The Transportation Security Administration said Tuesday that in general you should not need to remove your iPad from your bag. That’s because it’s relatively small and people who carry the device often don’t have bulky accessories like plugs and external drives that clutter the image when computer bags are screened.
I’m flying to Idaho in two weeks, and was wondering this today, as I’m thinking about leaving my MacBook Pro at home.
My buddy Kevin Lipe nails it again:
Nobody needs to progam a Mac to enjoy using it, except it’s the ability to run whatever software I want that makes a computer a useful tool to me. Nobody needs a computer that comes with schematics (like the original Apple II and II+) except the people who make expansion cards (like synthesizer cards, Z-80 cards, you know, the things that let you use an Apple II for whatever you want to use it for). Nobody needs to make an airplane out of bicycle parts, except the Wright brothers. […]
GigaOM’s Paul Sweeting, talking with NPR about the iPad:
With the iPad, you have the anti-Internet in your hands. This is not an open platform where you can create a lot of content … that you can then access and use and incorporate into what you’re doing.
I agree. My iPad is really, really slick, but it won’t replace my Macs when it comes to getting real work done.
When Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad in a breathless, globally-broadcast event yesterday afternoon, few people were as bowled over as the man who took the photo displayed on the sleek product’s desktop, veteran photographer Richard Misrach.
“I was in bed watching Inglorious Bastards when I got a call from Jeffrey FraenkeL, my dealer in San Francisco, and he said, ‘Do you know what’s going on live here?’” Misrach told ARTINFO. “I was totally shocked. Naturally my other galleries started calling and my family was all atwitter, because it’s a whole different world.”
More later in the review, I guess. Is this thing even worth reviewing?
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It’s an Apple product through and through. You don’t need it. But I get that you might want it. Apple does have that effect on people.
What a team player.
One big trend that’s apparent: big media and entertainment companies are doing very well in top free apps, but are barely present in top paid apps, whether by number of apps downloaded, or by the gross revenues from their apps.
Of course, the iPad has only been out since yesterday, but this doesn’t bode well.
In the years leading up to 1984, computers were large, messy, complicated devices that only true nerds could love — let alone use. Several members of Apple II line — for example — shipped with schematics of the circuit board, inviting people with the knowledge to play around with different configurations and settings. The Apple I didn’t even ship with a case, power supply, keyboard or display.
With the Macintosh in 1984 that changed. The product — the first Apple machine headed up by someone other than Steve Wozniak — was unlike the computers people were used to at the time. It was small, quiet and self-contained. Even today, it’s tricky to pull one of those things apart to reveal the components tucked away behind the smooth beige plastic.
At first I thought, this is not for me. I have the iPhone for mobility and a computer for my computer life. With the iPhone there are certain things it just doesn’t do well, mostly in browsing. It’s horrible to navigate a map on an iPhone because of the screen size.
Amazon today announced its Kindle App for iPad is now available in the App Store. The app lets users select from over 450,000 books from the Kindle Store on iPad and features Amazon Whispersync technology that saves and synchronizes customers’ last page read, bookmarks, notes, and highlights across their Kindle, Kindle DX, iPhone, iPod touch, Mac, iPad, and more.
I have a feeling the iBookstore will crush it.
While surfing the web on your iPad, we expect many of you will want to check your Gmail. If you go to gmail.com in your browser, you’ll see something different than what you’re used to on the desktop. We’re releasing an experimental user interface for the iPad built on the Gmail for mobile HTML5 web app that we launched last year for the iPhone and Android devices. Those devices have large screens compared to other phones, and tablets like the iPad give us even more room to innovate. To take advantage of the iPad’s large display, we’ve created a two-pane view with your list of conversations on the left and messages to the right.
Speaking of iFixit, those crazy guys have analyzed the boards shown in the FCC’s listing of the device. While the final product may be different, this thing looks amazing inside.
