Comments on: Tuesday Update, iPad and Other Thoughts http://www.towne-pub.com/blog/pub-tuesday-update-ipad-and-other-thoughts/ Beer. Peanuts. Interdimensional Chaos. Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:15:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: phinn http://www.towne-pub.com/blog/pub-tuesday-update-ipad-and-other-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-218 phinn Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:58:46 +0000 http://www.towne-pub.com/?p=843#comment-218 It is coming, I promise. Unfortunately, the page-a-week pace means that it's a few months away. But we will get there! It is coming, I promise. Unfortunately, the page-a-week pace means that it’s a few months away. But we will get there!

]]> By: Dave Grabert http://www.towne-pub.com/blog/pub-tuesday-update-ipad-and-other-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-217 Dave Grabert Tue, 02 Feb 2010 20:31:27 +0000 http://www.towne-pub.com/?p=843#comment-217 It has been missed. :) It has been missed. :)

]]> By: Powers http://www.towne-pub.com/blog/pub-tuesday-update-ipad-and-other-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Powers Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:20:51 +0000 http://www.towne-pub.com/?p=843#comment-216 I have to admit I'm eager to get back to the Pub and everyone hanging around. I have to admit I’m eager to get back to the Pub and everyone hanging around.

]]> By: Dave Grabert http://www.towne-pub.com/blog/pub-tuesday-update-ipad-and-other-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-215 Dave Grabert Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:17:29 +0000 http://www.towne-pub.com/?p=843#comment-215 I am less interested in it than I was at the prospect of a tablet originally. I was really hoping for Apple to release a portable touchscreen device that ran OSX. I have an iPod Touch and I love it, save for the failings that Bob already mentioned. That being said, there is a place for this device. I am very interested to see how books will look on it. Reading books on the iPod Touch is not horrible, just not great. The Kindle and other e-ink type readers are excellent at what they do, but are unitaskers. They do what they do VERY well, but a device that can be used for electronic media that is fresh and interactive, as well as everything else that the iPad can do is very enticing. I really could see myself using it at work as well for the things that i use my iPod Touch for in meetings (notes, calculator, email, calendar.......... games....) in a way that would be more conducive that what I am able to do with the iPod Touch. I am interested to play with one in a big way. I am less interested in it than I was at the prospect of a tablet originally. I was really hoping for Apple to release a portable touchscreen device that ran OSX.

I have an iPod Touch and I love it, save for the failings that Bob already mentioned.

That being said, there is a place for this device. I am very interested to see how books will look on it. Reading books on the iPod Touch is not horrible, just not great. The Kindle and other e-ink type readers are excellent at what they do, but are unitaskers. They do what they do VERY well, but a device that can be used for electronic media that is fresh and interactive, as well as everything else that the iPad can do is very enticing.

I really could see myself using it at work as well for the things that i use my iPod Touch for in meetings (notes, calculator, email, calendar………. games….) in a way that would be more conducive that what I am able to do with the iPod Touch.

I am interested to play with one in a big way.

]]> By: phinn http://www.towne-pub.com/blog/pub-tuesday-update-ipad-and-other-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-214 phinn Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:09:23 +0000 http://www.towne-pub.com/?p=843#comment-214 The only thing that really concerns me is lack ofFlash support, which has been promised as "coming soon" on the iPhone for the last 18 months at least. I hope they get that sorted out! The only thing that really concerns me is lack ofFlash support, which has been promised as “coming soon” on the iPhone for the last 18 months at least. I hope they get that sorted out!

]]> By: Suebee http://www.towne-pub.com/blog/pub-tuesday-update-ipad-and-other-thoughts/comment-page-1/#comment-213 Suebee Tue, 02 Feb 2010 17:54:46 +0000 http://www.towne-pub.com/?p=843#comment-213 Count me among the "billions" that don't have an iPhone, iPod Touch or a MacBook, and planning on getting an iPad. *thumbs up* I don't know when I'll be getting it, as I need a new car more urgently, but even if it's not until the second generation, I WILL be getting one. For all the reasons you mentioned -- ESPECIALLY when I am down in my studio (aka The Craft Dungeon), and want to check Facebook, or Etsy. ;) I -am- an Apple zombie, but I'm one on a budget. I was weighing between a MacBook and an iPod Touch. Now I don't have to. :D Count me among the “billions” that don’t have an iPhone, iPod Touch or a MacBook, and planning on getting an iPad. *thumbs up* I don’t know when I’ll be getting it, as I need a new car more urgently, but even if it’s not until the second generation, I WILL be getting one. For all the reasons you mentioned — ESPECIALLY when I am down in my studio (aka The Craft Dungeon), and want to check Facebook, or Etsy. ;)

I -am- an Apple zombie, but I’m one on a budget. I was weighing between a MacBook and an iPod Touch. Now I don’t have to. :D

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