Comments on: The iPad Morphing Machine http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/ Xero Accounting Software Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:28:52 +0000 hourly 1 By: Ivan http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4840 Ivan Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:11:19 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4840 I personally won't be getting one - have you seen the alternatives? Lenovo, Dell and Google are launching their own as well. I'm pretty sure they'll support multitasking and come with Flash. Google's will run Chrome OS, and I'm pretty confident that sometime soon it will have many more apps than the Apple store. (For the simple fact that they don't have that strict approval process that seems to get Iphone developers really upset). I personally won’t be getting one – have you seen the alternatives? Lenovo, Dell and Google are launching their own as well. I’m pretty sure they’ll support multitasking and come with Flash. Google’s will run Chrome OS, and I’m pretty confident that sometime soon it will have many more apps than the Apple store. (For the simple fact that they don’t have that strict approval process that seems to get Iphone developers really upset).

]]> By: Rod Drury http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4822 Rod Drury Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:18:15 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4822 @Amber great comment. I keep thinking of new scenario's where I would use an iPad. For example when reading the Sunday paper I often look at houses and jump on my laptop to see more photos. That would be so much easier on an iPad. Things like auction sites or real estate sites, could really benefit from an iPad optimized experience. I'm beginning to agree with you on Flash. The really big websites have the resources to move to HTML5 and won't want to miss out. It's an interesting dynamic as it sounds like a big deal to move off Flash, but each individual website owner is motivated to have the most traffic. YouTube is already getting there. I bet Hulu (which seems to be the big Flash site the Americans don't want to miss out on) will have an HTML5 announcement soon. So Apples stand could actually work. I was at a school today. Solving the textbook problem is a real win. Very interesting times. Rod @Amber great comment.

I keep thinking of new scenario’s where I would use an iPad. For example when reading the Sunday paper I often look at houses and jump on my laptop to see more photos. That would be so much easier on an iPad.

Things like auction sites or real estate sites, could really benefit from an iPad optimized experience.

I’m beginning to agree with you on Flash. The really big websites have the resources to move to HTML5 and won’t want to miss out. It’s an interesting dynamic as it sounds like a big deal to move off Flash, but each individual website owner is motivated to have the most traffic. YouTube is already getting there. I bet Hulu (which seems to be the big Flash site the Americans don’t want to miss out on) will have an HTML5 announcement soon. So Apples stand could actually work.

I was at a school today. Solving the textbook problem is a real win.

Very interesting times.

Rod

]]> By: Amber Hone http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4821 Amber Hone Mon, 08 Feb 2010 09:04:04 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4821 I too was a bit dissapointed by the iPad and then I slept on it. My husband made me sit down and watch the launch video with our kids and they immediately loved it. Mind you, hubby's very savvy and extra cutting-edge when it comes to technology and our kids are all avid Apple lovers and users. What I soon discovered was that while I initially dwelled on the negatives - lack of browsing and overall usefulness of the iPad (I was once an avid mature and early adopter of Compaq/HP iPaq/02 XDA and loved transcribing with my fingernail so didn't need a stylus, so I can't wait till this comes in as a standard Apple feature ), I also could see the general usefulness in a more common setting for a less business oriented user. As for the Flash ordeal, I believe this is over-rated. We all have to face the fact that like NZ's number one car brand (and many other countries favourite car brand too), who currently have major safety technical issues and product recalls, Adobe faces a very similar reality that we're all a bit oblivious to it seems. Adobe has many 'trusted products' we've all come to use daily and take for granted without questioning how safe or secure they are. This is despite the apparent interoperability and usefulness of their products in many areas of our personal and business use. My main point is that I feel we all need to move on, see the bigger picture and that for many who don't understand it - the lack of Flash support from Apple could be a blessing in disguise for the iTouch/iPhone and can only provide us with a bit more security. Apple can only push more boundaries and continue to grow further from here it would seem. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/05/adobe_security_modest_proposal/ I too was a bit dissapointed by the iPad and then I slept on it. My husband made me sit down and watch the launch video with our kids and they immediately loved it. Mind you, hubby’s very savvy and extra cutting-edge when it comes to technology and our kids are all avid Apple lovers and users.
What I soon discovered was that while I initially dwelled on the negatives – lack of browsing and overall usefulness of the iPad (I was once an avid mature and early adopter of Compaq/HP iPaq/02 XDA and loved transcribing with my fingernail so didn’t need a stylus, so I can’t wait till this comes in as a standard Apple feature ), I also could see the general usefulness in a more common setting for a less business oriented user.
As for the Flash ordeal, I believe this is over-rated. We all have to face the fact that like NZ’s number one car brand (and many other countries favourite car brand too), who currently have major safety technical issues and product recalls, Adobe faces a very similar reality that we’re all a bit oblivious to it seems. Adobe has many ‘trusted products’ we’ve all come to use daily and take for granted without questioning how safe or secure they are. This is despite the apparent interoperability and usefulness of their products in many areas of our personal and business use. My main point is that I feel we all need to move on, see the bigger picture and that for many who don’t understand it – the lack of Flash support from Apple could be a blessing in disguise for the iTouch/iPhone and can only provide us with a bit more security. Apple can only push more boundaries and continue to grow further from here it would seem.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/05/adobe_security_modest_proposal/

]]> By: Sean Hoyt http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4735 Sean Hoyt Tue, 02 Feb 2010 09:53:58 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4735 Flash: Steve Jobs eluded that HTML5 is where they are going with the pad and iphone. Right now, Flash is the standard (an almost monopoly standard) but you can already see the shift to HTML5 in one of the biggest Flash users around, YouTube: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-youtube-html5-supported.html Camera: Many repair facilities have received iPad parts and have reported that the internal frame does indeed have an opening for a front-facing webcam/lightsensor chip, the same chip used in the unibody MacBooks: http://mashable.com/2010/02/01/ipad-camera/ so good news there, but maybe a V2.0 reveal NoteTaking: Everybody knows that Jobs considers a stylus to be evil, but given the amazing touch resolution across the surface, I'd imagine that writing would be amazingly detailed given a simple finger tool to increase pointing precision. There are drawing programs on the iphone so I'd imagine that the API would allow screen drawing as handwriting and ultimately OCR to text. The onscreen keyboard just doesn't look or feel right. Works on the iphone because you tend to 1 or 2 finger input, but on a 10" screen with all 10 fingers and ZERO tactile feedback? I'm not excited about that. Xero app? I don't know guys, the cool thing about Xero in the "cloud" is that they can roll out new features quickly because they aren't recoding and recompiling for multiple platforms. If they created apps they have to individually maintain each one, right? Seems like that would eat into the development resources. Why is Xero using Flash anyhow? The JQuery framework is the way to go... which runs great on the iPhone/iPad/Android/Palm/Blackberry. Flash:
Steve Jobs eluded that HTML5 is where they are going with the pad and iphone. Right now, Flash is the standard (an almost monopoly standard) but you can already see the shift to HTML5 in one of the biggest Flash users around, YouTube: http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2010/01/introducing-youtube-html5-supported.html

Camera:
Many repair facilities have received iPad parts and have reported that the internal frame does indeed have an opening for a front-facing webcam/lightsensor chip, the same chip used in the unibody MacBooks: http://mashable.com/2010/02/01/ipad-camera/ so good news there, but maybe a V2.0 reveal

NoteTaking:
Everybody knows that Jobs considers a stylus to be evil, but given the amazing touch resolution across the surface, I’d imagine that writing would be amazingly detailed given a simple finger tool to increase pointing precision. There are drawing programs on the iphone so I’d imagine that the API would allow screen drawing as handwriting and ultimately OCR to text. The onscreen keyboard just doesn’t look or feel right. Works on the iphone because you tend to 1 or 2 finger input, but on a 10″ screen with all 10 fingers and ZERO tactile feedback? I’m not excited about that.

Xero app?
I don’t know guys, the cool thing about Xero in the “cloud” is that they can roll out new features quickly because they aren’t recoding and recompiling for multiple platforms. If they created apps they have to individually maintain each one, right? Seems like that would eat into the development resources. Why is Xero using Flash anyhow? The JQuery framework is the way to go… which runs great on the iPhone/iPad/Android/Palm/Blackberry.

]]> By: Matthew Laver http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4725 Matthew Laver Mon, 01 Feb 2010 16:01:30 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4725 I think I would point anyone who has not read it yet to Stephen Fry's excellent breakdown of the situation: http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/ I really think that the possibility of this becoming the next thing to have around the home is very real and would recommend you consider writing a Xero App for iPad right now! I think I would point anyone who has not read it yet to Stephen Fry’s excellent breakdown of the situation: http://www.stephenfry.com/2010/01/28/ipad-about/

I really think that the possibility of this becoming the next thing to have around the home is very real and would recommend you consider writing a Xero App for iPad right now!

]]> By: An era of personal consumptivity? « Online accounting software news from Xero http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4689 An era of personal consumptivity? « Online accounting software news from Xero Sat, 30 Jan 2010 20:45:11 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4689 [...] Rod, I was initially underwhelmed with the iPad’s launch. I’ve since had a couple of days [...] [...] Rod, I was initially underwhelmed with the iPad’s launch. I’ve since had a couple of days [...]

]]> By: Rod Drury http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4668 Rod Drury Fri, 29 Jan 2010 06:23:38 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4668 Thinking a bit more. Multi-window vs Modal is not mutually exclusive. Frontrow (http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/apps-and-utilities.html#frontrow) is a great example where OSX can flip into a Modal use case. Adding Safari to FrontRow would get you close to an iPad. And of course we expect touch screens on the next MacBooks so a MacBook Air could/should be a superset of the iPad. That would be the right thing to do. Thinking a bit more. Multi-window vs Modal is not mutually exclusive. Frontrow (http://www.apple.com/macosx/what-is-macosx/apps-and-utilities.html#frontrow) is a great example where OSX can flip into a Modal use case. Adding Safari to FrontRow would get you close to an iPad.

And of course we expect touch screens on the next MacBooks so a MacBook Air could/should be a superset of the iPad.

That would be the right thing to do.

]]> By: Rod Drury http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4666 Rod Drury Fri, 29 Jan 2010 02:45:40 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4666 Aaron says it even better: "the iPad is a modal computing device" (http://twitter.com/Aethylred/statuses/8343895765) Aaron says it even better: “the iPad is a modal computing device”
(http://twitter.com/Aethylred/statuses/8343895765)

]]> By: Matt http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4665 Matt Fri, 29 Jan 2010 01:07:45 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4665 Time to start the process of ditching Flash on Xero! For modern browsers HTML Canvas and SVG are excellent options which will work even on handheld platforms. Flash's days are numbered. As to the camera, yeah, surely that's got to come in a 2.0 model. The lack of handwriting recognition came as a shock to me too. Seems a glaring omission. That said, I'll be getting one, as it fits enough use cases for me personally and the price is right. Time to start the process of ditching Flash on Xero! For modern browsers HTML Canvas and SVG are excellent options which will work even on handheld platforms. Flash’s days are numbered.

As to the camera, yeah, surely that’s got to come in a 2.0 model. The lack of handwriting recognition came as a shock to me too. Seems a glaring omission.

That said, I’ll be getting one, as it fits enough use cases for me personally and the price is right.

]]> By: Robert Owen http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4664 Robert Owen Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:46:33 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4664 No Flash is the killer for me. Interesting that Apple cited the processor demand of Flash as the public reason for not including it on iPhone but iPad has bigger processor that Apple are touting as fast. Obviously it's all about locking in apps to the app store. Adobe perhaps need to come to some kind of licensing agreement with Apple to solve this one. No Flash is the killer for me. Interesting that Apple cited the processor demand of Flash as the public reason for not including it on iPhone but iPad has bigger processor that Apple are touting as fast. Obviously it’s all about locking in apps to the app store. Adobe perhaps need to come to some kind of licensing agreement with Apple to solve this one.

]]> By: Nathan Li http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4663 Nathan Li Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:34:18 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4663 iPad wasn't designd to replace iPhone neither MacBook. It might be just design for a single purpose. It's like iPod, all it does is playing music. iTune has been changed the music industry which was broke. The purpose of iPad might be to change the media industry. Some people speculate iBook might change the book industry or kill Kindle etc, it could be true. but it also might be designed to change the education or healthcare industry. But Steve Jobs Says Apple Tablet "Will Be The Most Important Thing I’ve Ever Done." and I definitely don't think making tons of money would be the most important thing he's ever done!!! And if iPad is to redefine education or healthcare, it won't need a camera or Flash support, at least not the first version iPad wasn’t designd to replace iPhone neither MacBook. It might be just design for a single purpose. It’s like iPod, all it does is playing music. iTune has been changed the music industry which was broke. The purpose of iPad might be to change the media industry. Some people speculate iBook might change the book industry or kill Kindle etc, it could be true. but it also might be designed to change the education or healthcare industry. But Steve Jobs Says Apple Tablet “Will Be The Most Important Thing I’ve Ever Done.” and I definitely don’t think making tons of money would be the most important thing he’s ever done!!! And if iPad is to redefine education or healthcare, it won’t need a camera or Flash support, at least not the first version

]]> By: scott http://blog.xero.com/2010/01/the-ipad-morphing-machine/comment-page-1/#comment-4662 scott Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:16:51 +0000 http://blog.xero.com/?p=8856#comment-4662 i agree. i wish they would bring out a cross between a MacBook Pro & the iPad. That would be perfect & would be useful for meetings etc i agree. i wish they would bring out a cross between a MacBook Pro & the iPad. That would be perfect & would be useful for meetings etc

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