Monthly Archives: March 2010

Flash, iPad, Standards

Zeldman weighs in on Flash and the iPad.
Adobe should see the opportunity.

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How Tablets will change the World

The April 2010 edition of Wired has a series of articles on how the tablet will change the world.

Wired is known for its bold prognostications and this article is no exception:
the tablet will eventually replace laptops
people will carry around an iPhone and iPad (or Google equivalent), using the cloud and home computers for syncing
tablets like [...]

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A few new iPad details

March 12 the date for American pre-orders for the iPad has arrived and some new details have come out. Nothing big but some additional clarity on how the more flexible American data plan ordering will work, confirmation that free epub ebooks can be read in iBook, and identification of a screen lock switch. The key [...]

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Don’t like the iPad then Get a JooJoo

For a device that hasn’t yet even been released there was yet another critical article about the iPad by ZDNet. Despite all the iPad’s supposed flaws apparently it generates more web page traffic to do another iPad critique and it worked since I checked to see if there was anything original or enlightening. Unfortunately it [...]

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iPad Use Cases

Minding the Gaps has started listing potential iPad use cases to answer the question: What will an iPad be good for?
Some of the use cases listed so far:
Law enforcement
Medical
Coaching Playbook
Music
Board Games
Kind of reminds me of an old series in Yahoo Internet Life which compared the old way with the Internet way to get people thinking [...]

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iPad Release announced

Apple announced an US iPad release of April 3 with pre-orders March 12. The 3G enabled version is targeted for release at the end of April. The announcement mentioned release in Canada which was estimated to be a month later than in the US.
iPad information still pending:
Canadian cell providers (1 or all 3?)
Canadian cell data [...]

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iPad and the future of books

Craig Mod beautifully expresses one exciting aspect of the iPad as a distribution device for what he calls definite content. The emphasis is on the potential for presentation and layout for richer content but let’s face it large and even larger screens exist but are just not as easy to hold, carry, and interact with. [...]

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