempted to buy one. As it is, the only thing that the ipad has that my 3 year old laptop doesn't is a touch screen. Right now my laptop is better value than the ipad.

Glaucus · 29-01-2010, 17:13

but without a keyboard what other functions would you want? with no easy way to type.
skype and proper multitasking(but that's apples way) is about the only sensible function I've seen someone mention.

A laptop may have more functions, but that's because it's designed for a different purpose.
Such devices are not a replacement for laptops or phones. A lot of people our assuming they should be.

Matblack · 29-01-2010, 17:24

Errr, the whole book reading thing, it is only in the States, there are no ebook/ ibook agreements in the UK :/

MB

G|mp · 29-01-2010, 17:38

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Originally Posted by AcidHell2

watching movies, web browsing and reading books. A lot of people want a device for exactly that reason. I want one (I doubt it will be Ipad but a competitor) to browse web in lounge and watch movies when I'm stuck in the van at work or travelling. As well as reading books on the move or in the house. It really has no other use. If you need to work on such a device you need a keyboard and you then have to have a big power hungry laptop.

Apparently it can do some multitasking. Like the Iphone can play music and browse the web. But you couldn't use say spotify and browse the web.

I have an ipod touch and a HTC Hero that can cover all of those.

It seems pointless to be carrying that around when like Craig said, you might as well use a netbook or touch or mobile internet.

It seems to be the middle ground between a laptop and a mobile.

Glaucus · 29-01-2010, 17:46

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Originally Posted by G|mp

I have an ipod touch and a HTC Hero that can cover all of those.

Both of which have tiny screens which makes normal browsing ridiculously hard and film watching silly and book reading pointless.

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Originally Posted by G|mp

It seems to be the middle ground between a laptop and a mobile.

It is. A netbook/laptop is big chunky un-needed keyboard, if you don't need a laptop/netbook why get one over a tablet. Phone is to small and impractical.

Flibster · 29-01-2010, 17:54

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Originally Posted by G|mp

I have an ipod touch and a HTC Hero that can cover all of those.

It seems pointless to be carrying that around when like Craig said, you might as well use a netbook or touch or mobile internet.

It seems to be the middle ground between a laptop and a mobile.

Just been digging through the old work devices that I got *they were officially scrapped so fair game...

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Dated April 2007 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Athena
Dated December 2007 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_Clio

I still use my HTC Universal even though its many years old...

Feek · 29-01-2010, 20:01

It may have flash *clicky*.

iCraig · 29-01-2010, 20:13

Sounds more like it's hiding the non-flash. At a live keynote they needed to browse for real.

Same way the adverts on TV always have 'Sequence Shortened' when they demonstrate how easy it is to use the app store.

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iCraig iCustom User Title Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,250	Browse the web is a bit misleading though. You can browse the web as long as you don't mind having no flash. People say it's no loss, but normally on a desktop browser with flash very much installed. With the iPad you'll be browsing in the exact same way you browse on the iPod, you'll just have to scroll less. Why that's considering revolutionary web browsing I don't know. It's around more than a lot of people realise. BBC News for example, you can browse it as long as you're happy to only read the articles. The inline flash video which accompanies a lot of reports will just sit on the page, broken. __________________

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Glaucus Absinthe Join Date: Jun 2008 Posts: 1,855	but without a keyboard what other functions would you want? with no easy way to type. skype and proper multitasking(but that's apples way) is about the only sensible function I've seen someone mention. A laptop may have more functions, but that's because it's designed for a different purpose. Such devices are not a replacement for laptops or phones. A lot of people our assuming they should be. __________________ Last edited by Glaucus; 29-01-2010 at 17:16.

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Matblack Baby Bore Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Svalbard Posts: 9,770	Errr, the whole book reading thing, it is only in the States, there are no ebook/ ibook agreements in the UK :/ MB __________________ "we had roots that grew towards each other underground, and when all the pretty blossom had fallen from our branches we found that we were one tree and not two"

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Feek ex SAS Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: JO01ou Posts: 10,062	It may have flash clicky. __________________

29-01-2010, 20:13	#80
iCraig iCustom User Title Join Date: Jul 2006 Posts: 2,250	Sounds more like it's hiding the non-flash. At a live keynote they needed to browse for real. Same way the adverts on TV always have 'Sequence Shortened' when they demonstrate how easy it is to use the app store. __________________

29-01-2010, 17:08	#73
Wossi Absinthe Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: In the middle Posts: 1,385	If another company pulls their finger out and makes a similar device, but with a hell of a lot more features, then I'd be tempted to buy one. As it is, the only thing that the ipad has that my 3 year old laptop doesn't is a touch screen. Right now my laptop is better value than the ipad.