Innovation forum iPad

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Innovation Forum new stuff that is made useful

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This is the 2nd Innovation Forum presentation where we covered information about Apple's iPad.

Transcript of Innovation forum iPad

  • 1. Innovation Forum new stuff that is made useful
  • 2. Agenda Welcome & Feedback (5 min) Tablet History and iPad Basics (15 min) iPad Demo/Discussion (20 min) What next? (10 min) Looking Back (10 min)
  • 3. Tablet History (1968) Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick imagines a atscreen tablet device wirelessly playing a streaming video broadcast in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • 4. Tablet History 1888 - US Patent on electrical stylus 1993 - Apple Newton device for capturing handwriting 1996 - Palm Pilot 1915 - US Patent on handwriting recognition user interface with a stylus 2001 - Microsoft Tablet PC prototype (released end of 2002) 1980s - various products (1968) Filmmaker Stanley Kubrick imagines a atscreen tablet device wirelessly playing a streaming video broadcast in the movie 2001: A Space Odyssey
  • 5. iPad Basics (stuff from apple.com)
  • 6. For More Information Guided Tours
  • 7. Wi-Fi or Wi-Fi + 3G $499 base (16GB Wi-Fi) AT&T 3G data plans 32GB adds $100 250MB / month .... $15 64GB adds $200 2024MB / month .... $25 3G adds $129
  • 8. On the size: Its just a big iPhone, right? Size matters, which is why a swimming pool is not just a big bathtub. - Ken Case
  • 9. On not having a real operating system So while we [techies] trump up our skills at designing easy to use interfaces for our applications, millions of people are still trying to gure out how to get our beautifully designed application out of its zip le or disk image. Or where in fact the Downloads folder is. Or what, exactly, a folder is. [...] Ive watched rsthand as people whove struggled to do basic computer tasks as long as Ive known them pick up an iPhone and be cruising around within hours, if not minutes. For people who do not already thoroughly understand computers, New World devices are easier to understand and easier to use. - Steven Frank
  • 10. On multi-tasking In contrast [to computers], the iPad becomes the app youre using. Thats part of the magic. The hardware is so understated its just a screen, really and because you manipulate objects and interface elements so smoothly and directly on the screen, the fact that youre using an iPad falls away. Youre using the app, whatever it may be, and while youre doing so, the iPad is that app. Switch to another app and the iPad becomes that app. If thats not magic, I dont know what is. - Adam C. Engst
  • 11. As a laptop replacement Sorry, the iPad isnt one.
  • 12. Kindle Considerations Impressive paper look No color / movies / pictures No maps / email / calendar No web (*) No apps
  • 13. Objections No camera No Adobe Flash Its a supplemental device Overly-curated App Store
  • 14. Demo iBooks, Kindle Safari, CNN.com Photos Pages Penulimate The Elements NFS Shift
  • 15. Discussion How could it be of use?
  • 16. Whats next? as a ______ i want to ______
  • 17. stop start less of more of continue Looking back how can we improve?
  • 18. edstrom.net/blog
  • 19. Thanks for coming!