MacDailyNews Take: We haven’t had a drop to drink today, yet, nor did we the first time we said it on iPad unveiling day (in-between we make no claims), so we have no problem typing the following yet again, in bold: “This first iPad is going to be a smash hit.”
Johnson continues, “Nerds of 2040 will sigh and rattle off any number of previous computers if someone makes that [“iPad was the first real computer”] claim. But even those nerds will have to concede that the iPad marked the beginning of appliance computing, when physical devices and interfaces receded into the background and touch gave us an entirely new intimacy with our information.”
“Automobiles had been around for 30 years before Henry Ford put together the first Model T,” Johnson writes. “Those previous attempts at a mass-market car were critical to Ford’s success, but it’s Ford we remember.”
Johnson writes, “The iPad isn’t the most capable machine out there. It’s not a multitasker.”
MacDailyNews Take: Whoops. iPad, like every single iPhone and iPod touch that’s ever shipped, is a multitasker. It simply doesn’t yet allow for multitasking by third-party apps. Listen to your iPod while surfing the web and you’re multitasking. With iPhone 4.0, Apple will usher in multitasking for third-party apps, along with much more. It will be available as a software update to iPhone and iPod touch users this summer and a version of iPhone OS 4 will be coming to iPad this fall.
Johnson continues, “But the iPad’s limitations are also its strength. Because they’re uniform across the platform, developers can work with and around them. The same kind of uniformity has allowed video game consoles to stay competitive with—and sometimes eclipse—more-powerful gaming hardware… The iPad won’t be all things to all people. Those of us who need raw power will still have our Macs and our PCs and our mainframes for years to come. But I think we’ll find that dainty two-stroke computers like the iPad are surprisingly versatile.”
Read more in the full article – recommended – here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “GetMeOnTop” for the heads up.]
I had a darkroom too. Back in the 80’s (sorry, I’m only 36) I had an Omega 4×5 black&white;enlarger and also processed my own E6. I also used a Roliflex TLR, an old Pressview and a Calumet 4×5, in addition to a long series of 35mm cameras beginning with a Minolta X7a. By the time I started college in 1991 I was using very early versions of Photoshop and the first Nikon/Kodak DCS1 in Seattle. I frankly couldn’t wait for digital to get good enough to stop fooling around with all those chemicals and paper and get some real work done.
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“For my birthday I got a A-1 for my birthday.”
Redundant sentence is redundant.
Uh-Huh:
Ever try Ilford paper?
@ Bongo
All you have to do is use one. Try it.
Jimithy :
Were you the smart ass nerd in school (redundant) that always got your hand up in the teachers face for brownie points?
Your tongue must be so brown and your breath stinks
Sorry again Uh-Huh
You seem to have stepped out of bounds, . . . again.
You know there’s always somebody around with “one” bigger than yours.
I started foolin’ around with film in 1954. About the same time you got your first Canon, I was assembling a Sinar 8×10 kit. I hope you know what that is. . . .
In defense of my pal Chrissy, she is a digital person and can surely embarrass anyone else on this board with her Photoshop skills and experience. You must also know that our skills in film are becoming obsolete and archaic. “Digital will set you free!”
Still, I’ve recently been able to blend the two disciplines with 8×10 scans and Kodak’s Professional Lambda. I have a 45×72 in my living room that can be examined under a loop.
@ breeze
Ilford was my favorite. Their film was fantastic too, but I haven’t touched the stuff in more than a decade.
ChrissyOne:
Yeah the grain and contrast was killer.
Ever see the movie Blow Up?
@ AppleJack
“You must also know that our skills in film are becoming obsolete and archaic.”
To some extent… But things like exposing for highlights, the basics of the Zone system, color balance, the basic optical properties of light… If you got a good education in film (like we did) then those skills can serve you very well when you move to Camera Raw. It’s still all just curves and contrast and depth-of-field. It just a different substrate, but most of the old rules still apply. Some things will never leave you… Hell, I still say ASA. >.<
“@Uh-Huh:
Ever try Ilford paper?”
Nope, been using Kodak for 30 years because that’s what they sell at TT Pharmacy – – – I bought off the guys grandfather, and now him. It’s 5 miles from home and the family has always supported the local Photography community.. (not many places like that left)
“@ Chrissy1 “I frankly couldn’t wait for digital to get good enough to stop fooling around with all those chemicals and paper and get some real work done”.
Well, I like it that way. Personally, I have a new E-620 that has been off the shelve twice….. It’s not me…
No Chrissy1, you decided to flame me for being “unimaginative” .. I’m sorry, I am an amateur photographer, a musician, and for years an engineer. Creativity is not limited to Digital this and Digital that. When I record my music in my home studio, the sounds that come out of my Boss 864 portastudio can’t match what I can get out of my old Ortari 8 track reel to reel…. Because a person doesn’t drool at every Apple product produced doesn’t make them “less creative” or “less imaginative”..
For the record – Modern California and Texas speedways suck. I’d rather watch a race at old school North Wilkesboro, Rockinham, or Martinsville.. Does that make me less creative and imaginative??
I OWN the movie Blow Up. It was part of our curriculum at the Art Institute.
I never bought that he could get that kind of detail out of that little frame, though. But it was a great education on photographers, if not photography.
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Maybe the lens had something to do with it?
“@ Apple Jack – You must also know that our skills in film are becoming obsolete and archaic. “Digital will set you free!”
SInce I am an engineer by trade and photography is my hobby, my skills will never become “obsolete and archaic” anymore than a man who hunts with a black powder gun….
I was told that I was years behind the times when I started (for not shooting Kodachrome) … I enjoy black and white photography, analog recordings,home made bread, and drawing time scaled logic diagrams… Different strokes – – – – – – – – – –
IiPad is certainly the first device that I might get my mother ( 84yrs) to even have a go with.
No keys, no welcome screens and delays. Just touch and go.
It will need configuring – a button for each website, resource as well as Apps like crossword, but maybe, just maybe…….
@ Uh-Huh
Look, I didn’t mean to crawl all up in your shit, but you made a comment that started this whole thing off that I felt lacked imagination, and I said so. You then came out swinging with insults in your now-deleted comment, so I thought I’d fire back to keep it going.
I’m not knocking your film skills. I respect that. It can be a 2 way thing if you like.
@ Uh-Huh
No offense was meant about archaic. But you must notice that film, paper and chemistry are disappearing. How long has it been since Kodak even manufactured B&W;paper?
Digital offers amazing freedom in exposure, cost and versatility. The quality and quantity of equipment is exploding. Checkout Olympus and Zuiko HQ and SHQ optics instead of Nikon or Canon.
@Chrissy
I never use my kit without my Pentax 1% spot. My darkroom skills are lacking, but I’ve always had “field” skills.
Here’s to the “Image.”
The iPad can give that in spades. I can’t wait to use the VGA dongle with a good DLP.
C1 – where was your fav place to get film developed in Seattle? Hint: side door was for the pros…
Used to drive – ferry – drive over from Whidbey Island to have stuff done I couldn’t do in my lab… Jeez that is a long time ago!
90% of my work was (and still is) underwater work… I used Fuji because I liked the colour saturation and a bit of blue. I remember when we first started to use digital and I was looking at a Kodak back to hook up to my Mac.
Between building my own home on Whidbey and photography that was almost heaven.
Cheers.
“the sounds that come out of my Boss 864 portastudio can’t match what I can get out of my old Ortari 8 track reel to reel…. “
That’s fine! But I can get more dynamic range, by MILES AND MILES, with a properly exposed RAW image than I could ever get from paper or chrome. No contest. Not to mention that speed with which I can turn things around and how quickly I can find images in my catalog. Oh yeah, and I have several thousand of my full-resolution images with me at all times. I don’t care what you’re shooting, a good digital workflow pwns the bloody hell out of anything I could ever do with film.
@ Chrissy1..
It shall be the path of mutual respect!
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@Apple Jack
As mentioned above, I have a Olympus SLR (E-620).. Just doesn’t do it for me….
@ MizuInOz
Are you thinking of ProLab? I used to send stuff there but I never walked in. We had a pick-up across the street at (I can’t remember the name of the printer… on 3rd and Virginia).
Or maybe Ivey Seright, which I preferred because sometimes ProLab would push your shit without telling you. Ivey became Photobition, then it went back to Ivey, then I think they closed shop. I dunno, I rarely visit that neighborhood to go to Glazier’s main store (a shadow of what it used to be) but I do rent equipment from their rental place over on Mercer.
@ AppleJack
You mean the Honeywell / Pentax spot? Still have mine!! Still works great!!
@ ChrissyOne,
You are a good photographer. You are cuter than a lot of people.
You had me at Hummer in Paris.
After weeks of using iPad around the house, I picked up my MBP for the first time since I had bought the iPad. Holy cow, did it feel heavy!!!
For 90% of my travels, iPad is ideal.
LOL.
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But seriously… the best part about digital photography, as a hobbyist, is that I can go shoot anything I like, and it costs… nothing.
I sell a very little bit of stock photography, and my profession is certainly related to photography, but I don’t directly make any money on my photos either. If someone was paying my to shoot all that stuff you see on my site it would be great. But they don’t. I don’t think I could have afforded to buy that much film and chemistry if I’d even wanted to.
@breeze: Yep. You totally got me. You wouldn’t believe the stuff that woman ate. Actually, I was the nerd that got B’s and C’s and enjoyed the opportunity to make people laugh. You should try it sometime. Laughing that is, not B’s and C’s. Your mom would be pissed.
@Uh-huh
3 things you can’t do with a Mac laptop that you can do with iPads:
1) You can’t flip it vertically and view your document with more vertical space.
2) You can’t zoom in to get closer view of pic/article.
3) You can’t pick it up and open Safari in less than 3 seconds.