Pingawinga
#4 should be “No more lifelike-looking software/icons (”skeuomorphism”)”
http://connect.dpreview.com/post/9966885570/air-stylus-turns-ipad-into-graphics-tablet
those of us who have been using WACOM drawing tablets with our macs for decades now will likely welcome the new IPAD with stylus for the reasons mentioned above.
Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom both have a Mobile App....in addition to the full monty.
this will bring those apps up to snuff very nicely
Add: Have a Gay man as CEO.
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Makes sense to me.
I have lots of Apple products and a history of arguing with ‘he who is not a dentist.’
Apple is, IMHO, on a downward spiral...sad.
There is, psychologically, very little difference between an Apple ‘fanboy’ and a liberal. Both classes do not tolerate dissent.
This is not ‘flameworthy’ - - - it is a true statement.
Some of this is contextual... Steve properly argued needing a stylus to use a device is inherently bad, but as his rant against small form factor tablets show he knew there are limits to how exact a human finger can be. With a 12 or 13” screen it’s a safe assumption that this will target artistic and graphical folks who will want/need to draw and paint on their devices and for those interactions a stylus makes sense.
Mr jobs was stubborn but it wasn’t like he never changed his mind, in fact many of the things they claim he said he would never do were things that were started under his watch. The iphone 5 and iPad mini for example both began development while he was still alive and involved in the company.
Just because they were released afte his death does not mean he was not involved or had no knowledge of them.
Here’s four more:
1. Fans in the Macintosh (They make NOISE)
2. File format compatibility with other platforms
3. Support for a second mouse button in the MacOS (only one button makes it impossible to hit the wrong one)
4. Building a Mac that can run non Apple OSes
The idea of “no stylus” for the iPad when it was introduced and in these beginning years was the right decision. The iOS should be (and is) completely operational independent of a stylus. The “touch system” needed to be refined as completely as possible without any interference from a stylus.
I would say that this has been fully accomplished now, so that a stylus can be a specialized “add on” product and isn’t required for a fully functional iPad.
Steve Jobs had the right idea back then. We’ve progressed quite a ways from that point in time, now.
I might need to have this one explained to me.
However, Steve Jobs wasn't right all the time. He made some bonehead moves in his time. Not wanting to release an iPhone with a large screen was one of them. When the iPhone 6+ came out a few months ago, iPhone sales exploded and reached new heights. All momentum to the Android platform stopped.
‘Oh wow. Oh wow. Oh wow’
Steve’s kibosh on the small iPad was probably the correct decision. My wife has a first generation Mini and it’s OK but my Air 2 is almost as light weight and its screen and performance just blow the mini away. Now that Apple has a phablet (iPhone 6+) the Mini’s days are probably numbered.
Bookmarrk
I can't claim to be an expert on the man, but for quite a long time my impression of him has been not terribly favorable. When first I heard of him, I was under the impression that he was an electronic genius who alongside Steve Wozniak created the Apple II computer.
As time went on, I kept hearing more and more information that led me to believe this wasn't true, so I became perplex as to just what it is he did. I was informed that he ran the "business" end of Apple, while Wozniak was the primary designer.
Hmmm... "Business", huh? The world has always been full of people who could do stuff like that, and I never considered it to be particularly creative or needing a "rare" talent.
So what the H3ll was Steve Job's contributions to the company which every one was raving about? The movie "Jobs" cleared it up a lot.
He was essentially an aggressive and arrogant bullsh*tter who felt entitled to be admired and respected as well as rich. Well, he got funding capital. Obviously no body else in the world could have done that.
When the movie showed that they decided to dump him, it didn't seem very surprising to me. I couldn't see what he was contributing to the company either.
Another scene in the movie shows him expressing disdain for the Sony Walkman by tossing it into the trash as if to demonstrate that it was a piece of sh*t and a genius like him could do far better. Sure he could do better. Once the technology got there, but then so could anyone. Sony even.
When it's all said and done, I am left with the impression of Steve Jobs as the Tech industry version of the "Emperor" with no clothes. I just don't see any "there" there. He just strikes me as an obnoxious person who was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time, and lucky enough to have made some good acquaintances when he needed them.
He's more huckster than guru it looks like to me. Oh, and to top it off, I found out a month or so ago, his first business was selling "blue boxes" to people with the express intent of cheating the phone company out of telephone charges, basically aiding and abetting criminal activity. I'm left not understanding why anyone respects this guy. Entitled feeling Spoiled brat is what he looks like to me.
Jobs was the keeper of a vision that often only he could see, and that era is now gone. Whether any of this matters is yet to be seen.
What about having the king of global warming scam artists on the board of directors?
As a graphic designer and part-time GUI designer, I HATE realistic icons, which is pretty much a contradiction in terms. As far as the phone GUI goes, Windows tiles are far superior.
It’s getting quite “lively” over here ... :-) ...
I don’t know about you, but I like that term ‘skeuomorphism’, even if I don’t know what it means.
Since when has the analysis of an ANAL-lyst, who pulls ideas out his navel, mean that Apple is going to release the idea? Apple has not even announced the "widely expected 12.9-inch iPad Pro" much less announced it will include a stylus. There are styli being made by third-party makers since at least 2010 for the iPad that work quite nicely. This makes no sense to make this as an claim.
If I had a dollar for every Analyst's claim that "X" Apple product would be released with "Y" feature that never saw the light of day, I could buy quite a few shares of AAPL stock.
Apple was prominently involved with Bono's (RED) charity for AIDS research, but Jobs himself was not a large donor.
In actual fact, Steve Jobs WAS a large donor. . . but he did not promote that he donated to "X." He kept it quiet. His wife and he made some very large donations privately. He chose NOT to have Apple donate except to education and science. AND Apple was the largest single donor to "Project Red." Apple did not give to political causes because as he stated when asked why Apple did not give to Democrat causes, "Around half of our customers are Republicans and it would be stupid to anger half of our customers."
The claim that "Project Red" was not a major philanthropy of Steve Jobs is also false. . . it just was not in his name. It was given through his and his wife's foundation.
For the rest, "The king is dead, Long live the king!" A ghost cannot run a company.
Any time a CEO say his company will never do X you should always understand there’s an addendum “unless the market makes clear indications we should”. It would be a stupid company to refuse to add styluses or small screen models when the market clearly wants them because some dead guy said they wouldn’t half a decade ago.