IPad: The New Apple Touch Pad Tablet

IPad: The New Apple Touch Pad Tablet


Little iPads, Little Pixels, And Resolution Independence (An Apple Rumor Medley) | TechCrunch

@Ryan Nelson
Great article Devin, very well written. with CES right around the corner, I'm sure everyones reporting on Apple is about 90% assumptive and 10% truth. The truth of course, isn't shown until production of an OK'd product. I say; forget dreaming for a smaller iPad, we already have one: The iPod Touch. Let's set our hopes Apple will sharpen AppleTV and release a (if at all possible) better iPhone.
@Shane Murphy
You forgot one thing when mentioning resolution independence: web pages. Most websites are (unfortunately) still designed for a 1024x768 display. When you view web sites from a widescreen monitor, there is always a large amount of white space (or sometimes taken up by an annoying ad). With 1920 x 1080 displays, there are about 900 pixels of blank space. The web page only takes up a little over half of the screen real estate. This is fine on large monitors because they are so, well, large, but on a 15-inch display it can be a strain to see what is on the page because it is so small. So imagine a 2800 x 1800 display. That's almost 1800 pixels of white space, with just 1024 pixels of web page. And you can't just zoom in on the page, because it looks really bad. And we're talking about a 15-inch display. That leaves what 6-7 inches of actual web page (I'm too lazy to do the math)? Apple can control their own OS, but they can't control the web.
@Mitch Grasso
Well, they control safari so they can double the webpage resolution just like the article discusses doing with UI elements but then they need to add some metadata tag so web developers can actually target the higher resolution. And that, of course, would be a nightmare. I suppose they could just double everything and use the higher resolution to just sharpen the text...
@Ryan Nelson
Yea, Apple can't control the web, who do they think they are...Facebook?
@Jared Lunde
Want to see what you can do with whitespace if you don't expand your browser to full width of the screen like an idiot? http://i.imgur.com/5Ikek.png This is a HUUUUUGE plus for anyone who is actually productive on their computer. Why would you ever expand your browser window that wide? A huge browser size like that would be the WORST possible thing for a lot of websites. Can you imagine trying to absorb the content on a window that is that wide? It would be a UI/UX NIGHTMARE.
@Viktor Arvidsson
Mitch Grasso This would not, however, make for "shaper images". Unless we want to scale down them all to half its size, that is... whatever good that would do. That said, higher resolution is always welcome.
@Bailey Jones
Jared Lunde Because some people like to focus on one thing at a time? Someone uses a computer differently than you?! *gasp* they MUST be an idiot. Grow up.
@Patrick Duran
With CSS3 coming more and more into the picture though web devs will be able to simply run media queries and adjust the site accordingly.
@Garth Shoemaker
At some point all displays will be of such high resolution that we will simply stop talking about pixels, as they will no longer be relevant. I look forward to that day.
@Samuel L. Garmon
Great article. Nicely done
@Billy Jack
Excellent article. The best I've read from you, like ever.
@Viktor Arvidsson
Looking at the resolution overview, a 7.85 looks somewhat big. Then again, scaling up the iPhone would be just as big of a mess. Looks like Apple will have to shed that legacy of theirs and make a "one solution fits all (resolutions)"-type of thing. Personally, 16:10, cutting it off at the orange line, would be a killer.
@Jesse James Gaby-Hughson
Pretty cool but I'm still holding out on the iphone 5 with the holographic display and projected keyboard! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzsBwnv_dAg
@Austen Allred
Most of this article is so speculative it's hardly even worth mentioning.
@Greg Maletic
> The Fire has proven that many people do indeed want a smaller tablet. It's proven that people want an Amazon tablet. It's less clear that they want a smaller tablet (though perhaps they do.)
@Devin Coldewey
Proven that a smaller tablet can be successful, rather. That should have been clearer.
@Vlad Ski
could the smaller pad somehow be connected to the mythical Apple TV, a controller perhaps..
@Mark Whiting
This looks great.