benedictw wrote:Adaptors for USB and for SD cards. Could you pull the photos off a digital camera with this? Stupid if you couldn't.
I think is very much being seen as a companion to a desktop Mac or Macbook; you'll be needing to get your photos off your camera and into iPhoto on the Mac then sync the albums across to the iPad, which seems like a real faff to me.
iPad Site wrote:There’s also a Camera Connection Kit that lets you import photos from a camera or SD card.
VNVObit wrote:
expect you'd have to jailbreak if you want to use SD cards through USB for anything other than uploading photos
Unfortunately I doubt that'll ever happen: USB doesn't work that way. USB essentially works on a kind of client/server basis where something is either a host (i.e. a PC or laptop) or a peripheral (a camera, hard drive, iPad or web cam). One host can connect to many (up to 127) peripherals but a peripheral can only ever connect to one host and never another a peripheral.
Firewire, on the other hand, is a 'host-less' technology that doesn't require a PC to mediate between peripherals.
My take is that it's what we knew, in their hearts, that w'd be getting. Although certainly not revolutionary, which is what people were hoping for, it's the logical evolution of their iPhone/iPod touch lines, and the hardware appears very nicely done, especially if the 10 hour battery life claimed is anywhere near that in real-life use.
Unlike the Win7 slates, where the OS doesn't match the form-factor, the iPad (not the best name, imho) uses the iPhone OS, so the user experience will be far better. One reason they can get away with not using an ill-fitting desktop OS is of course that through the iPhone OS they already have a large number of apps ready to go - if MS had introduced a new OS they would have had to create a software ecosystem at the same time. (Apple of course had this problem with the iPhone, but the combination of phone capabilities, web-browser and music playing was compelling enough for a large number of people to buy one even without any extra apps. Would enough people buy an iPad if it only did web, music and, say, eBooks, without the possibility of extra apps?). Another advantage of expanding the iPhone OS into the Mac product line is of course the App store, with its 30% of software revenue going to Apple, as well as revenue from the book store etc. This is something that Apple would love to be able to achieve with the mac, but it would be near impossible for them to do without hemorrhaging users. (Incidentally, a small part of me wants the iPad to fail for this reason, as I like having the freedom to run whatever the hell software I like rather than only that which Apple will let me. If the iPad, and its closed ecosystem, is a success, they're bound to keep pushing the concept up the product lines.)
So will I get one? I'm not sure. It definitely has the Shiny, and the price seems very reasonable, but I'll probably be frugal for now and wait until iPad 2.0 before leaping on board.
Ah, of course, I'm forgetting: the connector on the bottom of these things isn't just a USB port, it's a full-function I/O port:
www.apple.com/ipad wrote:iPad Camera Connection Kit The Camera Connection Kit gives you two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera. The Camera Connector lets you import your photos and videos to iPad using the camera’s USB cable. Or you can use the SD Card Reader to import photos and videos directly from the camera’s SD card.
It would be highly desirable for someone in the jailbroken dev community to write something that allowed for this to be used as a storage device accessible from the rest of the system...
Why the hell didn't Apple just include a sodding SD slot built-in to the damn thing?
www.apple.com/ipad wrote:iPad Camera Connection Kit The Camera Connection Kit gives you two ways to import photos and videos from a digital camera. The Camera Connector lets you import your photos and videos to iPad using the camera’s USB cable. Or you can use the SD Card Reader to import photos and videos directly from the camera’s SD card.
Actually this thing could 'almost' replace my macbook. 2 things missing - I'd love it to have a built in webcam so I could run skype with video from it. Also an ipad version of pages.
In all a beautiful piece of kit, will obviously sell by the bucket load. I can also see it becoming a very successful games machine.
Slightly underwhelmed that 1) it is basically a large iphone/itouch and 2) the rumours were all spot on and thus 3) its not as genre breaking as the iphone.
But for students and home use it could be a killer app , hang it up on the fridge watch a recipe as you cook etc.. all kinds of stuff , not just book reading. They dont really suggest it as outside use (hence the comfy sofa for the demo/intro).
I wouldn't fancy anyone whipping these out in publi/tube/train though in the early days just to read the news or wuthering heights, gone in sixty seconds!
is the 3d chip a iphone derivative but with more power ?
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