The screaming me-me computer geeks are complaining that the iPad is feature limited and is going to be a bomb. No camera, no flash, no slots, too heavy. They even complain that it has a color screen which makes it hard on the eyes for reading ebooks.
This is going to be a winner in the marketplace. I’ll take two!
Jobs did another outstanding demo of the iPad in his keynote. This is the device that you want to surf the web and send out those quick emails.
Jerry Daniels is putting up some great links on the iPad up on his RevMentor site.
From Jerry:
“Much debate these days over innovation and open systems. Apple is a semi-closed system and I think that’s good. What’s closed? The mechanism’s integrity. What’s open? Anything you want to create within that.”
What iPad Apps Are Going to Feel Like
“It shouldn’t feel like a computer”
Here are two good articles on how web designers need to prepare for the ipad:
The iPad is the iPrius: Your Computer Consumerized
Web developers can rule the iPad
Article on data consumption over the phone network connections. I agree with this one, people chew up more data while they are in their principle location over their DSL/Cable connections. Roaming out the office you are using the service for connectivity. I have a Sprint Overdrive and will use it with the iPad while away from WiFi.
Can You Get By with 250 MB of Data Per Month?
Retiring on an iPhone App:
Eugene Lin on iPhoning His Way To Retirement
I like this rant:
Subscriptions are the New BLACK. (+ why Facebook, Google, & Apple will own your wallet by 2015)
This is technology to learn to get webpage/webapps onto the iPhone without submitting an application to Apple:
Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
iPhone and iPad developer tools, Titanium and PhoneGap:
PhoneGap vs. Titanium from n00b eyes
JQuery. Very useful tool to make your website iPhone/iPad friendly.
Welcome to jQuery for Designers
TopStyle 4 is a great Windows base webpage authoring tool. Port it to OS X!
TopStyle4: iPhone (and iPod touch) webapp development. TopStyle includes iWebKit, a simple and advanced development framework for iPhone (and iPod touch) webapp development. In addition to iWebKit, TopStyle includes new CSS definitions for iPhone OS 1.1 and iPhone OS 2.0. Last but not least, TopStyle includes a new *internal* preview for Apple Safari.