It's... the iPad!

Antimon · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 11:52 am Post subject: It's... the iPad!

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(from this blog: http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jan/27/apple-tablet-launch-live-coverage)

GovernorSilver · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:12 pm Post subject:

Ashamed to admit I'm actually following a live blog avidly:

http://live.gizmodo.com/

BobTheDog · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:19 pm Post subject:

Bloody big iPhone!

Blue Hell · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:20 pm Post subject:

ok, so it has a name ... but what is it ... it doesn't seem to be the somewhat larger iphone that i had ordered Wink

GovernorSilver · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:28 pm Post subject:

Starting at $499, it's obviously priced to compete with and destroy the Amazon Kindle. Why buy a Kindle as your E-reader when you can pick up an iPad that can do a lot more, in full color and better resolution?

This thing will also destroy the Jazzmutant Lemur. Guaranteed somebody will come up with iPad apps that do everything the Lemur does, so one's total investment is far less than the $2000+ US price of the Lemur.

trotz · Joined: Aug 06, 2007 Posts: 83 Location: mallorca

TouchOsc works great on the iPhone. A Pro edition of this program is all what is needed to kill the poor Lemur.

Besides that, I see no much point in the gadget, frankly. Maybe with the new more powerful processor someone programs a virtual modular? Wink

GovernorSilver · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:51 pm Post subject:

Antimon · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 12:56 pm Post subject:

iPhone apps will run unmodified, scaled up. I'm guessing the multitouch support is the same as on an iPhone. You can get it with or without 3G (it will look pretty funny if you phone with it like an iPhone - like a one of those huge phones you see in cartoons).

I'm fairly excited! Smile

I'm guessing you'll program it like an iPhone, which I've heard is a bit of a hassle. Unless Google makes an AndroidPad I might end up with one of these eventually.

/Stefan

expermusic · Joined: May 10, 2005 Posts: 37 Location: NJ

modulator_esp · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 1:55 pm Post subject:

looks cool Cool

the touch has converted me to 2 things I never thought I'd use

1. softsynths
2. Apple products

whatever next Wink

opg · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 3:34 pm Post subject:

seraph · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:22 pm Post subject:

http://www.apple.com/ipad/

GovernorSilver · Posted: Wed Jan 27, 2010 4:31 pm Post subject:

I will get one just so that Carlo will stop making fun of me for playing synths on a phone.

pyrosonic · Joined: Jul 12, 2008 Posts: 383 Location: Kent,Oh. USA

I've certainly been saying that if all it ended up being is a big ass Touch and wasn't too expensive that It'd be great and it turned out to be more than that and I'll probably end up getting one,but...

I'd LOVE to know if anyone has used TouchOsc with an app that speaks OSC because it IS quite "zippery" as Edison Rex noted in the TouchOsc thread.I would really like to know if this comes from TouchOsc or from Osculator,or the actual resolution of the screen/pad which isn't any greater on the Ipad than the Touch if I'm not mistaken.(I don't know if the Lemur's is higher)

It's not so zippery as to render it unusable and,as I said,I'll probably get one at some point,but I still gotta wonder whether the Lemur performs better.

Beyond a doubt,the price point is a HUGE advantage,but It might not "destroy the Lemur" with anyone but the folks that couldn't afford one anyway.

That said,it still is pretty cool.For someone complaining about big fingers and small controls it's just what the doctor ordered.

There was a funny cartoon in the paper yesterday on the subject.
Please don't take it the wrong way,because I'm as much of an Apple fan as any of you.

http://comics.com/prickly_city/2010-01-26/

BobTheDog · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:28 am Post subject:

Well I am quite disappointed, I wanted a apple tablet really, something that worked just like a MacbookPro but in a tablet form.

I can see the use of an overgrown iTouch but you are never going to run say Ableton Live on it.

Maybe they will release a proper laptop based version soon after.

seraph · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:47 am Post subject:

BobTheDog · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 1:02 am Post subject:

v-un-v · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:11 am Post subject:

BobTheDog · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 3:15 am Post subject:

Their not multi-touch are they?

v-un-v · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:50 am Post subject:

BobTheDog · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:00 am Post subject:

How would you make phone calls with an iPad though, maybe skype.

GovernorSilver · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 5:31 am Post subject:

BobTheDog · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 6:36 am Post subject:

I was willing to pay $3000 though

GovernorSilver · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 7:47 am Post subject:

In seriousness, I see the iPad not as a revolutionary product in and of itself, but an indication of future possibilities from Apple. A dream machine for me, too, would be a multitouch Macbook Pro-in-a-tablet, with a detachable dock (included!) that has all the USB 3.0, Firewire, etc. connectors and real keyboard.

DrJustice · Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 12:32 pm Post subject:

I'll pass

DJ
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