Posts Tagged ‘iPad’

Most of you know by now that I’m a big fan of Apple products. I’m also a cross platform developer, mostly using REALStudio. It’s been on my todo list for a while now to pick up iPhone/ iPad development.

When I started out learning to program, I found I learned things better when I was putting the knowledge to work. I spent a lot of time working through game books, putting together small games and seeing how the code fit together.

While I was researching iPhone development, I came across this site. iPhone Game Development

When I get a break in my currently long TODO list I think I’ll pick it up and give it a shot. It’s a pretty cheap course and looks like a lot of fun, small things to get you up to speed on creating iPhone and iPad apps.

If anyone has already bought this, feel free to let me know what you think of it.

Cheers,

Shane

Well the iPad reviews are starting to trickle in. I liked this one from PCMag.com enough to let you see it here.

It takes you through, quite quickly I might add, the features of the iPad and it is done very well.

PCMag: Apple iPad video review from PCMag.com Reviews on Vimeo.

Here is an excellent review by Stephen Fry. If you’re Aussie or English you will know who he is, especially if you are a Black Adder fan. If you are American you will know his voice at least from the latest Alice in Wonderland film as the Cheshire Cat.

It’s about 4 pages long but well worth your time.

Time Magazine Review

This Penny Arcade comic was too funny not to spread the love.

OK, I’ll admit it. I’m an Apple fan, love their stuff and have a few pieces lying around the office. I use an iPhone and am typing this on my 13″ Macbook Unibody.

I recently took a fantastic vacation with no laptop. I used my iPhone to listen to a bunch of full albums that I hadn’t spared the time to listen to in years and read a book using the kindle app.

This got me thinking that a larger version of the iPhone to use while on the couch would be cool. Enter the Apple Tablet, or should I say, enter the rumors of the Apple Tablet. You see, Apple hasn’t announced any such product and are denying the rumours as stoutly as they did the iPhone rumors of a few years ago.

Thing is that it’s a brilliant marketing ploy. Folks are frothing at the mouth to plonk down their hard earned on this product that doesn’t even officially exist.

Got to say though that the model is a proven winner. Hook it into the iTunes store and skim 30% off anything that is sold. Lock the thing down so that you can’t put non sanctioned apps on it and away you go. Giggling like a school girl all the way to the bank.

As was proven by the app store for the iPhone, there is a huge market for these low cost, high volume apps and there are a lot of new millionaires walking around thinking how lucky they were to get in on the ground floor of the iPhone app thing.

The question remains what is to come and will it make as large a splash. I kinda think it will and it the form factor proves to be as easy or easier to use on a couch as a fully fledged laptop, I can see two of them coming to this household.

I held out on getting a kindle or any other ebook reader, to see what apple would put out and if it does the kindle app as well as web, email and other apps I can certainly see a good market for it.

Ciao.
Shane