Let's imagine something. Let's imagine, you're a normal guy, with a good salary, but nothing extra. You have a smartphone, a tablet, you can rent a flat, maybe you can afford a holiday seaside. But you've always wanted a brand new Ferrari, that's all you can think about.
On a day, your not-so-well-known uncle dies, and since you're the only living relative of Uncle Bill, there's 200 000$ on your account. Whoooah! You can buy the Ferrari! You put on your best clothes, and rush to the first store, to order the car. Unfortunately, you have to wait one year for a new car, but the seller tells you, here's a purple one. You pay, and go home with the dreamcar.
Then you realize, there's no place to hide the car. Later, you find out, you have no money for a single tire, 'cos it's so expensive - while you drive it only on Saturday, since you can't afford to use it everyday. The dreamcar becomes a hassle, and finally you sell it, and buy a Ford Focus Combi.
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I was looking for the perfect camera app for my iPhone 4 for a long time. There was only one wish: resizable picture size. I take photos usually outside, where's no WiFi connection, and I really don't want to use my data plan for uploading uneccessary big photos about my lunch, especially not 5MP photos. 1200x960 pixels are far more than enough to express myself. The difference is around 1 MByte per photo: 1.2 against 200 kBytes.
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How these things connect? That's what I have in my mind about the New iPad (3). Retina display, they say. I say, as an engineer, it's fascinating, the near-print pixel count has to make a beautiful picture on 10". But hey, do I ever want to download 2 MByte pictures just because I have an iPad? No, of course not. Who cares. I want a fast web experience. Do I want to redesign my webpage in double size? Are you serious? Just because of iPad users?
The problem is, that we're at the gates of the new megapixel-war, but this time it's all about screens. I'm pretty sure, in the near future, Samsung will come out a super-mega-amoled screen, w/ 1800x2200 pixel resolution, and so on, we're there. You know which screen has almost the same resolution as the iPad? The 30" Cinema Display. Which is a really big monitor.
I have several problems with this. First, the mobile data plan - you better swich to a 4 times bigger plan, unless you have an unlimited version (in that case, you're a lucky guy). Second, it's better, if it's a 4G connection. We all know the difference between the theoretical and the real speed of mobile internet. Third, you have to buy new-ipad-HD apps, hope, the developers don't ask extra money for that.
And we're here: the app and web development. It's like Intel and Windows was several years ago - you just bought the newest and fastest processor, and the new Windows took away the extra power. You just finished the development of your iPad app, now you can start again, 'cos it's not just magnifying.
My biggest problem is the web, as I wrote earlier. For this device, you have to use print-quality pictures, wich can be quite expensive (some photo agencies have different prices depending on size), your photographer has to take extra-quality photos (downsizing sometimes a good tool), which is extra time and money, and your page load time will be worse as well, since these pictures has to arrive to the device - user confusion. While if you don't do anything, than the user will se a converted version of your website, which is quite ugly, according the news.
I know, these things doesn't count too much. I just don't like the wasting of resources, and bandwith is now like water, or electricity.
So I think about the new iPad as a luxury good: it's like a Ferrari. Beautiful, perfect, absolutely precise thing. And consumes too much petrol.
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