The iPad is for Everyone but Us
Submitted by rafaeltoral on Wed, 02/03/2010 - 11:19

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I first thought "i have an iPhone and a MacBook, i don't need this fancy toy" - but looking in perspective, the iPad has the revolutionary potential to bring computing to everyone. I'm getting one for my 80-year-old mom who never touched a computer. This is far bigger that it seems. The future is coming. We (computer users) may not see much use to the iPad, but our children, parents and grand-parents, as well as non-tech minded people, have been waiting for it!

 

 

Yes - The iPad Is For Everyone But Us - which is a lot of people!

On iPads, Grandmas and Game-changing

And a clever insight about Old World and New World computing

 

 

Submitted by horaflora on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 23:09.

the most interesting part of

the most interesting part of iDevice-made music, I think, is the sheer amount of sensors in the hand held device (accelerometers, touch screen, audio input, light/proximity sensor (why doesn't anyone implement that?)) and the iPad would be harder to play a good deal of them as expressively as the ipod touch or iphone, in it's size - one may control an ipod touch accelerometer control in each hand quite easily, while the ipad one needs both hands to twist and turn it, and I suspect it'd look silly doing so!

the ipad's screen size may be helpful in such departments as the building of a new modular instrument design in Jasuto, for example, but the playing of said instrument would perhaps be best left to the easier manipulated ipod touch...

just my opine.

cheers!

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Submitted by miguel.negrao on Tue, 02/16/2010 - 20:40.

What about the potencial for

What about the potencial for musicians: a cheap multitouch interface. Do you see yourself using it for your music ?

Submitted by rafaeltoral on Mon, 02/22/2010 - 01:00.

I doubt it... i don't find it

I doubt it... i don't find it expressive in an interesting way as a physical interface... but it will be surely used, there's already a MAX remote for the iPhone.

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 07/16/2010 - 23:06.

the most interesting part of

the most interesting part of iDevice-made music, I think, is the sheer amount of sensors in the hand held device (accelerometers, touch screen, audio input, light/proximity sensor (why doesn't anyone implement that?)) and the iPad would be harder to play a good deal of them as expressively as the ipod touch or iphone, in it's size - one may control an ipod touch accelerometer control in each hand quite easily, while the ipad one needs both hands to twist and turn it, and I suspect it'd look silly doing so!

the ipad's screen size may be helpful in such departments as the building of a new modular instrument design in Jasuto, for example, but the playing of said instrument would perhaps be best left to the easier manipulated ipod touch...

just my opine.

cheers!