Is he forgetting something?
How's he planning on sneaking it round the iFunPolice?
Hugh Hefner has promised that not only is Playboy coming to the iPad, but it will be "uncensored". Either way, punters will now be able to read the magazine in public without embarrasment - the tablet's steely, Apple logo'd back being as good a disguise as a copy of Railway World wrapped around the paper edition. But readers …
I'm curious about this trend for apps-for-websites. If the Ipad is supposed to be so good for Internet access, why can't it use a web browser like everyone else?
And if there's features not available on the website, where's the app for Windows (and perhaps Linux) netbooks etc, which sell vastly more than the Ipad?
"Get this app for your iPad" is the new "Best viewed in 800x600 on Internet Explorer" - although at least for the latter, that browser and resolution was once the most common platform, unlike the situation today. What happened to open standards? The whole point of the web is it shouldn't matter what platform or hardware you use.
if my friend is to be believed, it's going to offer something more than just a flat image. You'll be able to have a 120 degree view zoom. This friend is a programmer working on a mipmap algorithm that is being licensed for use for by a company providing gentlemens reading material. Mind you, that company may not be playboy. Last I heard, they had an issue with too many triangles.
Of course, if one is whiling away a long rail-based commute reading the articles on cars, the game *might* be given away by the reflection of that super-bright, luminous screen in the glass of the train windows.
Best to take the old raincoat and fashion an improvised "privacy tent" before viewing IMHO.
Alternately, kick out the window glass before the journey starts.
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"If the Ipad is supposed to be so good for Internet access, why can't it use a web browser like everyone else?"
Because it isn't as good as using a PC with a mouse. So you have to provide an app to make up for all the functionality that is missing.
Also there is nothing better than selling apps to the sheep when they could easily just use a well authored website for free.