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. |
Just ask pedro what he uses for hardware and software. He squirms like a speared mudcrab.
qb said, on April 2nd, 2010 at 11:40 am
#28 I’m amazed how many Americans hate successful Chinese companies these days.
There…fixed.
#39 Some people say don’t bash Apple because they are a successful American company. OK, fine, if those same people can swear they have never bashed Microsoft, HP, IBM, GE, or any number of other successful American companies.
It is when someone comes running to Apple’s defense at the least little criticism, but won’t do so for any other company, that I say FANBOY.
For full disclosure, I do own an iPod Touch (32GB, 1st gen) that replaced an earlier 20 GB iPod. For an MP3 player it works great. For everything else I find myself using my Droid phone because I find it works better (and I can replace the battery if needed).
Why do McCullough and Cap’n Kangaroo hate America? They probably throw kittens and puppies into wood chippers too.
I’m also thinking they’re into nun abuse…
Wow. It’s like a religious war in here, with people arguing about how many apps can dance on the head of a PIM or something. People claiming computers _should_ be hard to use, or we’ll all become idiots.
A good number of the posts are fact-free, containing opinion only, if that — some contain only insult.
Where’s the section for grown-ups?
That said, the thing looks like it’s fun to use but I want to see it “in the wild” so to speak before I decide one way or the other, though I do predict the iPad will sell about as many units as all the other new pads combined.
For all I know, the iPad could be really great. I just don’t feel the need to have one myself. Once something along these lines turns into a $100 commodity item with more features I might look into it further, but for now, meh.
If it had a standardized mounting system and a real time input from a digital SLR, it’d make a great viewfinder display. Attach the camera to the backside and hold the iPad and point the whole thing. Hmm, the mount could have handles and buttons to control basic camera functions so that you could use both hands…Damn, that’s sounding better and better.
Micro interview with an oy!pad-buying fanboy:
- I see you came to participate in the oy!pad’s launching day experience.
= Sure! I’ve been to every one of them and wouldn’t miss the opportunity to be the first to have this unique, history-making new hardware Steve was so gracious to bless us with.
- So you have the 699 to buy it.
=It?
- Yes. Aren’t you buying one?
= No, I’m buying 6.
- 6! Why?
= Well, I see PC people that have multiple computers to be able to run various apps at the same time, like this friend of mine that has 4 monitors. I want to show him my oy!pad rig to show him you can run more apps on it than he can do with pc’s
- You realize that those 4 monitors are connected to a single PC, don’t you?
= That’s a lie perpetrated by the lame viri-ridden pc users. The unicorn I have at home, which I received after I sent an e-mail to Steve Jobs, told me so.
And so, we leave our macfan to beleive in unicorns & how good and unique mac toys are.
#41 I was told long ago not to answer to little kiddies looking for validation on their choices because it would lead them to a life of unconscious servitude.
I don’t do it because I care about you, but because I’d feel bad afterwards.
#45 Interpretation of Capt’n Carcker’s post:
“Wow. It’s like a religious war in here, with people arguing about how many apps can dance on the head of a PIM or something.
A good number of the posts are fact-free, containing opinion only, if that — some contain only insult.
Where’s the section for grown-ups?
That said, I’ll now go and kneel on the first church I can find and make my daily prayer.”
pedro, I’m sorry feel bad about servitude to me.
#48 What, your unicorn told you so?
The iPad comes with unicorns. And makes it’s own gravy.
That guy looks and sounds kind of sad. Why is he sitting by himself over at the kerb? It looks like everyone else is lined up by the store. I wonder if they know he is the queue for the iPad. I hope he didn’t miss out because they confused him with some derro sitting there in his fluro polar fleece jacket.
#51 He’s not alone. All of those in line are sad-looking people.
Anyone whom, in the process of presenting an opinion, feels the need to disparage those whose opinions differ by using epithets such as “fanboy” or, even more egregious, the alternative spelling “fanboi” needs to be beaten soundly by angry mobs with bars of soap or rolls of quarters in socks