iPad Event 7. März

tablet hast in der regel näher beim gesicht als einen laptop bildschirm. außerdem ists bei den apps viel einfacher eine höhere auflösung durchzusetzen. so blöd es klingt, am pc hast einfach schon soviel legacy software wo niemand mehr viel zeit investieren wird diese zu verbessern.

ipad + terminalserver + bluetooth tastatur kann ich mir vorallem im businessbereich schon sehr gut vorstellen. 0815 anwender kommen sogar ohne TS aus.
hauptproblem derzeit für firmen ist imho noch das fehlende office bzw. outlook und/oder der geringe funktionsumfang von outlook web access.
das gleiche gilt natürlich auch für tablets wie das asus transformer. der klassische laptop mit x86 architektur kann in preis und robustheit nicht mehr lange mithalten.

ich bin jedenfalls nicht traurig, dass ich mir aus den USA im herbst doch kein ipad2 mitgenommen habe. ipad 3/hd wirds werden

DISCLAIMER: Achtung! Was jetzt folgt, stammt aus der Gerüchteküche und birgt die Gefahr der übersteigerten Erwartungshaltung!

http://thenextweb.com/apple/2012/03...ack-technology/

[quote]What if the secret feature of the iPad 3 is a new touch-feedback technology?

For weeks now I’ve been talking to developers, Apple sources and friends about whether there might be a major new feature being announced with the iPad 3 tomorrow. The bits and pieces that I’ve managed to uncover are tantalizing and have led me to believe that at least one major new feature that we have not seen on an Apple device before will make an appearance on the new tablet.

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Haptics is a tactile feedback technology which uses forces — normally vibrations in mobile devices — to provide feedback through your sense of touch. Most Android phones have some sort of haptic feedback at play and you can feel them at work when you touch the keyboard and get that bzt of a vibration in return. Apple has even filed patents for advanced forms of vibrating haptics. The only problem is that vibrating haptic systems, for the most part, kind of suck.

The issue with using a device’s vibrator to provide feedback is that you typically can’t start and stop the motor in the tiny vibrating module fast enough, or with enough control, to provide good feedback without annoying the user. It’s also nearly impossible to get any level of sophistication. Think of a rumble pack in a typical Xbox controller. It can vary in intensity, but you’re not going to get any subtleties of touch.

But there are other ways of introducing force feedback to a user in order to to simulate sensations, ways that offer much more variety and subtlety. Enough to even simulate various types of material like wood, sandpaper and cloth.

One company that makes this kind of technology just introduced its first product in January, right in Cupertino, Ca. It has a system that uses varying electrostatic fields that can be pushed right through a pane of glass to give a user the feeling of various levels of friction, simulating surfaces. You can see the technology demonstrated back in 2010 on an iPhone here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXITjLurof0

More recently, Senseg’s Dave Rice gave a demonstration to Cnet. The most important details of this demo, given late last year, are that Senseg’s technology requires no modification of the screen’s surface, nor does it use moving parts. This means that the technology could be integrated into an upcoming device, like the iPad 3, without changing the way that the touch screen works.

A silent, subtle touch screen technology that doesn’t interfere with the way that the iPad’s display works or looks. If Apple was to introduce some sort of touch-feedback technology in the iPad 3, this feels like the form it would take, rather than a loud, imprecise, vibrating motor.

Imagine a touch sensitive screen that could take on the friction properties of paper, the plastic of a keyboard or the rough resistance of a patch of grass. The possibilities for art, learning and gaming are immense.

And, of course, there is that tantalizing final bit of Apple’s invite to the March 7th event. “And touch.”


There is, of course, always the possibility that this last few weeks has been spent in the pursuit of something more mundane. Integration of Apple’s Siri assistant feature or refinements to aid developers in working with the Retina display are also possibilities, and very strong ones. This reduces the possibility of the unannounced features being something new and wildly different like haptic feedback.

But something like a screen that could make you feel like it was touching you back, that could provide a truly translative experience with a simple piece of glass. That would be an amazing, almost magical thing, and very Apple.

Update: It looks like Charles Arthur of The Guardian was on the same trail. He spoke to Senseg in its Helsinki offices about whether Apple would be using its technology. This is the money quote:

[quote]Apple is famously secretive about which companies it is using for its new products; in the past it has cut companies out of announcements when they have leaked information ahead of time, making those involved especially paranoid about speaking out of turn.

But asked this week whether Apple is a customer for the E-Sense technology, Petri Jehkonen, Senseg’s technical marketing manager, declined to comment. Asked whether Apple is not a customer, he replied: “That would be for Apple to say. My comment is no comment.”[/quote][/quote]

Mir ist schon sehr bewusst, dass das (wie vor fast jeder größeren Produktvorstellung von Apple) nicht mehr als sehr, sehr wildes Spekulieren ist... andererseits: das gehört doch zu einem gewissen Teil auch dazu, oder? Und solange man realistisch bleibt und sich von solchen Träumereien nicht zu sehr hypen lässt (um dann von der -dennoch sehr guten- Produktvorstellung eher grundlos enttäuscht zu sein)...

Und zum Abschluss schon mal ein paar Links zu Live-Blogs:

http://live.gdgt.com/live-apple-ipad-3-event-coverage/
http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/07/...pad-3-liveblog/
http://live.theverge.com/Event/Live...n_San_Francisco

Deutsch:
http://www.giga.de/tablets/ipad-3/n...icker-auf-giga/

jo, bei polygongrafik brauch ichs nicht. da wird bissi AA weniger leistung fressen als die 4 (!) fache auflösung. aber bei 2D grafik, GUI, schrift and stuff schon.

Wann solls losgehn, nach MEZ?

http://daringfireball.net/linked/2012/03/06/modest

Zitat

Peter Svensson, writing for the AP:
Apple is expected to reveal a new iPad model on Wednesday, with a sharper screen and perhaps an option for faster wireless broadband. The upgrades are relatively minor, but the iPad is secure in its position as the king of tablets.

I suspect this is a prelude to much of tomorrow’s post-event coverage, echoing the initial tech press reaction to the iPhone 4S. But if a faster processor, more RAM, a double-the-resolution retina display, a better camera, and maybe even LTE networking make for a “modest” update, then what would it take for the iPad 3 to be deemed an immodest update? A fusion energy source? Teleportation? A camera that sees into the future?

wenn sie einen schnelleren prozessor, bessere kamera, mehr ram, display UND LTE bringen, dann ist das wohl das fetteste update seit langem - ich kanns mir nicht vorstellen.

Du hast zwar recht, aber solange Browsen langsamer ist als auf einem 5 Jahre alten Laptop ist bei der hardware noch viel Potential.