As well as meeting apples requirements, an issue with a straight port is that it must be usable with a touch screen. Assuming that, like the iPod touch (yuck) that it's just a big version of, it does not come with a stylus, most users won't be using one. The sheer imprecision of fingers has the potential to cause sever problems with the menus. I don't fancy trying to use my touch screen calculator with a very similar menu system without the stylus. I would get infuriated, and I'd imagine it would be the same on an iPad. The interface would need work.
On 11 May 2010 09:17, John W Kennedy <jwke...@attglobal.net> wrote: > On May 10, 2010, at 6:00 PM, RA Brown wrote: > Bruce Martin wrote: >>> As I understand it, an iPAD is a hand held MP3 player. This is not to be >>> confused with an iPAQ, made by Hewlett-Packard. The latter device is a PDA >>> that uses Windows Mobile as an O.S. and links on windows with MS Outlook, >>> amongst other things. The capabilities of the latter are much more than the >>> iPAD as far as I know, but the price is also accordingly much more. >> >> An iPAD is the newest release from Apple. It is basically a table PC with a >> touch screen or an advanced book reader. It uses WiFi to connect to the >> Internet for web browsing. > > Optionally, it can use 3G in addition to WiFi. > >> It can connect to a Mac using firewire to sync files. > > USB, not Firewire, and it can connect to Windows, too. (It uses a traditional > iPod/iPhone cable.) > >> I am not sure what other apps can be loaded. > > Pretty much any iPhone or iPod Touch app that is not directly dependent on > specific hardware requirements (for example, only the iPhone has full > telephony) will run on the iPad. Many developers for iPhone OS are now > upgrading their apps to have iPad modes (which basically means nothing more > than recognizing and taking advantage of the much larger screen). > > Mac OS X and iPhone OS, on the other hand, are not compatible. To begin with, > Mac OS X runs on Intel x86 or x64 (or PowerPC, but not anymore), while iPhone > OS runs on ARM. But there is a large overlap of function at the source level, > iPhone OS being pretty much a proper subset of Mac OS X when it comes to > things like strings and encoding, date and time handling, localization, and > file and memory management. At the GUI level, Mac OS X and iPhone OS are not > compatible, but they are generally analogous. > > -- > John W Kennedy > A proud member of the reality-based community. > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org > For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: discuss-unsubscr...@openoffice.org For additional commands, e-mail: discuss-h...@openoffice.org
