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Moi je vais m'en acheter un (OK, j'ai déjà Macbook Pro, Ipod, IPhone 4...). Et la meilleure explication au "à quoi ça sert ?" je l'ai trouvée sur le blog de Loïc Le Meur (désolé c'est en anglais) :
It’s beautiful, it really is, a little heavier than I thought it would be, the screen is magnificent and my biggest surprise was how snappy it is. Opening apps, pictures and browsing stuff is just surprisingly fast for a device that small, especially if you have spent some time with an Atom powered netbook like I did in the past months, I was expecting something like that and was amazed by the speed. Battery time is ok. The big problem is your fingers will show on that huge screen as they keep touching in, they seem to stay much more than on an iPhone 3GS. I keep cleaning my iPad.
Instead of doing a review by features, I will do a review by most common usage I (was) expecting.
Reading books
the good: I have been reading for months on a Kindle then a Kindle DX and was pleased to see that Kindle for iPad was already available, all the books I have in my virtual library showed up immediately and the book I am reading now, Born to Run, opened at the page I left it on the Kindle. Turning pages is really fast and if you have books with graphics or photos (I bought a book on learning photography) it just does not compare to the Kindle as it shows instantly (the Kindle takes a long time to show complex graphics) and in color.
the bad: It is poorly sunlight readable and you can’t read on an iPad with sunglasses on (at least with polarized sunglasses like I have), you surprisingly can’t get two pages of a book show in landscape mode and if you have any kindle subscription for press they won’t show up at all, likely because LeMonde prefers to have its own app than showing your subscription there.
Reading the press
That’s where the iPad is simply amazing. I have bought LeMonde and got an experience not only very close to reading the actual paper copy, but also better. Browsing and zooming is much nicer than flipping paper pages that get your fingers dirty with ink. I never read Paris Match but tried the iPad app and the full screen photos as well as moving from one section to another is just excellent, again, a better experience than reading magazines on paper. For someone like me who lives far away from my native country you can’t get paper magazines easily and the web doesn’t provide the same experience. I think I will find myself reading the press much more with the iPad. Some apps already played too much with the UI, though, I did not like the floating icons of the AP News for example, they are unnecessary. I think publishers should not “over do it” for the sake that their building an app and that the iPad offers many possibilities. Multi-touch on a full size newspaper works really well, no need for complex navigation.
Browsing, sharing and social networking
It’s really nice as an “out of the bed” or “about to go to bed” computer. I read many web pages as I wakeup with my coffee and in the evening and just share the ones I like with my friends using ping.fm. Google Reader mobile works great on the iPad. We just added on Ping.fm RSS so I added my shared items on Google Reader as an RSS feed to ping and now all I have to do is hit share on Reader, it sends the link to all my social networks. Really nice on iPad. I was frustrated that you can’t seem to add a bookmarklet such as the share on ping.fm button I use to have on the top left of every browser I use for quick sharing though, I have to email them to ping when I am in a browser, which is okay but not great.
Using Facebook on the iPad browser works just great, why do we need an app? Apps providers will have to be very creative to compete with the sites themselves (us included!), the web is so good on the iPad that you won’t always feel like using an app for many social activities.
Seesmic Web is being adapted right now to work great on the iPad, it already looks perfect but scrolling and buttons aren’t optimized for touch so the app cannot really be used for the time being. We’re on it and think we should be able to provide a very good experience (which does not mean we won’t ship a “real” app).
emailing and writing
Gmail web based iPad version is really good as well as the Apple client, I like them to do “casual” emailing like deleting some of the crap you don’t care about (nice trash button, deletes really fast) and answer a few emails but as expected I can’t type fast at all on the keyboard, I am writing this blog post on my Sony Vaio Z it would surely have taken me much more time on the iPad and not been a very good experience either. I am curious to see if anyone can reach fast typing speeds on a keyboard like that. I don’t care that much, I see the iPad as your third computer, a very casual gadget to consume information more than produce long documents.
music, photos and movies
That’s the bad news, I got the 16gb iPad and that’s a mistake since I could not sync my itunes library and did not feel like having part of it on it so ended up not sync-ing it at all, frustrated. The iPad looks great as an advanced digital photo viewer or even frame when you don’t use it, though. I would recommend if you can to get the largest one to get it, even though the price will be much higher than the advertised $490 or something.
games
I don’t play that much, much less than my kids. We bought Need For Speed Shift, X-Plane 9 and one of my kids who is dreaming about becoming a DJ (don’t ask me why) bought DJDeckX. All very cool and quite impressive I should say both in performance and feel, looks like the iPad will be a great gaming platform. It has good sound compared to comparable sized computers such as netbooks or even my high end Sony Vaio Z whose sound volume is pretty low.
Some frustrations, of course, such as pages you can’t see well, for example if you check a google analytics graph the graph itself won’t show up. Another one is of course no multitasking between the apps. If you open a link from mail it closes mail and opens the browser which you then have to close to go back… Wifi isn’t very good either, it seems to lose signal often while other devices work just fine. There are many frustrations, but none are too bad to stop you from using it.
the tablets in general and the iPad specifically has the power to completely change the way some verticals interact
Take Jack Dorsey’s Square and the way it wants to turn the iPad as a cash register. It has the potential to really change the way your favorite restaurant owner or waiter interacts with you, for the better and the faster. Same with private pilots, I stumbled upon an app that has all the visual and instruments aviation maps and charts in the US on the iPad, making it a perfect pilot tablet and removing the need for expensive subscriptions.
After a few hours navigating the web on my iPad and coming back to my good old keyboard and mouse, I feel like I am missing something. Many things just feel faster as you do them using your fingers, no move back and forth between the keyboard and the mouse, just point and touch what you want to do. That’s a very specific sign of how the iPad changes the way we interact, you miss it when you’re back to the “old” way.
Does the iPad has the potential to become a revolution such as the iPhone has been, redefining the entire category? Yes. I have played with a few tablets and touch computers before, never have I had such an addictive experience and feeling like coming back to it or keeping it around in case. Will I go on holidays for a week only with an iPad? Clearly not. If I need to send a long email or work on a spreadsheet or a complex document, it will be painful or just not possible, or too slow. Still, I had doubts that a tablet like the iPad could really matter, and having used it for only 24h now I think it will and I bet we will see many tablets trying to challenge the iPad, Android and Windows 7 powered. As a developer, I will consider it as an important segment and will aim at designing specifically for this experience, different than a phone and a keyboard computer, which adds even more complexity when you want to be everywhere like we do with Seesmic. Web based first, then apps.
Get one for your wife or girlfriend before you get yours, she will love it, and will be upset when you spend time on yours.
It’s beautiful, it really is, a little heavier than I thought it would be, the screen is magnificent and my biggest surprise was how snappy it is. Opening apps, pictures and browsing stuff is just surprisingly fast for a device that small, especially if you have spent some time with an Atom powered netbook like I did in the past months, I was expecting something like that and was amazed by the speed. Battery time is ok. The big problem is your fingers will show on that huge screen as they keep touching in, they seem to stay much more than on an iPhone 3GS. I keep cleaning my iPad.
Instead of doing a review by features, I will do a review by most common usage I (was) expecting.
Reading books
the good: I have been reading for months on a Kindle then a Kindle DX and was pleased to see that Kindle for iPad was already available, all the books I have in my virtual library showed up immediately and the book I am reading now, Born to Run, opened at the page I left it on the Kindle. Turning pages is really fast and if you have books with graphics or photos (I bought a book on learning photography) it just does not compare to the Kindle as it shows instantly (the Kindle takes a long time to show complex graphics) and in color.
the bad: It is poorly sunlight readable and you can’t read on an iPad with sunglasses on (at least with polarized sunglasses like I have), you surprisingly can’t get two pages of a book show in landscape mode and if you have any kindle subscription for press they won’t show up at all, likely because LeMonde prefers to have its own app than showing your subscription there.
Reading the press
That’s where the iPad is simply amazing. I have bought LeMonde and got an experience not only very close to reading the actual paper copy, but also better. Browsing and zooming is much nicer than flipping paper pages that get your fingers dirty with ink. I never read Paris Match but tried the iPad app and the full screen photos as well as moving from one section to another is just excellent, again, a better experience than reading magazines on paper. For someone like me who lives far away from my native country you can’t get paper magazines easily and the web doesn’t provide the same experience. I think I will find myself reading the press much more with the iPad. Some apps already played too much with the UI, though, I did not like the floating icons of the AP News for example, they are unnecessary. I think publishers should not “over do it” for the sake that their building an app and that the iPad offers many possibilities. Multi-touch on a full size newspaper works really well, no need for complex navigation.
Browsing, sharing and social networking
It’s really nice as an “out of the bed” or “about to go to bed” computer. I read many web pages as I wakeup with my coffee and in the evening and just share the ones I like with my friends using ping.fm. Google Reader mobile works great on the iPad. We just added on Ping.fm RSS so I added my shared items on Google Reader as an RSS feed to ping and now all I have to do is hit share on Reader, it sends the link to all my social networks. Really nice on iPad. I was frustrated that you can’t seem to add a bookmarklet such as the share on ping.fm button I use to have on the top left of every browser I use for quick sharing though, I have to email them to ping when I am in a browser, which is okay but not great.
Using Facebook on the iPad browser works just great, why do we need an app? Apps providers will have to be very creative to compete with the sites themselves (us included!), the web is so good on the iPad that you won’t always feel like using an app for many social activities.
Seesmic Web is being adapted right now to work great on the iPad, it already looks perfect but scrolling and buttons aren’t optimized for touch so the app cannot really be used for the time being. We’re on it and think we should be able to provide a very good experience (which does not mean we won’t ship a “real” app).
emailing and writing
Gmail web based iPad version is really good as well as the Apple client, I like them to do “casual” emailing like deleting some of the crap you don’t care about (nice trash button, deletes really fast) and answer a few emails but as expected I can’t type fast at all on the keyboard, I am writing this blog post on my Sony Vaio Z it would surely have taken me much more time on the iPad and not been a very good experience either. I am curious to see if anyone can reach fast typing speeds on a keyboard like that. I don’t care that much, I see the iPad as your third computer, a very casual gadget to consume information more than produce long documents.
music, photos and movies
That’s the bad news, I got the 16gb iPad and that’s a mistake since I could not sync my itunes library and did not feel like having part of it on it so ended up not sync-ing it at all, frustrated. The iPad looks great as an advanced digital photo viewer or even frame when you don’t use it, though. I would recommend if you can to get the largest one to get it, even though the price will be much higher than the advertised $490 or something.
games
I don’t play that much, much less than my kids. We bought Need For Speed Shift, X-Plane 9 and one of my kids who is dreaming about becoming a DJ (don’t ask me why) bought DJDeckX. All very cool and quite impressive I should say both in performance and feel, looks like the iPad will be a great gaming platform. It has good sound compared to comparable sized computers such as netbooks or even my high end Sony Vaio Z whose sound volume is pretty low.
Some frustrations, of course, such as pages you can’t see well, for example if you check a google analytics graph the graph itself won’t show up. Another one is of course no multitasking between the apps. If you open a link from mail it closes mail and opens the browser which you then have to close to go back… Wifi isn’t very good either, it seems to lose signal often while other devices work just fine. There are many frustrations, but none are too bad to stop you from using it.
the tablets in general and the iPad specifically has the power to completely change the way some verticals interact
Take Jack Dorsey’s Square and the way it wants to turn the iPad as a cash register. It has the potential to really change the way your favorite restaurant owner or waiter interacts with you, for the better and the faster. Same with private pilots, I stumbled upon an app that has all the visual and instruments aviation maps and charts in the US on the iPad, making it a perfect pilot tablet and removing the need for expensive subscriptions.
After a few hours navigating the web on my iPad and coming back to my good old keyboard and mouse, I feel like I am missing something. Many things just feel faster as you do them using your fingers, no move back and forth between the keyboard and the mouse, just point and touch what you want to do. That’s a very specific sign of how the iPad changes the way we interact, you miss it when you’re back to the “old” way.
Does the iPad has the potential to become a revolution such as the iPhone has been, redefining the entire category? Yes. I have played with a few tablets and touch computers before, never have I had such an addictive experience and feeling like coming back to it or keeping it around in case. Will I go on holidays for a week only with an iPad? Clearly not. If I need to send a long email or work on a spreadsheet or a complex document, it will be painful or just not possible, or too slow. Still, I had doubts that a tablet like the iPad could really matter, and having used it for only 24h now I think it will and I bet we will see many tablets trying to challenge the iPad, Android and Windows 7 powered. As a developer, I will consider it as an important segment and will aim at designing specifically for this experience, different than a phone and a keyboard computer, which adds even more complexity when you want to be everywhere like we do with Seesmic. Web based first, then apps.
Get one for your wife or girlfriend before you get yours, she will love it, and will be upset when you spend time on yours.
C'est pas le mec qui était en France au moment de la campagne de Sarko et avait tenté de rallier à l'UMP le monde du Net ?
Si si
Du coup il s'est fait virer avec pertes et fracas et est parti aux US tellement il s'était décridibilisé ici
C'est lui qui pond une page insipide tous les mois dans Challenge ou un autre canard de ce genre ...
Aucun intérêt : puant, sûr de lui, pédant ...
Aucune envie de lire ce qu'il écrit !
[Édite le 23-7-2010 par PIERRERS]
Si si
Du coup il s'est fait virer avec pertes et fracas et est parti aux US tellement il s'était décridibilisé ici
C'est lui qui pond une page insipide tous les mois dans Challenge ou un autre canard de ce genre ...
Aucun intérêt : puant, sûr de lui, pédant ...
Aucune envie de lire ce qu'il écrit !
[Édite le 23-7-2010 par PIERRERS]
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Message original : vjimAlors les vieux , on se fait mamours:oMessage original : PIERRERSMerci de cette honnêteté si rareMessage original : francois968cs
c'est vrai que je n'ai pas encore trouvé l'utilité du bouzin:D
PS : vous converser par minitel ?
D'ailleurs dimanche suis dans ton coin à Soulac;)
Message original : vjimAlors les vieux , on se fait mamours:oMessage original : PIERRERSMerci de cette honnêteté si rareMessage original : francois968cs
c'est vrai que je n'ai pas encore trouvé l'utilité du bouzin:D
PS : vous converser par minitel ?
ça me ferait plaisir ?
Message original : PIERRERS
Ben c'est bien ce qui m'inquiète ...
C'est que j'ai un truc de 800 € qui ne va me servir à rien
Si ce sont ses seules prétentions ... ce n'est vraiment pas fait pour moi en effet ...
Il faut savoir en effet que j'ai déjà un BB, un PC fixe, un PC portable, et un mini-PC qui est top pour tout ce qui est boulot, mail et fichiers.
La musique, c'est uniquement chez moi en 33 tours, à la limite CD, mais jamais mp3
Les films, quasi uniquement au cinéma
Je ne regarde quasiment pas la télé
Et pour stocker les fichiers, je trouve que le plus simple entre tous ces supports est d'utiliser un disque dur externe ou une clé usb musclée ...
Bon, je vais tester ça sèrieusement ce week-end, mais je pense que mon fils va être content !
ça me conforte qquand même dans mon opinion qu'on nous force sacrément la main en matière de besoins ...
Patrick a assez raison
Ce n'est plus la main qui mène l'objet, mais l'objet qui façonne celle-ci .... voir pire, notre esprit ... ...
[Édite le 23-7-2010 par PIERRERS]
Message original : armabah non c'est juste un fan d'apple qui a appliqué leurs procédés marketing au blogging, tu brasses du vent mais tu en vis :)Message original : Jean92
C'est quand même un gros tchatcheur ce Le Meur
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