Given the difficulties AT&T’s network had coping with the traffic generated by the iPhone, I wonder if it will be able to keep up with the iPad (even after they announced the revamping of their infrastructure)? After all, Google Maps is going to have to draw a lot more tiles to show your copilot the directions as you drive along. Image sizes will be bigger, and so too will App sizes. Anyone know what size the icons are on the iPad?
Archive for the ‘iPad’ Category
Will the iPad crush AT&T’s network?
Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010MacPad?
Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010What if the iPad wasn’t really the new cool device. Maybe the reason the new Apple laptop release is so overdue (statistically) isn’t because of production ramp-up, but because they’re going to release a Mac with a touchscreen, thus the MacPad 
iPad aftermath
Saturday, January 30th, 2010TidBITS has a nice photo tour of the iPad launch, including pics of Xeni Jardin, Stephen Fry and some John Gruber amongst other Mac luminaries.
Daring Fireball and Stephen note that the iPad web page rendering is much faster than on the iPhone, presumably due to the A4 processor. I just want to know if it supports more than 8 pages open (which is the limit in the iPhone version of Safari).
Check out the above Stephen Fry link for his most excellent take on the iPad launch, including such gems as:
I’m not advocating dumb gullibility, but it is has always amused me that those who instinctively dislike Apple for being apparently cool, trendy, design fixated and so on are the ones who are actually so damned cool and so damned sensitive to stylistic nuance that they can’t bear to celebrate or recognise obvious class, beauty and desire. The fact is that Apple users like me are the uncoolest people on earth: we salivate, dribble, coo, sigh, grin and bubble with delight.
iPad
Thursday, January 28th, 2010Woohoo!
A 24.6 cm tablet by the looks of it. Looks a lot like the lid of a MacBook Air. Onscreen keyboard. Looks like it has the iPhone’s home button.
10 hours battery life, 680g, 16-64Gb of storage. 1GHz CPU.
No GPS? No camera?
Existing iPhone apps can run in either native size or pixel doubled. New SDK for the iPad now available.
Oh look, an e-book reader, iBooks (how come we didn’t see that coming! Looks like Delicious Library’s shelves.
iWork has been ported to the interface. Does this mean it has files? a Finder? iWork apps $9.99 each, can connect a projector with a cable.
US$499 entry point (A Kindle is US$259). 64Gb With 3G = US$829
Accessories: Keyboard dock, a nice case that can stand it up to watch movies.
