iPad

[Marius Delphus]

iPad, huh?

[This space RESERVED for the feminine hygiene product joke I will eventually come up with...]

Scooped by failblog dot org. Would link but for the existence of plenty of grandma-unfriendly material. Here is the image itself, however:

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ipad.jpg?w=500&h=500

 

[jaerdaph]

Scooped by failblog dot org. Would link but for the existence of plenty of grandma-unfriendly material. Here is the image itself, however:

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/ipad.jpg?w=500&h=500

I gotta start incorporating PhotoShop into the process...

 

[Zaukrie]

Um, there have been iPad jokes for some time....try googling iPad and Madtv.....

 

[Jeff Wilder]

Anybody know a Feist lookalike? There is Tosh.0 comedy gold potential in a spoof commercial for iPad.

 

[DaveMage]

Here are 9 other tablets comming out soon: Tablets!

That's a lot of tablets....

Hopefully the competition will lead to some kick-butt products.

 

[coyote6]

That Notion Ink tablet sounds kind of awesome. I'm going to have to keep an eye out for that.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I'm one of those Mac Forever! types, but I don't think I'll be buying an iPad in the near future.

1) It doesn't quite do what I want.

2) I'm not a fan of AT&T in particular, nor of subscription models in general. As recounted elsewhere, subscription prices are but one of the reasons I have a PDA and a cellphone as opposed to a smartphone of some kind.

3) I'm not a First Adopter Fanboi- I'm content to wait until there is a price drop.

4) I just bought a loaded 21.5" iMac a couple of weeks ago.

 

[jmucchiello]

One thing I'm surprised WotC did was do DDI as a download. It should have been a web-based application. Nothing to install. Thus it can run on nearly any client with a modern browser. As a developer, I avoid client-side applications. Browser-based is the way to go for most situations. Especially anything accessing a database (which DDI would need to do).

Originally DDI had as its centerpiece the virtual tabletop that never came to fruition. Peer-to-peer communications and webapps are an inconvenient mix. Once HTML5 is fully implemented somewhere it will only be less inconvenient. But since a full 3D virtual world environment was part of the original plan it is easy to understand why they went with a standalone app.

 

[Truth Seeker]

-Not reading the entire thread-

Sorry, no frakkin' RPG tabletop tech is worth a half a grand.

For GM use...highly possible.

For players, not right now.

I really don't want to spoil the dreams of many...but let the TRUE plain reality of what can be feasible stand before you.

Who (here) has a half a grand to chuck out, for 6 to 8 hours of play, per week or per month?

$499 for the 16GB WiFi version?

SOLD.

I can see tons of these around gaming tables very soon.

 

[Beginning of the End]

I was talking with a friend last night about the iPad, and were discussing a way to make this a worthwhile investment as an e-reader: create an app that allows you to aggregate pages from multiple e-books you own into a single folder. Think about it for gaming: a folder with the relevant pages for your PCs powers, skills, spells etc. all together rather than opening four or five different books to reference each one as needed.

It doesn't sound all that intriguing to me, specifically because I can't have them open at the same time.

This is one of the reasons I still don't use my laptop or Kindle at the gaming table: When I DM I will frequently have a half dozen or more references simultaneously visible in the area around me.

Maybe when Surface-style interfaces become readily available.