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Post by Alan on Mar 31, 2010 22:46:30 GMT
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Post by wierdostomps on Apr 1, 2010 20:49:12 GMT
But sooooo slow to load!
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Post by Forum Cat on Apr 1, 2010 21:14:14 GMT
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Post by wierdostomps on Apr 2, 2010 8:28:20 GMT
Ah that's better - now I can spend the rest of Good Friday committing the sin of covetousness!
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Post by millstonebarn on Apr 4, 2010 22:10:14 GMT
I've written two (trivial) iPad apps! Wish I had got one imported like several of the UK the podcasters seem to have done. Ah well. Will just have to wait until I can order a UK one.
The apps, if you're interested, run on a simulator that you get with the SDK. I'm fortunate enough to know someone who let me join his developer account. Nothing worth actually publishing though! Unless you want my CV.
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Post by millstonebarn on Apr 4, 2010 22:11:48 GMT
(one of the apps is just a way of displaying my CV using an iPad-specific split-View controller.)
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Post by Alan on Apr 7, 2010 12:23:50 GMT
There's a bit of a ding-dong going on at the moment about some pretty significant shortfalls in the functionality of the iPad iWork Apps and the way that they sync (or rather don't fully sync) with the Mac-based versions of iWork. In amongst all the glossy hype, Apple omitted to explicitly point out that Keynote and Pages documents built on a Mac are unlikely to be rendered faithfully on the iPad. e.g. many fonts and templates aren't supported. Footnotes aren't supported etc. This means that the vision of being able to seamlessly edit and synchronise iWork documents between one's Mac and one's iPad is pretty much bogus (unless you restrict yourself to the subset of fuctionality that is common between them). Take a look at the discussions on Apple's community support pages: discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=267Not good.
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Post by beerbum on Apr 7, 2010 13:20:06 GMT
There's a bit of a ding-dong going on at the moment about some pretty significant shortfalls in the functionality of the iPad iWork Apps and the way that they sync (or rather don't fully sync) with the Mac-based versions of iWork. In amongst all the glossy hype, Apple omitted to explicitly point out that Keynote and Pages documents built on a Mac are unlikely to be rendered faithfully on the iPad. e.g. many fonts and templates aren't supported. Footnotes aren't supported etc. This means that the vision of being able to seamlessly edit and synchronise iWork documents between one's Mac and one's iPad is pretty much bogus (unless you restrict yourself to the subset of fuctionality that is common between them). Take a look at the discussions on Apple's community support pages: discussions.apple.com/category.jspa?categoryID=267Not good. I don't want to come over as an apologist and that is a serious omission and poor expectation setting. We are in revision 1 of this device and its software and expectations have been high. From what I've heard and read, there are quite a few significant issues to be dealt with so that you have a decent workflow between the iPad and the Mac, not the least of which is file management. Every time i think about this I keep on thinking about this huge server farm they're building…. what are they doing in their own area 51? In speculation mode - they were probably really, really pushed to get the software as tight as it is for the launch and we'll see major improvements over the next 3-6 months, maybe facilitated by iPhone OS4.0. It seems that many of the issues are more to do with the operating system than the applications. Considering the priority they have put on stability, I'm not that surprised that there's no leap forward here. i think we'll get steady, measured progress. Secondly, Apple will be coming out with something to enhance MobileMe and compete seriously with GoogleDocs. It's a major strategic mistake if they don't… and I also think they've been taking their time. Sync isn't an easy thing to do and DropBox knocks spots off of MobileMe - I think there's a complete re-write going on. Considering Apple may have essentially reinvented consumer computing then for rev1 it's still amazing. Can't wait to get my hands on one.
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Post by wierdostomps on Apr 8, 2010 9:26:10 GMT
I love Keynote and Pages on the Mac - not so sure about Numbers! But I need to keep a copy of MS Office handy at all times to exist in this MS dominated world. Conversion between .pages and .doc works perfectly about 65% of the time - but there are certain users who simply can't open Pages created .docs - ever. Furthermore, Apple's implementation of tables is shoddy, making Pages pretty useless for taking minutes in meetings.
With all of that, and the time pressures BB talks about, it is not surprising that there are some V1 teething problems. After all, MS have never yet succeeded in making two versions of Office which are completely compatible with one another!
I do share BB's belief that Apple need to produce a Google Docs killer pretty soon. It certainly isn't iWork.com in its present iteration. But the iPad does seem to be crying out for some kind of cloud computing. Especially if it can be made to interact with both Macs and PCs in the way that Google does - but actually work reliably without all the foibles of Docs. I'd even be prepared to pay for that. Say by adding it to my MobileMe subscription?
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