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New iPad Commercial (Apple Gives a Nod to Newton with New 'What is iPad?' Ad)
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I like it. I understand why they're doing the ad this way too. I was at my local Apple store and a little girl came in and loudly yelled "look mom it's a big iTouch!!!!"
I cringed at the volume the kid was yelling, the fact that she called the iPad a big iTouch (I understand why though) and that she (and too many others) call the iPod Touch a freaking iTouch.
And that is exactly why they are advertising the device with "What is iPad?" because that's the issue for a lot of people. They don't quite get it unless they go to a store and the salesman or another iPad owner explains it.
Man do I want magazines to start coming on this thing. I keep a lot of magazines, like MacWorld, and would love a digital version I can keep forever and search through.
I cringed at the volume the kid was yelling, the fact that she called the iPad a big iTouch (I understand why though) and that she (and too many others) call the iPod Touch a freaking iTouch.
And that is exactly why they are advertising the device with "What is iPad?" because that's the issue for a lot of people. They don't quite get it unless they go to a store and the salesman or another iPad owner explains it.
Man do I want magazines to start coming on this thing. I keep a lot of magazines, like MacWorld, and would love a digital version I can keep forever and search through.
It is truly magical
It is truly magical. Seen how it hovers over the knees in the birds view scene on the fire staircase?
It is truly magical. Seen how it hovers over the knees in the birds view scene on the fire staircase?
The Newton was almost exactly the size of a VHS tape. The box the Newton came in had a single cutout for the Newton, a VHS tutorial tape, and the documentation.
So, can you fit a VHS tape in your back pocket?
The old Newton ad ...Sigh
I owned nearly every Newton (still have them), fantastic piece of equipment, not only for the time, but even now I miss handwriting recognition and some of the smart OS. For instance you could handwrite a name and "lunch" double click lunch and it would put the person in for lunch at 12:30 that day. Sigh...
I owned nearly every Newton (still have them), fantastic piece of equipment, not only for the time, but even now I miss handwriting recognition and some of the smart OS. For instance you could handwrite a name and "lunch" double click lunch and it would put the person in for lunch at 12:30 that day. Sigh...
Yes, but do you also have a new product(substantially different then previous)that goes along with your new term?
Sometimes you can invent a term(and a product) that defines a category. It is only in hindsight that you can see that there were other products that also might have been antecedents.
(Sent wirelessly from my Newton2100 (using handwriting recognition)-HA)
Hey, you take the Ipad into a time machine and I am sure if you go back to the 1600s you will be burned because they think the iPad is magical and you are a witch.
At least until the battery goes dead, anyhow.
I can answer it.
The iPad is a thing, this thing is magical and it makes you just crazy wanting a netbook or macbook. Grandma can lay down a sweet piano solo (because she already knows how to use it, right?) using Garageband. Can't wait till she gets her whole band hooked up, ya know, around 6 tracks, plus vocals, at once. What's that iPad, I can't hear you. Are you frozen? But one software track was doing fine... I laugh at the Apple with it's Garageband because the thing runs slow even on my C2D's.
The iPad is a thing, this thing is magical and it makes you just crazy wanting a netbook or macbook. Grandma can lay down a sweet piano solo (because she already knows how to use it, right?) using Garageband. Can't wait till she gets her whole band hooked up, ya know, around 6 tracks, plus vocals, at once. What's that iPad, I can't hear you. Are you frozen? But one software track was doing fine... I laugh at the Apple with it's Garageband because the thing runs slow even on my C2D's.
Yes, search the AppStore for "fax". But god, why??
Hmm, you're going to want to add a comma after Furious, or make it Furiously.
Actually, Graffiti was a third-party app developed as a work-around for the poor handwriting recognition on the first-generation Newton. It ended up being licensed by Palm for use in all the their PDAs.
A Creature Void of Form.
But can it run Steam or hi-def movies or do more than one task at a time? No file management or camera even until later? No iTunes streaming? No open development platform without signing away your freedom of speech? The whole iAd platform crap and bragging about it (i'm talking about u, Mr. "users spend 30 min a day using apps, duh, what else can u do but run apps?" Steve). I mean an ad is still an ad no matter how you do it. Shoot, need another ad explaining what it is again.
But can it run Steam or hi-def movies or do more than one task at a time? No file management or camera even
until later? No iTunes streaming? No open development platform without signing away your freedom of speech? The whole iAd platform crap and bragging about it (i'm talking about u, Mr. "users spend 30 min a day using apps, duh, what else can u do but run apps?" Steve). I mean an ad is still an ad no matter how you do it. Shoot, need another ad explaining what it is again.
But can it run Steam or hi-def movies or do more than one task at a time? No file management or camera even
Its not a questions about the merits of lack thereof of Flash, its about misleading advertising when you say 'all the worlds websites in your hands' when it cant view a good chunk of content on those websites.
Say 'all the best websites' or 'all the sites you care about' or something that at least leaves some wiggle room on the interpretation.
Me, I don't care that flash is not available, but it does bug me every time Apple makes this misleading claim - makes you wonder what else they a bluffing their way past - flash gets the publicity, but what else are they screwing you on? I think it leaves them open to criticism.
Now a NEWTON, I would BUY. A Newton can fit in your back pocket. An iPad needs a bag. That was the nail in the coffin for me.
...sticking with my iPhone because I just don't want to lug around this big huge thing.
The Newton was a decade before its time - it was an incredible piece of technology, and with ads that good, I'm surprised they ever went away.
I used to love Newton and I used it every single day for several years. Was it perfect? No; nothing is perfect. But it was really great at what it did. It makes me sad that Apple has this great handwriting recognition technology and yet they chose not to use in their Notes app on the iPad. Newton was great at mixing all kinds of notes (written, typed, sketched) and then making them searchable. I really wish we had similar notetaking functionality with the iPad. This is one area where iPad is really way behind the Newton. The Notes app we get with iPad is nothing but pitiful.
Ha! I still have a Newton 2100 unopened in it's box
How do you know if there is one in there?
Just added batteries to my 2100.
Amazing similarities to iPhone.
Speaker in about the same place
mic about same
Apple button <-> home button
infrared ... not on iphone
wifi - both
phone - iPhone only
runs off of 4 AA batteries for weeks - Newton only
...
Well you could say it was Apples first time into hand held pen based computing. i still use my Newton 2100 to this day. still does what it was meant to do and what it wasn't meant to do.
but the first PDA like device (pocket computer if you will) was the TRS-80 Pocket Computer in 1980. you can somewhat say that the older hand held computers was basically a PDA (because a PDA is a hand held computer) but wasn't because they didn't go by the name of PDA.