Apple I Pad-A Review
I have to confess I’m an I Pad fanboy. I’ve played with it for three days now and it hasn’t dissapointed. First off the processor is lightning fast. On apps like the New York Times that were designed just for the I Pad, the time between when you touch an article to read it and it is ready is literally a second or less. Videos from Netflix load very quickly and I watched One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest last night and the quality was great. I would say I used my laptop about 50% less over the weekend.The only drawback is the lack of Flash integration. Steve Jobs says that Flash is too buggy to put in yet and he’s not the only one. The CIA does not allow Flash inside the firewall at Langley. However, I would suggest that this may be also an attempt by Jobs to muscle the mobile video standard. You Tube runs beautifully on the I Pad and already the New York Times has converted much of their flash video to work on the device.
The Apple Book store is going to be just as successful as the I Tunes store. The key to the long term success of a new kind of E Book that integrates video, and other multimedia will be to figure out the business model for rights holders of photography, video and audio. As Marc Aronson points out, the possibilities for non-fiction are potentially endless.
The hope of nonfiction is to connect readers to something outside the book: the past, a discovery, a social issue. To do this, authors need to draw on pre-existing words and images. Unless we nonfiction writers are lucky and hit a public-domain mother lode, we have to pay for the right to use just about anything — from a single line of a song to any part of a poem; from the vast archives of the world’s art (now managed by gimlet-eyed venture capitalists) to the historical images that serve as profit centers for museums and academic libraries.Aronson suggests a royalty based on the number of downloads be set aside to pay the owners of photos, video and audio files contained in these new types of books. At the new Annenberg Innovation Lab we are going to work on ways to create these new business models.
Anyway, I think the I Pad is a gamechanger and the amount of innovation around these new apps is going to be amazing.
article source:http://jontaplin.com/2010/04/06/apple-i-pad-a-review/