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Posted by Hugh
Jan 30, 2010 at 03:07 PM
Here’s a head above the parapet:
http://blog.omnigroup.com/2010/01/29/ipad-or-bust/
(although of course OmniGroup are bigger than the typical Mac one-person or two-person shop).
Posted by Manfred
Jan 30, 2010 at 03:48 PM
http://venturebeat.com/2010/01/29/macmillan-amazon-ipad/
It appears that MacMillan’s e-books will from now on be available only on the ipad (and cost 60% more). One early effect of the ipad!
Manfred
Posted by Manfred
Jan 30, 2010 at 03:51 PM
See also this: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/amazon-pulls-macmillan-books-over-e-book-price-disagreement/
If this is true, the price increase is “just” 50%.
Manfred
Posted by Franz Grieser
Jan 30, 2010 at 04:58 PM
Hugh
>Someone on the Scrivener forum - it might have been you Franz, or possibly AmberV, I
>can’t remember - wrote that it is more of a consumer’s toy than a producer’s tool. That
>description makes sense to me.
That was AmberV. But I agree with her (though you can, off course, use it for production).
>However… that goes for iPad1. What about iPad2 or
>iPad3, which I can imagine will have enhanced capabilities such as multi-tasking,
>Flash and perhaps a camera? And the youngsters who meanwhile are bought it as a toy but
>then want to use it in class and later at work?
I only speak about iPad1. I cannot know what Apple will add to the next release.
But you mention one point that makes the iPad more a consumer product: Multitasking capabilities are missing. That means you cannot switch back and forth between an editing apps and e.g. your webbrowser or a PDF file you need for reference.
But don’t get me wrong: I will probably get an iPad, once 2.0 is released by the end of this year (whether it has multitasking or not).
This will, however, not replace my Thinkpad Tablet PC, which I use for brainstorming, planning, writing and presenting.
Franz
Posted by David Dunham
Jan 30, 2010 at 05:08 PM
Franz Grieser wrote:
>I don’t expect to see iPad editions of Curio, Tinderbox, Scrivener, et.al. in
>the next few months: Keith Blount, the developer of Scrivener, said that he would have
>to write a S. for iPad completely from scratch. He depends heavily on the text editing
>subsystem of Mac OS X that is not available in the iPhone/iPad OS. I guess that will be
>the same for Tinderbox, Curio, etc.
And for Opal. (In its case, it’s not just the lack of editing styled text, it’s that the routines I use to save and read styled text don’t exist in iPhone OS.)
Nonetheless, I’m thinking about possible compromises. I sure hate to give up the ability to italicize individual words or include graphics, but I get the sense that an awful lot of the outliners out there don’t actually offer such functionality.