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crashwg:
I'm with Hitler on this one:

RayB:

--- Quote from: wp34 on January 29, 2010, 09:05:38 am ---
--- Quote from: Level42 on January 29, 2010, 02:13:55 am ---What I do think sucks is that it looks like you can't keep iTunes playing a song and then switch over to any other application. (The most basic form of multi-tasking).
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Actually this should work.  You can listen to music on the iTouch while performing other tasks.  I do it all the time.  
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Absolutely. What a collossal failure it would have been if a device that was primarily meant to be a music player + cell phone/pda features) didn't keep playing music through other activities. The iphone/Touch keeps music going until another app needs to use the sound channel. Makes sense, no?

And further, on the issue of "multitasking", Apple's own apps do a great job of using "save states", so you CAN go back n forth between apps. For example, I just started Facebook and opened the status edit window. Then I went back to "home" app menu and selected Mail. I navigated to an email and opened it and selected text in it to copy. Hit Home button again, back to app menu, select Facebook. Oh look, it started in the Status edit window still! I hit Paste and there's my text from the email. It's all these third-party apps where the developer was too lazy to implement save states that the app will start up from the beginning again.

So its not real multitasking, but its pretty close. The only downside on a screen the size of an ipad will be not being able to have something like an IM chat window open at the same time as other stuff... but oh well.



SavannahLion:

--- Quote from: Ed_McCarron on January 27, 2010, 08:12:22 pm ---Oh, and the name?  Sounds like something involved with that time of the iMonth.

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I got bored reading at about this point so if someone pointed this out, my apologies.

That's a Mad TV sketch. Back in 2005 or so I think.

Samstag:

--- Quote from: RayB on January 29, 2010, 05:44:05 pm ---So its not real multitasking, but its pretty close.

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Yeah, it's windows 3.1 close.

Save states are better than nothing, but that means any time-consuming tasks (like waiting for the cheesecake thread to load) can't be done in the background while you do something else.  I guess they can pull out their iphone or ipod to kill time.

Maybe by the third generation the ipad will have figured out what it wants to be when it grows up.

Level42:
Crashwg: that was actually pretty funny. Would have been better with the voices spoken in, but still OK.

One of my favorite movies by the way. It truly shows the madness of it all (I meant the Nazi's, not the iPad :D).

But I still think there's a good market for it. The "geek" factor alone is huge. What if you go to visit friends or family and show your the photo's of your last holiday on it. Yes, you will impress people. That's how this works.

I also apologize for my lack of iPhone knowledge. I know plenty of people with one but never actually worked with one. I'd love to have one, but since I already have a company phone that costs me 0, I'm not going to also buy an iPhone.

Still, I love my Mac Mini. Yesterday I was looking for some important files. Couldn't find them anymore where they were and Spotlight couldn't trace them anymore either (= they were gone). I probably removed them by mistake. So for the first time I used Time Machine to get back the files. I hadn't tried it before, but it's such a no-brainer, it's brilliant. Found the files on a back-up of november and restored them. It even managed to put it back into the right folder even though I had actually moved that folder from the desktop to the My Documents folder. Just a couple clicks and I'm back in business.

That's where Apple scores IMHO. Time Machine is something you start and forget about. Sure there are loads of back-up software for PC's, but not as elegant.
OH, I'm just reading an article about a local (pretty large) hospital where IT-guys are relentlessly trying to track down and isolate the Conficker virus. The article: "this is a lot of work and costs lots of time" Duh.
It also hastily states that it will not affect the care in the hospital....u-huh....

Anyway, back to the iPad !

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