Comments on: College Humor on the iPad (VIDEO)

By: Alena

Alena — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 06:53:13 +0000

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By: RBG

RBG — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 01:39:04 +0000

32 Greg A “Still in 1984 and apple brings up that ad, then here we are and all apples.”

Either that or Aug. 6, 1997: Apple Rescued — by Microsoft from certain bankruptcy.
http://tinyurl.com/mbcru7

RBG

By: chieftwit

chieftwit — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 00:53:19 +0000

Apple Fanboy lose their erection??? Ha. You should have heard me on my radio show on Sunday promoting the ipad. Last time I was this excited was before the I first saw Steve Jobs in a pair of tight jeans.

By: GregA

GregA — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:33:46 +0000

#24,

And people didn’t start using the mouse until 1991. His prediction was spot on for 1984. Still in 1984 and apple brings up that add, then here we are and all apples

#25,

And the iPhone, when it cost $600 dollars was a failure, and it was a failure again when they lowered the price to $400 (and it was such an embarrassing failure at that point, Apple had to refund to people who bought it at $600). It sold a little better at $200, but now that it is at $100 and is priced to compete with the free with service phones, it is selling like hotcakes… Because as a free with service phone it is a pretty awesome phone. But they still only have a fraction of the sales that RIM has in the “smart phone” segment.

And then there is the embarrassing trick that Apple had to play last year by calling the iPod Touch a phone to try and make it look like it sold better than the razr phone in first 18 months…

And all the breathless announcements about the app store app don’t seem to make up for the fact that almost all the most downloaded apps are rss feeds that make up for the broken mobile Safari.

For example, check out the video of the presser, when Steve got the BLOD (blue Lego of death) when he tried to browse the NYTimes.com web page.

Just look at the iTunes store top apps. All three lists are filled with games, which reveals the iPhone for what it is, a toy. And the iPad is a toy as well.

That’s what makes this device so funny. Here is apple selling a video game console, and they are uncomfortable with that role, so they never skip a beat while hawking their video game console, to the point that they don’t really show it off as a video game console…

Don’t get me wrong, I think Apple will sell 20 or 30 million of these things over the next three years. I only ask that mac fans stop pretending that it is anything but a video game console toy.

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 20:06:09 +0000

#30 It stands to reason that a lame citation of a book does not a defense of a product become.

Common sense

By: Sulabha Jobonee

Sulabha Jobonee — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:35:47 +0000

Because we can formulate a lame joke about a subject, it stands to reason that the subject itself is completely lame.

“American Reasoning” by Heywood Djablowmi, 2004. 1856pp. Holt.

By: Buzz

Buzz — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 19:18:43 +0000

Should have been the “iPlaque.” No humor there.

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 16:34:50 +0000

#27 That’s all you got macfan?

By: Pikachu

Pikachu — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:50:25 +0000

Boring… This lame video brought to you by Microsoft.

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:34:24 +0000

#25 He was just underestimating the power of the macfans. They have the power to see gold where a turd is.

By: yougottobekiddiingme

yougottobekiddiingme — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:49:43 +0000

#23 Here is another time Dvorak was “spot-on”.

“I think Apple can do wrong and I think this is it.” JCD talking on CNBC Jan 2007 on the debut of the iPhone.

Wooohoooo he sure was spot-on with that call.

By: yeahright

yeahright — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:45:05 +0000

“The Macintosh uses an experimental pointing device called a ‘mouse’. There is no evidence that people want to use these things.” – John C. Dvorak, San Francisco Examiner, February 19, 1984

Yep. JCD is a paragon of computer knowledge when it comes to all things Mac.

By: brian t

brian t — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 10:05:37 +0000

I just listened to the most recent DH Unplugged, which was recorded before the Apple announcement. Dvorak was pretty much spot-on about what the iPad would turn out to be. Except for the name, because that was already used by Fujitsu, which makes me suspect that the Lawyers are waxing up their skis as I write …

By: pedro

pedro — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 09:24:48 +0000

And those that said this stupid hygiene product was a threat to the Kindle, Amazon just released a free Kindle app for the thing (and all the other mac toys).

Amazon looks pretty scared with this move, huh!

#3 It has a bitten apple on the back, that’s why.

#5 macfans, that’s what they were not only thinking but counting on. And you know what? They won’t let their god down.

#11 It was very good indeed. Specially when the globe said even he could do 2 things at once.

#12 Of all the comments you’ve ever made, this is THE most macfan statement you’ve ever made. Poor fanboi.

By: GregA

GregA — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 07:18:18 +0000

#20,

What do you need faux GPS for on a device that is designed to play with while you are watching TV? Im considering new cars are all coming with turn by turn gps built in… I have never found those iPhone maps useful while I am driving, nor the horrible little gps apps for the iPhone. I will just use a little dedicated GPS device thank you.

Again, just about everybody who is being critical of the device has used an iPhone and knows exactly what the capabilities are. It is useful as a phone, but as a computer sort of replacement device???