My father splurged and bought one Saturday and I had a chance to play with it yesterday. It is indeed cool, although I'm still not sold if I would actually use it as a reading tool, or could bring myself to buy books digitally. The sample book is of course, Winnie the Pooh, and that presentation, with the Shepard illustrations and all is wonderful. But to a degree, I've been using my "reading" time as a reprieve from my "screen" time so digital books still seems a little out there for me. Over time I'd be interested to hear how the iPad's screen compares to the e-ink readers for eye strain issues.
The free USA Today app, if you get a chance to play with one, is I think an interesting possibility for where iPad newspapers might go: it basically replicates the top half of a newsprint broadsheet, with minimally customizable comment. But they almost tried too hard to make it look like, well a newspaper. Flipping though articles was easy enough, but at the end of the day it was just USA Today.
Right now I don't see a reason to go any farther than just viewing New York Times content from their website, which looks great on an iPad. I'm less attuned to news outlets these days so I hope to see a journal, like New Yorker embrace the iPad or even a full iPad sized McSweeneys app -- those I think I would subscribe to.
The coolest thing I found with the iPad was playing with Adobe's Ideas app where you have a nice big canvas to scribble and sketch ideas. Perhaps tablet users have been doing this for a while now, but making simple diagrams or sketches that easily felt like something "I could not do before" in a digital format (or at least not comfortably).
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The free USA Today app, if you get a chance to play with one, is I think an interesting possibility for where iPad newspapers might go: it basically replicates the top half of a newsprint broadsheet, with minimally customizable comment. But they almost tried too hard to make it look like, well a newspaper. Flipping though articles was easy enough, but at the end of the day it was just USA Today.
Right now I don't see a reason to go any farther than just viewing New York Times content from their website, which looks great on an iPad. I'm less attuned to news outlets these days so I hope to see a journal, like New Yorker embrace the iPad or even a full iPad sized McSweeneys app -- those I think I would subscribe to.
The coolest thing I found with the iPad was playing with Adobe's Ideas app where you have a nice big canvas to scribble and sketch ideas. Perhaps tablet users have been doing this for a while now, but making simple diagrams or sketches that easily felt like something "I could not do before" in a digital format (or at least not comfortably).