At least iPods, iPhones and iPads work in both vertical and horizontal orientations — and Apple wants you to be able to dock ’em in either position. A patent (number 7,715,187) has appeared at the US Patent & Trademark Office that involves methods and apparatuses for docking a portable device that has a planar like configuration and that operates in multiple orientations.
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Three Apple patents have appeared at the US Patent and Trademark Office. Here’s a summary of each.
Read MoreNow that it has been “hands on” for a few days with iPad, the issue of posture while using the device comes into play. It is sort of an acknowledgment that how you hold the iPad is a user
issue, coming from the screen orientation lock switch — which, from what I read, was added or finalized late in the development process.
Overall, I like my Apple products. However, there are at least two things I’d love to see Apple fix immediately: a) the miserable way of sharing Pages files between an iPad and a Mac, and b) iMovie.
The British term “rubbish” (and some even less complimentary terms) comes to mind when I try to sync documents between iWork on the iPad and Mac. In fact, it’s the main reason that I think the iPad is ill suited to anything beyond rudimentary content creation (though it’s great for content consumption).
Read MoreFriday morning the FedEx truck pulled into our driveway and set the stage for the turf war over the new iPad to begin. Ironically, later on the same day I had to turn my workhorse MacBook Pro in at the Apple store due to a one pixel wide vertical line that just showed up on the display the other day.
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