Honestly I hope to see a higher res screen, the iPhone 4 has made reading on my iPad noticibly less enjoyable. I don't think it's very likely that they jump to a 'retina' quality display but I'd like to see at least some improvement. Whether it be with some new text anti alising technique or
Just plain ole brute force through more pixels.

12/30/2010 6:10:34 PM

got the slingbox ipad software, awesome.

12/31/2010 7:04:28 PM

Quote :

"We just got some pretty wild information from one of our Apple sources and while it’s hard to believe at first, it does make sense. We have exclusively been told that the reason Apple just added multitouch gestures for the iPad in the latest iOS 4.3 beta is because the iPad will be losing the home button. Yes, we are told that Apple, at some point in time, will remove the home button from the iPad’s design. Instead of button taps, you will use new multitouch gestures to navigate to the home screen and also to launch the app switcher. That’s not all, however. In addition to the home button disappearing from the iPad, we’re told that this change will make its way over to the iPhone as well. Our source said Apple employees are already testing iPads and iPhones with no home buttons on the Apple campus, and it’s possible we will see this new change materialize with the next-generation iPad and iPhone devices set to launch this year."

http://www.bgr.com/2011/01/12/exclusive-apple-will-remove-home-button-on-next-ipad-and-iphone-photo-booth-and-ilife-coming/

home buttons on my iStuff? it's less likely than you think

1/13/2011 6:17:17 PM

Has anyone tried "Osmos"?

Probably the best game I've tried yet.

1/17/2011 1:46:50 PM

yeah i got it last week.

been playing the shit out of it.

1/17/2011 3:18:21 PM

^^^The only problem I see with that is that it's a little difficult to fit 4 or 5 fingers onto the iphone screen at one time.

1/17/2011 5:55:38 PM

There is a ton of talk of an actual retina display screen coming to the next iPad. I normally don't put too much stock in rumors, but this one doesn't seem to be going away. It's hard to imagine a 2048 x 1536 display in ANYTHING these days, but it keeps looking more and more like it's gonna happen.

1/17/2011 7:09:51 PM

^ why wouldn't it happen? It's the natural progression.

It's a lower PPI than the iPhone/iPod, but considering that you likely hold an iPad further from your face, they'll still market it as a "retina display." Either way, that's pretty awesome.

1/17/2011 7:59:09 PM

That kind of resolution is beyond natural progression and approaching crazy. You can't even get high end laptops with that kind of display and the hardware required to push all those pixels isn't exactly cheap. Supposedly the new A5 processior is 4 times as powerful as the A4, and the GPU they're going with is no slouch either. It just feels like this is a lot more than a one generation jump to me. I would have expected a couple of cameras and maybe double the RAM and that would have probably been enough to get them through another year as the best selling tablet. Looks like Apple isn't content to just sit idly at the top. Which is good for consumers, but not great for anyone else looking to produce a tablet anytime in the next year or so.

1/17/2011 8:49:55 PM

need to balance out the news of Jobs stepping down

1/17/2011 9:25:53 PM

The one thing I value the most in my new iPod Touch is the high dpi UI.

I'd be disappointed if I bought an iPad now and it had a "crappy" low res display.

Apple has been talking about a resolution independent UI in OS X for years now (since the advent of OS X actually), but they've never had the pieces in place with the GPU features and OS/software features to really make it work. iOS i bet had this baked in from the beginning on the backend to make the transition easier.

I'm eager for PC software/hw manufacturers to shift in this direction too.

1/17/2011 9:28:14 PM

I'd be pretty shocked if they actually but a 2048x1536 display in a 10" tablet, considering they don't even make a monitor at that resolution and the one they do make that's near it is $999.

It'd be particularly silly since doesn't iTunes content max out at 720p?

1/17/2011 9:45:08 PM

I'd imagine that available iTunes/Apple TV content resolution will move up at or before the next revision of the Apple TV.

1/17/2011 9:48:41 PM

^ that's very unlikely actually.

For one, content producers have to be up with that.

But secondly, the AppleTV was just released, and is on a longer product cycle than the iDevices, and is not going to handle higher reses too easily.

Plus, most people don't really care.

Video is a poor metric for what a screen resolution should be though, even 720p was low-ish for PCs when it was "new."

Text and photos looks pretty much great on the "retina displays" though, which is what most people will value from it.

1/17/2011 10:05:53 PM

Talk to me about how many websites scale well to 2048x1536 at 10".

[Edited on January 17, 2011 at 10:20 PM. Reason : .]

1/17/2011 10:19:29 PM

Moron, I didn't specify a time frame, just said next revision of the Apple TV, even if that were 2 years from now. BTW, since the Apple TV moved to iOS (and similar hardware), I'd expect updates to come more often moving forward.

1/17/2011 10:32:35 PM

I would love to see a higher res on the iPad, mine has lost a lot of reading time to the iPhone 4.

1/17/2011 10:39:48 PM

Quote :

"Talk to me about how many websites scale well to 2048x1536 at 10". "

Umm... the OS draws the UI at a higher resolution, it doesn't keep the "widgets" the same size.

So pretty much every website will look way better at the higher res.

Upping the res on the iPad isn't like increasing the screen resolution in Windows (or Mac OS for that matter), it's the equivalent as changing the "DPI" slider in the advanced settings.

1/17/2011 11:00:40 PM

You don't seem to understand how monitors work.

If you have a screen that is 2048 pixels wide by 1536 pixels high encompassing a 10in screen, it means that 1 pixel is really, really, really small. That means that if you want to show something of substance, instead of using 1 pixel, you have to use several. This is why pre-iPhone 4, app icons were 57x57, but iPhone 4 retina display icons are 114x114.

This isn't really an issue for apps, as is obvious, the iPhone can scale it's elements just fine. It just quadruples the pixel count when necessary or uses the higher resolution image if available. The only issue is that people bitch about it not being as pretty as everything else, because this process isn't the greatest thing ever (see also: standard definition television on a 1080p TV with a mediocre scaler).

The issue gets to be when you go to a web page that displays layout based on percentages. Take TWW, for example. It doesn't matter what resolution the monitor is, the post boxes expand out to fit. So imagine you go to this page on a screen with that resolution. Rather than the page loading as you'd expect, you're just getting really wide posts that you'll have to scroll and scroll and scroll sideways to read.

It'll will be interesting to see what they do to get around it. Probably just set a hard limit on "Safari runs as through it's X resolution".

1/18/2011 12:58:42 AM

I understand perfectly fine how monitors work. I don't think you get what "resolution independence" means. Apple decided with the first iOS what dpi 1pt maps to and this information can be read from the UIScreen class in iOS.

A webpage using percentages for layout will already work fine. I assume you meant webpages with fixed widths? iOS already handles that by just scaling the page to fit the screens physical width (and guessing that the max defined width is the overall width). The only difference on a retina display iPad is that a fixed with site will still look sharp because it's being drawn at a higher dpi but the same amount of points across.

1/18/2011 1:35:12 AM

so when should i start trying to sell my ipad in preparation for an upgrade to v2?

1/18/2011 4:55:53 PM

tree fiddy!

1/18/2011 5:00:19 PM

woot! first article will be published tomorrow AM, took a very easy, light hearted topic for my first time: Best Joke Apps for the iPad

1/18/2011 5:00:45 PM

John Gruber seems to think the next iPad won't be getting a 2x res display.

http://daringfireball.net/2011/01/cold_water_ipad_retina_display

1/19/2011 12:04:05 AM

I would just upgrade for a screen that doesn't show as much smudges!

Jeeeeeez.

Having an SD reader that works would be nice though.

1/19/2011 12:35:31 AM

http://www.engadget.com/2011/01/19/playboy-magazine-coming-to-ipad-in-its-uncensored-form-in-march/

lol. playboy coming to the iPad?

1/19/2011 8:15:39 AM

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13579_3-20028878-37.html

Some sites are saying retina display not for the next revision, but for the 2012-ish revision instead.

Kind of sucks.

1/19/2011 8:04:53 PM

Quote :

"lol. playboy coming to the iPad?"

just a ipad friendly paid site.

there will be an playboy app, but it still will not have nudity.

1/20/2011 9:57:07 PM

This is pretty freaking sweet.

1/21/2011 4:34:53 AM

what am I missing?

1/22/2011 6:35:24 PM

also, Trickle is a neat little app if you are subscribed to interesting twitter accounts... just a simple passive twitter update, something you sit on your desk and look up as items come across the board.

I think passive apps should be a much larger portion of the app market, they are what will push it to be a new "lifestyle device"

1/22/2011 7:08:21 PM

twice the price
half the features
8 times the marketing

1/22/2011 9:14:00 PM

our review of The Daily


http://appadvice.com/appnn/2011/02/hands-daily/



my view - very impressive so far, but just now digging into it depper

2/2/2011 11:49:19 PM

I've been having problems getting netflix streaming working. Anybody else notice this? After a lot of looking around, I think it's related to newer dd-wrt builds. Looks like dnsmasq is detecting something Netflix is doing as a dns rebind attack.

http://www.dd-wrt.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=77831&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=0

When I get home I'll test to see if disabling the dns rebind protection fixes the problem. Posted this here since it was kind of a pain in the ass to figure out.

2/3/2011 10:49:13 AM

Do you have your local DNS set up for opendns or google's dns or something like that? I read something about how Netflix tries to route to where it thinks you are based on your dns and if you use something other than your ISP's dns server, it could screw things up.

2/3/2011 4:59:08 PM

I'm checking out this abc sync app. It's pretty neat. You sync it up to the tv show (Grey's Anatomy right now) and the app throws up real time trivia, facts, polls, and chats on facebook and twitter. It seems like it would add another layer of potential enjoyment for a show. I hope to see other shows doing similar things.

2/3/2011 9:27:32 PM

2/4/2011 12:32:02 PM

Angry Birds update just came out

2/4/2011 10:10:38 PM

Posting from my ipad
I love it so far

2/7/2011 7:40:01 PM

Quote :

"Do you have your local DNS set up for opendns or google's dns or something like that? I read something about how Netflix tries to route to where it thinks you are based on your dns and if you use something other than your ISP's dns server, it could screw things up."

Actually, I did. Though I've since done a 30/30/30 hard reset of my router, enabling only wireless security afterwards. Still no luck. I noticed I'm also having trouble streaming WUNC from the NPR app on my iPhone over my home wireless. Works great over 3G, drops the stream every few minutes over wifi. I'm thinking if I can't figure anything out I'll go back to the v24sp1 "stable" dd-wrt release and see if it works. I've used dd-wrt with this router for a long time and haven't always had these problems...

I'll take any more suggestions you can offer though

2/8/2011 12:10:25 PM

i love flipboard!

2/8/2011 12:35:56 PM

Apple iPad 2 now in production
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/02/09/ipad.2.production.mashable/index.html?hpt=T2

2/9/2011 3:26:26 PM

I BEAT WORLD OF GOO

2/10/2011 11:14:13 PM

I couldnt get into that game at all, annoyed me.

2/11/2011 12:42:32 AM

Friended is a new iPad facebook app that just came out, pretty nice, better than any other iPad FB app I have seen. Takes advantage of the additional real estate that the iPad gives you...

[Edited on February 11, 2011 at 1:01 AM. Reason : d]

2/11/2011 12:57:47 AM

+1 for ABC player

^will check that out...thanks

2/11/2011 9:53:05 AM

haha, already rumors of the iPad3 coming out this fall

2/13/2011 5:21:31 PM

If you are into baseball, check out the app Pennant. Has every at bat for every game ever played by every team, scores, season trends etc. It $4.99 though.

2/17/2011 4:48:00 PM

sorry, 1952 and up, not all time

2/17/2011 6:46:20 PM

ipad 2 on MArch 2nd!

2/23/2011 11:24:56 AM