We already knew that the iPad would be getting a few pieces of software that haven't shown up on its tinier, phone counterpart -- but now that a few screenshots of forthcoming apps for the device have reared their head, we're getting a clearer picture of just what this thing will feel like. If these shots of the new Yahoo! Entertainment, Bento, OmniGraffle, and Brushes are any indication, the iPad will be doing a lot more than just zooming up your Facebook profile. There's definitely an emphasis on content creation, file exporting (if not saving), and syncing with desktop versions of some of these apps, and Yahoo!'s work (alongside Brushes') shows that we've only begun to scratch the surface of what interfaces will be like on this device. We're sure the next week will be filled with all sorts of these kinds of leaks, but for now you can cherish the moment when you first laid eyes on your new way to check a TV schedule. A few more shots after the break, and lots more at the sources.
posted March 27th 2010 9:25PM
Status of my opinion: Unchanged.
@Khalid Shahin
You know news must be slow when random apple product postings go two in a row.
@Khalid Shahin - Status of my opinion (which has been this is really dumb, it's a big iPhone/iPT): beginning to slowly change. This might just maybe be useful. Maybe.
@Khalid Shahin Value of your opinion: Unchanged. Still useless.
@Khalid Shahin
Status of My Opinion of Apple Haters: Unchanged.
Still bitter as can be over Apple's upcoming success with this device.
@Khalid Shahin
Granted, this product is not for everyone, but I'd bet it will be a great product for many people and it will sale VERY well.
People who criticize it for being nothing more than an over-sized iPod Touch are completely missing the point. It's size is its killer feature. Developers can do so much more with this screen, and that fact is all the more important because the screen is also the HID.
@MRCUR Same here... I don't know. I'll wait and see. Then again, I don't know what to expect from the iPad now.
@Khalid Shahin
And why should anyone care about your personal opinion about something you've never even come near to?
@Khalid Shahin. That would matter if anyone was actually trying to change your opinion. You've made it pretty clear that you believe the ipad to be utter crap. And will continue to believe so until hell frees over, etc.
Fortunately for Apple, not everyone agrees with your opinion and articles like this will make them feel even more like they have made a good decision for themselves.
@Khalid Shahin Status of my opinion also "unchanged", I receive my new iPad April 3.
@TheRogueFFAngel
A $500 pad of paper?
I know most people are anxiously awaiting HP's slate device which will have Flash support, so online television is a go!
@jzetz tv.com already has an iphone app, hulu is rumored to be working on an ipad app, as is netflix. sites like youtube, cbs etc are working on html5 versions of their pages.
so needing flash might not be the status quo for much longer.
@jzetz Why wait there are plenty of windows xp tablets out there... Just upgrade one to windows 7... you will probably get the same results...
@Khalid Shahin
Without a doubt, this device is completely useless. Still, it's another chance for some of us to make some extra money. Hopefully this thing sells, and my cash camel finally arrives.
@jzetz
Yes, and they will also be anxiously waiting for many of their applications to load with Windows 7 being a bloated OS for a tablet.
@Khalid Shahin
Right there with you...and your right engadget, it does seem less like an iPhone...cause it doesn't make friggin phone calls or have a camera!
Until then, it will never be anything more than a giant iPod Touch
Just an ignorant person will say this thing is useless.
@thanhpluv
Nope, I double-checked. It's definitely useless.
@jasonact I agree with you that the size is what makes it awesome. The things that make it less awesome are really important (to me at least) are:
HDMI - I want to be able to have movies stored onboard and watch them on a big 1080p tv.
USB - I want to be able to print, use an external hard drive and other peripherals.
iChat Camera - I love my iChat! Seems like the competitors have front facing cameras..
I really think that the iPad is going to be a very powerful flexible tool and toy, in the future. This first batch is more toy than tool. But I can't think of a computer to use while sitting on the john!
@Khalid Shahin
It looks EVEN MORE like a giant iPhone.
This was the most misleading headline ever.
@Darkroom
well put. People are so extreme about Apple shit that they sound like idiots. It's not useless, if you think it's useless, you're an idiot. Not worth the money maybe, but not useless. It's also not the greatest, most useful, workhorse powerhouse thing ever. People who praise these things are idiots too. It's a mediocre product that will do certain things really well with a great touchscreen. No more, no less.
@Khalid Shahin Saying it's just a big iPod really undersells the device. The iPod touch isn't just an iPod. It's a very versatile connected pocket computer that also happens to have an iPod built in. The iPod touch is so much more than an iPod, and so will this be.
I might get one eventually since my recently purchased HTC HD2 is going back, but not for a while.
@Khalid Shahin
I hate apple haters and oh yea
Im gettin an ipad
I'm gettin an ipad
take that u apple hater
@Khalid Shahin
The more compelling their products become, the more you hate Apple. We get it.
@TheRogueFFAngel I don't need to be an "Apple Hater" to realize this is a shitty product - I just need basic knowledge of technology.
@jasonact
What point is being missed?
You haven't explained it at all.
I want to be able to write with my fingers, add graphs and formulas for math class. Neither of those can be done on the iPad.
Is it a very nice product? Nobody knows because it hasn't been on anyone's hands besides devs and apple workers.
This device has fail written all over it unless Apple does two things:
1. Enable smart-multitasking ala windows phone 7.
2. Fingerworks enabled to use with a "pencil like" device(or buy a hot dog and do what the south koreans were doing).
The only reason people actually would buy a tablet is for that. Nothing else, nothing more. You can't even have a "full web browser experience" because of the lack of flash. Go into design websites and everything is flash-based. So, Apple is lying to our faces.
Is Html5 the future? no. It's buggy, it uses more resources than flash and 70% of the worldwide web will not change overnight. Not counting the fact that designers and companies have invested in adobe itself to change it to html5.
@Khalid Shahin
Nah... this is interesting. Questions arise over its ability to create meaningful content but you never know.
Still a long way to go here through.
@acegilbert
I agree with everything you said, except for HDMI output to a 1080p display. Are you honestly going to store 1080p native videos in the iPad? At each rip being anywhere from 5-16 gb, that's no more than a handful of movies. I can understand why Apple would choose to omit (in fact, I expect them to never really implement) this feature. It's a feature that only techies would use, not counting the battery strain when driving that kind of resolution.
@dxdragon
Or simply run Windows 7 virtualized on your corporate ipad and get busy working
@Khalid Shahin
As glad as I am that application developers are now taking advantage of the large screen, I still can't see myself buying this over a netbook 3x cheaper... and hell, I'm using Linux, so it's not even an abundance of applications I want.
@The Madman
"I still can't see myself buying this over a netbook 3x cheaper."
Where is the 3x cheaper netbook can actually works ?
499/3 = 166. Tell which kind of garbage netbook you can buy on the earth ? If you are not poor you must be ridiculous .
And if you really working for salary you will be able to buy 1000$ above
notebook and even more productivity/powerful PC desktop.
Oh wait , you are just a Apple hater to oppose any product release.
Beside, linux is most unusable for average joe.
Sorry, is plain truth . I working every day on linux server to coding
really large C++ application. But my company never though we should
use linux as our desktop even if all our employee is all profession in computing .
@Charlik i tried putting youtube in html 5 on my iphone, it still didnt work.
@DonkeyPuncherello
The iPad is vastly less useless than your opinion.
@Khalid Shahin I will say that I am starting to think that it might be a neat thing to own...if it can be jailbroken. And obtained for around $300 instead of the current price. Maybe if Apple comes through with those pricecuts they said they're open to and it gets jailbroken.
Until then it's still way overpriced.
@acegilbert
re: HDMI - agreed. it would make hooking it up so much simpler and more elegant since one cable would transfer audio and video. If they want it to be a content delivery device, you have to be able to share (locally, like on a big screen) that content with others.
re: USB - don't really care about that one. Most printers now have a wireless option, and there are already tons of ways to print of an iPhone, so I'd guess there will be tons of ways to print from an iPad. And any modern wireless router will have a USB port that allows you to network a hard drive and/or printer.
re: iChat - I rarely use the camera, but it would be a nice extra. There will eventually be one, maybe iPad 2. If Apple put everything in version one, there would be more opportunity for bugs, and there would be no reason to upgrade your hardware in a year.
@Khalid Shahin
Only the blind or stupid think the iPad is JUST an oversized iPhone. Those sort of people also think a Formula One racer is just an oversized go-kart.
@Khalid Shahin
For some reason it feel like Engadget really wants this thing to sell.
@DougieBear This is a big tech event, so a tech blog is going to give it a lot of coverage. When you see regular news site giving it big coverage, that's when it feels overdone, but in reality, that's what been happening.
@zetman Actually, I'm a college student. You know, they're pretty common nowerdays, and happen to be the market to which Macbooks are supposed to appeal to most.
And my entire family quite happily uses Linux. I'm the only one that's somewhat tech-savvy, and none of them have any complaints. Tell me one reason why I wouldn't want Linux on my netbook.
@zetman Oh, and one last thing: no, I don't *always* agree with *everything* Apple does. That's simply rational. If being rational means being an iHater, then sign me up.
@zetman
While I'm at it, might as well get it out of the way: yes, there are lots of reasons not to use Linux. If a piece of hardware doesn't work, then you're stuck; no Photoshop, Call of Duty, World of Warcraft or pretty much anything else slightly popular (besides web-browsers); getting stuff from external repositories can cause some major kind of headache; and I still haven't figured out how to use the scanner on my printer. A netbook is pretty much the ONLY place I'd recommend Linux, and even then only if you don't miss iTunes.
On the other hand, I'm commenting on this post, instant-messaging friends on MSN (which isn't even an option on the iPad), doing my college-work with OpenOffice and listening to music at the same time, for under £200. That's my workflow and it's a minimum requirement for me to consider paying in excess of £500 for the iPad. I don't even care that flash isn't here.
Maybe multitasking and instant messaging will come with the next iterations, but right here and right now, it's not for me.
@Khalid Shahin Caring about what trolls think- unchanged.
"start to make this thing seem less like a giant iPhone"
START to? Isn't that the first thing EVERYONE thought when this was first introduced?
@Prevacator No. Read. The. Title. Again.
and Again.
@Prevacator
He said start to feel LESS like a giant iPhone. Everyone thought it was a giant iPhone and it looks like it could be more than that after all. It could also turn out to be expensive wifi enabled poop too. Guess we'll have to wait and see.
@Prevacator
Comprehension fail. I deserve a downrank for that seeing as I can't just delete it.
@Vincent Hahahaha :)
@Prevacator You get an uprank for being friendly to your community at expense of your own reputation!
Looks like iPad is carving its own niche! It didn't look very promising at first but I want Apple to make a good product even if I'm not a major fan of them!
@Zer0Kage
I think we all want Apple to make a good product. I also think that we'd all wished multi-tasking was some kind of option.
I mean, come on: you could tap that bar at the top and show all open apps in some horizontal bar, or with an Expose effect or SOMETHING. On a screen that big, there's no reason not to.
@The Madman the battery. Multi-tasking is not available (save for a few default apps) on apple devices because unlike the handsets that support a multi-tasking OS, iPhones, iPod Touches and iPads don't have a removable battery and this is one of the main reasons why Apple hasn't turned it on except for a few of the default apps... other devices can afford to run out of juice and users can jam in the spare battery to continue working while Apple devices don't have that luxury. The purchase of PA Semi is to alleviate this problem and the new Apple A4 will let them roll out multi-tasking with iPhone OS 4.0 come June. Jailbreakers have multi-tasking from day 1 but the battery takes a substantial hit.