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The 2 Ipad, From our perspective

Yesterday has been a very exciting day for fans of Apple technologies, mainly current and potential users of Ipad tablets. Although the keywords that today saturate the search engines on the subject are asking about criticism of the iPad 2, if it is convenient to buy one now, if you can update an iPad 1 and news that the second generation of Ipads has brought; I want to focus on a more analytical subject of my perception that is more in tune with a succulent cup of mocha coffee with half an ounce of amaretto.

Ipad 2 reviews

Steve Jobs, the genius behind the 2 Ipad

Yesterday I'm interested following up on the matter, after searching in many media that did not go beyond warning the assumptions, I ended up going to Twitter, where every minute I could see something of what was being offered in the presentation; the famous live broadcasts only led me to catch a worm that I had a hard time removing from the Netbook. I finally saw the formal reviews from the influential media and late at night the HD video that Apple posted on their page.

At the marketing level, really a great episode, from the leaks of how it would be, the expectation, and the event itself a whole show.

The genius behind this is still Steve Jobs, who although he is retired for health has proven to be the charismatic leader of this new phase of Apple. Not that the man has great charisma, his cynicism, arrogance and mockery of competitors could be considered by many to be unethical; but he does it so well and so naturally that we even end up enjoying the moment.

The man has shown to have more than one life, seeing him go on stage, something thin but with the same sense of humor is admirable. Surely he is a man who has earned a lot of criticism, added to which he must bring from his school as a classic "nerd”, Which does not change much with his“ fatally informal ”style of dress. But nobody can do much with criticizing one of the icons of Silicon Valley, an indisputable example of what it means to have wit and to materialize it with such style. We already wish we had been a partner in at least one of their 230 award-winning patents.

So, between the prominence of Jobs and the credibility of Apple, which is now everywhere with its small white stores, it seems that the Ipad 2 will be well received. 

Potentials of the 2 Ipad

The tablet is definitely going to be big in 2011. Just a year ago there were plenty of cartoons, making fun of Jobs presenting his “Iphone 4 on 1", They resembled a Stone Rosette of Egypt, Questioned its size, that it did not have USB, that it did not have camera, that it did not support flash, anyway.

But a year later, 14 million of those things were sold. Competitors have made better teams, but no one has managed to sell so many as to set trends or steal a sizable percentage. This reason leads Jobs to say not to ask such a neat object for a USB slot, that a digital pen is unnecessary ... difficult to understand but coming from Apple, it will finally set a trend, just as we have ended up accepting iTunes as the only gateway .

Now, a version is launched that simply with the Core Duo processor that it brings, has made the eyes of the developers shine. Until now, with applications, many of them quite elementary, the Ipad was used for quite simple routines, a few became highly specialized, but including the free ones they became the incredible sum of 63,000 ready for download. Definitely, now I think so, we will have AutoCAD WS as it is in the web version, better and free (I hope). Anyway, I do not doubt that ESRI is already thinking of something big not only with ArcPad, and Bentley, it will surely give a good go to the prototype that last year I could get my hands on in Amsterdam.

Other improvements bring appeal to it in applications, such as the two cameras and the gyroscope, with which I think we can do wonders in the geospatial theme. Now the GPS will be able to integrate compass and camera at the same time, potential that photogrammetry and Lidar technologies will be able to take advantage of with this processor. The new applications that have been shown are just to challenge developers, music and video editing with your fingers, with incredible processor performance, they are attractive that surely have already raised the cry in the design industries.

Ipad 2 reviews

The other changes are mere glamor, the blanket multipurpose, white, which is now lighter, more colors ... are just an obligation of Apple's tendency to do things that not only run well but also look nice.

The problem with Adobe. 

This is an underlying issue, very delicate indeed. Apple has decided, and I don't think it will change in time, to evade flash support on iPad tablets. The crossfire has been at a high level between two very large ones.

The problem with this is the final outcome. One of the two will end up being seriously damaged. In my opinion, the one who takes it from losing is Adobe for the following reasons:

  • Most of the videos that are seen online today, many games and attractive animations on the web, are displayed without the need to run on flash. The combination of html5 with the execution of routines in different layers with javascript and the impeccable style management with css have made it possible at a time when high definition video is being highly exploited.
  • The new 2 Ipad brings support for javascript, which means that many will prefer to adapt their development rather than continue to struggle with flash.
  • For Adobe, flash is a line of great importance. He bought Macromedia to assassinate the competitors of Illustrator (Freehand) and Photoshop (Fireworks), but the combination he has made between Dreamweaver and Flash in Adobe Air is a subject that they have thought seriously and where all the potential of Adobe converges in the content management for the Internet.
  • Meanwhile, Apple is a company with its own quirk, it survived being the tool of an elite for many years. He earned and earns a lot of money with what he does, so he will not give his arm to twist by animated vectors. In addition, it takes the lead in the positioning of users who connect through mobile phones.

Today has circulated the news that Walt Disney Has bought Rocket Pack, which carries this purpose, get rid of your dependency on flash and at the same time work applications outside the App Store. So we're going to have a tough year, Adobe teaming up with the other greats making tablets and popularized software; Apple at its whim, exploiting its position and all potential users waiting for them to decide whether FarmVille's chicken farms will be able to be grown on the iPad 2.

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Great year for the tablet theme. Just as the Netbooks were about three ago. If there is any gain in this, it is knowing that every day more market turns to Apple, that it has someone to defend it with style and silver. Surely if it reaches a greater position in the market, its prices will drop and applications will multiply, which are ultimately what we occupy.

What if it's worth buying an Ipad 2? 

  • Yes, if you have the money, to buy one of 64 GB at once, because there is no upgrade. 
  • Yes, if you had already decided to buy one, it has the same price.
  • Yes, because it will be the same throughout the year. 
  • Yes, if you take care of it immediately and we take advantage of not carrying cables, mouse, rucksack and, if we consider that being connected contributes to be more productive -Silver and not just glamor-

What is certain is that it no longer makes any sense to buy an 1 Ipad, which from this month will begin to be sold as donations to anyone who pays less.

Meanwhile, we from the geospatial world, to wait for AutoCAD WS, ArcPAD for Ipad and Project Wise Navigator to force us to decide for an Ipad 2.

No, I have not for sale my Ipad, yet.

Golgi Alvarez

Writer, researcher, specialist in Land Management Models. He has participated in the conceptualization and implementation of models such as: National Property Administration System SINAP in Honduras, Management Model of Joint Municipalities in Honduras, Integrated Cadastre-Registry Management Model in Nicaragua, Territory Administration System SAT in Colombia . Editor of the Geofumadas knowledge blog since 2007 and creator of the AulaGEO Academy that includes more than 100 courses on GIS - CAD - BIM - Digital Twins topics.

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  1. When the keyboard of the ipad is placed in the middle of the screen you can download it by pressing the right key below and press and ok.

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