Slightly annoying that the iPhone autocorrects iPad into upas – which is a kind of poison mulberry I believe… you can bet that omission in the iPhone’s glossary will change with the upcoming release of iPhone OS 4.0.
— Wonderfully exuberant essay from Fry. My last mention of the iPad—for now. I sense the tectonic plates of information and communication technologies shifting a little though…
As a researcher, writer, and teacher who spends many of his days interacting with a computing device—either a 24 inch iMac, a 9.1 inch Linux netbook, or an iPhone—obviously a product like the iPad is big news.
As an iPhone user, it all looks very familiar. But I’m left with four very basic questions that I think any academic who currently owns a laptop, desktop, or both, will ask:
1. Will it allow me to multitask and switch seamlessly between apps?
2. Will it allow me to load my own PDFs of journal articles?
3. Will it allow me to annotate my own PDFs and iBooks, and save and sync those annotations across to my desktop Mac? And will it allow me to do this in the other direction—from desktop to iPad?
4. Will it allow me to sync iWork documents seamlessly between iPad to desktop? No compromises over formatting, etc.?
I can see the app developers solving some of these knotty problems, but we’ll have to wait and see.
Will Twitter influence your vote? http://bit.ly/benp9Z @BBC_HaveYourSay: That’s what we want to find out: http://tinyurl.com/yk3gjgb
75,101 posters generated so far.
More comprehensive than the US version, it would seem.
We’re heading for a mixed economy in online news.
After all these years, these sorts of vulnerabilities just won’t go away. One of the reasons I switched to Mac.
Nineteen per cent of Americans now use Twitter or a similar service, up from 11 per cent in April 2009.
Routledge did an excellent job of getting this out quickly. The UK version is available now. The US version is available mid-February.
Humorous article in The Independent about Twitter politicos.
