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Not too worried about the ads. Apple loves our lovely loot, yes, but they're also aesthetic snobs to the core and blinking banner-style bullshit is anathema to them. Predicting that the screen real estate ads can occupy and the manner in which they can behave will be tightly controlled.

Oh, by the way, Dinny, it looks like iAds will have access to location, accelerometer and all sorts of other good data, so get targeting!

I agree with that and suspect there is some pretty complex stuff going on on the device to make the switching look that simple. As far as iAd goes, from a business point of view it's a hell of a move. Apple gets a shot at being the Google of the mobile computing sphere while at the same time attracting more developers and further extending their lead in apps, which as Jobs casually noted are increasingly to smart phones what the Web is to PCs.

Why? It doesn't look particularly intrusive and seems to offer the possibility of including genuinely useful information in advertisements.

iPhone OS 4.0 FTMFW! This is kicking all sorts of ass.

Yay, Bluetooth keyboard support!

Despite my moronity, I did manage to get a 802.11n router set up in the house today to see if it improves performance much over our current b/g network. Initial verdict, better but not a huge difference in terms of speed. Now need to see how range is affected..

OK, I'm a total douche. I feel like someone kicked me in the friggin' brain today.

Your request for a raise?

More bigthink. TidBITS iPhone iPad iPod: Why the iPad Is a Blank Slate, and Why That's Important

Please, please let there be a native Google Maps app for the iPad one day. Although the way relations are heading between the two, maybe that's a pipe dream. Maps in the browser is fairly maddening, especially when you switch to other tabs/pages and it arbitrarily reloads when you return, wiping out whatever location info you were working from. Grr.

Watched my first movie on it tonight. Color Of Magic via Netflix stream. Pretty cool (the process rather than the film, complete with Jeremy Irons's ridiculous gay Blofeld interpretation of The Patrician).

I like your decision making process.

Mine's OK. I get very occasional page stalls in mobile Safari, but I get the same in the desktop version.

Happy Birthday, GE! Have you made it out of NJ?

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I agree, after a few days use, that this is essential. There will be no shortage of trick cases, I'm sure!

I don't like the material, which looks plasticky, feels cheap and is unrewarding to touch. I don't like the seams, which are pinched together and protrude to form a "sharp" edge. I don't like the slot arrangement that secures the front flap in stand mode. It's functional, but inelegant, and the iPad deserves better. So there.

Nevertheless, it still revolts.

Just tried out the Apple case and, wow, that's almost insultingly crappy for the money. The InCase folio, while not perfect, is miles better. It adds bulk, but you're not going to be sticking your iPad into a pocket anyway, and the extra thickness actually works better in the hand in many use cases.

Nice try Jim, but I'm still going to be southier-than-thou. Good luck!

Hey now, no one's more keen on Web standards than good ol' Apple! Apple - iPad-ready websites But seriously, Dan's right. It's not an either/or choice. You're still going to need a Web presence for non-mobile (and non-Apple) platforms. And the iPad, particularly, is absolutely kickass for browser-based content delivery. But you can already see that in some cases going native on the device really lets you do more -- make things better looking, faster and easier to use. And I think that's great. No one is getting cut out and certainly no one is breaking the Web as a side effect.

I use Air Sharing with my iPhone. It lets you mount the device as an external drive on your Mac for file transfer etc. And includes document viewing capabilities. There's an iPad app already, but the early reviews suggest it's a bit rough.

And then you read the JooJoo review, which notes in passing that it cuts that POS's already-pathetic battery life in half. I tend to agree with this guy that a lot of content delivery on the Apple mobile devices is ultimately going to be through dedicated apps rather than Web standards. The Epicurious app is another good example that pisses all over the mag's actual Web site. Cameron Moll: Designer, Speaker, Author The Mobile Web vs. the Objective-C Web

So, has anyone actually used their iPad for audiophilic purposes yet?