Apple just posted the streaming video file of the video from today’s Apple Special Event in New York City. Streaming video requires Safari 4 or 5 on Mac OS X Snow Leopard or Lion, Safari on iOS 3 or later, or QuickTime 7 on Windows.
It’s also available as a download on the iTunes Store.
My first mistake… going to Gizmodo to expose myself to the worst cynicism possible about Apple’s announcements today. All the books aren’t available TODAY! iPads are as expensive as a SINGLE SEMESTER worth of books! This is only an innovation for the RICH!
Cripes… It’s self evident that this is the FIRST DAY of an initiative. If someone thinks that Apple could launch a complete end-to-end solution, from K to a Masters Degree on the first day, I’d love what they’re smoking. But that seems to be the prevailing attitude right now, especially about stuff from Apple.
Though I agree with Peter that there’s no president outside of iPhones for Apple selling last year’s models cheaper, I DO hope that is the plan for the iPad. iPad2s at even $100 off would make them affordable to a broader range of people- and push this initiative faster- which I think everyone would agree would be wonderful.
You and others could benefit from an etextbook on spelling and homonyms. The new “review” feature of such would be good for teaching the difference between “president” and “precedent”, for example.
Shoddy educations are a big factor in keeping people “poor” for lack of better-paying jobs. Inability to spell accurately could be the cause, for example, of getting one fired from (or not hired to) a writing job.
Your comments are what is known in the business as “personal attacks”. Please don’t lower the level of discourse and discussion to attacking others.
If you don’t like what someone has to say, disagree with them. If you don’t like the way they say it via their spelling or grammar, you should keep it to yourself.
(The above is just my opinion)
I make my living in the visual arts. You should be happy I can spell anything. But honestly, I love condescension. It makes it easy to pick out the people in life to ignore.
OK, so it’s MY opinion that it’s not OK to simply “shut up” while we watch others complain about “the economy” or “rich folk” while they’re apparently blind to the actual reasons they’re “poor”, which is more often than not due to their OWN incompetence.
This character seems to be OK with ignoring good advice, but I at least had the courage to offer it.
And you could use an etextbook on how not to act like a total douche. Which these days is just as likely to get you fired as a spelling mistake that would be caught by a proofreader if this were something written for work.
If it’s not OK forVGISoftware to make personal attacks, why do you think it would be OK for you to do it?
It’s dumb stuff like this that causes web sites to shut down their commenting systems. How hard is it to just ignore the dumb stuff and leave personal attacks out of these kinds of discussions?
Because if you don’t, I can promise you that Jim and Peter will shut down commenting on The Loop in a heartbeat. Jim has already said on multiple occasions he’s close to doing it anyway.
So yeah – keep doing the dumb stuff until this particular sandbox gets shut down.
As excited as I am about the information in the video, someone really needs to teach them some better presentation skills. Especially teaching Phil to stop pacing. Particularly if they are going to have him on the video and not just a voice over slides (which weren’t all that well prepared which was disappointing because the hardware events are so much better)
I was also disappointed that they did the video of the teachers but what about letting the kids tell us what they like. What about the schools that are already using iPads. A little more show was in order to really set the stage of what has been happening and how they want to push it forward.
I’m self-deprecating with regards to my punctuation and spelling. I know what my problems are. So I’m alway very careful to have others check my work.
I have no problem being corrected, but your attitude doesn’t exactly inspire me to rise to your standards.
Look man, I’m not here to attack you or even to be condescending. But now you yourself admitted that I’ve more or less “read you like a book” so to speak.
Believe it or not, I just wanted to point out your error and hope you find the time to brush up on your homonyms–for your own good. I mean that sincerely–NOT an attitude!
“Look man, I’m not here to attack you or even to be condescending.”
Could have fooled me. You did both with your first post.
Wil Wheaton’s advice to Internet fans is worth abiding: “Don’t be a dick.”
“Jim has already said on multiple occasions he’s close to doing it anyway.”
He’s said it on multiple occasions and hasn’t done it which makes it come off as a very empty threat.
And there are many places I can go to discuss so it doesn’t really bother me if someone bans me or shuts down comments because I call out someone’s rude behavior. Your comments to him are just as much a ‘personal attack’ , you just did it in a more subtle way. So if Jim and Peter ever make good on those threats it will be just as much your fault as mine or anyone else’s.
“there are many places I can go to discuss so it doesn’t really bother me if someone bans me or shuts down comments ”
What a remarkably selfish thing to say.
“Your comments to him are just as much a ‘personal attack'”
LOL If you think my comments were a personal attack, you probably have far too thin a skin to be allowed on the internet. 🙂
And now you can explain to me how your comments, especially that last comment and the snide little smiley that is supposed to lessen the intent aren’t a personal attack.
Or how you are any better than I am because you refuse to just walk away from it.
Maybe before you give folks etiquette lessons you should consider whether you are being rude as well.