iPad: Nothing Creative

Re:iPad: Nothing Creative by Tichy on Thursday January 28, 2010 @07:54AM (#1083641)

"you will still have to implement roughly 80% of photoshop"

Couldn't you just use the iPad as an input device for a desktop PC?

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Re:iPad: Nothing Creative by jacquesm on Thursday January 28, 2010 @07:59AM (#1083650)

Not the way it is built today.

It's a device that is mostly geared towards consumption.

If there is going to be interoperability like that then I'd expect that to come from the same people that right now have 'jailbroken' iphones and other renegade stuff like that.

The day Apple sanctions their tablet to be used strictly as a dumb input device I'll buy you a beer.

It's a good idea though, I'll grant you that, I definitely would like to see that happen. Especially if you could use the bluetooth connection for doing it.

Car pc in the booth, use tablet as the user interface via bluetooth.

That'd be a nice niche. But I'm pretty sure it would require some 'warranty voided' hacking.

If some smart aleck manages to get Ubuntu NBR running on the 3G model it would suddenly be a whole lot more interesting to me.

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Re:iPad: Nothing Creative by ErrantX on Thursday January 28, 2010 @10:05AM (#1083935)

I could * possibly* see Apple creating a way for it to control your Mac in an interactive way (basically an extension of the iTunes remote that the iPhone has)

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Re:iPad: Nothing Creative by Tichy on Thursday January 28, 2010 @08:35AM (#1083722)

Seems doable with an app, though? There is the famous air mouse app for the iPhone/iPod Touch.

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