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Okay this is my only post of the day (mad work) .. shame on you for promoting this garbage its a waste of money. You could by either a iPhone or iTouch and do the same thing for way less than the cheapest 16gig model of the iPad .. you can buy a macbook for 200 more with a camera, Flash, more space, you don't need to actually pay for adapters to hook you digital camera, a keyboard, or whatever up. Its basically a giant ipod touch .....
THIS ONE YOU CAN ACTUALLY THROW LIKE A FREEBIE AND IT WILL SELF ORIENT, IF YOU LAY ON THE GROUND, AND LOOK UP, AS IT PASSES, WHILE IT IS SPINNING, WITH YOUR HEAD TO THE NORTH, AND YOUR FEET TO THE SOUTH, THE IMAGE WILL JUMP OUT AT YOU, IF YOU USE THE 3D GLASSES AND WATCH THE MOVIE 'AVATAR'.
madtv ripped through the space time continuum, steve jobs shoulda' known.
this is a supersized ipod touch, sans the camera
i was pretty excited about this, until i heard that it was not running real mac osx but the mobile gimped variant we see on iphones and on ipod touches
i suppose if i had money to burn it might be a toy i would have fun with for a couple of hours
i fail to see why anyone would be going nuts over this thing, i am an a fan of many apple products and use them extensively at work, this product at the price point given is a complete joke for our purposes though
pitty, i was hoping it'd be something like a modbook but cleaner
It has the operating system and capabilities of something mobile which is made like that for it's mobility... yet, it's too big to travel with, and it's the perfect size to be a laptop type of deal, yet it cannot function as a computer?!?!?! And they have the Macbook AIR or something like that, so why would you even need to make a better portable laptop!?
It makes no sense!! Damn Steve Jobs, he just wants mo' money.
But if someone gave it to me for free I'd sell it and buy a NEW BIKE. Or send that money to HAITI or ALC, not some touch pad that will self-destruct and destroy itself in my own bag....
Right after I throw it like a frisbee while laying on my ground with my head to the north and my feet to the south so I can watch Avatar pop out at me while I'm wearing 3D glasses! Haha, okay, yes.
if it ran on OSX it would be a new thing, but since it doesn't its an obese iphone.
but then again this is coming from the company that waits six months to release their black n white products in COLOR and sell it like its new.
The only way to keep up with all their pointless updates and products is to be pro and have them provided...otherwise you're just a sucker for sparkles.
Lucky thing I'm trying so hard to be a more positive guy this year! Otherwise I would have so many nasty things to say about iMarketing and iConsumers...
Starting at 5 hunny ... I think its pretty impressive.
Who knows ... it my bomb like the Newton but I think it has a lot of potential.
I think this would be an amazing machine for djing or making music if it was set up with the right software.
isnt the iPad geared towards the general public, who neither use a computer for word processing nor much need for a full keyboard attached?
the iPad is supposedly taking the modern computer users habits and making it "more" FUN.
The graphic artists, business person and office worker will have their computer models... but for others... they dont need all attached keyboard.....
$499 (who is the market?).... Everyone!!
Computers are used to:
surf the web
Kill time
twitter
social network sites
watch porn
edit photos
read email
read news/sports
.....
Make sure to keep your existing computer, which is probably in good enough shape to last you a while.... no need to keep sending our electronics overseas, just so you can have the latest and not so much the greatest.
its an expensive (high end) netbook with a touch screen and detatchable keyboard. if you think netbooks are stupid, you'll hate this product. personally, i think its brilliant.
netbooks can run more than 1 app at once, even the 199$ specials
imo it is not really too comparable to a netbook
i could see the iPad really taking off in the health care business, hospitals particularly, ipod touches have done well there and there are apps for accessing medical records and whatnot
natefrogg responding to a comment by tortuga_veloce
01.28.10 - 9:21 am
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*With new tablet device, Apple's Steve Jobs pushes unprecedented
extension of DRM to a new class of general purpose computers*
Please sign our petition to Steve Jobs at:
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad
SAN FRANCISCO, California, USA -- Wednesday, January 27, 2010 -- As
Steve Jobs and Apple prepared to announce their new tablet device,
activists opposed to Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) from the
group Defective by Design were on hand to draw the media's attention to
the increasing restrictions that Apple is placing on general purpose
computers. The group set up "Apple Restriction Zones" along the
approaches to the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco,
informing journalists of the rights they would have to give up to Apple
before proceeding inside.
(images from the action http://i.imgur.com/nUtZK.jpg,
http://i.imgur.com/0wpvY.jpg, http://i.imgur.com/iL2vT.jpg)
DRM is used by Apple to restrict users' freedom in a variety of ways,
including blocking installation of software that comes from anywhere
except the official Application Store, and regulating every use of
movies downloaded from iTunes. Apple furthermore claims that
circumventing these restrictions is a criminal offense, even for
purposes that are permitted by copyright law.
Organizing the protest, Free Software Foundation (FSF) operations
manager John Sullivan said, "Our Defective by Design campaign has a
successful history of targeting Apple over its DRM policies. We
organized actions and protests targeting iTunes music DRM outside Apple
stores, and under the pressure Steve Jobs dropped DRM on music. We're
here today to send the same message about the other restrictions Apple
is imposing on software, ebooks, and movies. If Jobs and Apple are
actually committed to creativity, freedom, and individuality, they
should prove it by eliminating the restrictions that make creativity and
freedom illegal."
The group is asking citizens to sign a petition calling on Steve Jobs to
remove DRM from Apple devices. The petition can be found at:
http://www.defectivebydesign.org/ipad
"Attention needs to be paid to the computing infrastructure our society
is becoming dependent upon. This past year, we have seen how human
rights and democracy protesters can have the technology they use turned
against them by the corporations who supply the products and services
they rely on. Your computer should be yours to control. By imposing such
restrictions on users, Steve Jobs is building a legacy that endangers
our freedom for his profits," said FSF executive director Peter Brown.
Other critics of DRM have asserted that Apple is not responsible, and it
is the publishers insisting on the restrictions. However, on the iPhone
and its new tablet, Apple does not provide publishers any way to opt out
of the restrictions -- even free software and free culture authors who
want to give legal permission for users to share their works.
"This is a huge step backward in the history of computing," said FSF's
Holmes Wilson, "If the first personal computers required permission from
the manufacturer for each new program or new feature, the history of
computing would be as dismally totalitarian as the milieu in Apple's
famous Super Bowl ad."
### About the Free Software Foundation
The Free Software Foundation, founded in 1985, is dedicated to promoting
computer users' right to use, study, copy, modify, and redistribute
computer programs. The FSF promotes the development and use of free (as
in freedom) software -- particularly the GNU operating system and its
GNU/Linux variants -- and free documentation for free software. The FSF
also helps to spread awareness of the ethical and political issues of
freedom in the use of software, and its Web sites, located at fsf.org
and gnu.org, are an important source of information about GNU/Linux.
Donations to support the FSF's work can be made at
http://donate.fsf.org. Its headquarters are in Boston, MA, USA.
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braydon responding to a comment by outerspace
01.28.10 - 1:10 pm
iDevices are marketed at the same people who have fallen into the car culture trap. You are paying a ton of money for a gimmicky convenience, and you're paying even more on top for the name and the status.
Open devices like the Google Phone, while not angelic either, are a better alternative if you want access to legally-free apps and unlimited usability that you can share with people all over the world, all for a lower price, and with haptic response.
You guys aren't falling for the iMarketing, are you? $500 touchscreen? Really?
I haven't had any problems with my gimmicky iDevices.. I agree this is beyond a waste of money. I want to see this thing when it comes out and how many people drop it .. anyone that owns an iPhone knows the eerie feeling you get when it hits the ground.
This is Hilarious, While everyone is Hating Microsoft and Hacking Pc's into a state of non use, APPLE is becoming Big Brother. Blind fools everywhere!!!
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APPLE DOES IT AGAIN, WOW
PRETTY THIN TOO, WORKS KINDA LIKE A GIANT ITOUCH. CAN YOU SAY WOW?
I AGREE WITH YOU SILLY RABBIT, BUT THE QUESTION IS, "CAN YOU SAY "'WOW"'?
Okay this is my only post of the day (mad work) .. shame on you for promoting this garbage its a waste of money. You could by either a iPhone or iTouch and do the same thing for way less than the cheapest 16gig model of the iPad .. you can buy a macbook for 200 more with a camera, Flash, more space, you don't need to actually pay for adapters to hook you digital camera, a keyboard, or whatever up. Its basically a giant ipod touch .....
