Penguin Books posted a demo of their upcoming iPad offerings:
Posts Tagged ‘iPad’
Wired on the iPad
February 16th, 2010
Wired posted a video of what their digital touch magazine will look like. Could we see this on an iPad later this year?
Adobe stalls HTML5
February 15th, 2010
There’s been a lot of talk about Adobe and HTML5 as of late, and now it’s surfaced that Adobe is trying to put a hold on the HTML5 spec and prevent it from being published.
Adobe along with other big companies sit on the W3C, which is an organization that is organizing and publishing standards to be used in web design. It seems that their objection is to a part of HTML5 spec (canvas) that allows people to create animated graphics similar to effects that can be achieved with Flash. It’s something that has gotten considerably less attention than the video elements of HTML5 which allow websites like YouTube to show videos without using Adobe’s Flash. That’s possibly why Adobe is objecting to it, they can object to it and hope it doesn’t get the same amount of media attention that an object to the video element would raise.
More iPad tidbits
January 29th, 2010
I was checking out Daring Fireball yesterday and John Gruber shared some of his thoughts and opinions after having had a chance to play with and test Apple’s iPad.
His article has some very interesting points in it and is worth reading in it’s entirety. One thing he mentions that is worth bringing up here is comparing the iPad with an automatic transmission in a car. He points out that an automatic car still cycles through gears but this process is hidden from the driver. He equates how the iPhone and iPad OS is removing certain elements from the user, like file system and where you install applications, but that these things are still present underneath the surface.
It’s pretty interesting when you think about it, the iPhone/iPad OS is in that sense really creating something more simplistic and elegant. On these devices you don’t have to worry about where you will save a document or project, it’s saved automatically within the application. Looking at a normal computer and I have to say that this is going to make computing appeal to a lot of people that can’t stand computers. I can’t begin to think of how many times I’ve been asked by people to help them sort out their computer. Back in December I took a look at a friends MacBook, a recent Windows convert, and it was a mess. He hadn’t installed a lot of applications properly, so that when you launched them the disk images he originally downloaded would all start to mount. These type of errors and confusing can all abstracted away if the iPad/iPhone OS starts to be used by real day to day applications.
Day of the Tablet (Part 2)
January 28th, 2010
So the Apple tablet has come and gone, I’ve had some time to digest and think about the announcement of the iPad and feel that I’m now ready to share my feelings on it. I think like many others I was disappointed with the announcement of the Apple iPad.
After some thought I feel that the biggest failure in yesterday’s presentation was the actual presentation itself. I wrote in my post yesterday that the iPhone was so big that the Apple tablet would need to eclipse that in order for this event to be a success in the press. I referenced Empire Strikes Back in that post and I think it was a fantastic example. The first time you say that film and discovered Darth Vader was Luke’s father, it was Earth shattering, it changed all the rules. It’s how a sequel is done, it washes away everything from the first film and leaves you altered.
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