Re: [Fed-Talk] First Hands with iPad and Reality Check
Re: [Fed-Talk] First Hands with iPad and Reality Check
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] First Hands with iPad and Reality Check
- From: "Nichols, Jared - 1160 - MITLL" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 8 Apr 2010 08:45:04 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] First Hands with iPad and Reality Check
I see apple doing "selective multitasking." Perhaps only at first only
certain "kinds" of apps can multitask, not everything out of the gate. One
of the biggest annoyances to me is Pandora. It's *awesome* but while it's
streaming, I'm not getting SMS or email. Kind of a pain.
Some apps, like ESPN's, are shuffling their stream through Safari so you
get the multitasking and maybe Pandora just needs to do that.
But, I think there is a happy medium here. Maybe Apple makes some sort of
multi-tasking service. Kind of a GrandCentral for background tasks.
I guess we'll find out shortly :)
j
--Jared F. Nichols
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On 4/7/10 6:58 PM, "Wm. Cerniuk" <email@hidden> wrote:
>Concur. Have my wife's old first gen iPhone at home jailbroken and with
>all the multitasking going. Is interesting but like the droid, it kills
>battery life. The apps that do multitask like mail, iPod, others, seem to
>scratch the itch nicely.
>
>Sent from my iPad
>
>On Apr 7, 2010, at 6:05 PM, David Poteet <email@hidden> wrote:
>
>> Completely agree...
>>
>> I have had no big issues with the push notification vs. multitasking. I
>>prefer the longer battery life in any case.
>>
>>
>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 5:39 PM, Pike, Michael (IHS/HQ) wrote:
>>
>>> I may be in the minority, but I like NO MULTITASKING.... I have a
>>>DROID phone and its a royal pain to have to watch whats running and
>>>kill stuff off.... the iPhone manages that for me... I agree with apple
>>>on no multitasking and keeping apps sandboxed. I dont worry about an
>>>app stealing info from me, and I don;t worry about a run away process
>>>on the phone... because nothing can run behind the scenes that apple
>>>hasn't allowed.
>>>
>>> push messaging does a great job of multitasking... when something
>>>needs attention, it gets it.
>>>
>>> mike
>>>
>>> On Apr 7, 2010, at 1:30 PM, James Alcasid wrote:
>>>
>>> For my personal use none of those will be a game changer for me. A
>>>camera would be nice but given the bulk a tiny point and shoot would be
>>>better, multitasking is something we may see in 4.0, GPS on 3G is a
>>>given, video limitations of flash is not really important as long as
>>>Lynda and Netflix run on iPad I am good to go.
>>>
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>>> ________________________________
>>> From: Todd Heberlein
>>><email@hidden<x-msg://15/email@hidden>>
>>> Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2010 12:19:15 -0700
>>> To: "Kim, Andy (Gregg)"
>>><email@hidden<x-msg://15/email@hidden>>
>>> Cc: Fed Talk
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>>> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] First Hands with iPad and Reality Check
>>>
>>> No Camera, no Multitasking GPS on 3G Models only, and Video
>>>Limitations.
>>>
>>> I heard the following the other day: "The sentence isn't done until no
>>>more words can be removed." Apple in general and Jobs in particular are
>>>relentless about removing things from products, slides in
>>>presentations, and even emails. The Zen philosophy of minimalism
>>>thrives there.
>>>
>>> Whether you are a supporter or not of that philosophy, sometimes it is
>>>hard to argue with the simple logic of their decisions. Below is some
>>>text from a review of the JooJoo. After reading the article, I find it
>>>difficult to complain too much about the lack of Flash on the
>>>iPhone/iPad. Maybe someday Adobe will get it working better, but on CPU
>>>and battery constrained devices it isn't a very good choice right now.
>>>
>>>
>>> Fusion Garage JooJoo review
>>> http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/05/fusion-garage-joojoo-review/
>>> ...
>>> But what about Flash? This is supposed to be the big differentiator,
>>>right? The iPad killer! In an interesting move, Fusion Garage coupled
>>>the Atom processor with NVIDIA's Ion graphics to aid in playing full
>>>screen Flash video (or for doing... something). Unfortunately, the
>>>software just isn't there yet. Currently the device is running Flash
>>>10.1 beta 1, and won't have hardware-accelerated Flash video for a good
>>>while now (the timing is partly reliant on Adobe support, and is
>>>labelled as a "work in progress" by JooJoo). That means some
>>>regular-sized YouTube and Hulu works, as decoded by the CPU, but full
>>>screen Hulu is jittery, and a 720p YouTube clip is like watching a
>>>slideshow. In one of the biggest moves of irony, JooJoo has actually
>>>implemented a hack for YouTube where you can view a video in Flash or
>>>in "JooJoo" mode which is a straight playback of the MPEG video file
>>>every YouTube video harbors. What does this remind us of? HTML 5,
>>>albeit with a less elegant implementation. This of course only works on
>>>YouTube right now, though JooJoo says it plans on supporting other
>>>sites in the future. Watch the video below for yourselves to see all
>>>this Flash tragedy play out.
>>>
>>> The worst part about the Atom / Ion combo is that it results in those
>>>original issues we had when wereviewed all those Ion netbooks. First,
>>>it causes the entire tablet to get quite warm (especially when playing
>>>Flash video) and then it murders its battery life. The JooJoo's
>>>integrated three-cell battery repeatedly lasted 2.5 hours (just as we
>>>predicted!) during our moderate use, which included surfing the Web and
>>>playing short videos. JooJoo claims you can get 5 hours if you avoid
>>>Flash entirely, but that sort of defeats the purpose, right?
>>> ...
>>>
>>>
>>> Todd
>>>
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