iPad

[Deckard]

9 to 5 mac are saying there is flash on the iPad http://www.9to5mac.com/apple-flash-ipad-3954934055

[Barney]

I'm betting in a couple of months time when we do we'll all be thinking very differently and this time next year when it's begun to show it's true potential then I'm sure we'll all be chuckling as we buy the version 2 hardware and think "yeah ok Steve, you did it, again".

This. I'll not be buying the v1 hardware after they fucked the v1 iPhone users over by releasing better hardware shortly after demand died down. If I do get one of these (and if I get my Pandora, then that's doubtful) then it's only going to be at least the third revision before I do.

[sack]

I still can't figure this all out. For now I'm a sceptic, but it's down to whatever uses people come up with for it in the end.

It's either genius or Apple making a cockup and I don't really want to put money on either possibility for a good while yet.

[RiK]

9 to 5 mac are saying there is flash on the iPad http://www.9to5mac.com/apple-flash-ipad-3954934055

Yup, macrumors said the same thing earlier.
http://www.macrumors.com/2010/01/29/ipa ... h-content/

Looks like a chance that the 'no flash' fears are just people jumping to conclusions because of the missing plugine boxes in Steve's demo but the pics on macrumors definitely show flash content in the images and I can't imagine Apple would have the balls to blatantly fake those images knowing damn well that could lead to them getting sued for it.

From the iPad promo video

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Willing to bet with anyone there won't be any flash What odds will you give me?

[The Caffeine Kid]

http://www.funnyordie.co.uk/videos/167d70800c/the-ipad

[Misfit]

This. I'll not be buying the v1 hardware after they fucked the v1 iPhone users over by releasing better hardware shortly after demand died down. If I do get one of these (and if I get my Pandora, then that's doubtful) then it's only going to be at least the third revision before I do.

It was a little over a year between the release of the iPhone and the iPhone 3G. How is that screwed over? Apple refresh all their ranges every year just like most hardware vendors.

Interesting question. Will we get our v1 Pandoras before our v1 iPads? It's going to be close!

[Deckard]

11 dollars - bargain http://www.9to5mac.com/micro-som-iphone ... -365465756

[Firefox]

It's going to be close!

No it isn't. =P

[Deckard]

What it could be like (I admit scaled down a bit)
[youtube]BcUemyDOhhU&feature[/youtube]




I would so love a Missile Command on the iPad.

[Barney]

It was a little over a year between the release of the iPhone and the iPhone 3G. How is that screwed over? Apple refresh all their ranges every year just like most hardware vendors.

My mistake - my impression was one after another in pretty rapid succession.

Interesting question. Will we get our v1 Pandoras before our v1 iPads? It's going to be close!

Like Firefox, I don't hold out any hope whatsoever that the Pandora is coming any time soon. Maybe June or July, but there's so much more to do and so much more that can go wrong it's just not funny anymore.

[piku]

It was a little over a year between the release of the iPhone and the iPhone 3G. How is that screwed over?

I'd consider paying £200 (or whatever it was) for an iPhone, only to find 12 months later there's a better one out a good definition for being "screwed over".

I'd expect to get more than a year's worth of use out of my device before it was made obsolete. It's annoying being on this daft cycle of disposable tech that goes out of date the second the hype dies down. You know, I'm typing this on a 2007 model Macbook which by all Apple standards is obsolete and needs replacing... but since it cost me 700 quid I'm not getting rid of it until it actually breaks down or is too slow to be usable.

[RiK]

I'd consider paying £200 (or whatever it was) for an iPhone, only to find 12 months later there's a better one out a good definition for being "screwed over".

I'd expect to get more than a year's worth of use out of my device before it was made obsolete.

It doesn't suddenly stop working after that year does it? it still does all the stuff that it did when you bought it in the first place so why do you consider it obsolete?

Car manufacturers bring out new models every year but that doesn't suddenly make the old one obsolete or somehow less than it was the day before does it?

[piku]

Interesting question. Will we get our v1 Pandoras before our v1 iPads? It's going to be close!

Like Firefox, I don't hold out any hope whatsoever that the Pandora is coming any time soon. Maybe June or July, but there's so much more to do and so much more that can go wrong it's just not funny anymore.

You're still waiting? Won't the design and specs be horribly out of date by the time it's released?

I'd be wanting my money back by now so I could spend it on a real device I can actually use today; an Android phone, an iPhone or even one of those Dingoo A320 thingies. You lot have been waiting years for this thing to be made...

[Ollie]

Ugh, if you can't at least put your own ePubs on there (I wasn't expecting PDF or LIT support), it could be No Deal for me as well. Surely if you can add your own music and movies you can add your own books...

Presumably you'll be able to install an iPad version of Stanza or something like it. (Unless Apple are planning on banning 3rd-party e-reader apps from the iPad on the grounds they duplicate built-in functionality - which will be difficult to justify outside the US if iBooks isn't available.)