2/18/2023 0 Comments Ithoughts macbookActually, my guess on the ergonomics is that its too dense. Its legible and fast, but its just too heavy for reading. I was also disappointed with the iPad as an eReader. Reeder gets me part of the way there, but not enough that I don’t wait till I’m sitting with the laptop to look at feeds. It odd that the Google interfaces on the browser or the iPhone but the iPad interface just didn’t work well. It was something I constantly fought against but never found a better interface in any of the RSS reader apps that I tried. I’m a longtime user of Google Reader, but I hated the need to do a two finger flick to scroll. RSS feed reading has been a big problem for me on the iPad. There are things I’d rather do on the iPhone or Mac. In the end, for me the iPad is a limited use satellite device. How oddly painful to have the Twitter app spawning web page after web page since there’s no similar integration. Click on a tweet with a link in it and a browser window slides in with the web page displayed. Its best feature is the integrated web browser. But the Twitter App on the iPad is one of my favorites. For interesting reasons, I had little interest in Twitter until just a few months ago. Twitter is an interesting case because the experience is driven by the integration of the app with iOS. I think that iPad directed media will be an area for development and as a musical instrument, its got quite a nice start with synthesizer and drum machine apps. Netflix streaming video, reading mainstream news sites (New York Times, Washington Post, etc), and Flickr. I never bonded with the iPad the way I have with my iPhone. As a personal device, Useful, but not my companion. Its been a useful device, worth the money for the family just as an attractive media and browsing package. I’m glad I grabbed a WiFi+3G iPad on release. I bought the original, had to upgrade to the 3G, skipped 3GS since I saw little reason to spend any money on it, then grabbed the iPhone4 which was a major advance. AT&T has always given me the upgrade choice. At this point we all believe that the new version is going to be coming around each summer. And I think worth considering in detail here to illustrate a decision process. It was worth considering formally because a Mac purchase is a 3 year technology commitment. It was an interesting decision, long in development.
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