April 7, 2010
Jasoncalacanis asked:
Benbtg answered:
Thanks Jason,
Great review. Here are my responses.
1. Because it's buggy, slow and painfully inefficient. If they did support it the iPads battery life would be as good as your Macbook air.
2. No, they should encourage the adoption of the non-proprietary HTML 5 standard for all dynamic online content.
3. I will buy one on the day they are available in the UK if I haven't won one before then!
4. None, the memory card accessory is perfectly fine for me as I would only want it for transferring photos from my SLR. Ideal!
5. No, we still need workstations to do more advanced stuff like video editing developing iPad apps!
6.Yes, completely. No one else would get away with it either.
7. After 1 year $350, 2nd $200 3rd $150
8. Sadly no.
9. You could have mentioned my brilliant first iPad app "Particle Frenzy"!
http://itunes.com/apps/particlefrenzy
Did I mention it's only 59p? ($0.99) ;-)
10. Me too. I think more companies need people like him.
Great review. Here are my responses.
1. Because it's buggy, slow and painfully inefficient. If they did support it the iPads battery life would be as good as your Macbook air.
2. No, they should encourage the adoption of the non-proprietary HTML 5 standard for all dynamic online content.
3. I will buy one on the day they are available in the UK if I haven't won one before then!
4. None, the memory card accessory is perfectly fine for me as I would only want it for transferring photos from my SLR. Ideal!
5. No, we still need workstations to do more advanced stuff like video editing developing iPad apps!
6.Yes, completely. No one else would get away with it either.
7. After 1 year $350, 2nd $200 3rd $150
8. Sadly no.
9. You could have mentioned my brilliant first iPad app "Particle Frenzy"!
http://itunes.com/apps/particlefrenzy
Did I mention it's only 59p? ($0.99) ;-)
10. Me too. I think more companies need people like him.
March 1, 2010
Jasoncalacanis asked:
Benbtg answered:
Since Apple announced the iPad it has recieved allot of negative press.
Many are saying it's just a big iPhone (or iPod touch) like that's a bad thing! I would be happy if that was all it was! Thanks to the app store, a great SDK and massive developers support, they have proved to be the most versatile and enjoyable mobile devices around. I have many times used my iPhone for reading books or websites and wished the screen was just bigger!
The problem is the iPad was massively overhyped and couldn't hope to live up to all the rumours and speculation. If it had just been billed as the worlds most powerful and beautiful eBook reader I don't see how anyone could be disappointed.
Just consider the Kindle, a fantastically popular eBook reader but can it run apps, play HD videos, browse the web, view photos? No, it's just a single purpose tablet. But that's fine, people don't complain that it can't do more, why should they? It does what it was meant to do.
On the other hand the iPad is multipurpose tablet that can do all these things and (as we have seen thanks to the app store) much more!
But it still has some limitations.
Are those limitations really that big a deal?
Personally, I don't think they are.
Many are saying it's just a big iPhone (or iPod touch) like that's a bad thing! I would be happy if that was all it was! Thanks to the app store, a great SDK and massive developers support, they have proved to be the most versatile and enjoyable mobile devices around. I have many times used my iPhone for reading books or websites and wished the screen was just bigger!
The problem is the iPad was massively overhyped and couldn't hope to live up to all the rumours and speculation. If it had just been billed as the worlds most powerful and beautiful eBook reader I don't see how anyone could be disappointed.
Just consider the Kindle, a fantastically popular eBook reader but can it run apps, play HD videos, browse the web, view photos? No, it's just a single purpose tablet. But that's fine, people don't complain that it can't do more, why should they? It does what it was meant to do.
On the other hand the iPad is multipurpose tablet that can do all these things and (as we have seen thanks to the app store) much more!
But it still has some limitations.
Are those limitations really that big a deal?
Personally, I don't think they are.
benbtg
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