Posted via web from aughban’s posterous

Posted via web from aughban’s posterous

Q: Hey iPad, so I’ve gotta start by saying I think your introduction was probably one of the best speech’s Stevey boy has given to date. The promotional material as well was just fantastic.

A: Thanks, I really think it really shows how much better our stuff is better than everyone else. The really excellent designs show just how simple the iPad concept is.

Some initial designs of apples promotional material

Q: The iPad was described by Steve as Apple’s opposition to Netbook’s being the third category device. What can you do that’s better than a laptop?

A: That’s an excellent question and we at apple have some brilliant idea’s on how to respond to it. The iPad provides you with the iPhone 3.2 OS and a lovely 9.7″ screen. We loved the truely beautiful design of the iPhone and just had to carry on using it for the iPad? I’m really thin and you can browse the web with me, I’m the best you’ll ever have!

Unfortunately Apple are unwilling to share their development process with us but we are pretty sure this was involved.

Q: What’s the flash support like on the iPad compared to the iPhone?

A: Seriously? You want to go there? Nothing original to ask? Okay, I can’t flash. Here at apple we are big HTML5 supporters, we want flash to die and HTML5 video to take over!

Stevey boy still hates Adobe after refusing to let him play with their toys.

Q: HTML5 eh? We all know what Steve thinks of Flash but really HTML5 video? What format will that be in?

A: H.264 of course, Apple provide support for it through our fantastic browser. Safari is on the cutting edge of browser technology and combining that with my multi touch technology will create the future of web browsing!

Q: Google are providing support for both H.264 and Ogg, you don’t seem to support both formats? Why is that? What will people that want to use open-source solutions?

A: Open What? Don’t be ridiculous, Safari comes with all Apple systems for free! There is no need to support both formats!

Q: Okay… So no camera? Isn’t this going to leave your customers unhappy?

A: I’m going to let you in on a little secret, If your customers leave the store happy then they won’t come back to complain! And then if they don’t come back to complain our highly trained staff of beautiful people can’t persuade you to upgrade to the latest generation of the device. Don’t worry, we know what we are doing!

After trying to return her broken iPod, the beautiful apple employee sells her 16 additional apple devices. A new personal best!

Q: Oh… I suppose that makes sense, what about being able to plug my camera into you via USB. You must be powerful enough to run any software I need to take them?

A: Nah! Why do you I need ports? You can get the special add-on that lets me read your SD Card, this innovative piece of hardware just plugs into the patented apple socket that each one of us contain and remember you can always browse or use an App to access your favourite web based photo albums.

Q: So are you going to tell me what your job is?

haha... please

Post-Interview Notes

The Apple iPad is probably the worst Apple product to date, it has serious potential as a device and a company like apple being so closed are the perfect company to actually design the device. They just really aren’t the ones that should be designing it’s use. I’ll be posting a more serious article on my feeling on the iPad and some of the possible applications that will never happen because Apple doesn’t like to share it’s toys..

Since my last posting,  Christmas and New Years happened… *sigh*. As much as I enjoy the time off (haha, we all know a university student never gets time off), I hate having those “what have you been up to?” conversations with friends that lets face it, I don’t have time to talk to every week. Why can’t they just follow me on twitter? haha.

Anyway, I’ve had a recent techy upgrade. I don’t often treat myself with larger items, I tend to spend most of my money on spur of the moment purchases or spending time with my friends however since I’m finally getting back into the swing of working full time (it’s only taken 10 weeks). I find myself with extra cash, my first purchase was a lovely 23″ monitor (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/23-Digimate-L-2362WD-Black-Wide-Full-HD-1080P-VGA-DVI-1920×1080-10001-300cd-m-5-ms-Speakers), it is very nice and replaced one of the screens I had before. I then got another for christmas from my parents, which completed the set.

My desk is messy in this picture, this is how is always is. I live at this desk for around 10 hours a day, It’s not great but it’s my student life. Whenever I see any of the workspace pictures on lifehacker, I always wonder how these people have the time to keep their desks to clear. Mine is usually got paper and books all over it. It really could use some re-organisation at some point.

What else has happened? Well I’ve been working on my courseworks, I’ve currently handed in 2 of the 3 that are in before the exams and one of those was my third year project progress report. For those of you interested, this document gives the markers an idea of how far we have gotten in 10 weeks. We include initial designs, gantt charts etc as well as literary review. Mine was a little too long :s, I wrote 10 pages of text… which is not approximately 3000 words as the specification said. Oh well, I hope my supervisor enjoys the read.

Finally, as anyone in the UK or knows anyone in the UK knows. We’ve had snow! It’s really not as great as people made out… university was closed today because there was supposed to be a big storm last night. Luckily it’s starting to thaw and won’t snow again any time soon.

Darius Out!