Comments on: Disruptive design: TiVo & iPad http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/343 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 16:16:22 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Peter Cook http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/343/comment-page-1#comment-40 Peter Cook Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:41:15 +0000 http://tworivers.com/blog/?p=343#comment-40 Excellent analogy. My original interest in the potential of the iPad leaned toward entertainment, but now is more towards its business applications. I almost see it as the birth of electronic paper. It is light, fast, flexible and has the power to go all day. Tie it into a central server and it becomes ideal for business meetings. Something that the laptop has been trying to do for years. All the demos seemed to gloss over the business apps. If the mainstream adopts this tech, how we work will change overnight. I stumbled across your blog looking for discussions of how to tie an iPad into the Tivo, but your musings got me outside the box (forgive the tired cliché). Changes seem to happen so quickly, yet comparatively go by without much consideration. Thanks for the change in perspective. Excellent analogy. My original interest in the potential of the iPad leaned toward entertainment, but now is more towards its business applications. I almost see it as the birth of electronic paper. It is light, fast, flexible and has the power to go all day. Tie it into a central server and it becomes ideal for business meetings. Something that the laptop has been trying to do for years. All the demos seemed to gloss over the business apps. If the mainstream adopts this tech, how we work will change overnight.

I stumbled across your blog looking for discussions of how to tie an iPad into the Tivo, but your musings got me outside the box (forgive the tired cliché). Changes seem to happen so quickly, yet comparatively go by without much consideration. Thanks for the change in perspective.

]]> By: Karl Hebenstreit http://tworivers.com/blog/archives/343/comment-page-1#comment-31 Karl Hebenstreit Wed, 10 Feb 2010 16:12:15 +0000 http://tworivers.com/blog/?p=343#comment-31 Great points! The iPad has been getting raked over the coals because of Jobs' comparison to netbooks. Jobs planted that seed because that's the direction future versions of the iPad will evolve, but that's the wrong comparison for 1.0: it's more of a 'Kindle on steroids'. I do see it transforming the experiences you identify, especially surfing and reading. Not sure about listening or watching (yet) -- needs to support Flash for watching. Even with this version, the fact that iWork applications are running on it shows its potential. I still make a distinction between full-blown software (applications) and apps, and my killer application would be PersonalBrain. As more applications can run on it, I don't see much need for the MacBook Air, which I expect will go the way of the Apple Newton. However, the MacBook Air has served a purpose -- getting that thin and light a form factor makes the iPad possible. Being able to get a video camera into a Nano bodes well for the iPad 2.0 . Maybe even iPad can evolve into a better name? Great points! The iPad has been getting raked over the coals because of Jobs’ comparison to netbooks. Jobs planted that seed because that’s the direction future versions of the iPad will evolve, but that’s the wrong comparison for 1.0: it’s more of a ‘Kindle on steroids’. I do see it transforming the experiences you identify, especially surfing and reading. Not sure about listening or watching (yet) — needs to support Flash for watching.

Even with this version, the fact that iWork applications are running on it shows its potential. I still make a distinction between full-blown software (applications) and apps, and my killer application would be PersonalBrain.

As more applications can run on it, I don’t see much need for the MacBook Air, which I expect will go the way of the Apple Newton. However, the MacBook Air has served a purpose — getting that thin and light a form factor makes the iPad possible. Being able to get a video camera into a Nano bodes well for the iPad 2.0 . Maybe even iPad can evolve into a better name?

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