Apple iPad 2/iOS event
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- Boz0
what's annoying is this whole "post PC" garbage they are selling..
Does anyone else see here that they are dumping computers completely with this approach of "post-PC" thing?
They also call that BS of freeze-unfreeze app with only 7 apis, a "MULTITASKING".. lol.. completely idiotic.
- inteliboy0
Again, an Apple thread populated by Apple hate. I just don't get why people bother commenting on products they obviously do not like. Plus the fact they've sat through all the marketing videos. The only way a new iPad is going to change a developers/designers life, is perhaps, getting a gig building an iOS app.
It's new, it's thinner, has a few more features and shock horror... over the top marketing. The end.
- Android is the darksideomg
- yeh well said, i the products are good, but the fucking marketing omg!! i should learn thats inevitable! :PHombre_Lobo
- inteliboy0
but then I guess the internet wouldn't be the same if people didn't complain about stuff
- Boz0
it's not that.. what bugs me is that they constantly come out with these erroneous claims, misleading information, use terms like "post-PC" which are completely pretentious and idiotic.. and then tomorrow I'll start hearing about this crap everywhere being repeated.
In the videos they constantly harp on how the processor makes their multitasking faster? What multitasking!?!?! You won't see any improvement because they freeze one app and then open another.. that's not real multitasking however you look at it but they keep calling it multitasking because it's so easy to spread that crap.
- Boz0
I swear I wouldn't have so much problem with them if they just worried about their shit and just be honest.. you can say something is magical but don't constantly talk crap about your competition when your own solutions are inferior to them. Just be modest and keep kicking ass.. but no.. they have to lie, and go with this whole pretentious crap.
- ETM0
Who gives a fuck... all around. Its just a consumer product and 9 months or less after buying the last one its a piece of shit. Go outside everyone. That is all.
*signs up for iPad 2 presale.
- abettertomorrow0
I remember a lot shittalking at Google I/O...all in good fun
- formed0
They are just marketing geniuses. More than that, Apple has created a singular (or narrow vision - limited products, but all quality, not 5 billion HTC phones!), executed on that vision (something no one else can seem to do), then market the hell out of it.
Really, to me, that's what makes it all quite fascinating. From top to bottom, from concept through execution through marketing is all exceptional.
[again, I have owned 1 Apple product my entire life, my iPhone, so certainly am not a 'fanboy']
Personally, I just can't get over how clumsy everyone else seems to be. From Ballmer promising a W7 HP device to the billion choices out there without one being superior.
I go look at the Dell website (as a happy Dell owner of countless workstations) but I get lost. Too many options, too many trivial things to sift through.
I guess there is a market for all this, but as computers get faster and faster, graphic card choices mean less and less.So, if their stock were to plummet for any reason, I'd buy tons simply because their business is just far superior to almost any company I can think of.
- ye maybe but i dont see what's fascinating about itjadrian_uk
- Uncompromised success? Great industrial design? Great track record? Great performance and consistency?formed
- ETM0
^ The blessing and the curse is that PC hardware manufacturers provide options and revisions for every little new or updated component out there, unlike Apple where you have to wait up to a year to find out what they will even adopt and offer the consumer.
- formed0
Yup. Too many options, too many different models. Options are good, but there also needs to be some consistent effort on evolution, not making a new model then dropping, then a new model, then dropping it.
Personally, I'll pay for somethign well designed, well built and easy to use. I really wish PC companies would watch and learn and at least offer something similar.
Same can be said with cell phones.
- omg0
Why can't these other companies design a tablet that doesn't LOOK like and iPad. Tablets have been around for a decade now, and Apple creates a tablet that differentiates its own unique look, only to lose it to these copycats who basically want a cheaper iPad.
- BettyBotox0
This has to be the glossiest page on the web... almost too glossy
- hans_glib0
on a separate note, how do they do the click and drag smart cover open/shut demo on this page?
- stewdio0
In Safari if you right-click on it and select "Inspect Element" and then try the clicking and dragging again you can see that it's just frames from an animation sequence (as JPEGs) displayed either in ascending or descending order as you drag. For example . . .
Here is the final frame, image no. 93:
Here's a middle frame, image no. 46:
And here is the first frame, image no. 0:
- cool, thankshans_glib
- Oh yes and you think this is news?jadrian_uk
- Hey @jadrian_uk I was just answering @hans_glib's above question. Don't be rude.stewdio
- stewdio0
Oh, and once that animation sequence is in place then they've added that nice dragging momentum feature where it feels as if the smart cover is falling into place. But that's just an illusion. For example, the closing of the cover seems to have a rule like: if frame >= 49 then animate from here until frame = 93.
- raf0
Speaking of options, while there were 6 versions of original iPad, Apple just announced 18 versions of iPad 2.
- raf0
Time to buy the 1st gen cheap soon I guess. Is 16GB enough? My 16GB iPhone is only half-packed and I won't be keeping much music on the iPad...
- raf0