January 29, 2010 at 14:262010 Think Different
Friends, before you look under the cat, I want to warn you about something.
E is another post about the iPad to Habré. But a post on a personal blog. Let's respect this concept. I don’t go to the main page (where the iPad is already hated), I don’t post this post on the Apple blog or the fresh iPad blog. I publish it in a personal blog on Habré. Just to pour out your thoughts, and it is possible to argue reasonably, but not to holivar. If you don’t want to hear more about the iPad, don’t go under the cat. There is a lot of text.
Day did not write anything about the freshly released iPad. Friends who consider me a macrophile even began to wonder. This is still not an ordinary update of the iMac line, but the output of a completely new device for Apple. Yes, I could not write about him, but I needed time to think things over.
Honestly, I was slightly embarrassed by the release of this device. That is, yes, everyone was waiting for him, everyone was talking about him, everyone was predicting his exit, but as someone said, " everyone was waiting for a little MacBook, but they got a big iPod ." Yes it is. And the main reason for my embarrassment was the lack of a full-fledged operating system, because I expected that I could safely sell my MacBook and buy an iPad as a full replacement. It was not there.
The presentation ended, a standing ovation sounded, and I couldn’t answer my question “I want” or “I do not want”. In the words of those who negatively unsubscribed about the new device on Twitter and on the hub, it really made sense. No multitasking, no USB, no expandable memory, no WiMax, dubious form factor convenience and so on. But wait, has Apple at least once disappointed us? This thought was spinning in my head.
Recall the distant, now, 2007 year of release of the iPhone. The presentation died down, the attention of journalists, the enthusiastic cries of apples and the reality came. What shit just did not compare the iPhone. The “forwards” in this war were the following reasons: lack of bluetooth, lack of MMS, lack of JAVA support (now it’s kind of ridiculous even), non-removable battery and so on. I’ve been using an iPhone for almost two years, and damn it, well, I’ve never been infringed by these shortcomings, although at that time they seemed to be quite a serious omission of Apple. And no, it’s not my macophilia - it’s almost gone. In short - I never had a desire to receive or transmit something via Bluetooth (Shazam steers, if you understand what I mean), MMS was implemented as a third-party application (and in firmware 3.0 it is known by default, although anyway I do not use this stray and consider it superfluous), I can not imagine a single situation in which I would need to change the battery. I’m silent about JAVA, right? And recently, we @Mike_Pedalkin ( DvoRik ) laughed at the fact that in 2005 they chose the phone on the principle of "for ICQ and the Internet, something from Nokia or SE", and in 2010 on the principle of "take 3GS now or wait for 4G?". Questions with choosing a phone have disappeared, and probably for a long time.
The fact is that we are used to everything in one, “not, well, what if it comes in handy?” And this is an incomprehensible desire, under the guidance of the thought "since I pay that kind of money, I want my phone to have an iron, a microwave and a dildo / artificial vagina, please." How about narrow focus? We are not used to this, huh?
It does not have to be a full computer . Not due . Even multitask should not be. Convenient surfing (and with such a chic screen, it will not just be convenient), convenient video viewing, a notebook + a scheduler are convenient. All! That's all the netbook / tablet should be able to do. And the Apple iPad meets these needs.
And here we are smoothly moving on to the essence of my sheet - the potential of a new device. When Steve announced the features of the iPad, there was a 30-pin connector among all the others. And everyone in the hall issued a thoughtful “Mmm ...”, without understanding anything. Only later did it turn out to be a standard “charging” connector, like an iPhone or iPod. Nothing new, huh? And now again a flashback to the past, now half a year ago, to the presentation of the iPhone 3GS (if my memory serves me right). Remember how a long-haired man came up on stage and demonstrated that the iPhone, just with an adapter, turns into a library of effects for the guitar? Then it seemed to me the most stupid application of the iPhone. And if you think about it now, in the light of the iPad? We connect the camera to the iPad, and control the shooting process. We connect the speakers and in our hands we have a virtual DJ mixer. We connect any musical instrument, and the iPad becomes a library of effects to it. How many more application methods can he find? Just with the appropriate iPad app becomes ... yes, anything. And yes, here, I contradict my theory about the narrow focus of the device, but these are just thoughts out loud about the iPad’s potential.
I just looked at the main one, as it seemed to me the lack of the iPad from a different angle. All that the iPhone can do (and more recently, it even reads credit cards) is now on the iPad’s big screen!
All that I have already dashed off too much. Probably so used to twitter and 140 characters, and so missed the unlimited blog posts ... caught myself in general :) I just wanted to say that Apple has not yet “pleased” us with the release of shitty devices. They were always not like everyone else. And they always changed the world. As a result, they remained faithful to their main slogan - “Think Different!”.
PS I will buy an iPad as soon as possible.
PPS I forgot to write what I wanted to start with - it turns out that Apple is releasing adapters for USB and memory cards as additional equipment. Feel what I'm getting at?
E is another post about the iPad to Habré. But a post on a personal blog. Let's respect this concept. I don’t go to the main page (where the iPad is already hated), I don’t post this post on the Apple blog or the fresh iPad blog. I publish it in a personal blog on Habré. Just to pour out your thoughts, and it is possible to argue reasonably, but not to holivar. If you don’t want to hear more about the iPad, don’t go under the cat. There is a lot of text.
Day did not write anything about the freshly released iPad. Friends who consider me a macrophile even began to wonder. This is still not an ordinary update of the iMac line, but the output of a completely new device for Apple. Yes, I could not write about him, but I needed time to think things over.
Honestly, I was slightly embarrassed by the release of this device. That is, yes, everyone was waiting for him, everyone was talking about him, everyone was predicting his exit, but as someone said, " everyone was waiting for a little MacBook, but they got a big iPod ." Yes it is. And the main reason for my embarrassment was the lack of a full-fledged operating system, because I expected that I could safely sell my MacBook and buy an iPad as a full replacement. It was not there.
The presentation ended, a standing ovation sounded, and I couldn’t answer my question “I want” or “I do not want”. In the words of those who negatively unsubscribed about the new device on Twitter and on the hub, it really made sense. No multitasking, no USB, no expandable memory, no WiMax, dubious form factor convenience and so on. But wait, has Apple at least once disappointed us? This thought was spinning in my head.
A little "water"
Recall the distant, now, 2007 year of release of the iPhone. The presentation died down, the attention of journalists, the enthusiastic cries of apples and the reality came. What shit just did not compare the iPhone. The “forwards” in this war were the following reasons: lack of bluetooth, lack of MMS, lack of JAVA support (now it’s kind of ridiculous even), non-removable battery and so on. I’ve been using an iPhone for almost two years, and damn it, well, I’ve never been infringed by these shortcomings, although at that time they seemed to be quite a serious omission of Apple. And no, it’s not my macophilia - it’s almost gone. In short - I never had a desire to receive or transmit something via Bluetooth (Shazam steers, if you understand what I mean), MMS was implemented as a third-party application (and in firmware 3.0 it is known by default, although anyway I do not use this stray and consider it superfluous), I can not imagine a single situation in which I would need to change the battery. I’m silent about JAVA, right? And recently, we @Mike_Pedalkin ( DvoRik ) laughed at the fact that in 2005 they chose the phone on the principle of "for ICQ and the Internet, something from Nokia or SE", and in 2010 on the principle of "take 3GS now or wait for 4G?". Questions with choosing a phone have disappeared, and probably for a long time.
The fact is that we are used to everything in one, “not, well, what if it comes in handy?” And this is an incomprehensible desire, under the guidance of the thought "since I pay that kind of money, I want my phone to have an iron, a microwave and a dildo / artificial vagina, please." How about narrow focus? We are not used to this, huh?
iPad - a narrowly targeted device
It does not have to be a full computer . Not due . Even multitask should not be. Convenient surfing (and with such a chic screen, it will not just be convenient), convenient video viewing, a notebook + a scheduler are convenient. All! That's all the netbook / tablet should be able to do. And the Apple iPad meets these needs.
Potential is the main feature of all Apple products.
And here we are smoothly moving on to the essence of my sheet - the potential of a new device. When Steve announced the features of the iPad, there was a 30-pin connector among all the others. And everyone in the hall issued a thoughtful “Mmm ...”, without understanding anything. Only later did it turn out to be a standard “charging” connector, like an iPhone or iPod. Nothing new, huh? And now again a flashback to the past, now half a year ago, to the presentation of the iPhone 3GS (if my memory serves me right). Remember how a long-haired man came up on stage and demonstrated that the iPhone, just with an adapter, turns into a library of effects for the guitar? Then it seemed to me the most stupid application of the iPhone. And if you think about it now, in the light of the iPad? We connect the camera to the iPad, and control the shooting process. We connect the speakers and in our hands we have a virtual DJ mixer. We connect any musical instrument, and the iPad becomes a library of effects to it. How many more application methods can he find? Just with the appropriate iPad app becomes ... yes, anything. And yes, here, I contradict my theory about the narrow focus of the device, but these are just thoughts out loud about the iPad’s potential.
I just looked at the main one, as it seemed to me the lack of the iPad from a different angle. All that the iPhone can do (and more recently, it even reads credit cards) is now on the iPad’s big screen!
All that I have already dashed off too much. Probably so used to twitter and 140 characters, and so missed the unlimited blog posts ... caught myself in general :) I just wanted to say that Apple has not yet “pleased” us with the release of shitty devices. They were always not like everyone else. And they always changed the world. As a result, they remained faithful to their main slogan - “Think Different!”.
PS I will buy an iPad as soon as possible.
PPS I forgot to write what I wanted to start with - it turns out that Apple is releasing adapters for USB and memory cards as additional equipment. Feel what I'm getting at?