Paid Content has an interesting article about the iPad and the future of the magazine. I was particularly struck by this:
(via @Weegee)
It's time for people to stop imitating the page on the screen. It doesn't look or feel right; it's not useful.
Anyone here planning on buying an iPad? I might, in the future, but I think I might wait for 4G. Or perhaps I'll wait for some hack squad to build one with an optional pen-based interface. I want to be able to take notes by hand. I want to be able to draw.
FYI: more here (via @wordisup)
And some more here--an interview with Wired's creative director on designing for the iPad.
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I plan on waiting at least until the second iteration based on the theory that I will get more for the same price.
ReplyDeleteYep, it's a new world out there for magazines, etc. And a new world for photographers who shoot editorial or for magazine advertising.
ReplyDeleteIf I had unlimited money, I would definitely get one. I'm with you on the 4G. I'll likely wait. I do see some useful applications for me in my business tho.
It will likely be possible to send photos to it wirelessly while shooting for clients to view what is happening. And it could be useful to show photos to clients and have them purchase from it via web browser. Easier/cleaner than a laptop.
Yeah. I want one, I really do, because it would be very, very cool. I just want to play with it. But right now I can't justify the $$.
ReplyDeleteYou might be interested in this bit of info that leaked out after Apple released the iPad SDK to developers:
ReplyDelete"As indicated by the demonstration of iWork applications, iPad will have far more advanced text-handling features than current iPhone OS versions running on the iPhone have had. Along with CoreText APIs for displaying text, the iPad is expected to have a proper spell checker with multiple dictionaries and user-added words, as well as grammar checking. There is also a prototype of a "handwriting" keyboard in iPhone OS 3.2, which may use some combination of Inkwell and FingerWorks technologies; we may yet see stylus input for the iPad after all."
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And I don't know yet what this version of iWork will look like, but the one on my mac has some drawing capabilities. And there are third party stylus makers out there making generic ones for touch screen devices.
So it may be closer than you realize to doing what you want.
Yeah, me too. I want one to play with. And I've come up with reasons I acutally might need one. :)
ReplyDeleteStylus input = oooh.
ReplyDeleteAnd check this out - trade in your old CDs for an iPhone or iPad. Good thing I didn't put mine into those binders like I have planned to. Sadly I doubt if I have enough.
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If you really want to draw, you need to check out the Wacom Cintiq. I have a pen tablet, but I have the image only appears on my laptop screen, which has never struck me as very intuitive. You can apparently get Office 2007 for the Cintiq, but I don't know how good it is a text. It's designed for working with images, so text would be a secondary function. But that would probably be ok if what you mostly wanted to do was write by hand. I'd love to get my hands on on...
ReplyDeleteAs for the iPad, I reckon right now that I would go with HP; they've been making tablet computers a lot longer.
Wendy, that looks very cool. Now I want one that only weighs as much as an iPad, and for which text is a primary function. Oh, and that has a camera, and makes phone calls...
ReplyDeleteIf we're going to have miracles, let's have the biggest and best :)
Yeah, I'll wait till there is a tablet that...does the things I'd want a tablet to do? iPad is a cute little...half-step? It isn't even first generation though.
ReplyDeleteIt has a way to go, but I think it will be a swift journey.
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