Following its unveiling last week, everyone continues to debate Apple’s iPad. Some are certain that it’s doomed to fail, while others are sure it’s the future of computing. The truth is that, like the iPhone, it’s hard to make any kind of accurate judgement about it until you’ve actually used it. Unfortunately, that’s not yet possible since the earliest models are still about 60 days away from shipping. But until then, developer Frasier Speirs can give you the next best thing.
Speirs has made a Flickr set in which he dissects screenshots of the iPad from the promotional shots and videos Apple has released. On each photo he adds his own notes of things to take notice of. But rather than go for most of the obvious elements, Speirs focuses on a lot of UI elements that the majority of people will overlook while watching the videos. This is important because as any good fanboy will tell you, it’s often the subtle things Apple does in its UI work that make its devices stand apart.
And with the iPad, Apple has a number of new UI ideas it’s putting out there. As Steve Jobs made clear during his keynote, the iPad was built to be equally as good in either portrait or landscape mode. This is already different from the iPhone which, while full of plenty of nice landscape UI elements, is still going to be used in portrait mode most of the time. But on the iPad, there are elements such as a left hand pane that is visibile in the Mail app only when the device is horizontal. Turn it vertical, and it only shows the message area, and there are new overlays that you activate to navigate in this view. And that’s probably the most obvious example of elements Speirs points out.
If you’re really chomping at the bit to get your hands on an iPad, Speirs’ 53 photos should be right up your alley.
[via Finer Things In Mac]
I have just gone through 7 of them and I think its a great device when it comes to user interface and would be really helpful for several artists and as far as the flash is concerned iPhone never looked bad due to its absence and iPad shouldn’t either.
Thanks for sharing the cool picx…
Sure, because _no_ mobile phone had flash. Come Flash 10, iPhone will be the _only_ smartphone without it.
“Come Flash 10, iPhone will be the only smartphone that doesn’t need it.”
FTFY
Flash became a software that has been related to Virus and a source of exploitation to your PC
It introduces serious security problems which cannot be fixed by the operating system’s developer, Apple. It introduces bugs which cannot be fixed by Apple. It forces Apple to be dependent on Adobe for fixes and updates. It forces Apple to live with crashes, security breaches, and bugs. It makes the operating system unstable. It seriously DRAINS the batteries.
Apple definitely doesn’t want to have that problem. That’s why they are shifting to HTML5, CSS Animation, H.264 — Apple can do almost all of what Flash can do without the problems that Flash creates. More details: http://bit.ly/the-apple-ipad-details
Cool. Daina, what do you have to say about this?
When it comes to what works and dose not, Jobs has history on his side. A lot of history…
http://www.markzware.com/blogs/steve-jobs-johannes-gutenberg-ipad-printing-press/2010/02/04/
Frasier is a crazy man.
I imagine him doing nothing but going through the two official videos over and over again.
The only mistery is how quickly ( or at all ) iPad will create new ”new” industry of mobile handheld personal computers with touchscreen ( previously known as MID- Mobile internet Device, UMPC, IMD – internet mobile device, smartbooks ) that are somewhere inbetween smartphone and notebook.
The key, IMHO, are apps. It’s about software, about app economy.
It’s about multimedia digital publishing. The last chance to get it right.
I was good at predicting iPad name, so I bought early some iPad domains. ( anyone for : mediaipad.com, ipadmultimedia.com, ipaddigital.com, ipadplayback.com, ipadgames.us- don’t know what to do with them
The only mistery is how quickly ( or at all ) iPad will create new ”new” industry of mobile handheld personal computers with touchscreen ( previously known as MID- Mobile internet Device, UMPC, IMD – internet mobile device, smartbooks ) that are somewhere inbetween smartphone and notebook.
The key, IMHO, are apps. It’s about software, about app economy.
It’s about multimedia digital publishing. The last chance to get it right.
I was good at predicting iPad name, so I bought early some iPad domains. ( anyone for : mediaipad.com, ipadmultimedia.com, ipaddigital.com, ipadplayback.com, ipadgames.us- don’t know what to do with them
AppleCrunch.
Still not sure if anyone, including Apple themselves, figured out why would people buy this thing anyway. A book reader? Tool expansive. A gaming machine? Not enough horse power. Web surfing? Maybe, but then why skip Flash
We’ve known it for years, and Apple made billions out of it – it’s not hardware or OS that sells, it’s apps. They need a big app for the iPad, but they can’t find one. UI? well, it’s cool, but for $500US, I won’t pay just for a slick UI.
Umm. The photo annotations are not particularly insightful. “Navigation controls here.” “Persistent highlight.” Oh thanks, didn’t see that. Like the one about the calendar scrub navigation. as if Apple would omit swipe navigation. Does Frasier know how the iPhone’s contact list works? that’s what I thought.
thjats good AppleCrunch.
Waiting the crunch
This looks pretty cool. But I hope it doesn’t replace the book. Unless Apple can find a way to get that fresh book smell as well! I wonder if that’s version 2
Paul, http://1daylater – Activity tracking for Freelancers
Ipad killer from Lenovo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5DYuVN6nuY
Viliv S5も悪くないと思うんだ。
LMAO!
Apple has spoon-fed you well! (Either that or you work for them…)
You obviously don’t know a whole lot about what you’re talking about. I’d suggest you start reading up on these things before you post propaganda.