Comments on: The iPad : an iWonder ? http://www.totalapps.net/hardware/the-ipad-an-iwonder/ Mac, iPhone, iPad Focused Blog Wed, 28 Jul 2010 09:43:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Colin Napier http://www.totalapps.net/hardware/the-ipad-an-iwonder/comment-page-1/#comment-1482 Colin Napier Thu, 28 Jan 2010 18:56:04 +0000 http://www.totalapps.net/?p=2589#comment-1482 With the advent of HTML5 looming web apps and cloud storage are going to be the big thing. Microsoft Office Live is pretty close to the real thing for example, iWork.com will no doubt be the same. By having stuff in the cloud with local synced copies of the most important stuff, sharing the info, collaborating etc becomes a doddle, as anyone that uses Google Apps will well know. And with big sites like YouTube and Vimeo ditching flash in their beta sites, the web browser has just become even more powerful. With the advent of HTML5 looming web apps and cloud storage are going to be the big thing.

Microsoft Office Live is pretty close to the real thing for example, iWork.com will no doubt be the same. By having stuff in the cloud with local synced copies of the most important stuff, sharing the info, collaborating etc becomes a doddle, as anyone that uses Google Apps will well know.

And with big sites like YouTube and Vimeo ditching flash in their beta sites, the web browser has just become even more powerful.

]]> By: Vox O'Malley http://www.totalapps.net/hardware/the-ipad-an-iwonder/comment-page-1/#comment-1481 Vox O'Malley Thu, 28 Jan 2010 12:00:11 +0000 http://www.totalapps.net/?p=2589#comment-1481 Absolutely spot on! The keyboard metaphor is dying, the new metaphor is contextualised variable input methods on a touch screen... even if we still do have right angle laptops... they'll have a touch screen like the iPad for their input. I smell a ten year wedding anniversary present suggestion.... Absolutely spot on! The keyboard metaphor is dying, the new metaphor is contextualised variable input methods on a touch screen… even if we still do have right angle laptops… they’ll have a touch screen like the iPad for their input.

I smell a ten year wedding anniversary present suggestion….

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