I've dropped mine several times, but it doesn't seem the uses of the iPad are exactly matched with the iPhone - "running to the taxi", for instance. Of course it's durability is a concern, and may prove to be a major shortcoming, but I think so much of the discussion seems to be around it being in the same space as the iPhone/iTouch, or for the single persona of "UX practitioner on the IxDA list" (which you specifically call out here, so thank you!)
Cheers, Scott On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 8:15 AM, Will Evans <w...@semanticfoundry.com> wrote: > How often have you dropped your iPhone? I personally haven't, but have many > friends that have gone through 2, 3, even 4 - a drop from 4' is deadly. > > I won't denigrate the feature set because I am not the intended audience. > For business travel, I need all my design apps and I need them multimodal, > not sovereign - and multitasking is a must. I also can't not have skype for > conference calls on the road - so it's not a replacement for my mbp: it > would just be another device that serves no purpose for which I already have > tools. For the intended audience, it may or may not be great - I have no > idea the personas this is designed and built for - but certainly not a > traveling ux practitioner. > > Cheers, > > ~ will > > "Where you innovate, how you innovate, > and what you innovate are design problems" > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Will Evans | Director, Experience Design > tel: +1.617.281.1281 | w...@semanticfoundry.com > http://blog.semanticfoundry.com > http://www.linkedin.com/in/semanticwill > aim: semanticwill > gtalk: semanticwill > twitter: semanticwill > skype: semanticwill > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > On Jan 28, 2010, at 7:59 AM, Jack Moffett wrote: > >> >> On Jan 27, 2010, at 7:08 PM, graham.s...@gmail.com wrote: >> >>> I assume the durability of it will be better tha the iPhone screen >>> especially as, like other laptops/netbooks it doesn't have a fold >>> down screen to protect it. >> >> Graham, >> >> I don't understand. The durability of the iPhone screen is superb. I've >> been using iPhones (original and 3Gs) since its original release without any >> kind of case or screen protector, and have not had a single scratch. >> >> Jack >> >> >> Jack L. Moffett >> Senior Interaction Designer >> inmedius >> 412.459.0310 x219 >> http://www.inmedius.com >> -- "You always have the carny connection." - Clair High ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
