Dylan Goldblatt

Before I begin this rant, I would like to point out that the Playbook should be defending itself against the iPhone as well. This Playbook demo should remind everyone of all of the deficiencies Blackberries have.

I visited UEFA's website and it loaded quickly, on my iPhone and iPad. The slight speed difference shown in the video would be more compelling if (1) UEFA was a frequently used site for most users or (2) loading times were substantially different. Try visiting this website on your iPhone 4 or iPad right now and you'll realize it works just fine. In the end, the selling points for the iPad don't include "fastest web browser" do they? Most people are attracted to the new user interface aesthetics and functionality. Even if speed is the number one feature and we judge the future Playbook against the old iPad, I echo the sentiment that iOS 4.2 and future updates will improve speeds.

The adidas flash shown here is a menu which deprecates in the absence of Flash. Why not pick out a website for your demo that breaks completely without flash? By the way, adidas.com does not work fully on the Playbook. Notably, the playbook cannot use "hover" and cannot render the animation smoothly. Besides, Adidas redirects iPhone users to shopadidas.com, which works fine. If I was looking for adidas stuff, I was probably interested in this site anyway.

The REAL ARGUMENT for flash capability on mobile devices is video and video games, and there are fewer holdouts by the day. Most flash games have not been designed well for finger sizes and touch ("hover"), so it is reasonable to say that the App Store is the better outlet for games. Having said that, why not demo a popular Flash-only game? Or if the playbook is so good at flash, why not demonstrate the device playing videos on Hulu?

The "pocket full of canvas" demo is a good example of how JAVASCRIPT can be slow on the iPad, but they pitch it as an HTML5 weakness. This instance would have been much more compelling with a real-world example. Google services (like Gmail) employ javascript and they run very snappy on the iPad and iPhone. I guess I'll have to go back to my desktop when I want to show my buddy the moving blob demo. Or I could always fire up Osmos on the iPad.

I keep notes written in pen on the back of my hand and it sucks.

Yea one guy even thinks he is going to get his still taken and then laughs and talks with the filmmaker like "oh you're taking video" or something like that

Nice.

Yum!

If I win this, it will not be good for me. :-)

I think that the new Macworld debut will involve wireless processing sharing via Xgrid. I'd love to get a small Apple notebook but use the additional and idle hardware power of a desktop nearby to make the experience even better. Behind the scenes and wireless sharing of hardware resources would be a simplification of the Xgrid technology that was introduced a few years ago.

Weezy!

Post up suggestions in the Kindle suggestion thread on the Amazon forum:

http://www.amazon.com/Suggestion-Thread/forum/FxBVKST06PWP9B/Tx38KXJAJ4A7JP/1/ref=cm_cd_et_md_pl?%5Fencoding=UTF8&cdMsgNo=1&cdAnchor=B000FI73MA&cdSort=oldest&cdMsgID=MxA9JTS95A4T61#MxA9JTS95A4T61

I know right? Almost everything in academia runs off of PDFs. I print them out, staple them, bring them to class. If I could just send full page scans that I get from my professors directly to the Kindle, this thing would be sold.