Month: January 2013

HEY DAWG WE HEARD YOU LIKE SOCIAL SO WE PUT A SOCIAL APP AND A SOCIAL BAR IN YOUR MOBILE COMPUTER SO YOU CAN SOCIALIZE ON THE INTERNET WHILE YOU SOCIALIZE IN REAL LIFE

 

…I really have no idea where any of this is going…

 

Anyway…there’s so much stuff crammed into this OS that it takes up 3GB. I’m serious. I have a 16-gig iPad, but the Settings page says it’s only 13 GB.

 

There is a LOT to cover if we’re going to be talking about all of the apps that come with the OS, but I think I’ll cover each app in a seperate post…if I feel like it.

 

Besides the apps, there is still a lot…just look at the accessibility page:

AssistiveTouch is really interesting, and I used it to take these screenshots…but unfortunately I can’t take a screenshot of the…app, I guess…itself because it dosen’t allow that, but…

My iPad is pretty cool. What is an iPad, you ask?

 

It’s a tablet computer FLAME FLAME FLAME

 

Woah, stop! I know that, I know we have Android phones and stuff and Apple should probably stop selling the iPad 2 and the iPod Classic and all that other stuff, but…but it’s Apple. And it has iCloud (MobileMe if you’re an old-timer). iCloud is awesome…you don’t really even have to think when you take a picture, because if you’ve set up iCloud Control Panel on your PC (uh…don’t ask why they thought PCs needed iCloud (er…based on their past behavior that is)), then your photos automatically sync to your computer. And also Safari bookmarks. But that’s it. The rest you need to go to icloud.com.

 

Anyway, I love how futuristic it looks. THe only qualm I have about the design is how goddamned crappy the center of gravity is:

It’s a computer, sure, but it’s a paperweight and a big flat anvil:

 

It’s so easy to drop it off the rail of a balcony onto someones head…

Hence the iPad Mini:

Now we have a big flat anvil and a medium-sized flat anvil.

 

The iPhone could be called an anvil too, but that’s pushing it I think…

 

It may be an anvil, but it’s SO COOL I DON’T CARE. *cough*

 

Funny thing I notice…in the Apple ads, they describe the iPad Mini as “a concentration, not a reduction” of the original iPad. It’s not totally clear, but I think that’s marketing-speak for “We rewrote more code then we had to because we’re obsessed with our products. They look and act exactly the same, but we rewrote it. So it’s better. Because that one guy wrote horribly messy code. He’s gone now.”