Facebook and iShoot developers praise the iPad

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Facebook and iShoot developers praise the iPad




Two more developers have praised Apple's new iPad, saying that criticism of the device's limitations are missing a trick.
Joe Hewitt used to be Facebook's iPhone developer, before moving jobs after publicly slamming Appple's app approval process.
That approvals process remains intact for iPad, but Hewitt is nonetheless hugely excited, according to his latest blog post.
"I felt strongly that all Apple needed to do to revolutionize computing was simply to make an iPhone with a large screen," he writes.
"Anyone who feels underwhelmed by that doesn't understand how much of the iPhone OS's potential is still untapped."

He goes on to say that with its bigger screen size alone, the iPad will be a huge change for developers.
"The bottom line is, many apps which were cute toys on iPhone can become full-featured power tools on the iPad, making you forget about their desktop/laptop predecessors. We just have to invent them."
Meanwhile, Ethan Nicholas - one of the first iPhone games developers to strike it rich on the App Store with his iShoot game - has also praised the device, and slammed critics of its limitations.
"The iPad is a computer for people who don’t like computers," he writes, in a guest post for TechCrunch.
"People who don’t like the idea of upgrading their 3D drivers, or adjusting their screen resolution, or installing new memory. Who don’t understand why their computer gets slower and slower the longer they own it, who have 25 icons in their system tray and have to wait ten minutes for their system to boot up every day."
He goes on to cite his mum as the key customer for Apple's tablet, watching films, listening to music and reading books on long flights.
"And you know what? There are millions upon millions of people just like her out there. They outnumber us. And they finally have a chance to become productive, self-sufficient computer users instead of constantly asking family members to fix their computers or, even worse, keeping the Geek Squad in business."

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Post on Tue Feb 02, 2010 2:08 am by JayJay

Is that why your name is ifacebook Tongue

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