Hello folks and welcome to another edition of Tuesday Tech Talk. We are 6 days removed from the iPad announcement so this will be like a post game wrap up type post.
More Thoughts on iPad
The more I see what this device can do, the more I want one. Quite simply it’s form factor and long battery life, makes it easier to use at a coffee shop. How many times do you walk into a coffee shop and all the available outlets are taken to plug in your laptop? With the iPad and a blogging app (I presume MacJournal will be making one for it.), you can just sit around anywhere and just type away on a very light device.
Another advantage of it is if I find something I want to show someone that is in another room, I don’t have to pick up the whole laptop and carry it with me to where they are. The 9.7“ screen makes it nice to share photos with someone among other things. If I were to get one I would go for the 16GB model. It is not something I am going to throw my entire music collection on. It’s nice that you can play music on it, but I don’t view it as an iPod or iPhone in that regard. What I would have on it is my photo library, eBooks, and documents using iWork.
iPad in the Enterprise
As I kind of speculated last week, there are some possibilities for using the iPad in the Enterprise. I look forward to seeing how creative companies get in utilizing it in business.
Docs, Books, and Music
Jobs stated that Pages will open Word docs, have book prices the same as Kindle, and have 6 days of continuous music play back. Interesting tidbit, Amazon recently gave in to Macmillan publishers on pricing. So the iPad is already showing signs of being a game changer in the eBook market. I guess this is Apple’s payback to Amazon when Amazon entered the digital music market with competitive pricing. Now if Apple can get McGraw Hill on board for text books and iPad sales in the education area would skyrocket!
Southwest Airlines adding WiFi to entire fleet
With the help of a small company known as Row 44, SWA will be adding WiFi to it’s entire fleet by 2012. Southwest btw is my favorite airline and yes, I will pay to use WiFi because I just can’t sit still for 2-4 hours and not do anything and neither can you I bet?
Jobs calls out Google and Adobe
Love how Steve Jobs took the bull by the horns here. He is right, Flash is dead and HTML5 is the future. I’m sure Scott Bilik may have something to add about this, uh oh did I just call out Scott? ?
Well that is all for this week. I promise to have some app reviews for next week’s edition of Triple T. Bye for now!
Oh no you didn’t! Oh no you DIDN’T!
My point was that Flash may be buggy. I don’t know whether it’s the Flash app itself or just bad developers who make bad/buggy Flash content. But his assertion that it’s slow?! I don’t believe it. H.264 video is slow to process but that hasn’t stopped him from making sure the iPod/iPhone/Macs do it well. The industry has built hardware accelerators for all of the 2D and video effects that Flash does. I know the Imagination Engine graphics IP in the iPod/iPhone’s can do 2D well. That’s how you get those cool things like CoverFlow.
I think underneath it all, there’s something more about Adobe and trying to stay divorced from them that keeps him from putting Flash on the iPod/iPad/iPhone.
Compared to OSX’s internal complexity, Flash is trivial. He could put some engineers on making it rock stable on his platforms. I take his statements as about as real as his earlier statement that no one wants to watch video on an iPod screen.