Le applicazioni più scaricate per Ipad sono quelle dei media, ma quelle gratuite

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Via Poynter Interest in content-related apps for the tablet device. Among the top 10 free downloads were apps for iBooks, Netflix, ABC Player, Weatherbug, Weather Channel, The Wall Street Journal, NYT Editors’ Choice and NPR. In contrast, among the current top 10 apps for the iPhone, eight were game or entertainment related. Among paid iPad … Leggi tutto

Su Ipad Engadget la vede così

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The Apple iPad. The name is a killing word — more than a product — it’s a statement, an idea, and potentially a prime mover in the world of consumer electronics. Before iPad it was called the Apple Tablet, the Slate, Canvas, and a handful of other guesses

We know there’s a lot of talk about reading with this type of display versus a Kindle or other E-Ink device, but we’ll just be straight with you — it didn’t hurt our eyes to use this as a reading device. You’re able to crank the brightness down a significant amount, but it’s also just a matter of adjustment. After a few minutes we didn’t see the device or the screen tech anymore — we saw a book. We won’t speculate on what prolonged use will feel like, but there is data out there that suggests the technology might not be as important as some people think it is when it comes to e-reader displays.

The finger-based navigation really is kind of spectacular, and it makes browsing weirdly like rediscovering an old friend. Other additions to the app like a proper bookmarks bar, use of toolbar drop downs, and an improved tab grid make it a pleasure to use. It is without question one of the best browsing experiences we’ve encountered. But is it the best? Well, not really.

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Qualche pensiero sull’Ipad

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Mentre in Italia si svolge l’esodo pasquale, oggi è il giorno attesissimo dell’uscita fisica, nei negozi americani, dell’IPad. Noi Europa siamo una colonia di seconda colonizzazione per cui dovremo aspettare di più per toccare il magico “coso” di Apple. Questo se può essere un limite per i geek incalliti che oramai hanno lingua penzoloni per testare il nuovo giocattolone, è un’utile occasione per delle valutazioni più ponderate.

Il mondo dei media si è lanciato tribalmente in recensioni molto positive sottolineando anche che l’Ipad è una sfida, un nuovo prodotto che vuole imporre un nuovo standard di device. Sicuramente i media tradizionali patiscono un grave problema di conflitto di interessi. E’ come se fino a ieri strade ed autostrade fossero ugualmente gratuite e se da oggi venissero messi i caselli sulle autostrade per poter effettuare i pagamenti. A questo punto i gestori delle autostrade si troverebbero a spiegarci che i caselli sono belli e utili e che dobbiamo tutti utilizzarli .

Siamo in attesa che Apple inizi a fare girare per l’Europa degli Ipad per test o che, più facile, ci si introduca con fare sornione in un Mediaworld del caso chiedendo distratti a un commesso di giocare un po’ con “sa quella novità di Apple di cui parlano tutti i media”. A quel punto potremp piano piano capire davvero se l’Ipad è un oggetto che cambierà la fruizione dei media.
Mettiamo insieme quattro pensieri sul tema.

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Ipad: l’ultima speranza per gli old media

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John Dvorak via Marketwatch

In addition to creating a fantastic media promotional blitz to jack up the public for the iPad, Apple Inc. Chief Executive Steve Jobs cajoled many of the big name newspapers and magazines to create a special edition of their publications for the device. The not-so-subtle message is that you are all toast. Your future is the iPad.

And while this may or may not be true, it added a new dimension to the promotion machine: conflict of interest.

What kind of reviews can we expect to find in those same grandiose publications? Well you can be sure that they are not going to slam their future distribution medium.

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Google e Ipad

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Via Google mobile blog

Here at Google we’re really excited about the promise of tablet computers, which will be great for browsing the web and using apps. We’ve been working hard to optimize our services for the new format – larger touchscreens, increased portability, rich sensors – and we’d like to share some information about our progress so far.

While surfing the web on your iPad, we expect many of you will want to check your Gmail. If you go to gmail.com in your browser, you’ll see something different than what you’re used to on the desktop. We’re releasing an experimental user interface for the iPad built on the Gmail for mobile HTML5 web app that we launched last year for the iPhone and Android devices. Those devices have large screens compared to other phones, and tablets like the iPad give us even more room to innovate. To take advantage of the iPad’s large display, we’ve created a two-pane view with your list of conversations on the left and messages to the right.

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I giornalisti vogliono una figura paterna che li rassicuri che i lettori pagheranno

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Cory Doctorow non comprerà un Ipad

I think that the press has been all over the iPad because Apple puts on a good show, and because everyone in journalism-land is looking for a daddy figure who’ll promise them that their audience will go back to paying for their stuff. The reason people have stopped paying for a lot of “content” isn’t just that they can get it for free, though: it’s that they can get lots of competing stuff for free, too. The open platform has allowed for an explosion of new material, some of it rough-hewn, some of it slick as the pros, most of it targetted more narrowly than the old media ever managed. Rupert Murdoch can rattle his saber all he likes about taking his content out of Google, but I say do it, Rupert. We’ll miss your fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a percent of the Web so little that we’ll hardly notice it, and we’ll have no trouble finding material to fill the void.

Just like the gadget press is full of devices that gadget bloggers need (and that no one else cares about), the mainstream press is full of stories that affirm the internal media consensus. Yesterday’s empires do something sacred and vital and most of all grown up, and that other adults will eventually come along to move us all away from the kids’ playground that is the wild web, with its amateur content and lack of proprietary channels where exclusive deals can be made. We’ll move back into the walled gardens that best return shareholder value to the investors who haven’t updated their portfolios since before eTrade came online.

But the real economics of iPad publishing tell a different story: even a stellar iPad sales performance isn’t going to do much to staunch the bleeding from traditional publishing. Wishful thinking and a nostalgia for the good old days of lockdown won’t bring customers back through the door.

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