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Comment on Murray’s Reaction to the iPad by Carole

Carole — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 15:08:02 +0000

Here’s another interesting PDF app that my friend Erik recommended:

http://readdle.com/products/readdledocs_ipad

Comment on Murray’s Reaction to the iPad by Murray Todd Williams

Murray Todd Williams — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 22:06:58 +0000

Well now Leslie, I guess my blog post had a fairly critical tone to it, but I do have have to say that overall I love my iPad. There are some screwy decisions Apple’s made, and the app market (which hasn’t had much time to mature) is weak.

But OS X, whether for the Mac or for the iPhone/iPad is an amazing operating system, and I think it’s a great platform for developers to write for.

Comment on Murray’s Reaction to the iPad by leslie

leslie — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 00:10:03 +0000

Thanks for the great review it was very helpful. I must say I was noticing the same thing you did about all the other reviews, not much helpful info out there!

Im sticking with my gut instinct to wait at least one more generation to see if they get all these issues sorted out. Not being a huge Mac fan, I must say I find all the bugginess and thoughtless inefficiencies downright insulting to the public and Im sort of disgusted. It looks as if theyve released something they know isnt great so they can milk the profits from it, rather than wait to introduce something that truly is great in eight months or a year.

I wonder what the after market resale value on these Ipads will be in twelve months? Probably considerably less than $100. Mac exemplifies the throw-away culture that I abhor. I own a PC clone from 2000 and it is running strong with two new expanded memory cards and an upgrade to Windows 2000 XP. I plan to keep her humming for another 10 years, expanding again with an upgraded system in two years or so. You cant expand a Mac at all, in many cases and many come with insufficient memory. Most of my friends who like Macs go around carrying multiple data storage devices and boxes. In my opinion, Macs may well be the victory of style over substance.

Comment on Murray’s Reaction to the iPad by Carole

Carole — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 00:52:52 +0000

Another interesting PDF app,

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/goodreader-for-ipad/id363448914?mt=8

Comment on Murray’s Reaction to the iPad by Carole

Carole — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 04:52:45 +0000

P.P.S.

http://al3x.net/2010/04/05/ipad-openness-moderates.html

Comment on Murray’s Reaction to the iPad by Murray Todd Williams

Murray Todd Williams — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:44:33 +0000

Re: FileMagnet. App store shows it as an iPhone app, not iPad compatible. (Which means it probably opens previews within the same mini iPhone emulation screen again.) App store comments sound like it is also a little buggy. At the moment I’m actually pretty happy with iAnnotation PDF, even though that is a PDF-only app.

Comment on Murray’s Reaction to the iPad by Murray Todd Williams

Murray Todd Williams — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 20:26:38 +0000

I took a quick look at Google Docs. There were a few problems:

It only works with Google-recognized file types like Office docs, PDF, etc. So iWork documents would not work here.
For PDFs Google did some odd tricks on a normal computer rather than utilizing the computer's natural PDF reader. Klunky.
This still doesn't solve the offline issue. You cannot use it to read documents while on an airplane.

Interestingly, I thought my MobileMe iDisk would be able to provide this sort of functionality, but that's apparently messed up. If I try to access the MobileMe web page from the iPad, instead of the web-based interface I get a screen telling me to install the iDisk app. Well, the iDisk app is an iPhone emulation app (runs in a minimized screen, doesn't understand iWork documents, opens docs in the same lousy minimized emulation screen, etc.) that works like crap. Apple needs to sort this out fast, or people are going to get frustrated.

Comment on Murray’s Reaction to the iPad by Carole

Carole — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 19:25:51 +0000

P.S. — a friend recommends an app called “File Magnet” for your PDF needs.

Comment on Murray’s Reaction to the iPad by Carole

Carole — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:59:03 +0000

Question: Google Docs — does that work? If so, you could get around a lot of the document synchronizing agony by just not storing anything locally.

Your comments about poor UI design are especially appreciated.

Comment on Apple’s iPad and Murray’s Old Predictions by Murray Todd Williams

Murray Todd Williams — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 21:11:38 +0000

An interesting item in the news that reminded me of this conversation. Steve Jobs would appear to have it in for Flash. Although his reasons may be valid (CPU hog, unstable) he does certainly seem a bit brazen about it. (Or is that just the media depiction?)