Fun Stuff > CLIKC
iPad!
est:
Yeah, with Windows 7 out for a while now it's only a matter of time before multi-touch netbooks and Windows 7 multi-touch tablets start coming out. So of course APple has to make a big deal about theirs right now so it looks like they had the idea first. I mean, HP showed their slate pc at CES, a full 20 days before Apple. Over here we got practically no news coverage on it, despite it looking almost exactly the same as the iPad, only running full Windows 7. Runs Kindle software, so you can load up Kindle ebooks onto it. It's full Win7 so you can load pdfs and pretty much any other fucking thing you want, including any kind of video you can play on a Win7 pc, it can do more than one thing at once and you can run your choice of browser with flash enabled. So how is that not better than the iPad in just about every way that matters?
est:
Another win for the HP unit is that so long as it has a decent on-screen keyboard you could run Dwarf Fortress on it, fuck yeah.
est:
Also, holy shit you guys I just read a really fucking awful article. Here it is, for your reading pleasure: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/01/29/apple_reinventing_file_access_wireless_sharing_for_ipad.html
Choice quotes for the tl;dr types:
--- Quote ---Outside of savvy computer users, the idea of opening a file by searching through hierarchical paths in the file system is a bit of a mystery. Add in the concept of local and cloud file servers and things really get confusing.
--- End quote ---
No, really it doesn't. The most computer-illiterate users at my workplace still understand the concept of clicking "File\Open..." and searching through a set of logically-named folders until they find the file they want to open. My parents know how to search through folders. Pretty much everyone gets this.
--- Quote ---The iPhone similarly abstracts away the file system entirely; there is no concept of opening or saving files, just a media library of Photos and file attachments that stay connected to their mailbox items.
--- End quote ---
I like how they try to spin "Apple won't allow you to save anything directly onto the hard drive of the device you paid a shitload of money for in a way that lets you access it universally from any app on the device"
--- Quote ---Rather than iPad apps saving their documents into a wide open file system, apps on iPad save all their documents within their own installation directory. Delete the app and you'll clean out all of its related files. This is how the iPhone OS already works.
--- End quote ---
So basically, the iPad is reinventing file access by doing it the exact same way as they have done it previously? Ok!
What this means is that if you have a text file you want to open up in one app, then another you have to use wifi to put it into app A's local storage, then when you are done with it you copy it back out onto a pc, then back into app B's storage. Pretty great!
I couldn't even put up with this shit on my phone. I hope Apple don't seriously expect me to put up with it on a MID.
Ikrik:
->est
Jesus, that sounds absolutely freaking horrible. My mom (who needs the most idiot proof computer she can get) knows how to access files. Everything I've been hearing about this just keeps making it seem worse and worse. I had very little interest in this product and now I'm only interested to see what the reviews of this thing are going to be like.
How are the apple fanatics taking this? Are they happy? Or confused?
JD:
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
[*] Previous page
Go to full version