The first Apple iPad commercial, “Meet iPad,” debuted during the Oscars tonight.
The thirty second spot features quick interactions with the device and an upbeat song called “There Goes My Love” by The Blue Van (iTunes link).
Available in HD. Enjoy.
Jay Robinson
cares deeply about the web in which we work. Please enjoy.
"Whenever possible, add a realistic, physical dimension to your application. The more true to life your application looks and behaves, the easier it is for people to understand how it works and the more they enjoy using it."
Apple’s iPad Human Interface Guidelines
The beauty of full-screen glass with no visible buttons is your device magically appears as any physical object you want. Matt Gemmell has an excellent post on this as well.
"I don’t want to know about PICT files. I don’t want to know about TIFF files (I don’t. They give me the willies). I don’t want to have to worry about what file type to ask MacWrite II to save my work in so that I can get Nisus to read it and run one of its interminable macros over it. I’m a Mac user, for heaven’s sake. This is meant to be easy."
The late, great Douglas Adams, writes about his ideal computer in 1989 and inexplicably describes the iPad, the computer that lets you ignore the other stuff and simply get to work.
Oh boy howdy are you gunna look nice on my shiny new Apple Tablet!
Last time I checked, coffee did not look like that.
"‘We have no interest in being in the TV market.’ This means that Apple will either continue to stay out of the TV market, or will come out with a TV in a year and proclaim that it’s the greatest TV of all time."
Launching 10 apps at once: 200GB HDD vs 48GB SSD
Skip to 3:33 for the app launch.
Flipping pages on an iPad
Would anyone like to buy a lightly-used Apple iPad (64GB, WiFi-only) in about 60 days?
How incredible would it be if http://www.apple.com/jobs was this?
Neven Mrgan, per usual, bringing the WebKit funky.
“Computer… Computer…”
How I Learned to Stop Caring and Love The OS
I don’t even want multi-tasking on my iPhone anymore, really.
I’ll go even further. I couldn’t be convinced that Steve Jobs wants multi-tasking either.
The iPhone OS allows you to focus on the task ahead of you. Sure, short inline replies to SMS, maybe one or two other Apple apps that run in the background, would be helpful. But I doubt we’ll get multi-tasking any time soon. Multi-tasking is for geeks, and everybody knows it doesn’t work any way. You know how many other things I’m doing while I’m writing this post? None.
The iPad will be a device you use to entertain yourself while you’re at-rest. Sit back and browse the web, read some Instapaper. I’m actually looking forward to a device that allows me to focus on the text in front of me. I can miss the multi-stuff.
