marketing it used to be cars now its electronics says:

Its an amazing thing in marketing how there is really nothing new under the sun – ideas are just reborn
It used to be that people lined up at car dealerships each fall for the new line up of cars
The cars would be kept under wraps physically at the car and truck automobile dealerships
Customers would line outside the store and gawk
Its the same here no doubt – only instead of automobiles its little electronic devices
People buy products be it cars , trucks or in this case little electronic devices for use and function – whether its transportation or electronic surfing
Why on earth they “must have ” the new Apple is beyond any real uses – its mostly ego
My local staples is getting in the must have Blackberry tablet – of which they have virtually no product information have
What is the cost – $ 299
That sounded good
In the end the imitation is just as pricey as the real product – in the end the Apple still wins the day
It goes to show you – that marketing dealing with human nature remains the same over the eons – whether in automobiles or tablets

thi says:

what is it with these old PC pundits smirking at Apple? Over a decade ago, these pundits were laughing at Apple for doing so poorly. But these days this continues even after Apple is showing success? Shame on them.

pedro says:

#3 the oy!pad is a toy macfan. There’s no real use for that toy that you cannot already do on a real computer, which is what any other “imitation” is, a full fledge computer.

This just show you how warped the LCD’s reality is. Just trying to stroke their egos (like #2 said) buying “what everybody else has” and to have reaffirmation of his personality thru a toy.

Since you’re such a macfan, I felt compelled to add this explanation, otherwise you’d be scratching yourself and thinking about LCD screens; LCD: Lowest Common Denominator

The Dude says:

#6 You must not ever leave your house, because I see ipads being used everyday. Ever been to a hospital, or doctors office? Toys huh…

I think you’re not happy because I call out on your great great great grandfather.

pedro says:

#8 You don’t need an oy!pad to see medical images. That has been done on phones and pda’s since winmobile 2002.

Can you do any decent medical image post-processing on that thing? no, you can’t!

On the other hand, you can on say a win7 tablet.

And what do you do with your toy when the battery runs out? That right, you turn it into a paper weight or turn yourself into a street beggar to plug that thing into the closets ac outlet while everyone else just slide the extra battery they carry.

Keep rationalizing that your toy is the panacea of the world while god Steve laughs at your face.

#9 Did you even read my post? The only thing running a crippled down OS is that oy!pad. Everything else macfans call “imitations” have better, more capable OS’

pedro says:

#11 Get out of the house more? Aaaaaahahahahahaha. The things one has to read from macfans.

You were the one trying to say your ego-icon was more than a toy by stating that you saw doctors using them. Now I refute your inane comparison and you get your panties in a bunch?

Even winmobile 2002 pda’s were able to do dicom query/retrieve access to the pacs/ris/his database wirelessly. Heck, even reporting in Word on the divece and sent it to the ris/his. What’s so impressive about your toy? That it can do what a 200$ machine from 2002 did with 3 or 4 times the cost? Kudos! And if you wanna claim that the screen is bigger, pda’s could connect to a computer screen via a pcmcia card. They could also do pro digital audio with professional pcmcia connected ad/da converters.

Your toy is nothing groundbreaking nor important. Just a toy. If we are going with your “most of the people” approach, then most of the people use that toy to play games and surf the net. That and reassuring their low esteemed self that they are cool because they bought the same expensive toy as a lot more morons did (sorry, I meant morans).

What I laugh the most about this is that, among many a thing your god said that he took back and the macfans flip-flopped with him rationalizing any step, was that he didn’t like people using his computers for games. How ironic that now his toys are popular because they’re game platforms, just like he starting selling more computers when he switched to those “inferior” intel processors.

That there are people using it for something mildly useful? yes, maybe. So? My point stands, you can do all those things and oh so much more on any other products that you macfans call “imitations”

Now, go play your angry birds.

pedro says:

#13 You don’t own one yet you feel the need to defend it. You like things that work yet you single out the only crap that is actually less useful than its competition.

You didn’t want to be labeled as a macfan? Well, too late for that, after 2 posts defending the thing. Not only that, but you contradict yourself by saying that you accept your macfanism worship. Talk about a Schizophrenic post you made.

Besides, I think you’ll understand my contempt to anything mac since you seem to have time enough to do the same here with JCD. Guess you thought I use Ritalin because you do; a thieve judging by his condition, I see.

Get a little bit more inventive. I want you to call JCD ballsuckers to all the people who work on the blog. Then, maybe then, I’ll try and give you credit for that moran of a comeback by calling anyone that doesn’t like your overpriced toys a JCD ball sucker.

BTW, a little English lesson: The proper way to make the question is “Am I a xxxxxx?”. Learn a little; or maybe you know but your Ritalin was wearing out when you replied.

pedro says:

#15 That goes to show how much you know about professional work when you say a toy is a professional tool just because “you see people in hospitals using them”. I saw doctor using a mop, that should be a medical tool. Also saw them with MP3 players. Those rofessional tools too?

Do you even know what systems are used for medical work? Don’t bother answer, you already did on #15.

What are you, 19?

On top of that, you wanna make a difference between ball clingers & ball lickers. It should be a ball reading your differentiation between the two terms. Please, indulge yourself in showing the difference.

macfans are all pathetic.