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Rinnon the Rogue

Posted: Feb 15 2010, 01:02 PM

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QUOTE (Mike @ Jan 29 2010, 03:06 PM)

not sure what you mean by multi tasking, I have facebook and Yahoo! IM running at the same time in the background on my iPod Touch. Could run skype and others too.

Sorry, just noticed this now. XD

Okay, so what I mean when I say it can't "multi-task" maybe I should be more clear in my wording. I mean, that it is not able to run two programs simultaneously, in the traditional sense. On your computer right now, all the programs in your task bar are actually running at the same time, they are all taking up some processing power, and doing their own things. On the iPhone, they have done a fairly good job of creating the "illusion" of running more than one thing at a time. When you open one App, that is the only App that can be running at a time, as soon as you go to open another App, the first one is closed. Now, in most cases, honestly, this isn't a big deal. My apps each take about 2 seconds to load, and that's nothing. However, some Apps have large databases, and take a lot longer to load. Each time you open it, it's needing to re-load the App. There is no "minimizing", the apps close. There are some exceptions, like the iPod, but for the most part, when you open one App, no others can be running at the same time.

Maybe this doesn't matter to most people, but when you're trying to get a Database program working, which needs to load several hundred or even a thousand contacts in an App, you only want to load it once, and leave it open... but you can't if you so much as make a phone call. The App closes, and then you have to re-load it. (I'm saying this from the software company I work for's perspective. This is a major problem we are running into while trying to design for the iPhone)

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Well it's out!!! Who ran out and got one!!!!!

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Rinnon the Rogue

Posted: Apr 9 2010, 10:50 AM

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Hahaha, I did not. And I will not be getting one.

Just for fun, and because the more we have to read here on Deciv, the better... here is what Penny-Arcade had to say about the whole event.

QUOTE (Tycho@Penny Arcade)

It's rare that I have the kind of time it takes to wait in a gadget line anymore, but with both sets of parents in town we were able to negotiate some leave. I'm of the opinion that these lines are their own form of good, I am a proponent of their gentle society and only moderately restrained mania. I would attend such a formation even in the absence of desire to purchase, so unique is its social configuration. I can say without equivocation that I enjoyed the line as much, if not more, than the iPad itself.

The arc of my association with Apple has shifted perceptibly over the years, from nemesis to diplomat, and then from diplomat to a true dual-citizen. But I have never subscribed to that humming thread of inevitability people seem so willing to grant them. By way of example, reviews of the device had (at the launch of the product) been the exclusive domain of fucking lunatics. I urge you to avail yourself of Gizmodo's robust matrix, marking the names of those responsible for these idolatries, and vowing to calibrate their future statements with reality.

It would not be an exaggeration to say that the device was largely unusable the first day. This is why special people are granted them early, before the rush, allowed to take a crack at the stocked buffet before the gammas arrive. Partners like Netflix were swamped as well, and their "client" is little more than a hack. The iPhone has a well established milieu by this point. What it means to be an "iPad app" is still somewhat wooly.

As an eReader, the iPad doesn't match a dedicated machine for comfort. The iBooks narrative is strong, "does what iTunes did for music," but that's purely aspirational and doesn't recognize just how late they are to the table. They are like Pink suggesting that the party has not been a party prior to their arrival, they're wrong, and for a company of their vision and scope it's embarrassing. With the Kindle and Barnes & Noble apps, it might make a nice secondary node for your digital library even if it doesn't match the simple prowess of the specialized device. It's almost perfect for kids, as you can see, but I already know which animal is the one with the trunk. Where I can see myself making use of it is with periodicals - affairs which trade on presentation as much as content. I availed myself of the most recent issue of Time, savored the novelty, but quickly ran aground on strange glitches and required orientation shifts and other shit which does not factor into my pleasure reading equation. They'll figure it out, because they have to. The Marvel comic reader could very well make me a comic reader. But for long-distance, Endurance Reading, no. No, no, no.

As for everything else, you already know it. It's a large, heavy iPhone that can't make calls. Everything the iPhone excels at, this excels at also, and that includes the acquisition of human grease and filth. Every extended interaction with the device leaves it coated with smears of unknown provenance, like a stripper pole. From a narrative perspective, they've gone the wrong way: they've made a large, less general purpose device after a smaller, perfect one. You come out with the big one first, and then when you make the one that fits in your pocket, there is a gasp from everyone in the room. You may sense this also, upon using it: the sense that time has begun to flow backward.

He makes an interesting point about how the iPad feels like it came out before the iPhone... it does less things, and is bigger and bulkier. Just interesting I thought.

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