Bye Bye iPad
- Started 15 years ago
- Last post 15 years ago
- 53 Responses
- rosem0
... and to be ever more negative... the software/ui seems cool in an ideal fantasy demo world — but it seems really rigid and linear.
- tymeframe0
I can type much faster than I can write.
Are people really peeing themselves off someone's dream machine renderings? Also, "runs on the same OS as the Zune HD"... This looks nothing like the Zune OS. Where's the consistency?
I call bs.
- Josev0
I think it's a great demo, but I'm a little skeptical myself
- rosem0
... and finally to be even more negative... let's not forget about the HUGE BEVEL DOWN THE MIDDLE OF THE SCREEN
you can say people are hating on it because it's microsoft — but the truth is, the only reason someone would buy this shit is because it's not an apple (inferior or not). there I said it.
time to get offline.
- stewdio0
My friend made the video, 2nd from the bottom.
http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/…
- 74LEO0
Alot of the functions seem unnecessary. Why draw the different options? just have a button Bill! I dont want to have to use my wrist any more than I have to. Does it take pictures? This just seems like a hokey thing for kids. Next holiday season will be the release I bet.
Thats pretty much it.
- Salarrue0
this kind of fancy gadget only increase the process in a time consuming data filling... to sketch I prefer a moleskine book and some crayons... to bookmark some images the ipod touch/ iphone, or regular browser in enough. Companies are not creating tools only stupid toys and candys and wasting and polluting the planet. there is no a DO-IT-ALL-MACHINE.
I would love to use a touch screen technology sync with photoshop, illustrator, or something that relief my hand pain after all day typing...
- ********0
Might be the first time yet that an Apple® product gets taken to the rafters at its own game. Who knows, I'm drunk?
- ukit0
It's kinda funny to consider how much stuff people will be willing to buy and pay for on a monthly basis before they reach some kind of tipping/ saturation point. You'll have your cable TV subscription of course. Once this 3D thing takes off I have no doubt they'll be hoping to charge premium (I can hear the slogan now "everyday is like Avatar").
If you're into gaming you'll want your X-Box Live membership to play the amazing new games of the future. You'll need a monthly cable internet service obviously, to use the X-Box membership. Then of course the fee for your iPhone so you can call people. The monthly fee for iPhone data. And now we have the Apple iPad with its own monthly fee for those moments when an iPhone or a computer just won't do.
Or...would you rather have the brand new Microsoft Courier? Or maybe you need both actually since the Courier isn't really an iPad, and fits a separate niche between the iPhone and the iPad. Neither of these things of course have the "digital ink technology," so for anything longer than a page you'll want the Amazon Kindle with associated subscription. In order to make your iPad, Courier, and Kindle worthwhile you'll need to subscriptions to the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Netflix, Pandora, Last.fm, Soundcloud, and Photoshop Online, along with maybe throwing down $15-30 on whatever cool new apps come out each week.
Don't forget the hosting for your portfolio site, your Typekit subscription, AIGA dues and QBN Pro membership. Did I miss anything?
- twistedfork0
Geez you guys judge a product by its brand. It might be a MS product, but it does look cool and nice. Yea, i know most of us here uses macs and whatnot. But a mix of stuff is not necessarily bad. If this is indeed coming out Im getting this more than the iPad. This is more useful than lugging around a big-ass iPhone, of which i already have.
- BusterBoy0
Hey that looks really cool? Did Apple design it? Huh? Huh...if they did I'll buy one...
Oh fuck. MS designed it. It's an ugly looking piece of shit with a horrible UI.
Fucking lemmings...
- rosem0
the only thing we can judge people on is the past... and in the past 5+ years... apple > microsoft.
if you were to hire someone to make a mobile device, who would you hire? someone with the best selling mobile device of all time or someone grasping at straws?
- BusterBoy0
Perhaps rosem...but when they release a piece of shit, it deserves to be canned. The iPad has FAIL written all over it.