iPad 2

[Franko]

I got four ruddy emails from Apple in the past 24 hours about this poxy iPad 2 thingy... :madashell:

When they gonna understand I don't want to buy such a useless piece of crap, despite me telling them so in numerous emails, do the numpties at Apple not understand plain Scottish when I tell them their stuff is overpriced and a total load of keech...

Need to send another email again now and ask them to stop trying to sell me junk that I don't want... buggers... :furious:

[Franko]

I find myself coming to depend on my ability to write Apps for devices like the iPhone and the iPad to make ends meet... Apple make it really really easy for small developers like us to get our software to over 100 million users... So he'll yeah, I'm into that

Now this I find very odd...

Here's bloodline quite clearly telling us that he can make some money by writing progs at home for Apple stuff (and well done to him I say)...

Yet, on this very forum just a few months back there were lots of the usual suspects trying to tell me that in this day and age it was impossible for anyone to be a "bedroom programmer" these days and you needed lot's of cash, a team and a big software house behind you to do such a thing these days...

Bloodline has just proven that it can still be done, so what do all you naysayers say to that now... (you know who you are...) :p

[Franko]

Bingo! the iPad isn't for boring computer tasks, it's a consumer device... Execpt for people like Motorollin and me who like to program these devices and therefore get the benefit of both sides of the equation

@ Kesa

Nope... he clearly said "program"...

[Franko]

Franko, Pro Logic is a music program. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logic_Pro

OK i can see we looked at different parts of his post so were are both right and wrong. But it still doesn't change anything. You are still a bum sniffer :hammer:

Pro Logic is a Midi sequencer program ya numptie, it doesn't create a new stand alone program, what the frig do they tech you at uni these days... :lol:

PS: The only bum I can smell round here is the one your heads stuck up...

[Franko]

@Franko, Apple do dumb stuff down and target the "normal" guy on the street wiu their products, I can't argue against that... But I have to give them credit that I can as a bedroom coder make enough money to make ends meet because their IPhone/iPad app store... And I would encourage and assist anyone here to do the same!

Hmm... it's nice to know that, perhaps I'll be a little bit less "hostile" to them the next time I email them...

While I may not be a big Apple fan, it's does bring a smile to my face knowing that someone can still in this day and age be a "bedroom coder" and things aren't like the doom & gloom naysayers try to have us believe...

[Franko]

At least Tom Tom know some Scottish.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/09/11/english_bas/

:lol:

I think I'll send Tom Tom a wee email and see if they really can understand Scottish...

Hullo rer Tam Tam, howz it gawn ya bas.

Ah jist wanted tae write ris wee email tae ye tae tell ye a hink yur wee gizmos are a load o jobbies, no rat ah'v evur evun tried em, cos a dinnae even huv a motor but a jist fote rat ah wid hiv a good greet aboot rem anywiez cos ah'm jist a door faced auld git who like nuthin bettur ran a guid auld moan...

awe ra best

Franko

[Franko]

@ Kesa

If your ruddy signature gets any longer it's gonna need it's own website...

[Franko]

@Bloodline i'm impressed. Can't believe you never had a hit. Were you in the video? Maybe the person in your avatar? I intend to listen more in the near future. Plus added your band on facebook. Cheers.

Yup that's the real bloodline in his avatar, didn't you spot him in the video, the hairs a dead giveaway...

[Franko]

if you want to live an Apple free life you can and it's easy... Trying to live a Windows free life is almost impossible...

As you know bloodline, I only went online for the first time last June and owned nothing but Amigas up until then when I bought these old iMacs...

While as you probably know I'm not Apples biggest fan had it been a PC running windows I'd been offered at the time then I would never have bought it or ever ventured into the world of the internet...

Living life without a PC or Mac is not impossible (I know you said almost) it's quite simply a matter of choice, I could easily go back to just my Amigas anytime but I do accept that for most it would be very difficult to do so but impossible... no...

[Franko]

Anyone played with a Xoom yet?

I used to when I was younger, but stopped when the doc told me I would go blind...

[Franko]

The iPad, iPod, iPhone, iTunes are all content delivery platforms. As such they seem alien to us oldschool computer users. At least 60% of computer users today are not oldschool computer users, they only really want to consume content.

I think that's why I have such a dislike for PCs & Macs, to me only ever having used the Amiga made me realise that home computing was something a wee bit special and never saw the Amiga as something I used just for consuming it's content...

It was all about learning how to program/expand/tinker & be creative with it, I guess your right about most computer users today seeing them as nothing more than just another gadget that they use for nothing more than playing games or browsing the net, downloading music etc...

Shame really, as there is a hell of a lot more you can do with a computer than just browsing, downloading or game playing...

[Franko]

@Franko

I agree, from our perspective it is bizarre that someone doesn't want to get under the hood and have a tinker... But that is the reality we are in and Apple do provide an outlet for people like us, on your MacOSX install DVD there is a directory called "Development", install it and then have a play with your Mac development environment. There are some fun technologies hidden in there!

-Edit- almost forgot, if you develop something cool you can easily sell it to other Mac users via the Mac App Store... Earn a bit of cash

I had noticed that directory when I re-installed one of my Macs but to be honest I though it was just something to do with bug-reporting to Apple and never actually even looked in it and just deleted it instead...

Gonna  re-install it and have a look, sounds interesting...

[Franko]

@Franko,

Once installed, click on the spotlight icon in the top right hand corner of the menu bar (yay for menu bars ), type Xcode hit and that should start the Xcode IDE, from there you can read through all the apple developer documentation... Fun stuff for us tinkerers

I took spotlight out a wee while back (big mistake...) to try and stop the Mac writing index files & stuff to my cameras & MP3 players had to put it back though as it caused a lot of problems...

I'll install it later and have look, right now I'm covered in Retr0bright doing all me old miggies/C64s & VIC 20s and this Apple keyboards kinda got a few blobs of Retr0Bright on it now... Thanks for the tips...

[Franko]

iPad 2 Review...

Nice... for once I like a portable device, handy for folk like me with really big fingers but it may struggle a wee bit with my Scottish accent...

(wonder what size batteries it takes...

[Franko]

Dentunes i looked at your links earlier and i thought it was really cool being able to hook up your ipad up to a synth. It reminds me of when i was young and there were programs you could use that turned your Amiga keyboard into a synth. Really, really cool

What do you mean were, there still is and you still can...