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MooCowMusic, the developer of the iPhone app Pianist, is bringing Pianist Pro (US $9.99 upon release) to the iPad. As Mike Grothaus pointed out in his post on Air Harp, there are lots of musical apps for the iPhone but the screen is too small to make full use of them. There won’t be a complete description of this app until the rollout on April 3rd, but what you can see now is really quite impressive.
The keys, in landscape mode, look big enough to actually play and it seems like it has as many features as some electric keyboards. It includes features like dual keyboards for the right and left hands, soft and sustain pedals/keys, multiple instrument types, a drum track accompaniment, and what looks like a lot of other useful features. I’m sure we’re already tired of hearing this oft-used phrase, but in this case size matters. You should be able to slide your fingers along the virtual ivories on the iPad’s launch day.
Apple’s tablet computer made two big appearances Wednesday night — on ABC, naturally
ABC, which owned by Disney (DIS), whose largest stockholder is Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple (AAPL), gave the iPad two big fat plugs on prime time television last night:
Uncle Walt has weighed in, and most of the other big tech pundits are starting to weigh in on the Apple iPad. The Chicago Sun Times columnist and Mac geek extraordinaire Andy Ihnatko has offered his input, not only in the first of what he says will be many posts about the device, but also in an interview on Leo Laporte’s TWiT Live MacBreak Weekly.
The headline says it all — Ihnatko says that the iPad is one of the best computers ever. He starts his review by saying that the iPad meets or exceeds all of the hype that preceded the release, and then goes on to mention that "it’s a computer that many people have wanted for years."
As in Walt Mossberg’s review, Andy comments that it can easily last 10 hours on a charge, it can hold just about any piece of media you ever want to carry with you, and that it does the "dull compulsories of computing (Mail, the web, and Microsoft Office-style apps) so well" that the iPad will, in many cases, take the place of a standard laptop computer.
Ihnatko, who has had the pleasure of playing with an iPad for the last week, gushes about Apple’s innovation, saying "I’m suddenly wondering if any other company is as committed to invention as Apple. Has any other company ever demonstrated a restlessness to stray from the safe and proven, and actually invent things?"
The result? As he says, "The iPad user experience is instantly compelling and elegant… It’s a computer that’s designed for speed, mobility, and tactile interaction above all other considerations."
Source: TUAW.com
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Here we go, cats and kiddies. Walt Mossberg’s had his iPad for a week now, and he’s got to tell us all about it. Quotes below are transcribed from his video review.
"The question in my mind is just how important will this be… On one level I think this has the potential to challenge the laptop, it has the potential to, I think, even challenge the whole user interface we’ve had on computers and sort of set up a slow evolution towards multitouch and gesture and away from the mouse-driven interface…. That’s it’s potential. But it depends on whether — not everyone, but enough people decide that they can carry this instead of a laptop or a netbook. That is, that it can do much of what they want to do on their netbook or a laptop most of the time… so that they can just pick this up and take it with them, or use it around the house, and not crack open that bulkier, heavier laptop. We don’t know the answer to that."
A recent study by PriceGrabber indicates that consumers in the market for over the next year are more likely to choose an iPad over Amazon’s Kindle. About 20 percent of the survey respondents said they’re planning on buying an iPad in the next year, compared to 12 percent are planning on buying the Kindle.
Despite the fact that the Kindle serves only as an ebook reader, only 13 percent of the survey respondents said they planned to use their iPad to read books. 20 percent of those planning on buying an iPad plan to use it as a mobile productivity device, 19 percent plan to use it to replace their laptop computer, and 10 percent plan to use it as a portable entertainment device.
Read more: MacObserver.com
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MooCowMusic, the developer of the iPhone app Pianist, is bringing Pianist Pro (US $9.99 upon release) to the iPad. As Mike Grothaus pointed out in his post on Air Harp, there are lots of musical apps for the iPhone but the screen is too small to make full use of them. There won’t be a complete description of this app until the rollout on April 3rd, but what you can see now is really quite impressive.
Apple’s tablet computer made two big appearances Wednesday night — on ABC, naturally
Here we go, cats and kiddies. Walt Mossberg’s had his iPad for a week now, and he’s got to tell us all about it. Quotes below are transcribed from his video review.
A recent study by PriceGrabber indicates that consumers in the market for over the next year are more likely to choose an iPad over Amazon’s Kindle. About 20 percent of the survey respondents said they’re planning on buying an iPad in the next year, compared to 12 percent are planning on buying the Kindle.
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