Steve Wozniak on iPad
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By the way, I solved the problem of battery life and [the lack of] multitasking on the iPhone.
Really?
Yeah. I just have two iPhones, so if the battery runs down on the first one, I can use the other. And if I'm talking on one, I can use the other one to look something up. You would not believe how much use I get out of that.
Oh, that's just a rehash of a double dishwasher idea :)
I remember I used a row-optimize function (&ROP) to compress the program so that it would fit in the memory of the target machine (it had to fit under Take 1 Programmer's Toolkit)
Would be nice if you could tether an iPod touch to one as a cheaper sidekick for data while talking on the phone one. I guess that will be less desirable with a 3G iPad as sidekick.
Good to know that the main reason for having a computer in college now is about showing off a gadget with a known logo. And not about silly things like reading, writing coursework, sharing information, taking notes, communicating with others... (where iPad is almost useless in most of these cases)
Are we seriously at the stage where people want "an Apple product"?
Hahaha, way past it. Computers are complex products, and optimizing your purchase when there is variation among 30 different features (ram, CPU, screen size, screen resolution, OS, price, etc etc) is daunting. Shortcuts are taken, one of the most common no doubt being approval from peers.
Another is buying an Apple instead of a PC. I recently replaced one of each, and the difference in the quantity of decisions and amount of technical knowledge required to make them intelligently was staggering.
Once I decided to buy the Mac, the whole purchase took about 5 minutes. The PC took hours. Once again, choice was a nifty double-edged sword.
In my experience, yes. My younger sister recently decided that she wants to buy a new mp3 player, and she asked me for advice about which one to buy. It very quickly became obviouse that she only wanted me to provide validation for her decission to buy an ipod nano. I showed her several other brands (sansa, creative, etc.) that were about half the price for the same specs, but she would only say that those brands were not 'cool enough' and that she wanted an ipod.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/report-14-trillion-spent-an...
Computers are not nearly the worst of it. People would spend much more on a status symbol of a car, or something silly like a handbag.
You can just take advantage of the situation by not buying an apple product and getting things done for much cheaper.
That's his contention anyway.
... when was the last time you talked to a college girl?
That remains to be seen.
Writing coursework - do you really want to write more than a couple of lines of text on a device that doesn't have a physical keyboard? (you cannot rest your fingers on the screen without causing "touch") Same argument works for taking notes. I cannot possibly imagine working with a spreadsheet or graphs on the iPad.
Sharing information - you cannot run more than one non-stock application at once. I expect it's hard to share anything in that kind of environment.
Communicating with others - by default you're left with IM. Unless you buy an additional Apple-approved camera (cheapest laptops include webcams these days).
Doing any proper research - that needs at least a browser and text editor running at the same time. (unless you take notes on paper)
There are additional keyboards of course, cameras, etc. but why bother? Any half-decent netbook is much better suited for learning purposes than iPad. I can understand not being able to spend $6k on a laptop. Not sure what the situation is like in US, but in UK you can get both 3G dongle and laptop on a 2 year contract for £35/mth. That's just above $1k spread over 2 years (with internet included). Are we talking about education, or are we talking about expensive toys?
App idea: split pane browser/text editor. Automagically associate notes as they are written with the open web page. Bonus points: saving local copies of PDF's viewed with reference metadata.
Your other points are weaker - for long-form text, you can buy a hardware keyboard; not sure what sharing issues you have, I'm sure copy paste and email work; communicating with others - your phone still works even when you buy an iPad.
About the keyboard itself - if you have to carry your keyboard to a meeting with other people just to take notes quickly, I think what you need is a laptop/netbook really. (you also need a stand for the screen itself since you cannot hold them both)
You can already read .doc documents on the iPhone. Not sure about Pages on the iPad, but it might be able to import and edit them.
I'm not saying that the iPad would be ideal for a student. But you shouldn't make up arguments.
About .doc files though - I can also open them in OpenOffice on my box. But many lecturers sent me documents which were displayed completely incorrectly and contain auto-shape created graphs. Most students don't care either. That means I have to find MS Word to read them anyways. I don't expect this to be any better on iPhone/iPad, unless you can run OO or MS software on them.
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Though Sony's vaio is still surviving at a much higher price-point. The latest model has has 3G.
I find that .. sad.
I don't see the problem at all, it fits his profile.
Now if it was someone like your average soccer mum who had this, then there is a problem.
"What's your favorite phone? The iPhone, because of the apps. By the way, I solved the problem of battery life and [the lack of] multitasking on the iPhone."
Did Woz jailbrake his iPhone? :))
My wife's parents — they're not ready for the complicated computer world. They have these old computers."
How much is Woz worth? And even with that kind of money, he won't spring for a couple of iMac for his wife's parents??? :-)
It was a tossup between a PC with all the peripherals or the ipad where she just touches the screen.
I thought the latter would be easier for her and a much less threatening.
(That being said, I haven't purchased one for myself. I already have enough devices that are adequate that perform the job the ipad does, so I don't see the need for one yet. Maybe in the future if I need to replace a few things)