I just love my iPad. Seriously, it’s more enjoyable that I expected it to be. I’m discovering a new joy in reading the news, and a new exposure to imagery fork around the world. My new favorite Hot App is The Guardian Eyewitness, an app and system from the UK Guardian publication and supported by Canon.
HOT BBC News, NOT Hulu
2010
07.06
07.06
Alright so I’ve had the iPad now for about a week and I have loaded a lot of apps and I love it! I think that Apple’s tablet is going to be a lot more popular than we could ever imagine. Or, at the very least, start a new computing revolution, like it did with the Apple II, the first Macintosh, the iMac, the iPod, the iPhone… The iPad has replaced most of what I used my laptop for, and it’s more fun. It’s a perfect size, it makes interactive media more natural, and it’s more than a large iPhone.
I would like to start a new article every day which shares with you what I think is a HOT App and what is a NOT. Being that we’re going through a heat wave, I think it’s appropriate to make things HOT!
So, today’s HOT App is…. news Apps! BBC News, NPR, USA Today are all excellent. Now, i can’t comment on the prose or intelligence of the articles, but the interface and how they allow access for the articles is excellent. Each have their own unique and similar solutions, and i enjoy them all. I’m actually reading NEWS again and not just my old web tab favorites of tech sites. So if you haven’t downloaded any of them, go for it, they’re all free.
The NOT App is Hulu. $10 a month for commercial television? Isn’t that $10 more than what we get with a DVR? At least we get to fast forwarded through commercials. I don’t think this is a node to our intelligence. It’s Hulu trying to provide sometging for stupidity, snd im not buying it. Even though the actual App is free, it’s $10 to watch shows with commercials on your iPad. So I don’t think this is really such a great value.