Mac Tablet!!! ~ iPad Thread

[UncleEbinezer]

I was trying to add to the suspense.   :wink:

[rowjimmy]

Apple will highlight apps that are created explicitly for the iPad in the iPad store as well. You can get iPhone apps, of course, but they will highlight the special ones.

Gaming demo...




They can “interact with the game world in ways that weren’t possible before,” like sliding three fingers on the screen to interact with a door.
You can also do motions like sliding two fingers across the screen to throw a grenade.

New York Times demo:
"So Steve showed you the Times website, it's beautiful. Why did we come out here to develop a new app for the iPad? Our iPhone app has been downloaded 3m times. We wanted to create something special for the iPad."





Embedded video in articles can be played.


Brushes:



Electronic Arts:





MLB.com


Live video:




Those apps were all developed in just two weeks.

[mattstick]

OMG the MLB app looks heady

[mattstick]

keep the price low to drive up App sales?

Please?

[rowjimmy]

iBooks





Five big partners... Penguin, Macmillion, Simon & Shuster... and more.


Jobs is showing off the bookshelf. You can hit the store button, and the bookshelf flips around to show the iBooks store. It’s basically the same as the App Store or the iTunes store.


"You can change the font... whatever you want. And that is iBooks."

"So iBooks again, a great reader, a great online bookstore. All in one really great app. We use the ePub format. We're very excited about this."

[antelope19]

 :-o

:antelope19 can see it now:

"Daddy, what's a Library?"

"Well, son/daughter.  It was this place you could go to get books"

[rowjimmy]

iWork for the iPad!

[mattstick]

:-o

:antelope19 can see it now:

"Daddy, what's a Library Bookstore ?"

[antelope19]

:-o

:antelope19 can see it now:

"Daddy, what's a Library Bookstore ?"

Yeah, that too

[rowjimmy]

So iWork is totally redesigned for the iPad. I'm not going to reblawg every little detail but it looks neato.








iWork apps are $9.99 each.

[thatfargone]

:-o

:antelope19 can see it now:

"Daddy, what's a Library?"

"Well, son/daughter.  It was this place you could go to get books"

People like me will guarantee that books and libraries remain.  I fucking HATE ebooks and all this digital reading BS!!!  Much like many of us eat organic, drink micro brews and smoke quality cannabis...there will always be a place for books. 

Books are so much more than just words on a page, this ebook thing is a fad!!!  (I hope or I'm checking out of this society!)

[rowjimmy]

Sorry dude. Future is here.



Jobs:
“A few other things…I’d like to talk about iTunes.” It syncs like an iPhone with your Mac or PC over the 30-pin cable. You sync everything: photos, music, movies, TV shows, contacts, calendars, bookmarks and applications, like the iPhone. Even backups."



BOOM
AT&T including free AT&T hotspot access





"So how do you turn this on and manage it? You can activate this right on the iPad. And there's no contract -- it's prepaid."

"WiFI plus 3G if you want it. So iPad. It's phenomenal. Email is fantastic, best device for photos, great for music, great for video. It runs almost all of the 140k apps on the app store, as well as a whole new generation of apps."

It's sold unlocked.

3g is not req'd.

[mattstick]

So people who read eBooks also eat McDonalds, drink Bud Light and smoke schwag?

Stay crunchy brah.

[antelope19]

So people who read eBooks also eat McDonalds, drink Bud Light and smoke schwag?

Stay crunchy brah.

:lol:

Oh, and LOL at "ebooks being a fad" too. 

[shoreline99]

:-o

:antelope19 can see it now:

"Daddy, what's a Library Bookstore ?"

Yeah, that too

Thats' why Borders Group (Waldenbooks) is on the verge of chapter 11...