Apple IPad or Apple IFail
source: http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/apples_ifail_tabletus_interruptus_20100127
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Please read this you might be buying some thing you might not need:
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/apples_ifail_tabletus_interruptus_20100127
Steve Jobs calls his new tablet “a magical device at a breakthrough price,” but chances are you don’t need one and can’t afford it anyway.
It’s basically a giant iPhone that goes for $729. It costs more if you want more storage, less if you can do without mobile broadband and don’t need as much room for videos, music and so forth. With six models to choose from—16-, 32- and 64-gigabyte flavors, each with or without a 3G radio—prices range from $499 to $829.
That’s about two to three times as expensive as most netbooks, those inexpensive miniature laptops that Steve Jobs treated with such derision at the beginning of his iPad presentation. Of course Apple hates netbooks—there’s no way to charge an outrageous premium on a zero-margin product. But customers love them. Netbook sales shot up 103 percent in 2009, and Apple wants in on that bigger-than-a-smartphone-smaller-than-a-… honey. Hence the iPad.
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alanstrange5
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I can't imagine why i would buy it at that price... especially when the memory is so bad!
I agree with others... this may take off if it becomes cheaper.
- 2 years ago
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alanstrange5
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toreyray
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Im over it!
Not going to get this thing!
maybe if it becomes $100
- 2 years ago
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toreyray
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sophosthegreat
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I imagine that the same people who rushed and to get iPhones will be the same ones who snap this up and love it, but to be honest I'm not sure its worth the hefty price tag considering the other substantially cheaper netbooks on the market.
- 2 years ago
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sophosthegreat
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Null81
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yeah, it's neat. Yeah, it looks fun. But honestly, why do I need this? Also, has anyone noticed the specs on this thing? They are horrible, right now I'm typing from my Dell Inspiron E1705, this thing came out 4 years ago and it has a dual core at 1.7ghz, and 2gb of ram. And this thing is old, hell there are netbooks that have better specs. Apple, who claims to be on the bleeding edge of technology can't manage to squeeze in a dual core processor, or more ram, or hell, more hard drive space! Flash memory has become so commonplace that I see no reason why the hard drive is so small.
Also, one of the main selling points of this is that it is *Instantly Familiar and easy to use*. Now, this might just be a personal opinion, but have you noticed that everything computer related, everything new has become so easy that a caveman taught english and who lived with a modern family for less than a week literally could do this? I'm don't write code or anything, but I know my way around Hardware and I know how things work, and one of my favorite things about computers is figuring out how to do something, fixing a problem and learning new things, having something bite me in the ass once in awhile and having me figure it out is welcome. Or something so new and innovative that it takes time to adjust or to, again figure out is fantastic, hence why I'm using linux at the moment, #! Crunchbang Linux if anyone is wondering.
Now, my point for this entire rant, is that technology, especially computer related technology is going to start serving itself on a silver platter to you. It's becoming to the point where all you need to know is how to click on internet explorer and type in www.google.com to solve all of your problems. It's becoming dumbed down. Not saying that everyone needs to be a specialist or anything, not saying that everyone needs to know how to build a computer. But most people know how to fix a flat tire, right? This kind of mind numbing technology that removes the user so far away from the inner workings is going to eventually make it so that people will become helpless to any problem. That even the most minor thing will be treated with the same bewilderment and confusion as a motherboard frying. To end my rant, I am not saying that people need to read a 3000 page manual to start up their computers, I'm saying to think and solve your own problems once in a while, have the software make you think, would be a damned good thing. - 2 years ago
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Null81
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toreyray
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I just dont know how much this is really going to help me that much.....
Unless there is some way i can use it more......
- 2 years ago
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toreyray
