Comments on: iPad & The future of self publishing

By: steven

steven — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 15:16:52 +0000

Personally, i was a little disappointed that a web cam wasn’t added, and i think that it would be a great tool for artist if they would take it a little further and allow it to be an, i don’t know, iSketch? Add a stylus and drawing ap, and make it a digital sketch pad. Just my 2 cents. thanks for listening. Now…it’s oversized iTouch. Don’t get me wrong, i’m a strong advocate for Apple. It will change the way people think and work. I guess i’m wanting too much too fast.

By: Naomi Niles

Naomi Niles — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:16:32 +0000

@Tzaddi – I read that they are indeed not going to support Flash. I suppose eCommerce, there really shouldn’t be flash anyway, since it’s not very user friendly most of the time, as you say.

I could imagine lack of flash support would definitely hurt gaming and other sites like that though.

By: Tzaddi

Tzaddi — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 01:06:50 +0000

Interesting that you bring that up because it makes me think how un-user friendly a lot of eComm sites are. And I wonder whether the iPad will support Flash since the iTouch & iPhone don’t. I’m not a big fan of Flash but it’s something to think about if you’re relying on it I guess.

By: Koldo Barroso

Koldo Barroso — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:15:44 +0000

Right. And just think of how this is going to affect to eCommerce. When people starts buying online sitting on their comfortable couches, without stress. This is going to affect the world in so many ways…

By: Tzaddi

Tzaddi — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:01:34 +0000

Koldo, I think you’re bang on about the living room being the gap. I often have my iPod Touch by me when we watch a DVD. I hop onto IMDB or Google when we have questions about the actors, or keep up with Twitter when the movie gets paused, that kind of thing. But it really is a tiny screen and an iPad would be much more comfortable to use in that situation.

I’m also a work-at-home person and often I have to pack up my laptop to go meet a client at a cafe or something. Since my laptop is my primary computer, and I don’t have a docking station for it, this means unplugging all the peripherals etc. But I don’t really need the laptop; just the ability to look at websites together or check email while I”m waiting. So a netbook or iPad would be handy for this case as well as a device in-between the iPod and laptop.