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Cool, when did you place your order?Speak of the devil, just got a second notification. Its shipped.Mine always showed as 2 different shipments. Still waiting for my iPad to ship.Today when i look at my order it appears that only my cover shipped and the ipad is preparing still. Yesterday they were combined and today seperated.
I suggest avoiding the "no soap" thread.
Just was reading a little about this. Any idea when it's due out or the price? Looks pretty cool.
Launch day. But i cancelled the order of the white, and went black day 2.Cool, when did you place your order?Speak of the devil, just got a second notification. Its shipped.Mine always showed as 2 different shipments. Still waiting for my iPad to ship.Today when i look at my order it appears that only my cover shipped and the ipad is preparing still. Yesterday they were combined and today seperated.
My wireless printer is AirPlay enabled, so my wife prints from her iPad.
Would you accept payment in coupons?
Dude, weren't you the original iPad hype man? WTF happened? Who'd of thunk I'd have 2 iPads in my house and you're getting rid of your only one?
Wife and I both have iPhone4s and Airs, so we end up spending all our time on those. My wife is the e-reader person in the house, and she uses her Kindle for that. I'm sure there's room for the iPad in the middle somewhere, but given all the other devices we have, we just tend not to use it. I had the original iPad and used it a ton then, but that was before I got an iPhone.
With 16 GB, how much real functional storage is that? I only have a Nano so I don't have any idea how much space is taken up by apps and such. I'm assuming if I use handbrake I can get movies down to maybe 1GB or so? How much of the 16 GB is eaten up by the iOS? How's real world batter life on it?Also, my wife might like something like this but I believe I've seen people note something in this thread (or others) to the effect of not being able to do multi-tabbed browsing on an iPad. Is this correct?
Are they trying to make Jobs roll over in his grave?
Re: your first question, not sure I can say. I have 8GB storage on my iPhone and it's filled up -- wish I had 16.Re: the second, you can do multi-tab browsing. I use Atomic browser on all my iOS devices and love it.
I use Atomic Browser on occasion, but safari will also do tabbed browsing on the ipad - not on the iphone
For $15 bucks. Lol that they found an HTML5 exploit for this. Now I wonder if Apple will cry foul on HTML5.
1. Do you know any other e-tailer that has ever had to deal with the amount of traffic Apple deals with in the first few days of a product launch? 2. First I'm hearing about this. On these boards everyone seems to have been able to track their orders.3. They are probably still finalizing the build of new devices up until 6-8 weeks before launch date. So once a product is finalized they start building them. They only have 'X' amount of time to build as many as possible. That number has never and will never be big enough to meet the initial demand. Unless you as an investor would like them to build more factories to cover than first big rush of demand and then a month later when the demand starts to slow down they'll have a factory sitting empty doing nothing.
What does your response to #1 have to do with anything? They know what their traffic was in the past. They should make accommodations going forward. It has nothing to do with other companies. Exmaple....when the market crashed in 2008, our authentication site crashed with it because we had quadruple the highest activity we had ever had prior to that. As a result, we raised our high water mark. We invested in infrastructure to handle 250,000 logins an hour instead of 65000 logins an hour. We may never hit that again, but we know it's a level we can handle if we have an event that DOES generate that kind of traffic.Oh, and before the fanboys get their panties in a bunch, I'm not ripping on Apple as a company. I just think it's inefficient and costs money to not address things like this. That costs me money.
I use Dolphin HD which has tabs. Haven't used Atomic yet.
It doesn't make any sense for apple to invest in the infrastructure to be able to manufacture enough of these things on launch and then have that infrastructure sit useless after the initial bubble. Manufacturing equipment is EXPENSIVE and for something like this, complicated, you can't just have it sitting unused after that initial rush.
I think the model you are proposing would be less efficient and cost Apple and it's shareholders even more money. Just my
I assume they use Apple products for their infrastructure, but I'm not certain. On a Linux env, it's a minimal cost compared to what it could cost you in business. It's not expensive. Would you spend $25,000 - $50,000 to guarantee that you'll continue to receive $2-3 million in revenues? We did.
Then I give them more credit than I should.I think the model you are proposing would be less efficient and cost Apple and it's shareholders even more money. Just my
25-50k? that buys you nothing...you're talking about millions of dollars in equipment. Ipads(and pretty much all electronics) have to be built in clean room conditions, dust free environments. We're talking about almost medical grade stuff, it's not just a switch you can flip. You build a manufacturing line that makes these parts, that line can only produce so many parts. Each of these lines is millions of dollars in equipment, it's not like your software problem.
We are? I'm talking about adding another 1-2 app servers and the same amount of web servers. It won't take much. Read my post. I am talking about the ordering side of this...not the manufacturing. Their websites always seem to go down or become incredibly slow. That's the infrastructure I am talking about. Not the assembly lines. On that side, it's easy enough to start manufacturing earlier to accommodate, but I understand exactly why they under produce. I don't have a problem with that part.
As I re-read it, I can see I wasn't as clear as I thought I was, so for that I apologize. No worries
This is where you lost both of us. His post was about manufacturing and you responded with an answer about ordering, but never clarified which infrastructure you were talking about.I can agree with your point about the ordering process.
I dropped my phone and the screen shattered into a million pieces. Just giving a flip side
You can do it, but its very clunky. You either use a browser like atomic with a limited cache and at most you can have 4-5 tabs work reliably without crashing. Or you can use a browser like safari, which essentially has unlimited tabs - but they refresh the tab each time you switch between them.
Definitely. In full disclosure, virtually all of my townhouse is carpeted, so I haven't experienced any drops on hardwood, concrete, or tile.
then why are you telling people it's been dropped and is indestructible?dropping on carpet? seriously?pretty sure my first iphone dropped on concrete and took a nice scratch before I killed it in water. don't think a screen protector would help, but cases are definitely useful.
I hate console or arcade type games on my iPhone though. Angry Birds, Fruit Ninja, stuff like that works great. But things that have the touch screen joystick or control pad? I hate that.
I agree. But they are hinting at the future, where you could stream your ipad to your tv wirelessly and I assume use some type of controller as well.
That sounds like Nintendo's next gen concept.
This is one area where Android > iOS. The ability to plug controllers into your tablet via USB is a fantastic feature. iOS will have to adopt it at some point.
Apple doesn't adopt.
