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Re: Ipad. What use is it?

bayerische — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:33:37 GMT

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Volume control can be used only when you have connected the headphones with the ipad. Without connecting headphones to the ipad one can not use its volume control.....

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Re: Ipad. What use is it?

elephant — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:01:07 GMT

Mandysinn:

Volume control can be used only when you have connected the headphones with the ipad. Without connecting headphones to the ipad one can not use its volume control.....

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Re: Ipad. What use is it?

Mandysinn — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 08:17:36 GMT

Volume control can be used only when you have connected the headphones with the ipad. Without connecting headphones to the ipad one can not use its volume control.....

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Re: Ipad. What use is it?

elephant — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 23:04:28 GMT

elephant:

I could have started a new thread called "Dad's bragging rights" :-) but appended to this one instead.

Why bragging rights ?

Well two of my sons have been slaving with a friend/business-partner to produce their first iPad/iPhone game. Actually I could include my third son, daughter-in-law, girlfriend and mom and dad (that's me again) since we were all involved in extensive testing.

So here it is ... the trailer makes it seem easy ... lucky they did not film me playing it

http://www.kumobius.com/

Wow !

My sons' game has been out a week, and it has just made Apple's "New and Noteworthy" section on the App Store (well page 3 anyway)

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

moxxey — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 03:10:30 GMT

I've had an iPad 2 for a couple of months now and have mixed feelings about it.

It's great for leisure - the odd game, watching a TV programme on the go (train, airline etc), checking the odd email etc. One of the best things about the iPad is its facility to control your B&O audio equipment. I have all my music stored on an external Time Capsule hard drive. The iPad enables me to sit at my desk, pick a song (from the external hard drive) or album, select my AirPlay speakers (BL3s) and stream audio, controlled via the iPad.

It's almost like a mini Encore, with the advantage that it supports all the Apple compressed/uncompressed formats, too. I have it in a little cradle next to my desk and it's like a portable Encore you can take with you. Plus you can stream audio to multiple AirPlay devices or even another computer.

The downside is that it really is no laptop replacement. I've tried taking it to London on a couple of occasions and I found the email client too slow, the web browser not good enough to do product demos and so on. It's more of a device that compliments my laptop, than replaces it. Perhaps this might change when iOS 5 comes out and/or they improve the mail, but I find it too slow at this point.

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

elephant — Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:20:10 GMT

I could have started a new thread called "Dad's bragging rights" :-) but appended to this one instead.

Why bragging rights ?

Well two of my sons have been slaving with a friend/business-partner to produce their first iPad/iPhone game. Actually I could include my third son, daughter-in-law, girlfriend and mom and dad (that's me again) since we were all involved in extensive testing.

So here it is ... the trailer makes it seem easy ... lucky they did not film me playing it

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/beans-quest/id449069244?ls=1&mt=8

http://www.kumobius.com/

And the other bragging rights belong to Steve Job's I think ... the last post talked about iOS 4 on iPad 1 as we now know it, and here we are no with iPad 2 and the new iOS 5 on the horizon (to say nothing of Lion), and according to Fortune Magazine this week, Apple have only now caught up with the demand from the launch of iPad 2 ... must be time to launch iPad 3

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/07/16/apple-finally-catches-up-with-ipad-2-demand/

Of course it may just have been a clogged supply chain caused by the earthquake/tsunami in Japan and the fire in the Chinese factory.

Anyway, this week we will see Apple's financial announcements and we will get an idea of how "useful" the iPad 1 & 2 has been to the world in the past 12 months.

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

jk1002 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 15:32:00 GMT

They said Autumn for Ipad OS 4.0 in the keynote.

For the TV, to me this is a sign that they have given up on providing streaming services through the Itunes Universe.

I was expecting them to become a competitor to the cable companies which now to me is off the table since they let have content provider like ABC and Netflix have their own apps.

That clearly takes out a large chunk of Itunes revenue which I always felt they were over protective off making it inconvenient to add my own content when it comes to video for example.

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

cooldude — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:43:51 GMT

burantek:

jk1002:
What amazes me the most is, that they let ABC and Netflix have their apps. That clearly clearly cuts into their Itunes revenue stream. Netflix has very current movies and TV, same for ABC and essentially it is either dirt cheap (netflix) or free (ABC).

I wonder if this is a sign that Apple is paving the way to a proper full blown branded TV set in a few years?

jk1002:
Only thing bad is, you will miss multi tasking

I believe that the iPad will fall under the umbrella of the mobile OS update that is rolling out... it is to include multitasking.

indeed ...multitasking will be available for ipad some time after the summer. Looks really good on the iphone and I hope it's as effective on the ipad.

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

burantek — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:38:08 GMT

jk1002:
What amazes me the most is, that they let ABC and Netflix have their apps. That clearly clearly cuts into their Itunes revenue stream. Netflix has very current movies and TV, same for ABC and essentially it is either dirt cheap (netflix) or free (ABC).

I wonder if this is a sign that Apple is paving the way to a proper full blown branded TV set in a few years?

jk1002:
Only thing bad is, you will miss multi tasking

I believe that the iPad will fall under the umbrella of the mobile OS update that is rolling out... it is to include multitasking.

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

jk1002 — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 11:59:38 GMT

I wasn't too impressed by it but then I found that there are apps that let me connect to my nas and copy files from there to the device, the ABC app plus Netflix and the safari browser experience rocks and that all converted me after playing 10 minutes with it in the store.

What amazes me the most is, that they let ABC and Netflix have their apps. That clearly clearly cuts into their Itunes revenue stream. Netflix has very current movies and TV, same for ABC and essentially it is either dirt cheap (netflix) or free (ABC).

That too me is really a huge surprise, I expected that Apple themselves would get into the streaming game and with Netflix beeing 9$ a month plus unlimited rentals with a single DVD out at the time is very hard to beat.

Only thing bad is, you will miss multi tasking and even though I have an Airport Extreme the Wifi strenght is flickering - it doesnt bother me for browsing though.

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

bayerische — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 03:28:43 GMT

I have had mine on order for over 2 months now, I guess, I ordered it right after the "iPad keynote".

I'm not overly convinced about it, but most reviews and user experiences are promising!

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

Jonathan — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:38:58 GMT

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZGIn9bpALo#

haha I think this sums it up...

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

ed7 — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 11:22:52 GMT

could not resist

http://www.oxfordeyehospital.nhs.uk/documents/leaflets/eyepadapp.pdf

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

Michael — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 04:51:33 GMT

Isn't it for sitting on the couch and enjoying flicking through beoworld.org?

It has no use for me, but i can still see one sitting on my kitchen bench , or even mounted on my dining room wall :-0

It may be easier to use to browse forums like this on your lap on the couch.

Re: Ipad. What use is it?

expoman — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 18:37:11 GMT

Chitika Labs is now estimating over 540,000 iPads sold thru 4/7 based on hits on their network. I have one and I have not had any of the problems others report. After a few days of using it I really feel it is a game changing product and the best apps are yet to come. I have watched TV shows from ABC and they are very personal on the iPad I also watched part of a movie and was amazed at the sound considering the speaker placement. A great deal of the early use seems to be games based on lower than expected web access and over 1/3 of the app's for sale are games. If I was an audio video or game device maker I would be very worried for the future.