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Articulate on iPads?
Hi Team,
Was wondering how you plan to deal with the increasing amount of iPad users. I know that in my company they are running pilots with them but my Articulate courses won't run on them :( Are you looking into a Publish for iPad or other solution like publishing a course to HMTL5 or something like that?
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- We so need a "LIKE" button on this forum! Well said, Gerry!
Gerry Wasiluk said:
Keep in mind there are some strategic, technical advantages to waiting a bit on HTML5 "stuff." It's not a fully approved standard yet and some browsers don't support it officially yet (e.g. IE8) and others other support it partially at best.
So do you want to take what's first out of the chute trying take advatage of the "hype" or wait for something that we hope is developed well, is technically sound, and is easy to use. My choice is the latter.
Hello James,
Apple products, even if closed, are highly successful all over the World, and even if there is a difference in market share at the time in favor of Android, we can not ignore Apple's market share. We're talking about tens of millions of users around the globe. In my opinion, it would be fun to have the opportunity to export also for these devices, because there are too many people using them, and we could give lots of people a positive answer when they ask for their courses on iPad. It is also a way to improve selling power.
I think that as we can't ask our customers to make a JB on their device, so we can not ask to buy another product, when they choose Apple (and the reasons are many, I am sure that one of the first one is that Apple is trendy). Especially when they have already chosen Apple and do not want to throw some hundred euro already spent. : )
That said, maybe the most correct (for all maybe, but not for Apple) choice would be an opening of the devices by Apple.
Ideally, it shouldn't matter what platform you deploy to. I'd love to be able to publish to a format with graceful fallbacks to less-than-optimally supported platforms vs. no support to a less-than-optimally supported platform. I've seen some really nice frameworks for HTML5 that fallback well even to IE6.
If the content can fallback, it has the power to lean forward. Leaning forward to any platform, anywhere, and even transform along the way through mash-ups and other unique combinations would be a real boon. I'd really like my content to be as usable in 10 years as it is today.
Gerry, very good point! And I totally agree.
We Super Hero's make such life and death decisions on a daily basis so we can see the pro's and cons. The avarage Joe's however often don't look beyond their needs or wants (that's why Lois is always in so much trouble and Clark always needs to bail her out
)I'm just curious to see if and when we'll do our superhero thing for everyone and don't need to 'drop' the apple users.
....up up and away!
Ironically, I tried to respond to this post from my iPad and it wouldn't work! I cant click inside the reply box and have it be recognized as a text input...
Anyhow, I'd agree with @SteveFlowers. It would be great if I could publish my articulate course to a series of movies that could be viewed on the iPad. Or just images with hotspots.
@Ethan
I used Screenr to make 5 minute demos of my Articulate e-learning courses. I have them under the "Videos" icon on my iPad home page.
The MP4s play just fine.
Would that workaround help you?
As for the new Forum... hmm... I haven't tried to use Elearning Heroes from my iPad but will now that you mentioned your experience. Did you submit the issue via Support.... um.... from your desktop? LOL
- Jeannette, that would work fine if your courses are narrator-based with auto advanced slides. An MP4 Screenr eliminates any interactions or quizzes, no?
Jenise Cook (RidgeViewMedia.com) said:
@Ethan
I used Screenr to make 5 minute demos of my Articulate e-learning courses. I have them under the "Videos" icon on my iPad home page.
The MP4s play just fine.
Would that workaround help you?
As for the new Forum... hmm... I haven't tried to use Elearning Heroes from my iPad but will now that you mentioned your experience. Did you submit the issue via Support.... um.... from your desktop? LOL
Kevin Thorn said:
Jenise Cook (RidgeViewMedia.com) said:
@Ethan
I used Screenr to make 5 minute demos of my Articulate e-learning courses. I have them under the "Videos" icon on my iPad home page.
The MP4s play just fine.
Would that workaround help you?
As for the new Forum... hmm... I haven't tried to use Elearning Heroes from my iPad but will now that you mentioned your experience. Did you submit the issue via Support.... um.... from your desktop? LOL
Jeannette, that would work fine if your courses are narrator-based with auto advanced slides. An MP4 Screenr eliminates any interactions or quizzes, no?
Exactly, this will be such as lynda.com's courses for iPhone.http://www.lynda.com/lynda_iphone.aspx
Just videos without interactivity.
Sometimes it may be enough (indeed, for courses on softwares, imho), but usually not!
@Kevin
Yes, exactly, if I understood @Ethan correctly. The Screenr MP4s on my iPad are for showing demos of previous projects to potential clients. I'm with them, so I can explain the interactivity.
During the Superbowl last night (YaY, Packers!!), we saw the Motorola XOOM commercial. I'm hearing rumors that it may be "the best" non-Apple, Android, tablet to come to market as of this month. Honestly, I'm going to let that line of products shake itself out this year. I figure as we get closer to the new school year/Christmas/December holidays's new-product rollouts, we'll see even better non-Apple tablets!
Yea, I do love my Apple devices and my Mac, but I LOVE technology and innovation, and think tablets are going to add a level of excitement to elearning/mobile learning that we haven't seen in years!
As for Articulate on the iPad... here's some competition:
http://ridgeviewmedia.com/blog/2011/02/mlearning-studio-by-rapid-intake/
onEnterFrame (James Kingsley) said:
Trond Kristiansen said:
It does not work with the Skyfire browser on iPad either. Skifire will play flash video, but that is it.
http://www.skyfire.com/product/ipad
I havent tried Frash. It might work, but you need to jailbreak your iPad.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YD6HcEYmJFA&feature=player_embedded
Frash works great for Articulate on the iPad... doesn't do Flash video though so it your course has video in it...Gabriele is correct we can not ask folks to JB their device... but we can strongly advice the people not by this extremely limited device.
@Ben the Citrix is actually a very smart solution. When you are access content though Citrix it is not really running on your device. It is running on the Citrix box, it's a lot like Go-to-My-PC or any other PC remoting.
I know I am very biased; I am a Flash developer who has been very rudely locked out of a market. But I really do not understand the drive to put eLearning on iPads. Mobile devices? Yes by all means. But there are sooo many more devices out there that readily support our existing tools and more rolling out every day.
I am a pretty tech savvy guy and I could do iOS programming. I chose instead to build Android applications because I believe there is a lot more flexibility and soon a much bigger market. And I think I was right. Take look at the recent sales numbers from Nielsen (http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/?p=25901) In a years time Android has caught up with iOS and for the last six months has been out selling it. Big Time.
"Analyzing the preferences of those who purchased a smartphone in the past six months paints a different picture, however, one in which Android is clearly in the lead with 43 percent of recent acquirers purchasing an Android device, compared to 26 percent for Apple iOS and 20 percent for Blackberry RIM."
I ask again.. why are we so focused on altering our business models and best practices, spending so much time and resources, on a shrinking market?
From my perspective, my sales managers and sales force want iPads. These are not technical folks and Apple as a company offers a simple usually reliable product. They don't realize their eLearning presentations won't run on the product - they probably don't even know what Flash is all about. The "other devices" haven't proved themselves with a consistent user friendly model.
