Comments on: jet plane emotions; ipad cycles

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By: Marc K

Marc K — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 04:07:24 +0000

So is the iPad really a general purpose computer? Maybe Apple is moving it that way but I think it’s really a media consumption device not much different than TV and radio were. Yes a few people hacked around on those devices but in general we broke the devices that weren’t the ones we relied on for new and weather. Usually old tired devices or ones custom made for such hacking or we just built them our selves. I really see the iPad as more like a hardware web browser that has some other fun functions but I don’t see it like my desktop or laptop. Finally a device I can actually use in the bathroom to read. And when V2 comes out V1 can go in the magazine rack in the WC.

Things like the iPad are more relevant to the creative people that make content, web, music, video etc. Sure there are issues around the file formats of that content but that doesn’t stop the them from creating and these new devices make their content more accessible.

On the bright side things like iPhones are helping us escape Flash file formats and move to more open HTML formats. Getting Apple to use other open file types like ogg, that’s where the criticism should be leveled.

By: Francis Hwang

Francis Hwang — Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:13:15 +0000

“When it comes to movie consumption, there’s no truer democrat in America than the slightly inebriated airline passenger. You’ve observed it, I’m sure—how at a certain altitude, and after a certain number of Bloody Marys, every prejudice of class and gender begins to be dissolved; how in that strange and hurtling passivity the grandmother in the aisle seat will submit with a kind of rapture to The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift, while the tattooed young man by the window gratefully dabs his eyes at the last frames of 27 Dresses.”

– http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/200912/parker-female-directors

James Parker writes it off to boredom and in-flight alcohol, but I suspect there’s a bit more: Airplane time can be a solitary, contemplative time. Part of me actually pines for the days when there were way fewer in-flight distractions, including my beloved laptop. I used to get a lot more thinking done on planes.

By: Coburn

Coburn — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 15:22:49 +0000

I tend to treat those hours on a plane as “what happens in vegas, stays…” time. There is some altered reality effect that happens that would make say “August Rush” the most amazing film ever in the history of the world. Upon running home and talking up the movie to girlfriend, followed by a rental, it’s discovered that “August Rush” is contextually good (context being the 5th hour of a flight) but non-contextually is crap.

By: Alan Connor

Alan Connor — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 06:41:16 +0000

I am going to use two definite articles. “The the iPad”. The non-parenthetical stuff was good, too.

By: danny

danny — Tue, 02 Feb 2010 04:31:15 +0000

Craig – yes, you’re right on the $$$. But would Apple lose money if the platform was more open? It’s not as if there’s another way to pay for applications outside of the app store, and even if there was, the chances are most people would still buy from it. I think the success of the app store was an accident. I don’t think people directly buy Android phones because they’re more open, I think they buy them because they come from a bunch of producers who aren’t apple, at different shapes and sizes, and that comes about because Android is open. Finally, there’s the intellectual satisfaction of “cracking” HTML by hundreds of thousands of people, and then there’s fun for Bunnie Huang and the twenty or so people who work out how to crack an Xbox, so I don’t think a closed system is that much of an inspiration.

By: Matt Petty

Matt Petty — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:09:06 +0000

Weepy on planes? I sat through ‘K-PAX’ followed by ‘A.I.’ on one flight, both of which had me openly sobbing. ‘A.I.’ still gets me every time.

I was very interested in the run up to the iPad, and talking about it so that my girlfriend asked, “So you’ll be getting one then?”

“Oh no I don’t want to be locked down like that. (Also I can’t afford it)”

By: Craig Hughes

Craig Hughes — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:44:01 +0000

Also, on the main topic, IMO the drive to tinker is INCREASED the more the system you’re tinkering with is locked down. The incentives are just higher and the intellectual satisfaction from breaking it then putting it back together is that much more gratifying.

By: Craig Hughes

Craig Hughes — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 17:38:30 +0000

Millions of people buy Android systems in preference to iPhone partly because of that power.

That’s a HUGE stretch. I think most of the people who buy Android phones have no fricking clue which is more open. Probably a good 50% go for one over the other because it’s shinier under the lights at the cellphone store. Of the remaining 50%, 99% go for the one that they think will be cheaper.