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Post by graymar on Apr 13, 2011 14:41:44 GMT -4
I'm thinking about an IPad...
Anyone else using the Desktop or Online with an Apple or IPad?
Any problems?
Is it possible?
Thanks
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Post by BDS on Apr 13, 2011 14:57:57 GMT -4
Game Table is completely out, as Apple won't support Flash. The bulk of the Stat Tracker should work, although I don't know if the new interface for setting up matches and such will work. I'm not sure how much javascript the iPad implementation of Safari will handle.
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Post by toasterboy on Apr 13, 2011 15:00:04 GMT -4
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Post by wildfire on Apr 13, 2011 19:27:34 GMT -4
I haven't tried it, since I hate Apple with great passion, but I'd think it possible that Desktop 2 (the one that runs in Abode Air) would work on a mac... Adobe tends to work equally well on either platform.
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Post by toasterboy on Apr 13, 2011 20:10:10 GMT -4
I haven't tried it, since I hate Apple with great passion, but I'd think it possible that Desktop 2 (the one that runs in Abode Air) would work on a mac... Adobe tends to work equally well on either platform. Yes desktop 2 does work on modern apple systems. It runs fine on my 2008 MacBook pro and on my Mac Pro I bought last year. Sorry I thought the question was exclusively iPad.
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Post by wildfire on Apr 13, 2011 23:30:56 GMT -4
To be honest, I know very little about Ipads... from what I've seen of them, they're big iphones that don't make calls... I don't really get it, to be honest.
But, like I said earlier, I'm pretty biased against Macs.
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Post by graymar on Apr 14, 2011 11:46:44 GMT -4
I was to...until my kids went to college. They both have had macs for several years now (same ones) and haven't had one minute of trouble. Really, for me, it's a convienence issue. Since I travel, I see a lot of people easily bopping around with an IPad while I am lugging a laptop.
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Post by wildfire on Apr 14, 2011 23:01:28 GMT -4
I see lots of people with Ipads... and none of them do anything with them that they don't do on their phone. I see people playing solitaire... or playing music, or playing silly flash games (bejeweled blitz or any of the ones where you fling projectiles at a building) are the popular ones. Very occassionally I'll see someone using it as a Kindle.
People doing actual work all have laptops.
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Post by BDS on Apr 15, 2011 11:31:23 GMT -4
I'm intending to get an iPad for work very, very soon ... I'm going to be spending several hours a day away from the office, and it'll be a good way for me to keep connected. Any work I can't do on my PC I can either do on the iPad (e-mail, website management, etc.) or wouldn't WANT to do on my laptop, anyway (Photoshop because I wouldn't have my tablet, coding because I don't want to keep two separate codebases). It's got a niche that certainly overlaps with laptops, but I'd suggest that anywhere there's overlap, the iPad vastly outperforms a laptop. Laptops just offer more versatility. Seriously, 'Fire, you've got to let the Apple hate go. And in regards to Online, I don't know if it's possible for them to do so (or if they'd be willing), but all of the original interfaces would work just fine, as they were all coded in basic HTML specifically to allow as much compatibility as possible. The only thing that it shouldn't at least be possible to make work with an iDevice is the Game Table because of the lack of Flash.
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Post by wildfire on Apr 15, 2011 12:18:16 GMT -4
Apple is THE big evil corporation of the day, IMO.. the hate is a stubborn one. That combine with I'm a more of a pragmatic guy than a 'oohh, shiny new toy' kinda guy Of course, as I say this I'm using Explorer instead of firefox because my lappy had an issue yesterday, but somehow that bugs me alot less.
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Post by toasterboy on Apr 15, 2011 12:59:45 GMT -4
And in regards to Online, I don't know if it's possible for them to do so (or if they'd be willing), but all of the original interfaces would work just fine, as they were all coded in basic HTML specifically to allow as much compatibility as possible. That's one thing you'll notice in my list of what works and what doesn't in the link to the thread above, the classic way f adding matches would of worked fine. The new way doesn't for whatever reason. As it is now, I use the iPad to update my win/loss spreadsheet. I'd do it online if it worked. I'd also love to see a dedicated app that connected up to the StatTracker. I'd use the hell out of that. Even if the StatTracker worked fine with the iPad/iPhone browser, I'd still love to see an app dedicated to it. But what do us Apple folks know? We're in the minority.
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Post by wildfire on Apr 15, 2011 14:27:02 GMT -4
I actually agree with you that it should exist.. but Online should also, you know, work and stuff.
The main problem is I'm pretty sure the development budget is pretty close to Zero.
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Post by toasterboy on Apr 17, 2011 12:04:34 GMT -4
On a totally unrelated, but not really, note... Last night I downloaded Strato-O-Matic's 3 Minute Baseball app for iPhone/iPad app. Not a huge fan of the game (as I'm not a baseball fan) but, to me, it showed what a COTG/LOW app could be. It's basically like the COTGONLINE GameTable and it works. Now it's stripped down from SOM, you just have one pitcher vs. one hitter. Then you roll the dice and it tells you the result, but it's be a great start for Filsinger Games to copy it because you only need one wrestler vs. another at a time (even in Tag Matches you only have one wrestler vs. another). It could be a free app with, say 4 or 5 free wrestlers and then you could pay 99 cents for say, 4 or 5 more wrestlers in a pack. Anyway, if you have the equipment, check out the app. I think if you fool around with it you can see possibilities for a similar FG app. itunes.apple.com/us/app/3-minute-baseball/id427592886?mt=8
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Post by lwffantrav on Apr 17, 2011 17:42:14 GMT -4
Working, kids, married...leaves little time, so I'd love just the Sim for my iPhone when I'm waiting around doing nothing (and would help me catch up)
Grant, I know in the previous post, you said the sim didn't work for the iPhone/iPad. Have you tried the sim lately.
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Post by Havoc on Apr 17, 2011 19:06:16 GMT -4
Working, kids, married...leaves little time, so I'd love just the Sim for my iPhone when I'm waiting around doing nothing (and would help me catch up) Agree with this fully. I haven't tried online but when I left off with my reboot three years ago in 2092, I had hopes for booking and simming to get a full history for my fed. But yet he releases a set or two a year with a product that doesn't work to it's fullest. Why can't we get sets online that were originally sold in card stock 10+ years ago?
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