Piano On an iPad will give you another experience
Of all the questions surrounding Apple’s forthcoming iPad tablet, the one I discover the hardest to answer is, “What can it do that my laptop and smartphone don’t already provide?”
The question is tough to answer for two reasons. For one, until we see how developers are able to tailor their apps, we truly cannot say to what degree the Apple iPad experience is going to differ from the iPhone or iPod Touch. More importantly, but harder to communicate, is how much the iPad’s 9.7-inch touch display fundamentally alterations the nature of how we interact with it, in comparison having a 3.5-inch iPhone, or an unresponsive laptop computer display.
We’ve currently glimpsed how one app developer was capable to graduate his miniature DJ turntable iPhone app into a realistic, life-size audio mixer for that iPad. In a similar example, app developer Melvin Rivera shares a handful of final screenshots of his piano training app Nota, reconfigured for the Apple iPad.
Arguably, piano and DJ apps aren’t likely to be primary uses for that Apple iPad, but each of these early examples illustrate how a change in screen size means significantly a lot more than larger images. In each example, I would make the case that the distinction between the original iPhone app and its iPad counterpart is a difference among novelty and practicality.
Nota’s developer Melvin Rivera had this to say about his experience programming for that Apple iPad:
“Designing for that Apple iPad was a significantly bigger challenge than designing for the iPhone was. You rapidly recognize what an amazing job Apple did within the UI for the devices. It was important for me to have as significantly function parity among the two products but at the same time I did not want to become limited by that. So the Apple iPad version will have particular advantages more than the iPhone version. For one, the significantly larger sizing permits for a 2 octave piano comfortably. It also allows the style to become more like physical objects. The piano keys no longer go display to display, they are within a keyboard. This really is the paradigm of the Apple iPad style, it took me several iterations from the design to come to this conclusion. You are touching a unit with real-life objects and they respond to your gestures. It is brilliant!”
Needless to say, piano and DJ apps are both examples of apps attempting to graphically represent and replace actual objects within the real world. It makes sense that larger screens do a much better work representing life-size objects. Regardless of whether the Apple iPad will do a much better work than the iPhone when it comes to representing abstract data (your tweets, Facebook account, Internet radio stations) remains to be seen. Some apps will just be a lot more practical on the small screen–or a lot more particularly, on a little device. Yelp for iPad could be incredible, but it is the type of app you would like inside your pocket, not on your coffee table.
Within the coming weeks, it’ll be fascinating to determine which Apple iPad apps really advantage in the transition, which ones do not, and how we adjust our expectations of what “apps” can deliver.
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im loving the ipad personally. what do you think of it now? was it upto your standards?
Good read, smart points, some of that I have learned along the way further (humility, grace, layoff the controversial stuff).
iPad is way too cool to own, i wanna buy one next month.::;
Interesting article and great findings. After using iPad for quiet some time, I could no less agree with the fact that iPad definitely invites social interaction. Its really an interesting and engaging platform!
Is anyone using the Apple wireless keyboard with their iPad? If so, have you come across any issues?
I am wondering whats the best plastic carrying case cover for iPad available for the market? So far I have found a good stock at yahoo and the local apple store
Interesting story, it is similar to an article I saw submitted about a month ago. I can’t remember the specific webpage