{"id":6672,"date":"2010-05-28T08:53:47","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T15:53:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=6672"},"modified":"2016-01-18T19:42:58","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T02:42:58","slug":"ipad-wishes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/05\/28\/ipad-wishes\/","title":{"rendered":"iPad wishes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s to come &#8230;. or not.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/iPad_Christ.jpg\" width=\"526\" height=\"684\" alt=\"\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>With the iPad staging its international debut today, from London to Tokyo &#8211; don&#8217;t bother, they&#8217;re all sold out &#8211; it seems like a good moment at which to speculate on what the next model might bring.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my wish list:<\/p>\n<p><b>Hardware:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A 5&#8243; version for the gaming market for $150 less.  Not for me but great for the stock price.\n<li>A 17-21&#8243; version for the art\/photography\/fashion\/wall display markets.  Framed pictures are so <i>yesterday<\/i>.\n<li>An SDXC card slot in the 10&#8243; model.  Face it, the <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/04\/22\/ipad-camera-connection-kit\/ target=_blank>Camera Connection Kit<\/a> is an ugly afterthought.\n<li>A web cam for iSight.  A slam dunk that one, as the July 7, 2010 announcement of the iPhone Version 4 will include this.\n<li>A matte screen option.  Dream on.\n<li>A third iPad for our home as I cannot get mine away from our boy.\n<li>Production volume.  This device is rarer than straight Catholic priests.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Software:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Printing.  The need for integrated printing is high and Steve Jobs has intimated it&#8217;s coming.\n<li>Multitasking.  It&#8217;s not that exiting an app to check email or whatever takes long, it&#8217;s just a pain to do and lacks the elegance which otherwise defines the device.\n<li>A variant of Lightroom which can access your server-based photo catalog and makes full use of the touchscreen technology for photo processing on the road.  This could access your home server using wifi much as <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/05\/26\/running-lightroom-on-the-ipad\/ target=_blank>LogMeIn remote desktop<\/a> can.\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Content:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Interactive magazines.  It&#8217;s amazing to me how slow the publishing business has been to create iPad versions of magazines with interactive content.  Most of what is out there is simply a scan of the paper version with a few links thrown in.\n<li>Subscription pricing for magazines.  Who in their right mind is going to pay $4.99 for one issue of Wired or <a href=http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/05\/13\/vanity-fair-comes-to-the-ipad\/ target=_blank>Vanity Fair<\/a> when a 12 issue paper subscription can be had for $10?  Right now sales will remain a one-off curiosity thing, in the absence of subscription pricing.\n<li>Streaming TV and a DVR remote access capability.  We are seeing one or two apps out there which can stream TV already. And why can&#8217;t I access my DVR recordings from my iPad, AT&#038;T, on my AT&#038;T Uverse Internet based TV box?  All I can do right now is see the recorded list and delete selected recordings using the clunky Uverse iPhone app.\n<li>A baseball or cricket bat with which to address the movie industry.  Why on earth is only 5% of Netflix&#8217;s movie catalog available in streaming format?  It&#8217;s not like there&#8217;s any shortage of demand. Just double my monthly subscription and stop sending me discs in the mail.\n<li>More books in the iBooks store.  iBooks is so much better than Kindle on the iPad that it&#8217;s frustrating how small the book library is.\n<li>Someone at <a href=http:\/\/www.gutenberg.org\/wiki\/Main_Page target=_blank>Project Gutenberg<\/a> to get off their ass, make proper cover art for their huge catalog of public domain books and craft a lookup system that actually works.\n<\/ul>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.pindelski.org\/Blog\/iPad_Murdoch.jpg\" width=\"505\" height=\"357\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p><i>Though we will have to wait until Murdoch is buried for the WSJ&#8217;s content to improve.<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Not a big list for so revolutionary a device, which is already close to perfect out of the box.<\/p>\n<p><I>Disclosure: No AAPL position. <\/I><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s to come &#8230;. or not. With the iPad staging its international debut today, from London to Tokyo &#8211; don&#8217;t bother, they&#8217;re all sold out &#8211; it seems like a good moment at which to speculate on what the next model might bring. Here&#8217;s my wish list: Hardware: A 5&#8243; version for the gaming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2010\/05\/28\/ipad-wishes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">iPad wishes<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6672","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ipad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6672"}],"version-history":[{"count":24,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30506,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6672\/revisions\/30506"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}