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      iPad is for vaginas
      Am I the only person not impressed with the iPad announcement today? Did they purposely name if after a feminine hygiene product?


      Yosho:: apple's ipad was disappointing
      Yosho: i'm not very impressed
      Yosho: it's basically an iphone with a bigger screen and no voice capabilities
      GF: ...
      GF: its suppose to be more like a computer
      Yosho: it's not
      Yosho: in fact it's running the iphone OS
      Yosho: everything is proprietary
      Yosho: just like the iphone
      GF: .....
      GF: ok
      GF: *shrug
      Yosho: it doesn't even support flash
      Yosho: lame
      GF: oh
      GF: i dunno it looks so cool though
      GF: and its all touch!
      GF: touchieeeeeee
      Yosho: lol u're too easily impressed, there's so many things wrong with it
      Yosho: like how all music, videos, etc are played through the default itunes app and u can't change it
      Yosho: u also can't multitask
      Yosho: which means no listening to music while browsing
      Yosho: = lame
      Yosho: ANNDDD u pay an extra $130 for 3G
      Yosho: ANNND there's like no memory on the thing
      Yosho: fuck man, apple is just like jipping consumers with this thing
      GF: oh
      GF: ....
      GF: does that mean i can't buy it?



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whos gonna buy the ipad?!?!!?

[ Last edited by  erictsang62 at 28-1-2010 14:12 ]

The same people who would want one of these..




an official starfleet PADD.  Yes it's getting there it's only missing 9 nano gigs of computer power, and the ability to hold a couple of teraquads of information.    We really need to get rid of the paper pad and get another ten pounds of worthless weight.  save the trees!  Add 5 tons of more carbon that was used to make this device into the atmosphere!

[ Last edited by  chewie10 at 28-1-2010 14:36 ]

mmhmmm - look at that tech right there!

everything u need for youtube!

unimpressed as well!!! price point is attractive but other than that, dont see much difference in terms of capabilitites then other laptoops or notebooks. Got to wait until I get my hands on it before I can really make a judgement but by the look of it, doesnt seem too appealing

Its too small to be:
A decent family video viewer (for example a TV)
A decent music player (like a stereo)
A proper email client (like a laptop or PC)

Its too big to be:

A portable music player
A portable video player
A portable email client

Hell, a portable anything.

So what exactly are people going to do with it? Buy it and keep it at home?

yeah, if I were you, I would wait till it comes out at the apple stores and then check it out. Play with it, touch it, feel how it manuevers before buying it. Sounds all good when tehy talk about it but different when it's actually in your hands.

You could say it's an oversized iPhone on steroids as erictsang62 mentioned

Doesn't have a camera or USB ports, so will put off a number of people because of this! Will wait for iPhone 4G...

Will have it's uses if applications are developed to make use of it's size.

[ Last edited by  asia-play at 28-1-2010 18:36 ]

There's a lot of stuff missing on there like you pointed out. Also the price point of $499 is just for the 16G model. It goes to $599 and $699 respectively for the 32G and 64G models. That price is a teaser price only. 16G's can't store much of anything

actually it depends what u wanta store - if you need a lot of vids - then ure in trouble - but for now - my 30 gb ipod still has so much space ! i ve had it for 4 freakn years!!!!

haha

yeah, but that's an Ipod. Its different, this is a laptoop of sorts so you're gonna be storing applications, software, music, video, games. That's a lot of info on 16Gs or even 30Gs. Some bros here have 100 Gs of porn and its still not enough space

The ipad had already been released in the US if i am not mistaken...500 US dollars....

I am waiting for it's launch in the UK...

Definitely getting one..

The iPad won't be available until March, which is not far away

A big no. All I want is a good ebook reader, and for reading books, e-ink is much less tiring on the eyes than an LCD screen. And I want to download the books (epub, lit, or pdf formats) from my computer to the reader, not form the net at $15 a pop, so I don't need to pay extra for wireless connectivity. The iPad doesn't even have a USB port ffs!

The big problem with the iPad is that Apple wants to lock you into it's revenue-generating stream for ebooks, like it does for digital music with iTunes. No fucking way! - I go P2P for all my media needs.

And did you know that you won't be able to use Skype with the iPad?

I agree with you. Some say the iPad is gonna reignite the tablet pc sector. However, there are many issues with this product - cannot multi task, no camera, etc. - so I would wait until all the basic features are added before I consider getting one. Remember with the iPhone, took Apple three years to have MMS or copy and paste function to be available.

I probably wont even thought I have purchased almost all of apple's products.  I just dont think that I will use it enough to justify the price of it.  If I read a lot I think it would be justifiable to use it as an ebook reader.  As for the other functions, internet, email, apps etc, I will just use my iphone to do the work.  I find the ipad mainly like an enlarged iphone or itouch.

But who knows, until I see it, I might have a different opinion about it.  But I think priced at $829US for the high end one is a bit on the priceyside.

negative!! It'll be out at the end of Feb.

awesommmmmeeeeeeeeee so would say an amateur
i wouldnt buy anything from apples. bunch of trickters that only allow it users to use their own products

i learn my lesson. i am waiting for version 4 of ipad or whatever you call it before i buy.

dangs. i all have ipod, inano, itouch 1g, itouch 2g, iphone 2g, iphone 3g..

wow..my expensive.. apple toys.

As far as I'm concern, apple is a bad reputation.  A famous radio personality bought 4 Apple macpro 3 Ghz Xeon Mac Pro Quad with 4 500Gig hard drives and 16 GB RAM.   All went bad on him.  The radio personality could not get any technical support for the horribly bad leopard 10.5.2 software and design of the apple computer.  He also uses a PM G5 with a 30" ACD  After that I would never buy anything from that company.  I also know many people who have bad Ipods that die quickly right after warranty runs out.

I would guess this would be no exception and would likely be a problem for any user.

1. Rich kids
2. Apple sickos
3. gadget sickos
4. People that cannot say know to pushy salespeople
5.Steve jobs
6. Hollywood stars
6.HK girls who want to be the first to chat about it to their friends and will sell it second hand once their friends buy it too

I really want to see people bringing it in the MTR on rush hour, I would really like to smash them on the head