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iPad!
Michael L. Palmieri, Photographer
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Barnegat | NJ | USA | Posted: 11:33 AM on 01.26.10 |
->> Am I they only SSer excited about Wednesday's Apple media event where they are rumored to unveil the "iPad" touch screen tablet device?
Apple might also be revealing that other cell phone companies may soon be offering the iPhone. I recently switched to AT&T just for the iPhone but I would quickly return to Verizon should they make the iPhone available. Their 3g coverage and reliability is far greater in my neck of the woods. |
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Landon Finch, Photographer
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Colorado Springs | CO | USA | Posted: 11:56 AM on 01.26.10 |
->> "Am I they only SSer excited about Wednesday's Apple media event where they are rumored to unveil the "iPad" touch screen tablet device?"
Apparently ;-)
Not really excited about yet another device to read/work from. I've already got 2 laptops, a desktop, Droid, and iTouch.
And as a Droid/Verizon customer I REALLY don't want the iPhone on the Verizon network sucking up bandwidth. |
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Mike Huffstatler, Photographer, Assistant
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Rancho Cucamonga | Ca | United States | Posted: 12:23 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> I think it will be a bit of a yawn-event for me. what, a bigger iPhone/iTouch? that seems to be the rumor I keep seeing. Some sort of 5" device. Others are doing this as well...at CES several were revealed in the form factor, including one very-well received unit from Dell running Android.
I'm just not sure I understand the use case for this type of product. More to come, of course. |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Louisville | KY | USA | Posted: 12:37 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> Just another gadget to feed. Another charger. Another thing to get lost/stolen/broken. Something else to update/sync. Don't need it.
But it will sell millions because it's shiny and has an Apple logo. :-) |
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Will Powers, Photographer
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 12:52 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> I'm excited. I bought AAPL stock a few weeks ago and it started climbing this AM. Some "experts predict it to go up quite a bit as a result of tomorrows announcement.
That said, Apple usually has lots of innovations in competitive devices. The tablet will be more than a tablet or a flattened iPhone, I'm sure. Since Apple is the leading smart phone, has more apps available, and is an Apple, if I decide it is worth it, I'll buy one, too. |
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Eugenio Cebollero, Photographer
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George Bridges, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | USA | Posted: 1:35 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> I'm interested in seeing what it's capabilities are and what I could use it for.
The key on whether I would jump quickly on getting one is how could I use it for work. If it had a fuller OS than the iPhone and an SD card slot or USB ports and built-in cell connection then it could become a great file-quickly-from-the-field device. Something where you wouldn't have to carry a full computer but can still crop, tone and caption a photo and get it out. I doubt it will be that robust but you never know.
I could see them aiming it at corporate America too for running presentations. You put the tablet on the podium and hook it to the overhead projector and then with the swipe motions from the iPhone and later laptops you can move forward through your presentation and see your slides with speech notes in front of you on the large tablet screen.
The best comment I saw on it was from an analyst a while back who said along the lines of: it won't do everything we want it to do, but it will do some things we never thought of and will do what it does incredibly well. |
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Michael L. Palmieri, Photographer
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Barnegat | NJ | USA | Posted: 1:37 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> Eugenio -- HAHAHA! I love the guy holding it like a phone!
Ergonomics aside, I think the tablet movement will be strong. Already the Kindle and the Sony Reader are having success and all they do for the most part is display text. The media world is moving towards e-content and I think a multi-purpose device like this is a good thing. Brand aside, a device that can do all that these devices potentially can do is quite appealing. |
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Chris Mackler, Photographer
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Arlington | VA | United States | Posted: 2:05 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> Such a device is rumored to change the face of journalism to an interactive, e-subscription model. Also the NYT paywall is going up around the same time of the launch, making some speculate on a Digital Times subscription for the iTab. Do you think this will help the journalism world?
http://bit.ly/c2Ik2w and http://bit.ly/a85d4R |
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Dianna Russell, Photographer
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Danny Munson, Photographer
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San Dimas | Ca | United States | Posted: 2:20 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> I think there are a few problems with this.
As others have mentioned, I use my cell phone for basic email and web browsing.Use my laptop for other work on the road. Do I really need something in between?
Is this going to require another wireless contract? I already have a card for my laptop and cell phone. Am I going to have to pay for another wireless contract?
Cost. If this thing in in the $800-$1000 range I don't see many jumping on it.
We shall see. |
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Bruce Twitchell, Photographer
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Coeur d'Alene | ID | USA | Posted: 2:31 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> When I first heard the rumors on this thing a year or two ago, I was pretty excited. Now that I hear it will likely be running the iPhone OS on it, I don't want it. If it was a scaled down MacBook with the Mac OS, I would be all over it (especially if it had an actual keyboard).
As it is, for as much as it will likely cost, count me out.
As far as the contracts- there was a brief tweet yesterday from a German company that stated there was a price with and without a T-Mobile contract. So I would guess that you can run it on just WiFi and not on cell service. |
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Chris Parent, Student/Intern, Photographer
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Baton Rouge | LA | United States | Posted: 2:38 PM on 01.26.10 |
| ->> I'm hoping it works well for tethering. I've been waiting to see if it will. If so that will be a huge advantage. A 10 inch wireless device to use instead of a computer. |
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Chuck Steenburgh, Photographer
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Lexington | VA | USA | Posted: 3:25 PM on 01.26.10 |
| ->> Personally, I would love a cross between a netbook and a cellphone. I've already ditched my laptop for a souped-up netbook + Blackberry (for tethering and email). Merging those two into one device could be enough to get me to buy my first Apple. |
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Paul Gallaher, Photographer
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Temecula | CA | USA | Posted: 3:30 PM on 01.26.10 |
| ->> The tablet is much more interesting to me as a producer rather than a consumer. I'm pretty sure I won't buy one, but I'll be very interested in the impact it has on the market for and distribution of visual art. |
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Rob Kerr, Photographer
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Bend | OR | US | Posted: 5:30 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> Mackler nailed my thoughts about it. Time to get back to paying for quality journalism, and not with the conflicts of advertising. Yes, I do think this idea will help the journalism world...what wouldn't at this point? The iTunes model has proven successful in movies, tv and music.
Kudos to Bridges for powering a useful reason to be interested.
My mom and her senior citizen reading friends grilled me a bunch over the holidays about the Kindle popularity and what I thought of it. Like many of the above responses, I felt that it was redundant to my use of the iPhone or laptop. It seems my nay-saying couldn't sway them from asking me over and over again. Could Apple have really seen a market we don't? In the days since, I have noticed more and more Kindles in coffee shops, many by senior citizens.
I'm excited by it and know techies want to fulfill the need for portable tv and videophones as a futuristic benchmark. |
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Angus Mordant, Student/Intern
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Sydney | NSW Australia | Australia | Posted: 5:38 PM on 01.26.10 |
| ->> iPad? Apple releasing sanitary products now? |
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David Harpe, Photographer
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Will Powers, Photographer
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Denver | CO | USA | Posted: 7:03 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> DH--
That could change though if the NYT and others go to a subscription model. |
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Mark Loundy, Photo Editor
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San Jose | CA | USA | Posted: 8:45 PM on 01.26.10 |
->> It could change for the NYT, but their experience is not likely to be replicated by any other company.
--Mark |
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Svein Ove Ekornesvaag, Photographer
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Aalesund | Møre og Romsdal | Norway | Posted: 11:23 AM on 01.27.10 |
->> Personally I would not buy something like this, not interesting at all.
I don't think the unit itself is very interesting. The software and business model is more interesting. I guess it will ship with something like iTunes for newspapers, books and other electronic publications. |
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Daniel Putz, Photographer
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Garrett Hubbard, Photographer
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Washington | D.C. | USA | Posted: 1:15 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> Will- be ready for Apple's stock price to be very volatile over the next few days as the short-sellers really try to pressure out people like you & me |
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Baron Sekiya, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Keaau | HI | USA | Posted: 1:23 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> Remember how when folks got the first iPhone how it was a magnet for people to come over to them (think chick or dude magnet). It's gonna be the same again for this iPad. Something expensive so only a few will dive in at first but everyone will want to check it out. |
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Delane B. Rouse, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | US | Posted: 1:35 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> I doubt it will be very expensive... |
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Matthew Sauk, Photographer
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Sandy | UT | United States | Posted: 1:43 PM on 01.27.10 |
->> Delane,
Really? The rest of their lineup is pretty expensive including the IPOD, Iphone, etc... |
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Monty Rand, Photographer
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Bangor | ME | USA | Posted: 1:45 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> I booked a wedding using my iphone the first day I had it. I showed a girl at a bar who just got engaged some photos on it. She called me the next day and we got together at my office and she hired me....... |
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Grant Blankenship, Photographer
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Macon | GA | USA | Posted: 2:13 PM on 01.27.10 |
->> I think it is interesting as a blank slate for media companies to design around. If it doesn't do much more than a huge iPhone or a laptop without a keyboard now, that's only because no one has designed anything specifically for it yet.
Clay is just a bunch of mud, right? |
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Delane B. Rouse, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | US | Posted: 2:21 PM on 01.27.10 |
->> Matthew,
Expensive is relative..but I think that $499 price (even for the low end) is AWESOME!!! |
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Bryan Hulse, Photographer
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Nashville | Tn | USA | Posted: 2:31 PM on 01.27.10 |
->> Ha! That Onion 'Wheel' spoof is hilarious:
"Everything is only a few hundred clicks away" |
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Bastian Ehl, Photographer
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Magdeburg | _ | Germany | Posted: 3:09 PM on 01.27.10 |
->> no flash, no multitasking, no camera for video conferencing.
oh wait, gotta have some features to make v2 even more better.
the only useful application i can image would be for shoots with an art-director or corporate pr-person present. the camera streams jpgs over wlan into this little toy and they can stand wherever on the set they want to be and easily monitor the results. that would require an app from the camera companies of course. |
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Bastian Ehl, Photographer
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Andrew Knapik, Photographer, Assistant
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Lincoln Park | MI | USA | Posted: 3:17 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> I really WANT one, but I dont NEED one. I would have loved to see something without a backlit option - kind of like the Nook from B&N or the Amazon Kindle. Backlit can be hard on the eyes. |
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David Welker, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Springfield | MO | USA | Posted: 3:22 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> does anyone look at this and see a better future for our profession? I think there are several things that could but don't know if this transition will be a fast one or not. How do you all think this will affect our jobs as photographers as a whole? |
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Daniel Putz, Photographer
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Owings Mills | MD | USA | Posted: 3:28 PM on 01.27.10 |
->> It's a giant iPod Touch. Not much more than that.
A netbook is more capable. |
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Stew Milne, Photographer
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Providence | RI | USA | Posted: 3:36 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> iYawn ...... zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz |
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Baron Sekiya, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Keaau | HI | USA | Posted: 3:40 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> The iPad isn't for content creators like us, it's for content consumers. So in that case hopefully they sell tons of them. |
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Jason Orth, Photographer
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Lincoln | NE | USA | Posted: 3:40 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> Call me underwhelmed |
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Daniel Putz, Photographer
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Owings Mills | MD | USA | Posted: 3:43 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> Thing is, content can be acquired more cheaply on a much more robust platform (a netbook). |
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Andrew Villa, Student/Intern, Assistant
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San Jose | CA | United States | Posted: 3:54 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> I'm actually very interested. I really want a kindle, but I feel like this may be the better option for me. Now I can listen to my audio books, read my e-books(hopefully I can figure out how to sync them without iBooks, show photos to clients, watch videos and get rid of my mini 9. |
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Kevin Seale, Photographer
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Crawfordsville | IN | United States | Posted: 3:57 PM on 01.27.10 |
->> I found the following info at the bottom of their website interesting. Maybe this is normal but I have never noticed it before.
"This device has not yet been authorized as required by the rules of the Federal Communications Commission. This device is not, and may not be, offered for sale or lease, or sold or leased, until authorization is obtained." |
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David Welker, Photographer, Student/Intern
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Springfield | MO | USA | Posted: 3:58 PM on 01.27.10 |
->> Baron,
That was pretty much the exact point I am trying to make. Lets say that things shift from the paper to a digitized media such as the tablet or something. In theory, do you think that would be better for us or make it worse? |
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Kirby Yau, Photographer, Assistant
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San Diego | CA | USA | Posted: 3:59 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> Paul Gallaher is right, stop thinking "what can it do for me" and think, "what we can do for it". |
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Bastian Ehl, Photographer
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Magdeburg | _ | Germany | Posted: 4:13 PM on 01.27.10 |
->> I think in the long run it is better for the companies offering their media products through the itunes store. if it's better for us, the creators, depends on how much of the share makes its way into our pockets.
it's a smart move from apple of not supporting flash. that leaves out other interactive content. if you want your multimedia content on the ipad or iphone, the only way is through itunes. and that means revenue for apple. and the customer is mostly required to pay for that.
it seems like a good way to finally distribute paid editorial content over the net. |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 4:14 PM on 01.27.10 |
| ->> $829 for the good one... |
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Delane B. Rouse, Photographer, Photo Editor
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Washington | DC | US | Posted: 4:22 PM on 01.27.10 |
->> Kevin,
That's not a big deal...it just means that "legally" they are working ut the details with the FCC. Plus they said 60 days before it's available.
Bastian--> I never thought about it that way but it makes perfect sense. the idea is for people to PAY for content not wrap it in a flash presentation and give it away via a website. |
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David Welker, Photographer, Student/Intern
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