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But the design will be shit and you won't have the user base.
I'm not sure this is true with an arm processor. A lot of semiconductors companies are working on an arm version , and optimizations for low power.

And the arm platform is quite an open platform. I bet any successful company can work with big semi companies to tweak chips.

The biggest advantage is secrecy.If apple has some unique feature - it gives them the time to secretly do research on processor architectures for it.

But not a lot of value for features everybody are looking for. in this case open r&d is better.
OLEDs use considerably more power (the power varies according to color) and typically have a smaller pitch - so to get the same physical size screen would require a higher resolution. Or, to put it another way, using the same resolution with OLEDs would result in a screen that was physically smaller. I believe OLEDs are more expensive than TFT but I'm not sure how the price compares to the ICP variety. Also, the useful life of OLEDs is currently less than that of TFT LCDs.
While I love Commodore, the analogy breaks down. MOS had their own fab, which allowed them to do lightning-fast turnaround. If Apple bought a fab today, you should short their stock because that is a low-margin, cash-hungry business.

The VIC-II was apparently built so quickly without simulation tools because they fabbed custom test runs of individual parts of the chip with debug logic added. This "unit-test" style development had chip spins coming out in 2 weeks.

Nowadays, you do this with simulation or an FPGA.
Boy, we're really stretching to try to get every webpage that mentions the iPad into HN today, eh?
Thank you. I am aware of which current option is closest to my choice. I was not really referring to that tho. The poll question is a yes/no question, and all the answers are either No, or the answer to an implied "which iPad?" question. I was hoping maybe to get an option to say no, and to answer an implied "why not?" at the same time. Seems more balanced that way.
I'd really like to see limited floating licenses for all the apps I bought on my iPhone, similar to the way DRM from the iTunes store works. You can authorize 1 iPhone and 1 iPad per purchased application. Maybe use Mobile Me to sync settings.
Yes, looks great for browsing, music, photos, video.

I'm disappointed there isn't a camera, but you can't have everything.

It's intriguing that it has very limited power requirements. Apple must have done something very special with the processor / display.
Nice!

One issue, for U.S. users: the generated PDF uses the A4 page size, with no indication of how to change this.
Apple's strategy is to not burden their users with the mental load of having to make that tradeoff. Can you imagine trying to use this device for a whole workday and having to worry about whether you quit that last app so that the battery will last until your shift's up?

For casual multi-tasking, the speed of the flash memory means that well-written apps should be able to save and restore their state pretty quickly even if the operating system does quit the app when the user switches to a new one. More serious multi-tasking (where you would want side-by-side windows and other major UI changes) would definitely reduce battery life and make things much more complex.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1080755
You can of course see your grandchildren via the iPad if they've got a laptop or desktop camera, it's the person with the iPad that won't be seen.
Me and three other guys that live on boats are actually in the process of starting a blog with life and experiences from the boat life. It's probably not HN material though.
"However, desktop gamers are pretty savvy. They can tell when they're being treated like second-class citizens, and will vote against low-quality ports with their wallets."
- From the Article

I like to believe that too, except Modern Warfare 2 shattered that myth.
Spam from http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1080755.
I am not buying it.

May be a future versions with Camera and multitasking? Seriously this version should have had a camera.
I was writing about this on my blog. I hope it wont be 3 years before we can have a decent (google?) open pad.
It's a fantastic device for my parents who aren't tech savvy. Add a camera (hopefully in a future version) and it'll be great to do some video conferencing with my parents.

For me, it'd just be a nice to have. So, no, I wont get one.
I'm all for Linux (my primary development machine) but, really? You would favorably compare the UI of this 'cheap chinese media player' to the iPad? It's just not a contest. If my grandma needs a computer for looking at photos we send her and sending email -- well, guess which device it wont be.
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And what do you think this comment area is for?

Edit: To clearly state what I'd expect to see would be "I'm waiting for <x>" as a comment, not a request for more poll options.
Wow, that's really nice. Bookmarked!

The autocomplete feature is snappy (am usually not a fan of autocompletes), and it gets me right to the functions I care about without having to drill into each project first. Thanks for the post!
Thinking the same thing. I could always buy it and use it for two months and if I don't like it I can sell it for nearly the price I paid for it. Probably will sell for at most $50 less and just think of it as a "rental fee".
No camera. Less space than a ThinkPad. Lame.
My mom wanted a Kindle for christmas, but we (the rest of my immediate family) passed on it as an idea because we didn't think she would actually end up using it much. We got her an iPod nano 2-3 christmasses ago, and only as of the past 6 months or so has she really managed to figure it out and start aquiring music from iTunes for it, as well as listening to Bob Brinkers weekly raido show on her own time with it (which was really how she first started to learn how to use it).

We got my dad one of the original Eee PCs (Eee 901?) from when they first came out because he wanted a small computer he could wander around the house with, and at the time it was basically the only netbook on the market. It has aged fine to do what he wants it for, but it has always been a pain to get it to connect to our wireless network. Usually it connects on startup, but when it doesn't it basically stops working until one of us re-enters our hotspot name and password after turning the wifi card on and off.

Maybe I can kill two birds with one stone and get them both something better with just one device. I'd definately want to test out the hardware myself though to see if it meets "can my parents learn to use this?" first impression.
I was in the same boat. I went with the DX. Not making my eyes bleed after all day looking at lcd screens, transfer things with usb, (don't need iTunes), and last more that one day on a single charge made my choice easy.

This device looks interesting, and might open up new use cases, but I'm not interested in going back to a walled garden.
There are several cell phones with forward-facing camera. I think Nokia's internet tablet has one too.

You just don't hear much about them because, well, video conferencing is far less fun than it sounds.
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"..and not the original title either." - of what?
Unfortunately, this is what people like my mom and my sister want: something dead simple and easy to use like iPhone.

Both OSX and Windows still give them a lot of trouble.

It's hard to pair both freedom and flexibility with ease of use and simplicity.
I think you're looking for reddit... It's that-a-way.
What's with this insatiable desire to build PDF converters and video converters these days? Isn't the market sufficiently saturated with both?

It may be that both of these are easy to build solutions for, because they're well-defined and not too technically challenging (given the tools available). But that doesn't mean it's a good idea.
Definitely not. It's just a big iPod Touch and Apple still controls what applications you can use on it. Plus, I'm not interested in reading ebooks on a backlit screen. I'll stick with the Kindle since I can read it for hours without worrying about my eyes getting tired.
I completely agree. Whoever their target is, it's certainly not me.
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Apple controlled, well optimized items running in the background.

Not multiple applications in the AppStore sense of the word.
Unless hands on wows me off my feet, I almost certainly am not getting one. There are two things I can fully understand in the context of the iPhone - no third party background apps and apps only through the App store - that I refuse to accept in what is supposed to be a laptop replacement. Everything else for me falls between Meh and Wow - no deal breakers, but also nothing making me lust after the thing, unlike the original iPhone.
At 24 ounces, the iPad is a brick. There's no way you can comfortably hold that thing like a book for more than 30 minutes. No wonder Ives has arms like a prison guard.

Like I said, it's a fine netbook killer (though I think the segment was killing itself). But there is no way this thing is taking market share from the e-books.
The iPad replaces a computer for most people, and does a lot more by being so portable and simple to use. Seriously, get one of these a keyboard dock and you're good to go.

For developers and other content creators we still need the power of a notebook. If we have a smart phone then this isn't as compelling, but for most "normal" people who consume content this is huge. Make no mistake this is a game changer.
Apple has managed to maintain consistency and provide a level of experience over the years by tightly controlling the platform. This is just another manifestation of that. Look at the App store, the fact that you have to use hacks to get OS X running on a PC or that you buy Apple computers with OS X being pre-loaded as examples of that.

If you don't like the closed platform you can grab a PC, but I think this is just how Steve Jobs does things -- he likes to have as much control as possible so that Apple can deliver a certain type and level of experience to users.
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According to the specs page (http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/) there is A-GPS, but only on the 3G model.
"design will be shit"? I think that the Nexus One has eliminated that argument.
As usual, those screaming "pirate!" are claiming losses equal to the number of suspected acts of "piracy" -- a bogus conflation. If someone was to download an ebook for free, it does not automatically follow that it's a lost sale. Most of the time, I'd suspect that it's not a lost sale at all; it's more like someone browsing books in a bookstore.
just out of curiosity, how would one take pictures with something that big?
They are probably holding back features for next generations of iPad... launched in a year or so after the first one (it could have a camera also)
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This is what I also imagined. Anand over at anandtech posted a big review of the A9 and it seems like a big step forward for ARM chips. I'm sure someone will soak the A4 in a acid bath and take some photos of the raw silicon and tell us all. (in a few months)
It doesn't have a multi-application UI, doesn't have USB ports, and can only install programs from the App Store.

It's not a small PC, it's a big PDA. I'd be surprised if you could have a shell or write code on it.
There are no fast languages, only good compilers. C is fast because there are decades worth of work put into its compiler. If someone put the same effort into a javascript compiler, javascript would be just as fast.
I think this comment area could equally well be used for telling which iPad one would be buying. So by asking for a poll option I not only specify what I intend to do, I also meta comment on the strange implied answer/question part of the poll.

Edit: I would not really have this problem if the question was 'Which iPad will you be buying?' since that is the question most of the choices answer. The "No option" could then morph into "I won't be", or could be omitted entirely, as not voting is the same as "I won't be".
My position is if I pay good money for hardware it's mine and I will do with it as I please. And I will not buy it until it has been hacked (and I can install Linux on it ;-) ).

Same with my iPhone. It wouldn't be half as useful without being jailbroken.
then make a better one
The likelihood that the targeted companies hire you afterwards is VERY low. You basically just shat all over their baby.

On the other hand, other companies (who weren't shat on) will stand up and take notice.

Spec work is only when it's by request, and the request came from people who benefit from it (e.g. "show me how you'd do this before I pay you").

This isn't spec work, it's publicity-seeking. :)
Nothing that currently exists is going away even if this becomes popular.

Devices that run other systems will emerge with time. Mainly because this does 100% of what most people want to do with a computer.
My dad, mom, grandma, and grandpa can watch videos, look at photos of their kids/grandkids, send e-mails to their relatives oversees, and read their favorite books on it, all without the need for a "computer-savvy guy" who has to teach them how it works, and fix it when it's broken. In other words, it's a logical conclusion of the personal computer revolution. I understand you need to run your Ruby scripts, but this product was designed for the 99% of the people in this country instead. You're not the target audience.
Eh, every time I hear this argument my response is the same: if they stop making open Macs, I'll stop buying Macs. I'm not married to it, and there are open platforms to switch to.

When they make a new thing I don't want, it doesn't make the old stuff I did want any less cool.
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That Apple is creating a closed system is of little surprise. Steve Jobs is all about control. It works in the short term, but I believe it will bite them in the ass over the long-term.

Making use of a closed-system and trying to be the best in a category assumes that you have access to the most brilliant minds in that field, and the most brilliant marketing campaign. What makes Apple great? Well, they can control every aspect of their production because they own all their own tools and can keep out the crap. Also, they have slick industrial design. For now they also have some of the most brilliant minds in the industry, but not all of them. This is why they will never achieve world domination with their products. I suppose I could make use of their own advertising to make an example : "I'm a mac, I'm a PC". You are either an apple person or you're not. Their closed-system allows little flexibility. They would be doomed to what they used to be were it not for them opening their file formats to standards.

Why is this not the best approach? Because of human innovation. People hate being held down, forced into one category, etc. This is what apple is doing, but because their products are so innovative, consumers will go for it.

Google is much smarter; they know what to hold onto and what to open up for the masses. Even though they employ many geniuses, they are always on the search for new innovative ideas. That's why they purchase so many startups, or so I've been told.

That's why I believe in a race between Google and Apple, Apple WILL lose eventually.

Closed-systems should actually drive innovation because they must be circumvented. That's why Apple products are cracked all the time. So I guess the challenge then is, that if you aren't happy with Apple, build a better product and market it as well as they do. All things being equal, the open-system product will win every time. You can't employ all of the brightest people yourself, all of the time. I think Apple will learn this in due time, and then things will change.

A sidenote is that a large part of Apple's appeal is simplicity because of their closed-system. If anyone could create an opem-system as turnkey as theirs, they'd come ahead by far. I think one of the closest systems to being fully open and turnkey I've seen so far is Facebook Connect, but I'm starting to become too long-winded, so I'll leave it at that.
Kindle for sale: Includes entire CS library.
I'm selling my Amazon Kindle DX with the following books included:

http://bit.ly/MyKindleDX

- Ajax For Dummies
- Teach Yourself Java in 21 days
- Inside Cyber Warfare: Mapping the Cyber Underworld
- The Numerati
- Lobsters by Charles Stross
- Rapture for the Geeks: When AI Outsmarts IQ
- Building Websites with Joomla 1.5
- Godel Escher Bach
- MIT Press Semantic Web Primer
- Pragmatic Bookshelf: Hello Android
- Windows 7: The Pocket Guide
- O'Reilly: Learning Python, 4th Edition, Oct, 2009
- Head First Java 2nd Edition
- Apress: Beginning Android
- O'Reilly: Programming Perl
- Beginning Perl Web Development: From Novice to Pro
- O'Reilly: Android Application Development
- Exploiting Software by Greg Hoglund
- Oracle 11g for Dummies
- O'Reilly: Mastering Perl
- O'Reilly: Network Programming with Perl
- C++ Basics
- Reversing: Secrets of Reverse Engineering
- Malware Forensics Investigation
- Modern Operating Systems 2nd - Tanenbaum
- Concepts of Programming Languages
- XML Bible
- OWL Primer: Web Ontology Language
- Scripting Intelligence
- O'Reilly: Masterminds of Programming
- O'Reilly: Hacking, The Next Generation
- O'Reilly: The Myths of Security
- Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach
- Head First Java Script
- PHP Power Programming
- Zend Certification Guide
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- The Pragmatic Programmer
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Introduction to Algorithms
- Microsoft Windows Xp: Command Line Reference
- CSS Web Design for Dummies
- PHP & MySQL for Dummies
- Microsoft Office Access 2007 Bible
- Microsoft Access: Forms & Reports for Dummies
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This link is a perfect example of the problem I have with Apple. Why do I have to have Quick Time to watch the video? Just give it to me and let me worry about which media player I want to use.

I sold my macbook; gave away my ipod; and I'm never going back.
Windows Requirements: iTunes store account.

I can't say that I'm surprised. This is another Apple product for the millions that are already in love with all things Apple.

If I can't simply plug it into a USB port and transfer any media to it, then I don't want it.
Wasn't FingerWorks the company Apple bought to work on the touch interface for the iPhone (and presumably the iPad)?
I wonder, how many people were sad when gearbox in their car went from stick to auto, when choke control disappeared, when you could no longer tinker with carburetor, because it was gone.

There will always be two groups of people, one group of those wanting to hack things, and another, much much larger group of those who want just use them. For every one John who wants to chip his car engine there will be five millions Joes who just want to get from the point A to the point B with the least hassle possible. As it happens Apples iProducts are aimed at the second group—deal with it. Just like ITMS and App Store may be the fastest and most hassle-free way to get what you want on your device.

I've spent some time thinking, do I want iPad. The answer is: I do. I like to read when in bed, iPad is perfect for this. I cannot take my iMac to bed, and reading with notebook is not as convenient as it can be with iPad: that damn keyboard gets in a way, event when I barely use it.

iPad is very well suited for what it is intended for: surfing the web, reading the books, some email. Let's not forget it has UI specifically tailored for the device and multitouch use. It should be great for tasks it was meant to do, and not so great for all others.

It is time to stop thinking about anything with CPU inside as the computer.
10 hours of battery life playing video continuously. My iPhone (1st gen) gets maybe 2 hrs of continuous YouTube watching.
What if you edit locally and run in the cloud? Why not double down on that lock-in?
The colors are better on the originals. Much brighter.
The iPad not analogous to a laptop. If you want to read a book, you don't use a laptop. You use a book.

Have people tried reading books on the iPod Touch or iPhone? It's awful. Add a diagram or a photo and it's even worse.

It struck me how much different the New York Times homepage felt. You have a tactile interaction with the New York Times, as if it were on newsprint.

It's a book. With photos. And video. And internet connectivity. Seems extraordinary to me.
Has at least some USB host capabilities, as you can plug a camera into it.
I really hate to ask this - but is there a way to watch that on linux? I have mplayer, but I can't find the embed link in the source to save the raw .mov file.
I want my tablet for entertainment, not for work.

And the iPad fits the bill 100%.

$499? Unbeatable!
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I can't read this on my iPad.
I think the point of a camera for me would be the potential of video conferencing. With a screen that big, you could have a virtual meeting with several participants. Additionally, it would be pretty cool if you could watch the same video remotely while video conferencing with your friends so you could chatter about the show while watching it.
I don't think Apple has to wait for itself to approve its own apps.
I am seriously thinking about the publishing aspects of it. You know, a content website is nice, but a "diskmag" can be a nice business too.
This is a pretty short but to the point summary of such a sweet hack!
You could ssh onto a cloud/unix server and write all the scripts and tools you want.

I used my iphone once to code small scripts and start/stop batch jobs on a work server while on the go.
Distribution is your main problem. How do people know about you? Find a way to piggy back or bootstrap or get word-of-mouth.

See also:
http://cdixon.org/2009/08/25/six-strategies-for-overcoming-c...
I hope that good questions make it to the top; I'm very excited about this interview.
Patents complicate that vision, though.
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