Apple Releases iPad Tutorial Videos

March 29th, 2010

Apple put some new iPad videos on their website. Some notes:

• The Pages video mentions the Apple Bluetooth Wireless keyboard will work with the iPad. Sweet, I have one of those.
• The Keynote video mentions you can output presentations to a projector or TV using an adapter.
• The iBooks video mentions the display backlight automatically adjusts to ambient light.
• Email, iWorks.com, the camera roll, and “export” are offered as ways to get documents other than photos to and from the iPad. Particularly curious about “export” — is there a “document roll?” Will iTunes be used for managing / syncing documents?
• No mention of iTunes Library Sharing in the iPod or iTunes videos — would love to stream music and video from the Mac Mini to the iPad over WiFi.
• In all the videos, and most notably in the iWork productivity apps (Keynote, Pages, and Numbers) you can see Apple put a ton of work into UI, from the “loupe” to scroll through pages, stacks for manipulating several documents, and multitouch for editing images. All this visual slickness in the software is really underestimated by tech early adopter types who get hung up on hardware specs, like the lack of an SD slot or a camera.

Anyhow, something to tide one over until Saturday.