Tomorrow morning, 9am, the iPad goes on sale. My brother ordered one and got the confirmation email a few days ago which showed it being shipped from China. Will it sell out by Saturday afternoon? Will John win his bet with Leo on the number sold this year (listen to TWIT to find out how many)? If you’re buying one, what will you do with it that you can’t already do on your laptop?
 If you do get one, don’t forget to get your iVest with a pocket to carry your iPad around in. There are also 21 other pockets in case, for some reason, you feel the need to carry non-iPad stuff, too. |
It…is…just…a….iTouch. Dude’s get a grip. The media is acting like this is the 2nd coming of computing. It’s JUST an iTouch. Yes it’s 10″ instead of 3″. It’s pretty and video will look better on a bigger screen. But it doesn’t to ONE SINGLE THING your iTouch, iPod, or laptop doesn’t do now. It doesn’t have a camera (video or still), you can only load little iPhone ‘apps’ not real software (photoshop), you can’t plug USB devices, you can’t see many of the media web sites because of lack of Flash (though some of them will make iPad specific apps).
You can’t put it in your pocket. My iPhone fits in my pocket. It has a camera for pics and video. It reads my email, I can watch movies, and run “apps”. Yes the iPad bigger screen is MUCH nicer for certain functions, but that’s why I have a LAPTOP at home (too big to fit in pocket and take to the beach). And my iBook is dual boot with full OS X and Windows 7. MUCH MUCH MUCH MUCH more versatile than JUST the Apple app store.
Silly. Apple is just the Bose stereo or Members Only Jacket of this generation. The cool thing you have to be seen to be “hip”. It will be silly in a few years.
Only If I can get it for free. Here @pple stuff is sold at a F****** PREMIUM, and support is “courier it to us and we’ll come back to you next month”
#21 FTW!!!
#21:
iPad apps *are* real software, just not the things you want — yet.
Be patient.
No one has an iPad yet, but Star Trek dorks already built and LCARS interface for it, so they can pretend it is a Starfleet issue iPad. It’s just a movie.
As a developer, I’m required to have one, but I’m not required to be a fanboy about it…
I haven’t stopped laughing yet
It makes me laugh when someone is put down for being an Apple customer. Face the reality guys… 270 million iPods sold to date and it’s been accelerating… not slowing down. From that you can deduce that MOST citizens of the USA are the gullible ‘fanboys’ you speak of, and MOST citizens of the USA have that “Bose” taste for quality.
Apple is a successful American company… a real asset in these times of economic and political strife… so it really surprises me when you so offhandedly demean it and openly criticize it’s products that are popular because they work well, otherwise sales wouldn’t be 30 million units a quarter and growing after 10 years on the market.
Please, Apple… move all your operations to Canada where you will be appreciated. There are many young computer programmers and electronic engineers here who would be happy to have your jobs.
To think that not long ago, people were bitching (and rightly so) that win7 basic would only run 3 apps at a time. I remember also the macfans laughing at that. I guess they were laughing because they thought it was a lie that you could run 3 apps at one time, what with the amazing mac devices only able to run only one.
#18 Yeah, It’s gonna be perfect for you. You seem like someone with a weak mind.
#19 If you don’t understand self-flagelation is no wonder why you don’t get how happy macfans can get when they know they can only consume that media on their ipad.
#22 It’s sold like that everywhere. macfans are that gullible.
#28 You sir are someone to envy. You are very proud of being part of the stoopid people that think owning anything mac makes you special.
Indeed, it does make you special, just not in the way you think.
#28 I’m amazed how many Americans hate successful American companies these days.
@#29
Is that all you have? Insults?
What, are you fucking five years old?
If the iPad is not something that you would like, perhaps you could move on to something more to your liking, but making retard jokes?
#30 Yeah, you gotta hate success, at least in the USA.
gotta love apple fanboys.
#31 I don’t see you having anything better than insults either, so what are you complaining about? Perhaps that you don’t like facing how lame being that hardcore a fanboy is.
#32 Yeap. Always entertaining.
I had to laugh at one blog talking about how elegant it was. Would have made sense had they not had it propped up with a keyboard attached,,,,,,lol fuckin genius’s built themselves a laptop and too kool-aided up to see it.
Pointing out what you see as flaws or shortcomings in a product is to hate the company? Huh?
#28
It is precisely those numbers that make this picture even more dire. When you consider what is being said about Apple products and the millions “buying” into them, then one has to wonder WTF is going on and HTF is this nation going to survive not becoming a world of “Idiocracy.”
“Just works” apparently has done it’s job well even though it doesn’t just work. A closed and regulated product with a few apps to please the majority for a few cents is nothing bad. Why bother when it’s only a few cents vs. free. Why want to use other services when clearly Apple is the only one “capable” of doing so. Why bother having competition at all when you want everything and everyone do do it the way you want them done?
You realize there are people that want more out of their products they own. And while, again, you can use the argument that if this was the case they don’t buy Apple. Well, that’s what some of us have done and we’re pretty proud of what little we can do to not support the products. The question then becomes if you’re for this mentality why would you bother voicing your concerns or opinions with Apple products and/or any other issues? You obviously want to be told what is the “truth” and obviously like having it kept simple and clean in it’s own environment.
Re: qb” “I’m amazed how many Americans hate successful American companies these days.”
Yup… absolute insanity.. and it’s easy to see that sentiment when reading DU… but then posters like Pedro could be (probably are) Iranian terrorists for all we know. Still, I think asking companies like Google and Apple to move head offices to Canada is a good idea… before the Tea Party becomes a civil war (who threw that scone?!), or Sarah becomes President.
The bet was for an entire year not just THIS year. I ordered the 3G version ^_^
Theone, you are a minority… a very tiny minority. Start with the US population 350 million or so. Subtract all those who aren’t in the target group / purchaser for products like MP3 players… under 6, over 70, poor, just not interested etc. What’s the net number in your opinion? 50-100 million? By the end of this year Apple will have sold 350 million iPods alone. So either most of the consumer population in the US are idiots buying multiple iPods, if what you say is true… or Apple makes great products that work well and consumers are satisfied and want more. Which do you think?
All that profit is taxed in the USA… ah, you know what… figure it out for yourself. It’s not that difficult.
Cap’nKangaroo, pointing out things that could use improvement is a good idea. It’s the wholesale bashing of Apple and their customers (who are practically everyone it seems) that is ludicrous, especially considering the state of your economy and jobs. Speaking of Jobs, he’s a definite asset to Apple and therefore to the bottom line of your economy. Why trash him?
My my my. That video was fantastic. Thanks for posting such a vital, informative piece of information, pal. It’s not at all like the shit that usually shows up on youtube. No No. This piece of shit was far beyond the pieces of shit that we normally get exposed to.
BTW. iPad? Who really gives a crap? The fan boys will buy them, and be sure everyone sees them using them at the Starbucks.