I woke early. Naturally I had to check out the iNews before leaving and immediately went to the Apple store. The Australian version presented me with no change at all but the American had all its links leading to the iPad splash page which was a bit annoying. Watching the new iPad commercial was a humorous experience as each presented spoke like a dribbling idiot talking with excitment about their new safety pen and circle of paper. Except for the last guy, Bob Mansfield, he was less retarded and a bit more interesting. My favourite spastic lines were:
- you can see all of the web as opposed to say a 24 inch desktop screen?
- there’s no right or wrong way to hold it… ahhh derrrrrrrrrrrr *facepalm*
The price of the device itself is fantastic and the tech specs are not revolutionary because of this; it is a compromise that I’m happy with. It seems to look better than the Android offerings. The prices of ebooks however, seem to be about the same as buying the physical book which doesn’t inspire me much and the bookshelf thing is a bit silly, reminds me of Delicious Library’s equally silly digital bookshelf. I’ll be looking forward to using Stanza on the device as well as a comicbook reader.
It seems that people are still fussed about the app store being “locked down” and controlled. I’m a bit mixed about this as the idea makes sense that it is all quality controlled but you can argue about this as some apps on the iPhone make you wonder how they ever got cleared. Security is debatable whether an open system would be worse off but I like that I don’t have to be conscious of security when downloading new apps.
I was disappointed that iMail on the iPhone isn’t getting an iUpdate for read mail syncing with Mail.app. This is the single reason I don’t use Mail on the iPhone as not only does it not do this obvious thing but it also doesn’t even have a read all button to at least get rid of the stupid badge counter. The new calendar app looks really good but why, oh why is the UI for it a poo-stained colour? I better be able to change that.
I see iWork is still at 2009, meaning that although you can use the iPad version and “change the orientation in case you need to write upside down”, you still can’t have a landscape page in a portrait document. I still can’t fathom why this wasn’t a feature from day one and after enquiring about iWork 2009 in an Apple store when it was released, the guy just told me to go get Open Office. So I guess iWork 2010.5 or just 2011? At least the iPad may have a better file sharing set up.
The other disappointment about all this is there is nothing I can have right now. Another two months till the iPad (yay for RSS feeds to continue being iClogged). What will I do with my pent up technolust?
